made a kinda last minute decision to go to the Wilco show last night, was perusing Wolftrap's website the other day and as I am wont to do, checked out of curiosity to see what kind of ticket I could pull up and got 10th row, dead center.... figured that was a sign of some kind and so bought it, and glad I did.... there was nothing special about it, just a good solid Wilco show, an enjoyable 2 hours and a great way to spend a friday night.... got "Spiders", which I haven't seen them do in a long time... I remember seeing them play it at Towson in 2002 before it was on any album and before they added all the "noise" to it, and always liked that tune... of course they played "heavy metal drummer" because everyone (but me) seems to love that song.... the biggest surprise was my commute to Wolftrap.... I have a "rule" about generally not going to any NoVa shows on weeknights because of rush hour traffic, so I had this idea that I was gonna have to leave from Naptown around 4 in order to get to Wolftrap reasonably before show time.... then I saw they had an opener, so figuring that Wilco wouldn't go on til around 9, I decided to wait until after 6 and hopefully miss a lot of the rush hour traffic on my 50 mile drive.... so left my house at 6:05 and was parked in the Wolftrap lot at 7:05, the outer loop was clear the entire way (except for the obligatory slowdown around exit 31) while the inner loop was jam packed and slow almost the entire way.... it actually almost took me longer just to get out of the lot at the end of the night than it did to get there before.... all in all, a pretty great night....
