credit to jesse jarnow for this detailed updates:
Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom18 December 2022*(Hanukkah, night 1)*
opening act: Barrence Whitfield & the Savagescomedian: Liz Mielemix CD: Nick Lowebenefiting: Attic Youth Center
Seven Day Weekend (Doc Pomus) (sung as “Eight Day Weekend”) (with CJ Camerieri & Mike McGinnis on horns)Moby Octopad (with CJC & MM)Before We Run > (with CJC & MM)She May, She Might >Tiny BirdsAselestine (with CJC)Eight Candles (Sam Elwitt) (with CJC & MM)Or Thousands of Prizes (Lambchop) (with Kurt Wagner on vocals, CJC & MM)Season of the SharkThe Ballad of Red BucketsStyles of the TimesSome Kinda FatigueSugarcubeOhmPoint That Thing Somewhere Else (The Clean) (with Mark Ibold on bass)
*(encore)*Long Gone (The Customs) (with Peter Greenberg on guitar & vocals)I Smell A Rat (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) (with Barrence Whitfield on vocals, Steve Lagrega on saxophone, & PG)One Bad Stud (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) (with BW, SL, & PG)Shopping For Clothes (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) with BW, KW, SL, & PG)
Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom19 December 2022*(Hanukkah, night 2)*
opening act: Gina Birchcomedian: Brittany Carneymix CD: Irabenefiting: One Acre Fund
Steve Shelley on drums for whole show
The Story of JazzRadar Eyes (The Godz)Here To FallHere You Are >I Was the Fool Beside You For Too LongMadelineSong For MahliaShadowsDetouring America With Horns (acoustic)Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground)Stupid ThingsBig Day Coming (fast)The Kid With the Replaceable Head (Richard Hell)Drug TestThe Story of Yo La Tango
*(encore)*Tell Me When It’s Over (Dream Syndicate)Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Carole King/Gerry Goffin) (with Gina Birch on vocals)Solitary Man (Neil Diamond) (with Corin Tucker on vocals)Shape of Things To Come (Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil) (with CT)The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) (Mark Barkan/Ritchie Adams) (with GB, CT, & Vicki Peterson on vocals)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
Some day I would love to attend one of these shows.
I want to attend also. when I noticed that they were on sale this year, they had just sold out all 8 nights and resale prices were too high.
http://www.jessejarnow.com/category/ylt/
Jesse has the details as noted.
Gina Burch from the Raincoats, Vicki Peterson from Bangles
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
i always say i'm gonna go and never get it together and then promise i'll do it next year, repeatx20, but reading jesse jarnow's updates has become a holiday tradition of its own for me
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
definitely a vicarious pleasure to see the setlists / special guests every morning. I flew out for the Feelies last month so my live music budget was blown, but I'll make it out ... someday? Who knows how long they'll do this, seems like a lot of work!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
Agreed, I hope long enough for me to attend some day! Helps that they seem to really enjoy doing this.
I totally get why they want to keep these as a special event, but I do wish they'd relent on the "no tapers" stance, or at least release some of these somehow.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
I didn't make it to that Jersey City Feelies show but as a local I've been spoiled with many Feelies or Feelies-adjacent shows over the years.
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
the feelies / willies show was magical, so glad I finally bit the bullet and went out there.
there are tapes of the Hanukkah shows, they're just supposed to be kept on the down-low amongst fans, not shared around publicly. if you need a link, hit me at tywilc at gmail.com
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
night 3 w/ Burnt Sugar opening looked great . A Bobby Blue Bland cover by YLT and special guests
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
Ryan Sawyer on drums, Lee Ranaldo on guitar/bells, Bill Nace on taishōgoto for whole set except as indicated.
o_O
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
haha yeah, pretty amazing
― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
man that sounds awesome, i saw bill nace solo ripping on that taishōgoto over the summer and it was fucking nuts, so cool
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
calvin trillin (who just turned 87!) read at last night’s show, ira seemed totally starstruck
― donna rouge, Saturday, 24 December 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
Dawn Richard did the mixtape one of the nights ( on same label as YLT)
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 December 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
Some year I will go to NY and see Yo La Tengo on one of the 8 nights of Hanukkah shows, but they always sell out quickly before I realize it
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:28 (five months ago) link
Yeah, a YLT Hanukkah show is definitely on my bucket list. But, as you mention, getting tickets is one thing, but the bigger obstacle is the cost of getting to NY (well, close enuff) and a place to stay.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:38 (five months ago) link
i just discovered there is a band called Yo No La Tengo :)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:42 (five months ago) link
lol
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:44 (five months ago) link
I almost was in NYC while the shows were going on and briefly looked into a ticket, but the secondary market prices were higher than airfare!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:12 (five months ago) link
I guess I was really lucky to get into the one I saw. Amusingly the guest was Jeff Tweedy, who I've seen multiple times back in Illinois.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:10 (five months ago) link
that new live-in-the-studio YLT Ep is fantastic — great sound overall ... https://yolatengo.bandcamp.com/album/the-bunker-sessions
seeing them out here in a couple months, can't wait, it's been wayyyyyy too long.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:20 (five months ago) link
Got back into these guys hard this year. Saw them on the most recent tour for the first time since Summer Sun and now I regret the two decades of not making an effort. Just incredible live.
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 22:06 (five months ago) link
Yeah, I honestly never stopped liking them, but didn't expect to go into another full-on fan binge like I did this year. Saw them both times they swung through Chicago, making up for the long gap since I'd last caught 'em.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 22:26 (five months ago) link
I know I posted about it on another YLT thread, but their show I saw in March was just fantastic. I'd seen them before and liked them for years, but I was really pretty blown away. I'm sure it partly is a matter of circling back around to them, but also I think at least as a live band they just get better and better.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 23:41 (five months ago) link
It helps that I also really like the album they were touring on, will definitely be on my year-end list.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 23:42 (five months ago) link
Thanks for the heads-up re: the Bunker session--sounds great! Was likewise really impressed by the Big Thief Bunker session recorded in 2019/released in 2021...
― If I luge, if I luge, if I luge you on the track (Craig D.), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:06 (five months ago) link
Yesterday I got an email saying I had tickets to the first night of Hannukah. I thought maybe my wife bought them? I ask her, she says no. Then we collectively remembered that back in june a friend emailed saying the first night was her birthday and would anyone want to come, so I got tickets. And forgot about it. So now, what a nice surprise. I would consider myself a fan, but haven't seen them in over a decade, nor heard the last few records very much, so I'm excited. They're the real deal.
― ian, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 00:08 (five months ago) link
New album is great. Got a song about doing yo yo tricks.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 01:36 (five months ago) link
ian that is so great!!! xp
I have also really gotten into them (again) with the new album, they are just firing on all cylinders it seems
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 02:21 (five months ago) link
Lots of great covers and guests and opening acts during the Chanukah shows
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 04:53 (four months ago) link
feelies night pretty much put me in a FOMO coma
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:21 (four months ago) link
(with Ira on saxophone)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:34 (four months ago) link
Ira the K is known to occasionally break out the horn (usually during WFMU fundraisers, I think)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:36 (four months ago) link
Is like when Lætitia Sadier or Polly Harvey or Sting "plays" the horn?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:24 (four months ago) link
i mean he probably shouldn't quit his dayjob, but here he is sitting in with 75 Dollar Bill
https://territorialimperatives.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/75-ira-kaplan-on-alto.jpg?w=848
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:42 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fSOxehYEpw
"i heard you looking" with lambchop is wonderful
― ufo, Thursday, 14 December 2023 07:28 (four months ago) link
Man, the FOMO is strong always. Hitting up one of these shows is on my bucket list.
Do they still discourage taping of these shows?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:17 (four months ago) link
i don't think they discourage taping, they discourage public posting of the tapes on the internet
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:42 (four months ago) link
Ah, yeah, that's right..
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 December 2023 15:52 (four months ago) link
My wife scored tickets and we are doing NY and went last night. Aislers Set opened. Then David Cross dressed as Ira’s rabbi. Plus Cowsill guy and Vicki Petersen and Ira’s MomDJ Todd from wfmu after A fun night.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 December 2023 17:37 (four months ago) link
Being there for Hanukkah show one can see Ira racing back and forth from guitars to keyboard and a roadie quickly putting out music stands . Georgia messed up one opening and then signaled a time out with her hands , said we’re a bit fried but I got this and then started up the song perfectly.
Ira was profusely thanking their small crew , the club employees and the band’s guests during the evening.
Seeing Ira’s Mom sing lead on “My Little Corner of the World “, cane in hand at end was so sweet.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 December 2023 17:39 (four months ago) link
Aislers Set would have been very cool. What a gift these shows are.
― grandavis, Sunday, 17 December 2023 17:00 (four months ago) link
Aislers Set did their first gig in 8 years ( and practiced twice to prepare for gig. ) . Ira said they had toured with YLT 20 years ago. It was a good set
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 December 2023 15:31 (four months ago) link
I remember that tour and am slightly dazed to realize it was 20 years ago.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 18 December 2023 15:48 (four months ago) link
Aislers played my buddy's party on Saturday, but try as I did to make it out there it was just not in the cards.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 December 2023 16:05 (four months ago) link
I am glad to hear. I love those records but have never seen them live (Aislers Set, I have seen Yo La Tengo many times). Maybe they will get the bug and play again.
― grandavis, Monday, 18 December 2023 17:36 (four months ago) link
I only saw Aislers Set once and it was also 20 years ago but not supporting YLT, they were headlining. I think Comet Gain and the Would-Be-Goods were supporting them. Yes, it was, and the Lucksmiths
― Colonel Poo, Monday, 18 December 2023 23:13 (four months ago) link