Yo La Tengo live

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― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Georgia's lookin' gooooooood these days!

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

Actually the last time I saw them was at a festival this summer. They ONLY played songs from "I Am Not Afraid Of Unweildy Album Titles", and it pissed off a good part of the crowd. Lots of nice, short tunes that nobody knew coupled with a few extended jamz that sounded familiar but also happened to be new.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

"are they more concise these days?"

you mean, do they limit themselves to one lengthy noisejam? no.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

and funnily enough, they were called "concise" in the Times yesterday.

Jersey City show was a good one, I liked the "Goodkind" jam, not the... uhhhh... other one.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2006 12:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

i liked the 'story of yo la tango' jam a lot. on 'i heard you looking' mr kaplan's (first) guitar was set to jangle mode, which sounded a bit off.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

So there's not gonna be any NY area show before they leave the continent? Maybe I should get on the Chinatown bus to Philly in 2 weeks:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/40706/Yo_La_Tengo_Hit_the_Road

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yo La Tengo live: the first word that comes to mind is "masturbatory"

― richard wood johnson (rwj), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm gonna see them for the second time next Wednesday. I'd hardly call them masturbatory live; it's more of a long, slow piledriving.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

Like playing a guitar onstage could be anything different. :p I think you're thinking of knob-twiddlers.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

There was a NYC area show. It was in Jersey City, and it totally ruled, by far the best show I've ever seen them play.

― M Perpetua (mperpetua), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yeah (see above), but have been waiting for a return! esp as there was no Hoboken Hanukkah this year.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

They'll be doing the FMU covers/pledge thing again March 16th on air, barely back from Asia. Real troopers...

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Saturday, 27 January 2007 15:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Spring US tour dates

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 February 2007 18:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yo La Tengo live: the first word that comes to mind is "masturbatory"

i.e. like Mr. Anastascio; they use the guitar as their instrument of self-pleasure

I saw them live in Boston in October and Why? (who opened) totally blew them away.

― MaGoGo, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

i have been pleasured by mr kaplan's guitar on several occasion.

― stevie, Friday, 23 February 2007 16:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

<i>Yo La Tengo live: the first word that comes to mind is "masturbatory"</i>
point taken but i'd rather say:

yo la tengo live: never has watching and listening to masturbation been so fun, so thrilling, so captivating. they masturbate in so many different ways, it never gets tedious. not to forget their stamina. or did you ever masturbate for half an hour like ira occasionally does on his guitar? when he masturbates thousands of kittens are born. they are the gods of masturbation. and i worship them just for that.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

i'm sure building the new ilx was a lot of work but using different brackets in tags than in standard html is not exactly what i'd call a good idea.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yo la Tengo live to me (only seen them twice, enjoyed both) is the polar opposite of masturbatory. They strike me as working musicians there to do a job. I get the idea that their very aware of putting together a program for the crowd to enjoy. Maybe even to a fault -- I mean, I can understand why some might find them boring, but to say they are on the stage trying to please themselves without concern for the audience, what the hell.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 23 February 2007 22:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

Other than numbing the crowd with three back-to-back 15-minute jams, YLT were stellar at the show last month. They were clearly excited to be playing in Miami for the first time. After a nearly three-hour show they took audience requests during the encore.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 23 February 2007 22:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

Wish I could edit my post above -- I've only seen YLT live twice and it sounds like they vary a lot, so grain of salt. But they didn't strike me as "Fuck you, crowd" kind of band.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Friday, 23 February 2007 22:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

saw them twice and always liked them a lot (extra-long noisy jams included).
also they seem to cover a lot of my favourite songs.

― Marco Damiani, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

fab show at Webster Hall last night, definitely the best I've seen in awhile (of 30-plus total). The Georgia version of "Tom Courtenay" roolz.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

Last summer they definitely turned in my GIG OF THE YEAR at electric picnic.

― I know, right?, Monday, 30 April 2007 21:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

didn't see you last night, morbs!

― hstencil, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

Very easily the best act at Austin City Limits 2007. Ira absolutely shredded his geetar. Great stuff.

― kijiji, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

Bored the crap out of me. And I like their records.

― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 25 October 2007 21:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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, 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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

looks like only 3 of Hanukkah shows have tix left.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 November 2007 19:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

hey morbs, which hanukkah show(s) are you going to?

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

Thu the 6th only

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:18 (5 years ago) Permalink

I believe I meant to say "I'm going" up there.

― dad a, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:22 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

i'm sure i've said it before but YLT are about my favourite live band around.

― stevie, Friday, 16 November 2007 17:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

and ira = +

― stevie, Friday, 16 November 2007 17:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

Loader, maybe you should've gone to a "regular" show first.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 November 2007 17:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

Apparently, YLT on snl this weekend.

― peepee, Monday, 19 November 2007 17:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

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 (5 years ago) Permalink

bwaHA!

(is he?)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 6 December 2007 17:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 6 December 2007 18:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

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

― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 December 2007 20:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

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