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Now that I have my tix, here's the Hoboken Hanukkah sked:
http://yolatengo.com/news.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 25 October 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Very easily the best act at Austin City Limits 2007. Ira absolutely shredded his geetar. Great stuff.
― kijiji, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Bored the crap out of me. And I like their records.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Very easily the best act at Austin City Limits 2007. Ira absolutely shredded his geetar. Great stuff.-- kijiji, Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:05 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
-- kijiji, Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:05 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
oh my god seconded. i thought i was the only ILMer who caught that show!
didja go to the Parish the following night? 2-1/2 hours of goodness, opened the show with a 20-minute "I Heard You Looking" etc. etc. so so good.
― stephen, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
-- stephen, Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
No, unfortunately I had to go take off on Monday. But maybe I shouldn't have...2.5 hrs? Dayum.
But I knew YLT were doing something right when a) a gaggle of teenaged girls walked through the grass in front of me, their fingers all tightly stuck into their ears to block out any of the RAWK; and b) when the dudes next to me, who were definitely there for Robert Earl Keene (and who, by the way, was very good), shouted out "You done already" after the 12 minute mind-fuck that was "Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind." But the medley of "Tom Courtenay/Little Honda," the aforementioned "PtH,ITIG," and Ira's rapid decent into dirty rockabilly insanity on the closer "Watch Out For Me Ronnie" were all extended moments of pure bliss to me.
Though I should mention that Andrew Bird was pretty fucking amazing, too.
― kijiji, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not a fan, but yeah Andrew Bird was pretty great, actually.
I don't think "Watch Out For Me Ronnie" was the closer -- they did about a 15-minute version of "The Story of Yo La Tango" to close though, which is I think what you're referring to. And yeah, the whole set was incredible. Loved the old songs thrown in there; couldn't have picked a better opener than "From a Motel 6" IMHO.
― stephen, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
looks like only 3 of Hanukkah shows have tix left.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Would anyone who's seen the current Freewheelin' tour care to comment? I've going to the Thursday show in Boston.
― dad a, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
hey morbs, which hanukkah show(s) are you going to?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Thu the 6th only
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe I meant to say "I'm going" up there.
― dad a, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
So I went and it was great. The Georgia-sung version of Fourth Time Around made me need that new soundtrack. Tons of requests honored for early classics, so if that sounds like your thing the tour ends in Brooklyn tonight. Also they mentioned that they'll be playing at this on Saturday: http://www.ucbtheatre.com/schedule/showdetails.php?showid=1585
― dad a, Friday, 16 November 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm sure i've said it before but YLT are about my favourite live band around.
― stevie, Friday, 16 November 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
and ira = http://www.lhdepottheatre.org/images/stuart800_600.JPG + http://www.jbexp.com/images/hendrix.gif
― stevie, Friday, 16 November 2007 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone see them play the Bang on a Can Marathon in NYC this summer? It was quite awkward. They came on after some very beautiful and serious works by Alvin Lucier and others and they just noodled around in some apparent attempt to seem "experimental" I guess.
I've never seen them live any other time but judging from the posts above it seems like this isn't a rare thing for them to do.
Anyway, I came excited to see them live for the first time and wound up leaving right in the middle of it because it was too embarrassing to watch them make fools of themselves.
― Loader, Sunday, 18 November 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
recent boston show up for download over here: http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/2007/11/mp3s-freewheeling-yo-la-tengo-live-in.htm
― tylerw, Monday, 19 November 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Loader, maybe you should've gone to a "regular" show first.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 November 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently, YLT on snl this weekend.
― peepee, Monday, 19 November 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
SNL isn't airing during the writers' strike. They played at an onstage SNL edition at a NY improv theater this past Saturday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/yo-la-tengo-snl
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 November 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
morbs, your opener is rumored to be the db's
and mine is rumored to be the clean
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, I knew about the dB's. how was the Clean? who was comedian / encore guest?
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2007/12/yo_la_tengo_han.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 6 December 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
the clean was v. v. good. the comedian was john oliver (english dude from the daily show). he was good too, but the funniest moment was when someone asked him if he was the geico lizard.
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 December 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
bwaHA!
(is he?)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 6 December 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Hooray, southern dates announced. Do I go to Atlanta, B'ham or Memphis?
― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 6 December 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
he is not in fact the geico gecko, but he encouraged people to claim so on wikipedia
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 December 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I am really, really glad I missed the Night 1 comedians.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 6 December 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
friend of mine got Versus as the opener and Mark Arm from Mudhoney as the encore guest (not sure which night this was)
― dmr, Thursday, 6 December 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
how is the room temperature in Maxwells during a sold-out show these days?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 6 December 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
it was pretty damn cold on arrival and warmed up to fine after a few hours
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 December 2007 22:54 (sixteen years ago) link
It was OK.
Our encore guest was the My Morning Jacket dude; he sang "Secret Agent Man" and Kiss' "Hard Luck Woman," which is about as pretentious as he should ever be allowed to get.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 7 December 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
It seems New Pornographers opened last night. Other nights were Alex Chilton and, um, Endless Boogie.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
!!!!!!
― stephen, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
The NPs did "Don't Bring Me Down"!
also during the week, Sarah Vowell. and Dave Rick!
http://www.yolatengo.com/ylt/hanukkah2007diary.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
CAPITALISM
http://www.yolatengo.com/forsale/index.php
The KISS/Star shirt is kinda sweet...
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link