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62strat wrote:
Pretty excited about the show at Red Rocks this weekend Dr. Dog to open for saturday night...Also get to see Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears in Denver during the day
Punch Brothers opened Friday... That's the one I would've killed to see.
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I recommend going to their website and picking a song you want them to play. I saw them about a month ago and picked side with the seeds and they played it for the first time this tour.
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Saw these guys last night. Had great seats the left side in front of Nels. They played a lot from the new album. Nels sold the new songs with a lot of guitar wonking and they did sound less like corny circus music live (I Might, ect.) Still, I would say the only one that really went over well live was Art of Almost. I couldn't make up my mind if One Sunday Morning worked as an opener or not. The encore was pretty nice....
One Sunday Morning Art Of Almost I Might I Am Trying To Break Your Heart One Wing Rising Red Lung Ashes Of American Flags Born Alone Laminated Cat (aka Not For The Season) Country Disappeared Handshake Drugs Whole Love Hate It Here Box Full Of Letters I'm Always In Love Heavy Metal Drummer I'm The Man Who Loves You Dawned On Me A Shot in the Arm ---------------------------------- Impossible Germany California Stars Walken Can't Stand It ---------------------------------- Dreamer In My Dreams
What's up with sober Jeff Tweedy wanting to play at breweries this tour? I'll bet it still costs like 10 bucks to get a beer there, since they can't undercut retailers.
I'm going to the Newport pre-Folk Fest show tommorow, tentatively excited. Some recent live footage I've seen looked pretty damn lifeless, compared to the 2009/10 shows I saw. Yesterday's setlist was pretty solid, though. I'm hoping the cool different setting of Fort Adams will cause Tweedy to wake up a bit. They will have the beautiful harbor to stare out at, maybe even with fog, if the forecast is right.
What's up with sober Jeff Tweedy wanting to play at breweries this tour? I'll bet it still costs like 10 bucks to get a beer there, since they can't undercut retailers.
I'm going to the Newport pre-Folk Fest show tommorow, tentatively excited. Some recent live footage I've seen looked pretty damn lifeless, compared to the 2009/10 shows I saw. Yesterday's setlist was pretty solid, though. I'm hoping the cool different setting of Fort Adams will cause Tweedy to wake up a bit. They will have the beautiful harbor to stare out at, maybe even with fog, if the forecast is right.
I think NPR will be streaming it online too.
Fort Adams park and Folk Fest in general is awesome. I really hate that it always lands on my summer cookout. Enjoy the show.
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F'n awesome show. My fandom is restored, after sagging a bit when Whole Love came out. They only played the good ones from that album, thankfully.
After the early part of the show, which was very good but occasionally sleepy (this is live Wilco, so that goes without saying), the last hour was nonstop rockin' the fuck out.
As I hoped and expected, there was plenty of Mermaid Avenue, what with this being the Folk Fest, and Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday, and the Guthrie family band playing during the main festival weekend. A couple younger Guthries come out to guest on California Stars and Airline To Heaven, adding to the already stellar vibe. They opened with Christ For President too, which was cool and preferrable to 10 minutes of One Sunday Morning.
When the fairweather ninnies started to exodus after the first encore ("waaaahhhh my beach chair is so hard to fold up, waaahhhhh it's after 9 the kids are getting tired"...get the fuck out of my rock show ), I was able to move up closer to get a good view and get down and get funky with the remaining faithfull. They closed with Hoodoo Voodoo, a song I'm kinda obsessed with, so that had me buggin' out. Nels and the other guy (Mikael?) were trading solos at the end in mindblowing fashion.
Tweedy's voice was sounding more spirited than usual, so that was a huge plus for me. I'm listening back to it now, still great. I've gotta figure out how to rip this stream. Maybe some cool guy out there ripped the live video, too. My dad was at home watching the video while I was there. I call him up after, he goes "....Hoodoo Voodoo, huh?", and I go "Yeah, Hoodoo Voodoo, fuckin AWESOME!".
Here's the audio: http://www.npr.org/event/music/15693236 ... -folk-2012 The best stuff is at about minute 54 and beyond. Nels rips it up in unique fashion as always, and theres some different keyboard tones/sounds for more added value to the songs you've heard a bazillion times. I'd highly reccomend it, great clearly seperated sound mix too.
Fuckin missed em in June at Red Rocks. Just watched their doc and now they're all I want to listen to. And I've got to get busy listening to MMJ/BoH, Alabama Shakes, Neil Young, and all of Jack White's shit.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
The Whole Love is a fantastic record. Can't wait to see them next week.
Saw 'em a few weeks ago at Wolf Trap in VA. Overall great show and great set-list.
One thing that I didn't like though...the sound of the snare. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but it sounded as if the drummer has a tear in the snare. There was a real lag behind sound and it didn't have the snap or what a snare sounds like. It just sounded really bad. I'm not entirely sure how to type out what I heard, but it was off. But...I had some friends around, a few brews, some grass, and I really didn't care that much.
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My only complaint, if you can call it that, is that I'm The Man Who Loves You didn't translate very well in a live setting. It's a shame too because it might be my favorite YHF song. At first I thought it might just have been the show I went to but I had the same problem with the Kicking Television version. It loses a lot of the fullness that it has on the record.
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), I was able to move up closer to get a good view and get down and get funky with the remaining faithfull. They closed with Hoodoo Voodoo, a song I'm kinda obsessed with, so that had me buggin' out. Nels and the other guy (Mikael?) were trading solos at the end in mindblowing fashion.
