Firecracker Kid Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Wow. Just WOW. This was one hell of a way to end the first weekend of the Festival. The lineup was shuffled yet again tonight, with the Autumn D preceding Jeff as the show closer. Frankly, I think it did wonders for weeding out some of the "less interested" contingent as only bout half of the crowd was left by the time Jeff took the stage. So, that left about 200 or so of us to enjoy some great collaborations, a throwback to the four-piece Wilco, and the stage-filled finale which also served as the last Bowie tribute. Here's the set list as played... I'm The Man Who Loves YouWe've Been HadI'm Always In LoveSummer Noon*Flowering*Low Key*World Away^(When You're On) The Losing End [Neil Young]#Airline To Heaven%Taste The Ceiling+The Late Greats~Heavy Metal Drummer~Box Full Of Letters~I Got You (At The End Of The Century)~Outtasite (Outta Mind)~Casino Queen~All The Young Dudes [Mott the Hoople]^^^ *w/ Spencer (drums) and Scott McCaughey (bass)^w/ Spencer (drums), Scott McCaughey (keyboard), Pat (elec. guitar) and John Paul Jones (bass) [yes, THAT John Paul Jones]#w/ Spencer (drums), Scott McCaughey (bass), John (tambourine) and John Paul Jones (mandolin) [f'ing YES!!!]%w/ Spencer (drums), Scott McCaughey (keyboard), Pat (elec. guitar), John (bass), G. Wiz (tambourine) and John Paul Jones (mandolin) [YES, YES, YES!!!!]+w/ Spencer (drums), Scott McCaughey (keyboard), John (bass) and Pat (elec. guitar)~w/ Spencer (drums), John (bass) and Pat (elec. guitar)^^^ ensemble Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bböp Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Wow. Just WOW. This was one hell of a way to end the first weekend of the Festival. The lineup was shuffled yet again tonight, with the Autumn D preceding Jeff as the show closer. Frankly, I think it did wonders for weeding out some of the "less interested" contingent as only bout half of the crowd was left by the time Jeff took the stage. So, that left about 200 or so of us to enjoy some great collaborations, a throwback to the four-piece Wilco, and the stage-filled finale which also served as the last Bowie tribute. Here's the set list as played... I'm The Man Who Loves YouWe've Been HadI'm Always In LoveSummer Noon*Flowering*Low Key*World Away^(When You're On) The Losing End [Neil Young]#Airline To Heaven%Taste The Ceiling+The Late Greats~Heavy Metal Drummer~Box Full Of Letters~I Got You (At The End Of The Century)~Outtasite (Outta Mind)~Casino Queen~All The Young Dudes [Mott the Hoople]^^^ *w/ Spencer (drums) and Scott McCaughey (bass)^w/ Spencer (drums), Scott McCaughey (keyboard), Pat (elec. guitar) and John Paul Jones (bass) [yes, THAT John Paul Jones]#w/ Spencer (drums), Scott McCaughey (bass), John (tambourine) and John Paul Jones (mandolin) [f'ing YES!!!]%w/ Spencer (drums), Scott McCaughey (keyboard), Pat (elec. guitar), John (bass), G. Wiz (tambourine) and John Paul Jones (mandolin) [YES, YES, YES!!!!]+w/ Spencer (drums), Scott McCaughey (keyboard), John (bass) and Pat (elec. guitar)~w/ Spencer (drums), John (bass) and Pat (elec. guitar)^^^ ensembleExcellent! Figures they would blow it out a little bit to close things out, and that's cool that the dumbasses/chatterers/etc., were mostly gone by the end. I must say, also, kudos for the super detailed reportage. It can be tough to keep up with all the details in sets like that, so well done. You can take over for me anytime... So what are we going to call this group? The Minus Tweedy Zeppelin Defense? (Incidentally, did the Autumn D guys do anything out of the ordinary this weekend? Any Bowie tributes?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Firecracker Kid Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 No, unfortunately The Autumn D steered clear of any Bowie tributes. That's assuming The Swallows of London Town doesn't count. Overall, their performances were fairly pedestrian. Pat had keyboard trouble on Night 1, so they scrapped all songs with him at the keys. They didn't play Night 2, and Night 3 saw a couple of repeats from Night 1. In fact, they didn't even play It's Just That Simple. As for the Bowie tributes, there were a handful. On Night 1 Joseph Arthur sang a tribute poem as part of his solo set. The Filthy Friends (Peter Buck, Corin Tucker, Scott McCaughey, etc) did Rebel, Rebel on Nights 1 & 2 and Jean Genie on Night 3. And in what was by far my favorite effort, Rhett Miller sang Life On Mars on Night 1 accompanied solely by Josh Kantor on keys. The performance and arrangement were beautiful. I also heard someone soundchecking Five Years before Night 1 (I think it was Rhett/the 97's) but didn't actually see them. And for the ensemble for All The Young Dudes, there were around a couple dozen folks on stage. I couldn't actually see everyone, but I did note the Tweedys, The Autumn Defense, Filthy Friends, Old 97's (at least Rhett and Ken Bethea), The Baseball Project, Gary Louris and Joseph Arthur. I think there may have even been a couple of others contributing. Scott McCaughey took the main vocals with Rhett Miller singing co-lead on some of the verses. And we ALL sang the chorus!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bböp Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 No, unfortunately The Autumn D steered clear of any Bowie tributes. That's assuming The Swallows of London Town doesn't count. Overall, their performances were fairly pedestrian. Pat had keyboard trouble on Night 1, so they scrapped all songs with him at the keys. They didn't play Night 2, and Night 3 saw a couple of repeats from Night 1. In fact, they didn't even play It's Just That Simple. As for the Bowie tributes, there were a handful. On Night 1 Joseph Arthur sang a tribute poem as part of his solo set. The Filthy Friends (Peter Buck, Corin Tucker, Scott McCaughey, etc) did Rebel, Rebel on Nights 1 & 2 and Jean Genie on Night 3. And in what was by far my favorite effort, Rhett Miller sang Life On Mars on Night 1 accompanied solely by Josh Kantor on keys. The performance and arrangement were beautiful. I also heard someone soundchecking Five Years before Night 1 (I think it was Rhett/the 97's) but didn't actually see them. And for the ensemble for All The Young Dudes, there were around a couple dozen folks on stage. I couldn't actually see everyone, but I did note the Tweedys, The Autumn Defense, Filthy Friends, Old 97's (at least Rhett and Ken Bethea), The Baseball Project, Gary Louris and Joseph Arthur. I think there may have even been a couple of others contributing. Scott McCaughey took the main vocals with Rhett Miller singing co-lead on some of the verses. And we ALL sang the chorus!!That's because the chorus is all anyone knows of that song(!), but you already knew that... Thanks for the Bowie update(s). Too bad about the AD. Rhett is a huge Bowie fan — you should read his recent piece for salon.com if you haven't already — so I'm glad that he nailed Life On Mars. Sounds like it was quite the weekend down there. I'm sorry to have missed it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eckythump Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Nice to have met you last night Firecracker! Yes indeed all I can add to that is another WOW. One of the musical highlights of my life witnessing that. For anyone wondering how Jeff got John Paul Jones up there, he's known Peter Buck (who runs this festival) ever since he arranged strings for R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People. They've remained friends and JPJ has been seen at various shows with Peter over the years, and was here in Todos Santos in 2014. I saw Jeff and family and John Paul Jones and his wife at a cafe in Todos Santos yesterday morning, eating separately, and by the time I left they hadn't talked at all. So I'm not sure if they just met at the cafe and Jeff asked John there, or if it had been a planned meeting there to discuss. At the show last night Jeff said that he told John that he ripped off his riff in 'World Away' to which John agreed, which was pretty funny. JPJ also nailed the mandolin on Airline to Heaven. The guy really is one of the biggest legends in music history. I have video of it and it will be on Youtube soon. JPJ also played keys with 'Filthy Friends' (Peter Buck and Corin Tucker's new collaboration) on 2 songs, including Bowie's Jean Jeanie. Spencer was fantastic on drums too, and filled in admirably for Glenn during the 'Wilco lite' portion of the set, which absolutely rocked! Pat got to let loose with the solos that Nels may have done otherwise. Again I'm just going to finish with the only word I can describe the magic of the night: WOW!!! And here's video of the finale I captured with my camera last night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlSulc7yhfo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Firecracker Kid Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 It was good to meet you too, Eckythump. Sounds like your dining experience captured the general vibe here - rock stars getting to enjoy a bit of down time without fear of being mobbed. BTW, safe travels back across the pond. ps - I went back through my notes and want give a little more credit to The Autumn D than I did in the previous post - I forgot they ended their Night 1 set with a really tight version of Big Star's You Can't Have Me. As Eckythump mentioned earlier, when Pat wants to rock, he's pretty damn good at it. Also, I missed one of the Bowie Tributes, with Steve Wynn and Corin Tucker covering Beauty and the Beast on Night 2. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Beautifully nailed! - Airline with JPJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypj9-BaLgGk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eckythump Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 That's my video too. How good is it!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Holdin on to black metal Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Curious, were they selling posters at the fest? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eckythump Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 There is a festival poster with all the artists on it, but no Tweedy specific posters Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IRememberDBoon2 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 eckythump "Long Time Ago" might be one of my top ten Jeff Tweedy tunes of allAny chance "please please please" you recorded that one from the second night??Thanks!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eckythump Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 eckythump "Long Time Ago" might be one of my top ten Jeff Tweedy tunes of all Any chance "please please please" you recorded that one from the second night?? Thanks!!!! Sorry I didn't record any video from night 2, I was too busy enjoying the show. Plus I was right down the front, and I know Jeff frowns on camera from the front row Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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