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Out Of The Window Bermuda The Summer ? > Five Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) ? ? Clunk > Drug Test (false start) Drug Test ? ? Alyda Can't Forget Dreaming

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Big Day Coming

Ira, from yolatengo.com/theres-a-big-day-coming/ "It’s the first day of the rest of our life, twenty-three years ago today. Temporary fill-in, on loan from Christmas, James drives down from Providence and has his first rehearsal with me and Georgia. Afterwards we all went to Maxwell’s where Antietam, Love Child, and Sleepyhead were playing. After the last scheduled set, Georgia and I, with Tim Harris on bass (and a surprise visit from Rachael McNally on drums), played “Big Day Coming” for the first time (approximately 2 1/2 years before its release on Painful)." Ira doesn't mention that the set consisted ONLY of the song "Big Day Coming"... ... a twenty-seven minute version of "Big Day Coming".

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The River of Water Misty Water Swing For Life Upside Down House Fall Down Satellite Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) 86-Second Blowout The Pain of Pain Artificial Heart Out the Window Mushroom Cloud of Hiss (tape flip) You Tore Me Down (Flamin' Groovies) Action Time Vision (Alternative TV) What Love Is (Dead Boys)

Ira, from http://yolatengo.com/mcnew-day-rising/ "Taking the advice of Glinda the Good Witch that it's always best to start at the beginning, we open with "The River of Water," but before the evening's through we've premiered "Satellite" and "Artificial Heart." Not part of the set: "Drug Test," but President Yo La Tengo fans don't go home disappointed, as openers, Sleepyhead, cover it." James, from http://gothamist.com/2007/11/16/james_mcnew_yo.php "The first gig I played [with YLT] was Maxwell's in Hoboken, in March 1991. The thing I remember most about that show is that I broke a string I think on the second song of that gig and the bass player from the opening band, Sleepyhead, ran to the stage and gave me his bass while he and a guy who is now a graphic designer in New York meticulously changed the string on my bass and handed it back to me after one song with the borrowed bass. And I remember that moment as one of the most beautiful acts of human kindness I had ever experienced."

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Clunk "Misty Water" (unreleased YLT) Swing For Life Five Cornered Drone Artificial Heart Satellite The Pain of Pain Upside-down Drug Test Serpentine Out the Window Mushroom Cloud of Hiss

Luxury Liner (Gram Parsons) Yellow Sarong Action Time Vision (Alternative TV) Dreaming (Blondie)

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Sleeping Pill Action Time Vision (Alternative TV) Serpentine Misty Water Drug Test Swing For Life Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) 86-Second Blowout Artificial Heart Out The Window Mushroom Cloud of Hiss You Tore Me Down Luxury Liner (Gram Parsons) Orange Song Heavy Love (Neil Young)* Time Fades Away (Neil Young)* * with Rick Rizzo on guitar

From one of Ira's posts on yolatengo.com: "City Slang macher Christof Ellinghaus suggested that Eleventh Dream Day and Yo La Tengo tour Europe together in the spring of 1991, taking turns opening and closing. Twenty-three years ago today we played our fifth show together, all in Holland. The night before we were the headliners and had brought Rick Rizzo up during the encore for a couple of Neil Young songs. Now, at the Burgerweeshuis (which I'm told translates to "burger weeshuis") in Deventer, it was our turn to support. We played our set to palpable indifference, the first and only sign of life from the audience being the perversely persistent clapping for an encore. Our first thought was not to bother, but then we reconsidered. For the last three weeks, we'd opened most of our shows with a new song, a slow, dreamy instrumental, as-yet untitled. We hadn't played it in Deventer, so we decided this was the perfect moment--seemed to strike the right passive aggressive note. Afterwards, I went to the merch table . . . you know, now that I think of it, with the details that follow, perhaps we were the headliner on this night too. Anyway, Eleventh Dream Day guitarist Wink O'Bannon was making a rare appearance as salesman, aided by a bottle of bourbon and two Dutch drinking buddies. Upon my arrival, one of them sneered at me, 'Your music is like a sleeping pill to me.' I don't remember my response, but presumably I was insufficiently chastened because he added, in the withering tone the Dutch have mastered, 'Burger eater! Burger eater!' Naturally the instrumental soon acquired the name 'Sleeping Pill.'" "The night before" is this night in Venlo, and Eleventh Dream Day guitarist Rick Rizzo indeed guests on a pair of Neil Young covers — one of them the incredible "Heavy Love" from Neil's then-new Japan-and-Europe-only release "Eldorado." This was also just James McNew's second month with the band, though he already fits like a glove.

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Artificial Heart The Evil That Men Do (Craig's Version) Big Day Coming (slow) Misty Water Upside-Down Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) Swing For Life Drug Test 86-Second Blowout Out The Window Mushroom Cloud Of Hiss Tried So Hard

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Drug Test Interview Artificial Heart Big Day Coming (Slow) Serpentine Five Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) Swing For Life Out The Window 86 Second Blowout Clunk Mushroom Cloud Of Hiss Encore: Tried So Hard I Heard Her Call My Name (Velvet Underground) Alyda

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Barnaby, Hardly Working Artificial Heart Misty Water Always Something Orange Song Upside Down Swing For Life Five-Cornered Drone 86-Second Blowout Out The Window Mushroom Cloud of Hiss encore The Summer This Is Where I Belong (Kinks) Rambling Rose (MC5) Prisoners of Rock & Roll (Neil Young)

Rick Rizzo joins on the encore.

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Orange Song Misty Water Barnaby, Hardly Working Swing For Life Upside-Down Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) The Pain of Pain Artificial Heart 86-Second Blowout Out The Window Mushroom Cloud of Hiss You Tore Me Down Andalucia Barstool Blues (Neil Young) Rambling Rose (MC5) The Summer A House Is Not A Motel

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The Summer Let's Compromise Misty Water The Evil That Men Do (Craig's Version) Big Day Coming Upside-Down Five Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) Swing For Life Artificial Heart Drug Test Out The Window Mushroom Cloud Of Hiss

Summer Stage

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Griselda Lewis Cast A Shadow No Water Farmer's Daughter A House Is Not A Motel Swing For Life I Can't Make It On Time (The Ramones) Tried So Hard Speeding Motorcycle Barnaby, Hardly Working Here Comes My Baby Yellow Sarong Andalucia Something to Do At The River's Edge (New Colony Six) Can't Forget Scissors (Barbara Manning) This Is Where I Belong (Kinks) By The Time It Gets Dark For The Turnstiles (Neil Young) Sh-Boom (The Chords) What Can I Say The Summer Jet Plane In a Rocking Chair (Richard Thompson) Emulsified You're Gonna Miss Me (13th Floor Elevators) Drug Test Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground)

Ira Kaplan: acoustic guitar, vocals Georgia Hubley: drums, vocals Kevin Salem: electric guitar Wilbo Wright: upright bass

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Let's Get Rid Of New York [The Boredoms] Drug Test Some Kinda Fatigue Something To Do Always Something Upside Down Five Cornered Drone [Crispy Duck] Detouring America With Horns 86 Second Blowout Out The Window Artificial Heart Big Day Coming (Slow) By The Time It Gets Dark The Orange Song [Antietam] (Tara Key Guitar) Ramblin' Rose [MC5] (Tara Key Vocal, Guitar)

Tara Key is the lead guitarist for Antietam.

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Clunk "Misty Water" (unreleased YLT) Swing For Life Five Cornered Drone Artificial Heart Satellite The Pain of Pain Upside-down Drug Test Serpentine Out the Window Mushroom Cloud of Hiss

Luxury Liner (Gram Parsons) Yellow Sarong Action Time Vision (Alternative TV) Dreaming (Blondie)

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