Comments on: The Story Of Yo La Tango

By: jeremiah vohn

jeremiah vohn — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:08:17 +0000

hey u can check the lyrics at http://www.mylyricscentral.com :-)

By: jennings

jennings — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:24:59 +0000

That's a great total . . . congrats on your efforts.

Also, there's a Yo La Tengo show over at http://www.rbally.net/2006/...">rbally.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:10:44 +0000

Congratulations on the auction. You did a very nice thing there.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:08:40 +0000

If I get the chance, maybe I’ll check out YLT for this album. My interest waned years ago. Their live shows, IMO, peaked around ’97 or ’98.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:57:12 +0000

Did that built to spill article actually say he’s collaborating with Calvin Johnson again? Am I making that up?
A new Halo Benders album would be a dream come true.

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:27:04 +0000

The Dylan song they did was "I Wanna Be Your Lover" off of Biograph and I’m not sure what else.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:31:21 +0000

This was my first YLT show and it was a stunner and totally up to expectations. Best trio show I’ve seen in an incredibly long time.

One thing that stands out for me is how seamlessly they moved from song to song, without much fiddling of knobs or tuning of guitars. With the huge variety of tunings that Ira Kaplan uses (and the number of times he went apeshit) I think their roadie should win some kind of award for keeping everything ready to play and in tune.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:09:54 +0000

Ah, "Prisoners Of Rock’N'Roll"! Thanks, I knew it sounded familiar but couldn’t place it… I don’t have "Life". And the Dylan song I recognized but couldn’t name it either – I’d have to go wading through all my Dylan albums to figure out which.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:08:10 +0000

Agreed, totally amazing show. Would have loved to hear "Our Way to Fall", but still give the show a rousing 10/10.

One of the cover tunes done, besides the Mike Love dedication, was Neil Young’s "Prisoners Of Rock ‘n’ Roll" from his ‘Life’ album. The other was a Dylan song that I didnt recognize.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:57:18 +0000

Actually I should comment, that I'm still thrilled with the sets we got. I mean it'd be impossible to hear everything on my list. The Ottawa gig in particular, they pretty much picked off all the songs I'd intended to shout out during the encore. We're an American Band was especially awesome.

I do want to add a little anecdote about the Ottawa show, because I had the same experience in feeling that the whole tone of this tour is just joyous (I was at the Summer Sun Toronto gig too and left before the encore).

Anyway, at the end of the first encore, the band were clearly about to leave the stage, and someone started pleading for Nowhere Near. The band had a quick pow-wow and agreed to do it. Clearly they hadn't played it in a while, as Georgia had to take a minute first to sit at the keyboard and try to remember the chords. She was getting frustrated and finally got up and said she couldn't, and the crowd moaned, so she went back and had another go, and finally got it. The song was beautiful, and I was just so moved they would do that. Wonderful.