Yo La Tengo live

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tv on the radio was crowdeder, i thought, but yeah. too bad the opener wasn't louder, also

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

didn't see tv on the radio but every time i've been there's big stretches of the lawn wide open. this was my first prospect park indie rock experience though - that must be what draws around there.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

a little louder doesn't help much when 70% of the crowd is babbling nonstop throughout the show, but I've given up on this getting anything but worse.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

In addition to the octopi-sex score, I like the funk stuff for "Shrimp Stories."

Yeah, that was the next-best part for me too. I wondered why the drummer was so sleepy the rest of the time.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

james mcnew looks like the offsrping of perpetua and ned raggett

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

at right

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

(What was wrong with the captions? How would you have known what was going on otherwise? But yes, I would also like to have seen the films with the original Pierre Henry and Milhaud scores. I strongly suspect I'd like them better.)

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 14 July 2006 21:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

there is nothing wrong with the captions.. if your intent is to watch these films as pure documentaries then I suppose the descriptive text is important.

but its by no means necessary to have captions in a film/sound performance such as this, as you're there for the interplay between image and sound. captions distract to a certain extent, but its a minor quibble.

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 22:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

Playing the Loews Jersey theater in Jersey City, Friday 9/29.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

isn't that where you saw Bright Eyes once?

― mark grebt (sanskrit), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

that was just a scurrilous Noise rumor. I did see Forbidden Planet there.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah it's gonna be sweet, morbs.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 July 2006 13:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

are the Beat Your Ass t-shirts at the plant?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

From above re Hanukkah shows:
a reunion of the Shams

omg!

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

hahaha we've been making handmade beat your ass t-shirts around here. people might see 'em at pitchfork this weekend, i dunno.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 July 2006 14:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Playing the Loews Jersey theater in Jersey City, Friday 9/29.

yeah, i can't wait. bought tix right when they went on sale, so i'll be in the front row!

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 28 July 2006 16:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

i am in Row L at Loews Jersey; ads for the show running, so jump if yr buyin.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

isn't there more than one section?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah (?)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

rocks off!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 30 September 2006 04:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

i saw ylt open for another act about 12 years ago, god that was an endurance test. are they more concise these days?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

They are Yo La Tengo these days.

― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

― 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

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