Yo La Tengo live

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.

same, think they're always changing hands prior to the shows, & ylt fans aren't necessarily capitalistic enough to boost the prices

Yeah I think I traded my original pair twice, sold it, then bought a new ticket at less than face the night of.

^^ yo la tengo fan into pyramid schemes

I'm known as the Bernie Madoff of Yo La Tengo scalpers.

got a hard ticket for the final Hanukkah show at a rekkid store.

They're going to be here accompanying The Sounds of Science next week:

http://torontoundergroundcinema.com/synopsis.php?MV=The+Sounds+of+Science

This is a big deal for me; believe it or not, "How Some Jellyfish Are Born" is my single favourite Yo La Tengo song.

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

i saw them do that in SF the first time they did it, must have been 10 years ago. It was awesome, easily the best YLT show I ever saw (I've seen them three other times, ranging from really cool to incredibly boring).

yeah sounds of science is great, definitely essential YLT. i think i passed up the opp to see them do it live 2003 and have regrets.

for anyone who cares: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/22594311245/i-can-hardly-wait-yo-la-tengo-best-band-ever
7 live versions of "big day coming" over the years. I know, might not sound that exciting, but it is! it is!

colour me excited, tyler!

tyler, is it possible to find the shows on the ylt database online anywhere?

not that i know of, sadly. I'm going to be posting a bunch of highlights though -- i don't even have that much of it, i just have a source who is providing a bunch of live YLT.

thx tyler. i really love yo la tengo.

yeah it's fun stuff -- listening to a bunch of these live recordings, it's clear they're more in the vein of NRBQ than the VU. Kind of like the ultimate neighborhood band (who somehow made it big).

At first I lolled at NRBQ comparison, but it's actually rather apt. I was telling a friend just recently that NRBQ were "record collector rock," in the sense that why NOT combine Sun rockabilly, Lovin' Spoonful pop and Sun Ra skronk; they obviously loved all those things. And YLT does a similar thing with their influences, for sure.

yeah i mean obviously there are big differences, but just the approach -- almost like both bands tap into an alternate american songbook kind of thing (both with covers and originals).

nrbq/yung wu members are regular guests for ylt's hanukkah shows

really, nrbq have played those things? i know yung wu/feelies/etc always show up.

well, terry adams has

cool, yeah at this point it'd be weirder if someone from nrbq *hadn't* played with YLT. they've played with everyone.

that first, epic big day coming gets really delicious and spacey 16 minutes in

ha, yeah, it almost turns into some kind of 4AD/cocteau twins thing. really is great -- i wasn't too excited about a 27-minute big day coming when it started but i was a believer by the end.

what is the rest of that show like??

that's all they played that night, i think! they just jumped on a bill w/ sleepyhead and love child at the last minute.

pretty excited about hearing those versions of "Big Day Coming"!

when I saw them on the And Nothing... tour they opened with like a 45 minute version of "Night Falls On Hoboken" & I couldn't figure out where they could go from there. tbh they didn't really go anywhere; it was a weird mellow night, only one short electric solo (on "Cherry Chapstick"), with the gong player, you guys were probably there too, you know what I mean.

could def go for a compilation of diff versions of night falls tbh. and also cherry chapstick.

just put up a new one -- Yo La Does Dylan http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/22844703264/yo-la-tengo-does-dylan-sunsquashed-archives

i was really worried that your blog was gonna die out when your mediafire links went down. so happy

http://sydneytapes.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/freewheelin-with-yo-la-tengo.html (link in comments)

this is a really cool Freewheelin' show. I think the talking/answers are actually better than the music, and it's an awesome setlist. Phone interference dies out after like the 25 minute mark too. It isn't split up though

cool, thanks for the link! those freewheeling shows are fun.
yeah, kinda keeping the blog rolling in a hopefully low-key way. next up is a totally great fakebook era comp.

tyler, do you have their london royal festival hall performance, hosted by john peel? i was in the audience for that, and have a recording on CD that's ace - Ira tussles manfully with some awful technical difficulties throughout, but the band are entirely charming, and they open with a totally enchanting trip thru Night Falls On Hoboken (i could totally listen to a CD of multiple takes of that song). i can try and upload it if you've not heard it yet.

i do have that one -- the long, opening "night fall on hoboken" right? great show. i think part of this "sunsquashed" archives thing will be an ambient/epic compilation that will definitely include a version of "hoboken".

aye, that's the one...

aight, here's another one http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/23231602272/a-world-of-funny-changes-more-from-the
really great stuff, live shows/in-stores/radio sessions all from the Fakebook era.