TWEEDY — 6/9/14, Baltimore, MD (Meyerhoff Symphony Hall)

[bböp]

Plenty of VCers in attendance tonight so I'm sure comments will be forthcoming soon. But for now, here was the complete setlist as played:

 

Down From Above*

Diamond Light*

Desert Bell*

Flowering*

Honey Combed*

Summer Noon*

World Away*

New Moon*

High As Hello*

Where My Love*

Slow Love*

Nobody Dies Anymore*

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart^

New Madrid^

At Least That's What You Said^

I'm Always In Love^

You And I^

Born Alone^

Kamera^

Dawned On Me^

You Are Not Alone^

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Low Key* (w/Scott McCaughey on keyboard)

California Stars* (w/Scott McCaughey on keyboard)

Jesus, etc.^

I'm The Man Who Loves You^

 

* — with full TWEEDY band

^ — Jeff solo acoustic

[bböp]

And in case anyone was interested, here was the Minus 5's opening set:

 

Twilight Distillery

The Old Plantation

Adios Half Soldier

In The Ground

The Babe [The Baseball Project]

Blue Rickenbacker>

The Days of Wine and Booze

Revolution Blues [Neil Young]

Aw Shit Man

[Rusty Shackleford]

Thanks for the report.

 

Who's in the Minus 5 these days?  Is Peter Buck playing with them?

[bböp]

Thanks for the report.

 

Who's in the Minus 5 these days?  Is Peter Buck playing with them?

No Buck last night. Joe Adragna from New Orleans was on drums, and I think a guy named Mike Giblin from Harrisburg, Pa., was on bass. Scott mentioned the guitarist, but I didn't catch his name.

[Paulo147]

This was my first time seeing Jeff solo. It was awesome. The new material is so good! 

[radiowilco]

No Buck last night. Joe Adragna from New Orleans was on drums, and I think a guy named Mike Giblin from Harrisburg, Pa., was on bass. Scott mentioned the guitarist, but I didn't catch his name.

The guitar player in question is Casey Neill.  Casey is longtime collaborator of Scott's and fronts his own band - "The Norway Rats," which includes members of The Decemberists.  Casey is also a dear friend who wrote two original pieces of music for my wedding more than 20 years ago.

[dagwave]

a loverly, loverly night hosted by Scott, Jeff, and company.

 

energy was great, songs were passionate, and the

joint was real nice!

[dagwave]

i'm responding to my own comment, but just had a thought:

 

i'm guessing that the Minus 5 rocking Neil Young's "Revolution Blues" may have been a slight nod to

the cult banter over the last night or two........

 

or should i just play the Diamond Light vinyl backwards to get to the (culty) truth?

[bböp]

The guitar player in question is Casey Neill. Casey is longtime collaborator of Scott's and fronts his own band - "The Norway Rats," which includes members of The Decemberists. Casey is also a dear friend who wrote two original pieces of music for my wedding more than 20 years ago.

Thanks for the info. And that's interesting about your wedding music...I guess it's a small world sometimes.

[Mr. Heartbreak]

Plenty of VCers in attendance tonight so I'm sure comments will be forthcoming soon. 

Not a whole lot yet. Thank God you're here!

 

Come on, people, give Paul a hand. Dude can't do it all himself.

[Bosco]

I thought it was a great venue, real nice staff, they let me go in to buy a poster then go back out to my car so I didn't have to lug it around.  For me it was deja vu all over again, the last time I was in Baltimore I had the night off and went to Camden Yards, I was all excited because i was going to get a tour of the PA and control room yet when we get there the lights were out, the game started about 30 minutes late and they never did get all the lights back on, cool night though because I got to see Nomo pitch a no hitter!  So having the electricity out again in Baltimore was weird.  I saw Paul a bunch of times, I was going to say hi but he always looked like he was in the middle of something.  Anyway, I thought the show was great, I can't remember the last time I saw so many empty seats right up front.  The two bands sounded night and day, it sounded to me (an old sound engineer) like the room was tweaked for TWEEDY and the Minus 5 didn't make any adjustments, I might go so far as to say the room sounded like garbage during the Minus 5, then magically (like hitting a button) the room completely cleaned up and sounded much tighter for TWEEDY.  I really dig the new songs and it's great to see Spencer playing with his dad!  I did tape the show and I'm working on getting it out there, I had a yahoo applauding really loud between songs that I'm trying to tame for the listening pleasure.  My big question is what is the policy on these shows and recording, it's never been an issue before, but when's the last time they were playing over half a show worth of unreleased songs?

[choo-choo-charlie]

Obviously I don't speak for Jeff and "the management," but I don't think it's an issue, considering other recordings have surfaced, including the terrific one recently made available by NYCTaper. That one has been making the rounds on a bunch of websites. Keeping with the Wilco philosophy, I think Jeff wants people to hear the songs and doesn't mind the recordings being out there. And they're going to be selling official recordings from the Wilco roadcase soon prior to the album's release. It's the video recordings they don't approve.

[Bosco]

I just put the show up on DIME, the link can be found "In A Future Age".

[kamera]

I just put the show up on DIME, the link can be found "In A Future Age".

 

Terrific recording! Thanks for sharing.