Yo La Tengo live

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.

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.

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.

looks like only 3 of Hanukkah shows have tix left.

Would anyone who's seen the current Freewheelin' tour care to comment? I've going to the Thursday show in Boston.

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

Thu the 6th only

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

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

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

and ira = http://www.lhdepottheatre.org/images/stuart800_600.JPG + http://www.jbexp.com/images/hendrix.gif

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.

recent boston show up for download over here: http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/2007/11/mp3s-freewheeling-yo-la-tengo-live-in.htm

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

Apparently, YLT on snl this weekend.

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.