Wilco
August 25, 2023
TOdays Festival
sPAZIO 211
Torino, Italy

Lineage: Core Sound Binaurals [w/ 120 Hz bass roll-off filter] clipped to Shirt > Edirol R-09 - 24bit/48kHz
Transfer: Panasonic SD Card > HD > SSRC > Soundforge Pro 17 > CDWave 1.98 > TLH 2.8.4 > FLAC
Position: Stage right [Pat's side], 35 meters from stage, in line with hanging PA stacks


01 Spiders (Kidsmoke) [11:18.74]
02 I Am My Mother [02:42.56]
03 Cruel Country [03:38.17]
04 I Am Trying To Break Your Heart [05:23.40]
05 If I Ever Was A Child [03:14.63]
06 Hummingbird [03:37.14]
07 Random Name Generator [04:10.45]
08 Misunderstood [06:08.21]
09 Love Is Everywhere (Beware) [03:48.67]
10 Bird Without A Tail / Base Of My Skull [09:02.66]
11 Jesus, Etc. [04:22.29]
12 Impossible Germany [09:55.34]
13 Falling Apart (Right Now) [03:45.33]
14 The Late Greats [02:59.30]
15 Dawned On Me [03:42.14]
16 A Shot In The Arm [04:46.28]
17 I Got You (At The End Of The Century) [03:51.60] >
18 Outtasite (Outta Mind) [03:30.49]


Total Time: 90:00.00


This was the third show of my 3 countries/5 shows/7 days trip with Wilco through continental Europe.
Compared with the days before, this was a cool show, at only 35° Celsius come showtime.
Wilco played the closing slot on Day 1 of the TOdays Festival in the north east of Torino, in a rather seedy corner of the city.
I met my old Dylan-buddy and taping compadre Romeo (who was off duty) in the late afternoon and we hung out and talked
about old friends and old times and did not hit the festival grounds before 9 p.m., Wilco being slated for 10:30 p.m.
Romeo commented in a mail before "I recently did a site inspection and met many mosquitos, some drug dealers and maybe hookers too,
more or less a dump". Sure enough, he was right on almost all accounts, a highly unlikely area for a multi-day-festival.
I'm not good at guessing such things but I think there were probably about 8.000 people in attendance.

The sound at the show was excellent, the recording turned out really fine, a punchy but still airy outdoor capture.
It was loud enough for me to stay a bit in the back, thus audience interference is minimal,
except for that one obnoxious person that you can hear screaming during Nels Cline's extra fine work
during his nightly solo extravaganza on Impossible Germany.

Oh yeah, and then it was Mr. Tweedy's birthday, with Happy Birthday from the crowd after Impossible Germany.

In terms of the setlist, the most interesting move was opening the show with Spiders (Kidsmoke).
I somehow like to think that they chose to do so because of the embarrassing way that the band before them,
Warhaus from Belgium, went fishing for audience participation on their endlessly stretched last song.
Evicted got dropped from this shortened festival set, which saw the Band playing one long set before the midnight curfew,
instead of doing the usual encore charade. I think/hope Bird Without A Tail will become a setlist regular in years to come,
and as mentioned, this night's Impossible Germany featured an even-more-outstanding-than-usual solo by Nels Cline.

Hello and thanks to Romeo, Greta, Siggi & Regine


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