Yo La Tengo live

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

morbs, your opener is rumored to be the db's

and mine is rumored to be the clean

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

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.

bwaHA!

(is he?)

Hooray, southern dates announced. Do I go to Atlanta, B'ham or Memphis?

he is not in fact the geico gecko, but he encouraged people to claim so on wikipedia

I am really, really glad I missed the Night 1 comedians.

friend of mine got Versus as the opener and Mark Arm from Mudhoney as the encore guest (not sure which night this was)

how is the room temperature in Maxwells during a sold-out show these days?

it was pretty damn cold on arrival and warmed up to fine after a few hours

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.

It seems New Pornographers opened last night. Other nights were Alex Chilton and, um, Endless Boogie.

!!!!!!

The NPs did "Don't Bring Me Down"!

also during the week, Sarah Vowell. and Dave Rick!

http://www.yolatengo.com/ylt/hanukkah2007diary.html

CAPITALISM

http://www.yolatengo.com/forsale/index.php

The KISS/Star shirt is kinda sweet...

Okay, the new Unplugged/Storytellers tour is kind of boring.

The KISS/Star shirt is kinda sweet...

Yeah, but it would be even sweeter if it was a star-eyed shirt of Bob Odenkirk in Kiss Makeup.

they're doing Hanukkah fest at Maxwells this year. tix soon.

they're also playing new year's eve in haledon, nj with the feelies, making me wish, for the first time, that I lived in New Jersey.

Montclair, NJ!

oops, yeah you're right -- Montclair! any predictions on who the guests'll be this year at the hannukah shows? some great ones in the past ...

yeah. i can't believe they had alex chilton last year. the youtube stuff's tremendous

can anyone devise some kind of ticket buying logarithm, like working out that night five's gonna be the best?

yo la tengo at atpny was interesting in terms of the debate about being good live versus extended jams, but totally redeemed by the last thirty seconds being SUPER LOUD, courtesy of the mbv pa i guess.

oh, &, dump are playing somewhere ny soon, too.

chilton stuff is really nice, no doubt. he should make an album with ylt. couldn't be worse than that big star in space album, right?
yeah there's gotta be a new Dump album sometime, right? been 5 years or so since the last one.

there's one coming, called HEARTBLEEPS, i think. he had a split single out a while back.

big star in space - uhh, but some recent alex chilton stuff's totally classic - the standards on his cliches lp, there will never be another you etc, are beautiful.

no, you seldom know in advance who yer gonna get at Hanukkah shows. And they are making no announcements.

yeah. i think there were a few leaks last year, just beforehand. but i wondered whether it's always night one young and upcoming matadorites, night two ylt forefathers and night three, BAM, chilton/marshall allen etc.

they've promised that the feelies are not one of the hannukah guests ... so it'll probably be yung wu.

i bet there'll be some sonic youth or lou reed, considering that they're now labelmates ...

reports? I hear Magnetic Fields opened the other night. Tonight, Willie "Boom Boom" Alexander.

i went to two (2x) of these shows, and caught some indie rock headliners and not lou reed or someone of chiltonesque stature. i did see jon benjamin, though, which was tremendous and akin to watching someone have a nervous breakdown onstage.

ylt were really good. maybe seeing them somewhere smaller made the jams kinda heavier and easier to get involved in, rather than sit through. played lots of nice things like tiny birds.

well I'll never hear David Cross sing "To Sir with Love Again" I bet.

this thread has one of my favorite Ned-isms, maybe in the all-time top ten:

Bah on having sex with a guitar. People should play by mind control and never touch the actual instrument.

recordings of some of the hannukah gigs are up at nyctaper.com ... the one with smokey hormel looks particularly cool ...

So Yo La Tengo decided for their Pitchfork Festival "Write the Night" set, for which fans vote to determine the set list, to play three new songs that weren't even on the ballot. Nice work, guys. As much as I'm sure they enjoy the new tunes, it kind of sucks if we were deprived hearing stuff like "Moby Octopad" or "Blue Line Swinger" because they decided to thumb their nose at the concept.

god, that sounds awful. i don't know how you coped

Haha, I was worried I sounded too indignant in that post. I'm not, really, it's just kind of like why agree to the thing if you're just going to deviate from it, anyway?

http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/money.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPoQAwZjn08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5FjzqwWyiA

there you go jaymc, you can stop being upset now, because you can hear these songs!

i think they should have played it with the exception that voters were allowed to vote for songs by anyone except yo la tengo

you mean like the WFMU pledge drive?

also i just looked at the pitchfork festival schedule page and lol they asked wavves to play even after the debacle at their euro festival? idiots.

yeah that was what i was thinking of, the wfmu thing (couldn't think what it was called)

more disappointed they didn't use their gig in ornette coleman's meltdown to unveil their new free jazz direction tbh

live recording from nyctaper of the Coney Island show this month: http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=1364

Xposts: Go Blue Jays.

Seeing Yo La Tengo is one of those things I want to do once, and have wanted to see them since I was 14, but just never bothered. Not sure if I'm missing out or not.

depends on the show. but yeah, you're most likely missing out.

Avoid them if it's billed as "The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo." That show sucked.

also i just looked at the pitchfork festival schedule page and lol they asked wavves to play even after the debacle at their euro festival? idiots.

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uh they probably asked them to play like 6 months ago when they were booking people for the festival. not defending wavves though.

Anyone go to the Roseland show? I was more tired than broke.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/09/yo_la_tengo_pla_3.html

well this year's Hanukkah shows sold out in record time (12 days I think) and I didn't move on em. If anyone acquires "extras" let me know.