Yo La Tengo live

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.

I'm going Monday.

didnt think they'd get Elvis:

http://hoboken.patch.com/articles/yo-la-tengo-kicks-off-hanukkah-concert-series-with-m-ward-urge-overkill-and-elvis

sounds like some of the feelies were there last night ...

yes

http://www.jambands.com/news/2010/12/03/members-of-the-feelies-join-yo-la-tengo-on-night-two-of-chanukah

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/12/wilco_week_cont.html

http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=4446
recording of the first night

apparently I'm seeing Mofungo tnite (did back in the day)

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/03/david_byrne_gle.html

show sounds amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqTqKzyfRy4
not great sound quality, but here's a vid of yo la feelies playing a ripping "run run run"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqTqKzyfRy4

kind of weird how ageless ira kaplan seems to be? not that he looks terribly young, but he looks pretty much exactly the same as he did when i saw ylt for the first time in 1995.

He actually kinda looks the same as he did when I saw him as the soundguy at Maxwells in 1985.

the anti aging effects of moisturizing and feedback

Man, even the totally crappy quality of that recording couldn't obliterate the coolness of the guitars. Bet that was a blast in the actual room.

run, run, run by the motorcycle boy. about the best cover of a vu song ever. that singer from the shop assistants. wow!

you can get a recording of the japan benefit show http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=5530 by donating to peace winds japan. good cause of course.

or at least you could -- as seems to happen to these guys frequently, their server is down at the moment.

Brooklyn 'spinning wheel' shows at Bell House in May

they're doing a spinning wheel show in london, at the royal festival hall, for meltdown, and i can't wait!

Hanukkah tix on sale tom'w:

http://www.yolatengo.com/schedule.html

the show i mentioned above was AMAZING. they played their own support slot as condo fucks!!

they're playing here next week as the CFs, opening for the Glands.

All the Hanukkah shows except for Xmas night and Xmas Eve are sold out!

wowzers.
guessing that the reunited trypes are going to play one of these nights.

shit, goes faster every year

ie, I was shut out and can't go those 2 nights

will beg Matador connex

These sell out pretty fast but I had no trouble getting tickets at face value near the show date last year since holiday plans are usually fluid for people and these go on sale so far in advance.