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Saturday night's Wilco show featured one of the rarest of concert moments: the true encore. As we all know, most bands plan on doing their encore in advance and know exactly what they're going to play on any given night.
After the band had played a killer 30 song set (with a 15 minute intermission), Jeff Tweedy said goodnight and he meant it. The post-show music came up, the house lights were turned on, the roadies switched off the amplifiers and no one budged. The audience was quite literally demanding an encore. Cheering loudly, clapping in rhythm with the post-show music ("Peaches" by POTUSA?!?!) and not going ANYWHERE. The post-show music was turned up a notch or two, MORE house lights came on, Tweedy's wife left her box seat and the backdrop curtain was raised so the roadies could begin to bring out the tarp to cover the equipment. No one was taking the hint. Suddenly, Sue Miller re-appears in her box, the backdrop goes back down, the lights get turned back off and the band reappears to launch into "ELT" and finish up with an impromptu "Hoodoo Voodoo" (with Tweedy taking a moment to jokingly complain that the equilibrium of the residency was being thrown off).
All in all, it was a remarkable show that was even better than the night before. Highlights included Andrew Bird sitting in on fiddle for 8 songs, the first ever live performance of "Dash 7" by the band and John Stirratt crooning his lone Wilco song, "It's Just That Simple" (with Tweedy on bass!) and receiving a thunderous ovation afterwards. People would not stop cheering until he gave a humble wave to acknowledge his shining moment.
Saturday night set list:
1. Someone Else's Song
2. Hell Is Chrome
3. Handshake Drugs
4. Muzzle of Bees
5. Via Chicago
6. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart*
7. Hotel Arizona
8. A Shot in the Arm*
9. Impossible Germany*
10. It's Just That Simple
11. When You Wake Up Feeling Old
12. Too Far Apart*
13. Hate It Here*
14. Jesus, Etc.* (w/ Andrew Bird)
15. Forget the Flowers (w/ AB)
16. Dash 7 (w/ AB)
17. Christ for President (w/ AB)
18. Walken*
19. I'm the Man Who Loves You*
Intermission
20. The Late Greats
21. Heavy Metal Drummer*
22. Red-Eyed and Blue (w/ AB)
23. I Got You (At the End of the Century)
24. A Magazine Called Sunset
25. Monday
26. Casino Queen
27. Kingpin
28. Passenger Side (w/ AB)
29. Dreamer in My Dreams (w/ AB)
30. The Lonely 1 (w/ AB)
Encore:
31. ELT*
32. Hoodoo Voodoo
* - Repeats from Friday night.
As you can see, there was a heavy emphasis on Being There. Fifteen of the nineteen songs from that record have now been performed between the two nights, nine of which were played last night.
It's a good thing they took last night off. Daddy's tired!
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