Torrent Of The Day: Jeff Tweedy (DVD)

Jeff Tweedy 2005-11-17 Tribeca Performing Arts/New York (NTSC)

Jeff Tweedy Acoustic
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
New York, NY
November 17th, 2005

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES:
Source: Canon ZR300 > Mini DV Master > Firewire > Final Cut Pro > DVD Studio Pro
TV system: (NTSC)
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Sys Bitrate: 4.96 mbps

AUDIO ATTRIBUTES:
Source: Canon ZR300 built-in mic
Audio Coding mode: 160 PCM stereo
Sampling Rate: 48kHz
Bitrate: 1.54 Mbps

Set list:
1. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
2. Muzzle of Bees
3. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
4. Wait Up
5. (Was I) In Your Dreams
6. Remember the Mountain Bed
7. Lost Love
8. Please Tell My Brother
9. Bob Dylan's 49th Beard
10. Sugar Baby
11. My Words
12. Someday Some Morning Sometime
13. Summer Teeth
14. She's A Jar

First encore:
15. Sunken Treasure
16. Not for the Season
17. He's Back Jack-Whistling Jesus
18. War on War
19. Heavy Metal Drummer

Second encore:
20. The Lonely 1

Special thanks to Ray Girard for taking over on camera for a
couple songs.

Filmed and Authored by Matt Huard

Torrents Of the Day

Neither the Jeff Tweedy at the Tabernacle, nor the Yo La Tengo show at Variety Playhouse recordings have surfaced yet. But while we hope and wait, here's some from the last couple weeks:

Yo La Tengo January 30 2007 @ The Social, Orlando, FL

Jeff Tweedy @ Paramount 1/31/2007 (mk41>m248>mme) *16bit*

Jeff Tweedy 2007-01-24 Hogg Auditorium - Austin, TX (FLAC)

Jeff Tweedy, Atlanta 1/29

Last night's show at the Tabernacle featured an enigmatic and very much in character Jeff Tweedy berating an adoring sold-out crowd. Having ditched his band for a tour in favor of the very direct and effective intimacy of a solo acoustic set, the show was able to wander between his campfire vibe alt-country (for the record, i hate saying that) tunes and Tweedy's confrontational and insecurity-prone banter as freely and unprofessionally as he saw fit. Halting in the middle of the first verse of "Via Chicago", Tweedy asked the audience to help him out --- he had forgotten the lyrics. Adopting the persona of a trapped hero, his surly treatment of the audience brought to mind conventional images of the behavior of other iconic frontmen crowd-bashers (Waters? Corgan?.....Bixler?). Although cautiously, he performed in a way that was ultimately confident in his spell over the audience, who fed off of the tension created by Tweedy's act. I would go as far to say that his use of stage banter holds more merit as a dualistic tool of dynamics; his songs are so delicate and revealing, that by the end, his natural reaction is simply that he must take back what he has given away. 'No, Atlanta, you do not know me as you think you might'. His compensation for what he gives away in song is the rejection of the crowd on a personal level. This tension sets the audience up for the shift in mood back to Tweedy's often melancholy tone within a song. In a strange reversal of roles; for some songs excitement was almost exclusively built in the margins between songs, and torn down during the course of the next song.

As for the actual performance (when Tweedy remembered the words), it was, of course, flawless. His vocals and guitar arrangements were surprisingly complete in covering some of the more instrument-heavy Wilco songs. He was 'prepared' for this set; it's cleanliness once he was in song only supports any argument affirming his stage persona's at least partial superficiality. He played a good spread across his career; heavy on some more recent Wilco hits. Some personal highlights: Heavy metal drummer (in an acoustic set, an obvious extension on the song's irony), The Lonely 1 (as the only man on a stage filled with nothing but 6 guitars, some harmonicas and a rug), and Passenger Side (Chris Carraba don't know shit about sing alongs).

On a side note, the Minus 5 opened as a three piece, apparently with only one member of the original band. They sucked, especially the only dude that was actually in the band.

I would have a hard time considering any other solo acoustic show from any other frontman/artist as engaging. Jeff Tweedy is at the special point in his career where he has the history and catalog to truly develop his character onstage, which he effectively used last night to drag the audience closer by pushing them away............ for 30$ a seat.

1. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
2. new song (Be Patient With Me)
3. Remember The Mountain Bed
4. Cars Can't Escape
5. Promising
6. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
7. Muzzle Of Bees
8. new song (What Light)
9. The Ruling Class
10. New Madrid
11. Via Chicago
12. Hesitating Beauty
13. Heavy Metal Drummer
14. Gun
15. A Shot In The Arm ]

Encore 1:
16. Someone Else's Song (without PA)
17. Theologians
18. Jesus, Etc.
19. The Lonely 1

Encore 2:
20. I'm The Man Who Loves You
21. Passenger Side
22. Dreamer In My Dreams (without PA)
23. Acuff-Rose (without PA)

Torrent of the Day

Our final Tweedy torrent:

Jeff Tweedy - 10/27/06 - Foellinger Auditorium, Urbana, IL

Jeff Tweedy
Foellinger Auditorium
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
October 27, 2006

Taper: Reid Eickhorst (eickhorst_reid@hotmail.com)
Location: 2' from the left stack
Source: AT853s > SP-SPSB-6 > Nomad Jukebox 3
Conversion: Creative Nomad Jukebox 3 > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 > .wav > FLAC frontend

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THIS SHOW IS NOT TO BE MP3-ENCODED
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Disc 1:

01: Spiders (Kidsmoke)
02: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
03: Cars Can't Escape
04: Instrumental
05: Sunken Treasure
06: Tweedy Talk - New Live DVD, Explanation of Punching Incident
07: Was I In Your Dreams?
08: Lullaby For Rafters and Dreams
09: The Ruling Class
10: Radio King

Total: 40:46


Disc 2:

01: New Song (Patient With Me?)
02: Summer Teeth
03: Gun
04: Theologins
05: I'm the Man Who Loves You
ENCORE
06: Bob Dylan's 49th Beard
07: What Light
08: In A Future Age
09: Wishful Thinking
10: Walken
11: Is That The Thanks I Get

Total: 41:28


NOTES:
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- The punching incident that Tweedy talks about occured at a show
in Missouri on 10/16/06


Compiled by Reid Eickhorst on 10/28/06

Torrent of the Day

In keeping with the Jeff Tweedy Theme:

Loose Fur(J.Tweedy-J.O'Rourke) St.Anne'sWarehouse Brooklyn,NY 2002 dec 7

Loose Fur
St. Anne's Warehouse; Brooklyn, NY
December 7, 2002

Stereo Audience Mics > DAT>??>Net>Dime

Recorded by Larry

Laminated Cat 15:10
Millionaire 5:04
Elegant Transaction 8:12
Answers 5:29
You Were Wrong 4:45
Chelsea Walls Theme 20:01
Be Not So Fearful 3:04
Stage Talk 2:04
So Long (Tweedy gets heckled) 10:56
Street Success 7:34
Chinese Apple 6:53