Wilco Take Me Out To The Ballgame
Lots of costume changes for Wilco this weekend. Last spotted sporting nifty suits and debuting works in progress at Lollapalooza, the band swapped 'em for Cubs uniforms the next day and treated the fans at Wrigley to a 7th inning "Take Me Out To The Ballgame." You could say the band was in town for the fest, or you could say the band is from Chicago. Either way, the crowd's into it, even if the band just directs their mics toward the fans. Sit tight through the whole vid though: Jeff talks about Lolla night's set and special suits (on saying from stage he sewed them: "I lied."), and how there's just no time to see other bands when the festival's in your hometown.
(via BV)
Hear that? They're gonna do that whole catalogue recreation concert series again next year. Back to baseball: If just one indie friendly take on the anthem isn't enough, please recall the Hold Steady's slightly more stylized take. Chase that with Branford Marsalis/Jeff Tain Watts, Candlebox, REO Speedwagon, and/or basball analyst Peter Gammons's versions all aggregated at ESPN. The part where we get to make like we know baseball: The song was written in 1908, which is the last year the Cubs won the World Series. Relevant!
Posted at 2:40 PM by amrit in Video
Tags: Wilco
This was stupid as poop. I was watching the game when they did this, and I was like "Why aren't you singing into the mics!?!??!" You don't come to the game to conduct Wrigley to sing it, you sing it. And you're a band for god's sake. You can sing. So do it.
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Cubs suck
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The reason they didn't sing into the mic is because there is a delay between the mic and the speakers, so Wilco and the crowd would have ended up out of sync. They did it the right way.
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of course they did. they're fucking wilco.
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Go Cards!
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cubs = world series.
mark my words.
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best avatar. after my own, of course.
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hahaha. sufjan put the goat on the cover of illinois for a reason.
cubs in the world series = not happening.
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cubs = suck.
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wilco = world series
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cubs > wilco = world series < jdubs' creepy jj avatar < goats.
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Aids > Cubs Fans
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now if only the Hold Steady would come back to MN to lead my beloved Twins...
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Tweedy isn't even a Cubs fan. He's a Cards fan
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tweedy went from hating these guys to hating himself for doing that all while still keeping the humor highbrow...lovely
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Jeff, why must you betray your St Louis metropolitan area roots? You've disappointed all of us...
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I love Wilco more than words, and not just cause I live in St. Louis, but Jeff, please! What an embarrassment. Wilco started in St. Louis. Their first gig was at Cicero's on Delmar. This is treason of high order!
Never thought I would quote Nelly, but at least he knows where he's from ... "Sing it loud I'm from the Lou' and I'm proud ."
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baseball sucks, man.
any sport that allows shitty small talk, even with jeff tweedy, doesn't deserve to be "america's game" or whatever.
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