Post Show Banter >>>>

hutch wrote:
where are the wilco reviews?? sidehatch, dyecraig, et al…

started with a complete performance of the new album without a word and then into the classics. hilarious banter from tweedy as usual. 1st encore was "spiders" which is always an excellent restroom break, and then an acoustic set including stirrat's solo vocal song that always reminds me of "it makes no difference " by 'the band ', concluding with an amazing "space oddity ".
seen them countless times, but never more rocking and muscular sounding. stunning lightshow and decent sound especially on the acoustic set.
best wilco show i've witnessed, but no "jesus, etc."
steve gunn played a fine short opening set, but sounds better on record  (at least compared to dar ).
good review somewhere on the wapo site as well.

This was my tenth Wilco show, and I thought it was the best I've seen since 2005.

The new album material was great, and I enjoyed it more than I expected I would. Personally, I love "Spiders". But the acoustic set to end the night was the highlight for me. Fantastic stuff. It was refreshing to hear different songs than Wilco normally plays in the final encore. Nels was off the chain all night long. It was a real pleasure just to watch him play.

D.A.R. sounded great. Kudos to the sound engineers.

I echo what craig and ed said about the Wilco show. I've lost count of how many Wilco shows I've been to, it all starts to blur together. I'll guess ten or 12. Great show. Star Wars set was tolerable. Nels was awesome. Acoustic set was awesome. Space Oddity was a natural fit, I was close to tearing up. Thought I was going to have a "I got to hang out with some of the Wilco guys" story to share (or not share), but that never materialized.

I remember when my wife played some Wilco for her guitar playing dad and he commented on Nels' playing…"He's good. He's not trying to blow anybody away, but he's good." Well consider me blown away, pops.

Darth wrote:
D.A.R. sounded great.

That is something you do not hear everyday.

killsaly wrote:

Darth wrote:
D.A.R. sounded great.

That is something you do not hear everyday.

I agree, the sound was very good.

It was my first DAR show since 1998, and I kept thinking during the show, "Why is everyone always bitching about the DAR sound?"

Space wrote:
It was my first DAR show since 1998, and I kept thinking during the show, "Why is everyone always bitching about the DAR sound?"

it's an acoustically challenging room.  the techs need to know what they are doing.  it can sound great in the right hands, or it can sound awful in the wrong ones.

Yeah, after seeing several shows that sounded just abysmal there, I couldn't believe it when I went to Belle & Sebastian and it sounded amazing. I was almost as impressed as I am right now for knowing how to spell abysmal

i am not sure this is what happened, but imp will take the pa system out of the lincoln and put it in con hall for shows. i think the 930 pa is actually more powerful than the lincolns.

wow.. looks like i missed a great time to watch the stupor bowl.. i feel pretty stupid now..did they play heavy metal drummer acoustic?

My husband proposed while Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was playing :) An old co-worker of mine is friends with them somehow, and he got a playbill signed for us a few years back.

So I thought this was a better than average wilco show full of energy and the sound was awesome
I think I'm in the double digits too…personally I'd prefer those tours with Jay B, but that's never going to happen again

I did really enjoy the new stuff at the beginning of the set..but I did start to get bored around track 7

I was in dead center …but last row of the orch and it really sounded clean, not the muddy experience I've had previously at DAR

As usual, Tweedy had some great banter and had the crowd cracking up
Box Full of Letters was really great and a much bigger rendition than the original
probably would have liked a few/different tracks from AM/BT/ST
not a single Woody or UT song…but I'm old and like the early stuff


that last acoustic set was really fantastic
Misunderstood->War on War->It's Just that simple (John Stirratt was awesome!)->shot in the arm->Space Oddity
That just blew me away, will Nels on the steel lap just going off
So freaking good.  Would have been happy just catching that
I was recently commenting that there are almost no good Bowie covers…this is my new exception
What a great version of Space Oddity…perfect way to end the night

Nels is just bonkers sometimes, just going off in this crazy feedback and speedy licks.  Honestly it starting to get a little old…but that's how the songs have been for the last decade
Jeff did get some pretty hard jamming on a few

Glenn is so fun to watch and listen and his stuff on the new album is just great



cool merch and thankfully none said STARWARS (I'm sure they regret the snarky pick for an album title)
they had a great faded green hoodie with this on the back for $50 celebrating 20 years of wilco
if I wasn't broke would have bought




edit…of course the next night
I Got You (At the End of the Century)
Outtasite (Outta Mind)
Red-Eyed and Blue
I'm always in love

But the acoustic set was only 3 songs and no Space Oddity


Edit 2…also saw tix on seatgeek going for $16 before the show and saw a bunch of empty seats (the row I was in only had 5 people out of the 15 seats

for the bit torrent savvy, the Wilco show is up on etree

For a band I've admittedly seen too many times, I have to say looking at these sets is pretty uninspiring.

I find Nels pretty tedious after all these years.

Yada wrote:
For a band I've admittedly seen too many times, I have to say looking at these sets is pretty uninspiring.

I find Nels pretty tedious after all these years.

I actually love the restraint Nels shows within Wilco. He overwhelmed the Geraldine Fibbers when he joined that band. And I'm sure there's some technical merit to his solo stuff if you're a subscriber to Guitar World, but I'm a simple man and I find it too challenging to wrap my head around.

Yada wrote:
For a band I've admittedly seen too many times, I have to say looking at these sets is pretty uninspiring.

I find Nels pretty tedious after all these years.

unfortunately I concur

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
For a band I've admittedly seen too many times, I have to say looking at these sets is pretty uninspiring.

I find Nels pretty tedious after all these years.

I actually love the restraint Nels shows within Wilco. He overwhelmed the Geraldine Fibbers when he joined that band. And I'm sure there's some technical merit to his solo stuff if you're a subscriber to Guitar World, but I'm a simple man and I find it too challenging to wrap my head around.

Nels shows restraint? My last Wilco show was either the Strathmore show or MPP (whichever one was last) and it was basically just Nels wavering all over the stage slamming his whammy bar. I'm just tired of that really loud crescendo type jam they seem to do in every single song. I can kind of dig his quieter more subtle moments.

Re: Guitar geeks such as your father in law. My dad is a pretty outstanding geetar player and I took him to the MPP show and he had pretty similar thoughts re: Nels, sort of one trick pony esque. Not that my opinion or my dad's matters.

For me, what he does in Wilco still works. I understand not everyone would agree.

I think his short blasts work as part of the songs.

I would hate to see him solo though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djzslrQrTyI

With the exception of Living Colour at the club three years ago, the last live rock show I saw was Nirvana in support of In Utero (Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 10/23/1993 supposedly the only known live performance of ?You Know You?re Right). I've attempted many shows since but always bailed at the last moment.  Some I regret (2 PIL shows, a Twighlight Singers/ Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos show), others dodging a bullet (Hole at the club 6/27/10).

But tonight I took a chance at bought a ticket to the Spiders/graveyard show. Long story short it made me realize what I've been missing all these years.

[kids younger than me] + [musical style older than me] = amazeballs

What did you do during all of those years, not go to shows?

killsaly wrote:
What did you do during all of those years, not go to shows?

i came out of the closet at 21 (1993) and started frequenting gay clubs/bars and they're not exactly fond of rock music. Also, being Chicago,  House music is VERY important. I started dj'ing, eventually moved to DC continuing on the dj'ing path, and didn't really rediscover rock until a few years ago. Sure I kept up on some more of the mainstream stuff ( Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains) but I didn't pay much attention to the underground stuff