Listening to boots, PJs 2000 tour is kind of dull.
Not if you are a Binaural fan, like me.
Also, it’s the last tour where songs were played at proper tempo. Everything turned to machine gun rapid fire speed after that. For instance, I just listened to, appropriately for you, the 2000 Sweden show. Present Tense was played at the same speed as studio album.
I adore Binaural. I still rather put on shows from other years than 2000. Much rather 2003.
"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
My first PJ shows were 2006, and I still think that was his best year aside from maybe 1994 or 1998. He was in control, still and power and could still growl through songs like Do The Evolution.
Obviously, in 2018 he can't really attack DTE or Animal like he used to but he still sounds wonderful. He can still belt out Release 95% of the time, so there's no complaints from me. His baritone is still all kinds of warm and lovely
2006: London Astoria, Lisbon I & II, Paris, Verona, Milano
2007: Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
2009: Manchester
2010: Belfast, Berlin
2012: Manchester I & II
2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes
2018: Amsterdam I, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Barcelona, London 2022: Berlin, Budapest, Krakow, Amsterdam II
Favorite PJ tours attended: 1998 and 2003. Wish I had attended: 1996. Would appreciate more if better quality boots were out there: 1994. 2000 had its moments but that year definitely had a gloomy vibe about it, just that Binaural feel. I don't even listen to the boots of the four 2008 shows I attended. 2005 Canada Tour I think is highly underrated. 2010 tour had an amazing energy to it. 2013 onwards is gravy at this point.
Wilco: Hard to say, they've toured so frequently and I've never really distinguished them by one year from another. But to pick a moment in time, I cherish the September 2000 show I went to at Irving Plaza in NYC. When they still played small venues but were on the cusp of something big. It was Summerteeth, Mermaid Avenue, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot all rolled into one. Saw them earlier that summer opening for Natalie Merchant. Left her set a few songs in and went over to the Wilco bus and talked to the guys for a bit. There were like 5 Wilco fans at that show. Never get a moment like that again. The three night run at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester NY in 2014 took me to some special place too.
Soul Asylum: 1999 was pretty cool, they started busting out some of their old "hits" from the 1980s, which were basically rarities by that point. I never saw them pre-1998, so I missed the real glory years. I would love to have caught some of what was going on ca. 1988-1991.
I was going to start listing a bunch of other bands, but my favorite years would all pretty much be when I first saw them, which is the early 2000s, when I really started going to shows. 2001 especially. 2009 and 2013 were also particularly good years for shows for me.
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7-6-2006 Las Vegas. 7-20-2006 Portland. 7-22-2006 Gorge. 9-21-2009 Seattle. 9-22-2009 Seattle. 9-26-2009 Ridgefield. 9-25-2011 Vancouver.
11-29-2013 Portland. 10-16-2014 Detroit. 8-8-2018 Seattle. 8-10-2018 Seattle. 8-13-2018 Missoula.
My first PJ shows were 2006, and I still think that was his best year aside from maybe 1994 or 1998. He was in control, still and power and could still growl through songs like Do The Evolution.
Obviously, in 2018 he can't really attack DTE or Animal like he used to but he still sounds wonderful. He can still belt out Release 95% of the time, so there's no complaints from me. His baritone is still all kinds of warm and lovely
2022: Berlin, Budapest, Krakow, Amsterdam II
U2: 1987 and 1992
PJ: 1995 and 2006 (I think)
Wish I had attended: 1996.
Would appreciate more if better quality boots were out there: 1994.
2000 had its moments but that year definitely had a gloomy vibe about it, just that Binaural feel. I don't even listen to the boots of the four 2008 shows I attended. 2005 Canada Tour I think is highly underrated. 2010 tour had an amazing energy to it. 2013 onwards is gravy at this point.
Wilco: Hard to say, they've toured so frequently and I've never really distinguished them by one year from another. But to pick a moment in time, I cherish the September 2000 show I went to at Irving Plaza in NYC. When they still played small venues but were on the cusp of something big. It was Summerteeth, Mermaid Avenue, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot all rolled into one. Saw them earlier that summer opening for Natalie Merchant. Left her set a few songs in and went over to the Wilco bus and talked to the guys for a bit. There were like 5 Wilco fans at that show. Never get a moment like that again. The three night run at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester NY in 2014 took me to some special place too.
Soul Asylum: 1999 was pretty cool, they started busting out some of their old "hits" from the 1980s, which were basically rarities by that point. I never saw them pre-1998, so I missed the real glory years. I would love to have caught some of what was going on ca. 1988-1991.
I was going to start listing a bunch of other bands, but my favorite years would all pretty much be when I first saw them, which is the early 2000s, when I really started going to shows. 2001 especially. 2009 and 2013 were also particularly good years for shows for me.
I still dont understand why they decided to speed up almost every song