

[photos by Robert Loerzel from Underground Bee]

Being There was released in October of 1996 and I saw Wilco live for the first time a month later at Mercury Lounge for a show that would change the course of my musical life. Like many of the attendees of this year’s Solid Sound Festival, I’ve seen Wilco probably more than fifty times in a variety of locations. I’ve seen multiple shows supporting all of the albums of their career, I’ve seen acoustic sets, many guest appearances, the all-covers set. I’ve seen them play in small halls, big halls, theatres, baseball stadiums, a brewery, festivals, and even at Madison Square Garden. But the seminal event of seeing and hearing the band close-up play brand new Being There songs was an experience that took me down this path and permanently affixed those songs to my psyche.

Twenty-something years later, Wilco delivered on the now-traditional (2013-all covers, 2015-all acoustic) Solid Sound Friday request set by playing the album straight-through. It says something about the staying power of the material that almost all of these songs are either still set staples or occasional plays for the band’s “regular” shows. But hearing the material in sequence brings me back to the cramped confines of Mercury on that chilly November night and reminds me why I still go to such lengths to see Wilco. But oh, if the Being There performance was all you expected from Friday night’s set, the “encore” segment was a huge Wilco curveball. Upon returning to the stage, the band jumped into “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart”, a not uncommon encore song. And then kept playing — the entire Yankee Hotel Foxtrot also in its entirety. Its took the opening notes of rarely played “Radio Cure” for our correspondent Gr8fulPete to recognize what was happening, but when it dawned on the crowd you can hear the shock and utter surprise of those witnessing this encore set for the ages.

Pete also recorded Saturday night’s set and the Sunday Tweedy & Friends set and those will be coming to the site in the coming days.

Pete recorded this show with his high end Neumann cards from directly at the soundboard cage area and the sound quality is outstanding. Enjoy!

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Wilco

2017-06-23

Solid Sound Festival

North Adams MA

Digital Master Audience Recording

Recorded inside Soundboard Cage

Neumann KM-185s > Sound Devices 702 > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (post-production) >

CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded by gr8fulpete

Produced by nyctaper

Setlist:

[Total Time 2:14:13]

01 [Nick Offerman Introduction]

02 Misunderstood

03 Far Far Away

04 Monday

05 Outtasite (Outta Mind)

06 Forget the Flowers

07 Red-Eyed and Blue

08 I Got You (At the End of the Century)

09 What’s the World Got in Store

10 Hotel Arizona

11 Say You Miss Me

12 Sunken Treasure

13 Someday Soon

14 Outta Mind (Outta Sight)

15 Someone Else’s Song

16 Kingpin

17 Was I In Your Dreams

18 Why Would You Wanna Live

19 The Lonely One

20 Dreamer in My Dreams

21 [encore break]

22 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

23 Kamera

24 Radio Cure

25 War on War

26 Jesus Etc

27 Ashes of American Flags

28 Heavy Metal Drummer

29 I’m the Man Who Loves You

30 Pot Kettle Black

31 Poor Places

32 Reservations

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[photo by Pete]