Roll Call:Wilco

[nkotb]

Wait a minute, buddy.  You got that all wrong.   WE'RE supposed to make fun of YOU for only liking their newer, more-mainstream, more-press-attention songs.  You can be elitist for the new sound.  That's ass-backwards.
 
 Anyway, the show was a HUGE improvement over the show with Sonic Youth.  Tweedy didn't feel the need to compete, I guess.  And I don't really think the new songs were bad...at least they sounded better live than on record, I thought.  Still, why couldn't they have played Box Full of Letters or Acuff Rose?
 
 

Originally posted by joz:
 from what i've read of this morning's posts, it sounds like most of you pseudo wilco fans should have sold your tix outside or on ebay to true fans who really would have appreciated the show.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Wasn't Jay Farrar on vox for Acuff-Rose?
 
 I wanted Casino Queen and Kingpin. But maybe those songs are all long gone.
 
 The five 6'+ guys who brought the height average up to 5'6" (except for ggw) were all standing about 6 feet in front of me, blocking my view of Tweedy's bad hair and silly suit.
 
 I did figure out the best way to avoid standing next to a smoker...find the nerdiest looking people you can, and stand next to them. And there sure were a lot of nerds at the show.
 
 The guy behind me with the gay looking gelled hair with the flip-up circa 1999 hairstyle who looked like he just dropped in from a Blink 182 concert? I knew he was going to light up.
 
 

Originally posted by nkotbie:
  Wait a minute, buddy.  You got that all wrong.   WE'RE supposed to make fun of YOU for only liking their newer, more-mainstream, more-press-attention songs.  You can be elitist for the new sound.  That's ass-backwards.
 
 Anyway, the show was a HUGE improvement over the show with Sonic Youth.  Tweedy didn't feel the need to compete, I guess.  And I don't really think the new songs were bad...at least they sounded better live than on record, I thought.  Still, why couldn't they have played Box Full of Letters or Acuff Rose?
 
   

Originally posted by joz:
 from what i've read of this morning's posts, it sounds like most of you pseudo wilco fans should have sold your tix outside or on ebay to true fans who really would have appreciated the show.

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[avterry11]

Bottom line is that the show was good but by ignoring an entire period of the band's history, they leave more to be desired. From my view, Tweedy and the gang (not to mention the audience) were having the most fun on 'Shot in the Arm' and 'Passenger'...
 I dig the new album, but it kinda disturbs me that the setlist for every show has been nearly identical- focusing only on Ghost and YHF. The boys need to acknowledge their core audience a little more and just throw a couple gems out there from the past.

[nkotb]

You'd know better than I would since I'm such a late convert, but I'm pretty sure it was Tweedy.  Doesn't he play it on the documentary during a solo show?
 
 

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Wasn't Jay Farrar on vox for Acuff-Rose?

[MET]

Last night's show was ridiculously oversold.  9:30 is just as shady as any other concert promoter.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by MET:
  Last night's show was ridiculously oversold.  9:30 is just as shady as any other concert promoter.

didn't seem any worse than any other sold out show
 
 I am sure it did not help floorspace that they had recording equipment/webcasting equipment set up

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by MET:
  Last night's show was ridiculously oversold.  9:30 is just as shady as any other concert promoter.

:roll:  
 
 cue thatguy, seth, etc... or the fire marshall

[igor]

not too sure about the show being oversold, probably downstairs people just kept piling in, there was room upstairs.
 
 i thought the band was really good, but like others, i'd like to hear more older songs on their setlist.

[MET]

Also, the crowd was 90% dude.  Felt like I was at Ozzfest.

[challenged]

the show was very crowded. more so than many other sold out shows I have been to at 930.  maybe the fault of the "taping area," maybe the fault of people like those in front of me who tried to keep around a 4 foot buffer zone in front of them.
 
 it was funny when an interloper finally just took the buffer space away from them during the encores.

[avterry11]

Originally posted by MET:
  Also, the crowd was 90% dude.  Felt like I was at Ozzfest.

So true... dude in front of me even had his shirt off and was dangerously close to performing the helicopter swing at one point.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Yes, but at least they were short, nerdy dudes.
 
 One of the cardinal rules of alt-country is that the only chicks there are the ones dragged there by their boyfriends.
 
 You want chicks? Go see Gavin DeGraw.
 
 

Originally posted by MET:
  Also, the crowd was 90% dude.  Felt like I was at Ozzfest.

[Mobius]

I found the crowd to be weigh heavily towards urban bespectacled gifted + talented nicotine abusers.  I thought it was a great show.  Wilco still seems to be in the process of growing into itself.  The "new" sound works when the songs stay grounded with some emotional resonance . . . sometimes it worked, sometimes it worked less well (drifting into the meaningless).  I might be mixed up with the songs, but I thought the Wilco 2004 made particular sense during the spacy end of Poor Places transitioning into an alt.rocking Handshake Drugs to end the set pre-encore.
 
 The pacing of the show probably could have been better . . . which, as has been mentioned, would have been helped by more older songs.  Radiohead still mixes it up a bit, Wilco can too.

[frostytheswami]

Originally posted by MET:
  Also, the crowd was 90% dude.  Felt like I was at Ozzfest.

I think it was closer to 50/50 upstairs.

[freddyadu]

i heard the new album a couple of weeks ago through the stream on the website. i kept listening to it over and over, to the point where i knew most of the words.  that made a huge difference rather than going in cold turkey.
 
 i'm sure they are just trying out the new songs..i would like to believe that they'll return in the fall.  and this time none of you biyatches will keep me out of the front row.   :mad: