Yo La Tengo live

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.

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.

It helps that I also really like the album they were touring on, will definitely be on my year-end list.

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...

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.

New album is great. Got a song about doing yo yo tricks.

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

http://www.jessejarnow.com/category/ylt/

Lots of great covers and guests and opening acts during the Chanukah shows

feelies night pretty much put me in a FOMO coma

(with Ira on saxophone)

Ira the K is known to occasionally break out the horn (usually during WFMU fundraisers, I think)

Is like when Lætitia Sadier or Polly Harvey or Sting "plays" the horn?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fSOxehYEpw

"i heard you looking" with lambchop is wonderful

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?

i don't think they discourage taping, they discourage public posting of the tapes on the internet

Ah, yeah, that's right..

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 Mom
DJ Todd from wfmu after
A fun night.

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.

Aislers Set would have been very cool. What a gift these shows are.

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

I remember that tour and am slightly dazed to realize it was 20 years ago.

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.

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.

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

live now on twitch @ Primavera Sound

https://www.twitch.tv/amazonmusices

Aww , missed seeing this . Clipse on now .

I see that YLT have a special Lincoln Center event with a movie on June 16

The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
With Yo La Tengo
Lincoln Center Presents
In collaboration with Film at Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall
Sunday, June 16, 2024 at 7:30 pm

Saw them do the Buckminster Fuller show a while’s back (actually before my kid was born, so over a decade ago) and it is brilliant.

i loved them live! they played at my school's chapel. so weird that i like this band.

i saw them tonight. i had thought it was about 8 or 9 years since i last saw them but it turns out that was way back in 2000.

teenage fan club joined them for a few songs which excited some of the crowd but i dgaf about them so it didn't really enhance the gig for me.

YLT were great though and i think i could listen to georgia hubley drum forever. she rules!

They played one of the best shows I've ever seen and, a few years later, the worst show I've been to.

They were absolutely incredible both times I saw them last year, just inspired and at the top of their game. It will be criminal if we don’t get a live document of the last two years of touring. They really could use a live album!

Last time I saw them was a few years back and Georgia's drumming was a real high point.

I’m a couple weeks away from seeing them here in Maryland. Will bump this thread once I have!

(Previously saw them in DC in ‘97, remains one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.)

They've been great every time I've seen them. (The highlight was in Central Park when Ira made a dramatic exit off the stage, done in a way that for a split-second made me think irrationally that was he coming after me for some unknown reason - turns out, he wanted to pass his guitar into the crowd and have us all take a turn.) The only time anyone I know witnessed a bad show was when they willfully did one where they read Seinfeld scripts. Still hard to believe, but I have to say it took guts to stick with it even though it was clearly displeasing their audience.

Here we go, in Baltimore

8 nights of Chanukah tickets on sale. 1st night is December 25, 2024

https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00006138BCD880F1

I went up to NY last year for first time doing one of those shows and it was great. But schedule doesn’t work for my wife and I this year

I'm sure I'm alone on this one, really wish I could afford a trip to take in a night or two of YLT and hit up Phish at the Garden for NYE. Kind of a dream NYC trip for me at the moment.

playing an in-store at a record shop here as a fundraiser for the harris-walz compaign. tempted to go but tickets are a bit steep at 100$ and i'm not like the world's biggest YLT fan, there's a good chance i don't know half the songs they play. i'm canadian so not sure if attending would be breaking any campaign finance laws lol

I got tickets for the Sunday Chanukah show. Both times I've seen them were really great, but I have never seen one those shows before.

I'm sure I'm alone on this one, really wish I could afford a trip to take in a night or two of YLT and hit up Phish at the Garden for NYE. Kind of a dream NYC trip for me at the moment.

https://jessejarnow.com/2024/12/yo-la-tengo-hanukkah-2024-night-1-setlist/

some great encores on nights 1 and 2

Yo La Tengo Hanukah shows night 3

*(encore)* with Ernie Brooks on bass/vocals
She Cracked (Modern Lovers)
Government Center (Modern Lovers)
Fly Into the Mystery (Modern Lovers)
Roadrunner (Modern Lovers)

https://jessejarnow.com/2024/12/yo-la-tengo-hanukkah-2024-night-3-setlist/

I'm going tomorrow. Dawn Richard would have been great!

these all look incredible, as usual

Soft Boys reunion tonight, or as close as we can get to it, with Lee Cave-Berry on bass instead of Matthew Seligman (RIP) or Andy Metcalfe.

Video clips on Robyn Hitchcock IG page and story. Saw someone say there was a stream of the set on some site

There's something about yt that make critics adore them but i ignore what it is. Same goes for Nick Cave.

They were great last night and I got to here a few of my favorites - Last Days of Disco, Deeper Into Movies, Sudden Organ.

They brought out MJ Lenderman for an "old Jewish folk song" as Ira put it, then tore into Dylan's Something There is About You.