Wilco played an impromptu set the night before their Dallas concert at Poor David's Pub.
It’s not that the crowd at a Wilco show isn’t what you’d expect, it’s that the band has gone through so many iterations that it naturally draws a diverse group of fans — rockers and punkers, country fans, the indie crowd and all the Dallas business types in between.
Wilco had performed its own open mic in Dallas, playing an impromptu set the night before just a few doors down at Poor David’s Pub to a small crowd who had seen the event advertised on the pub’s marquee. The energy both on stage and in the crowd picked up considerably when the band played its third song of the night, “Handshake Drugs” from 2004’sTweedy kept the stage banter light, plugging the new album when appropriate, periodically asking if the audience was OK, but otherwise staying stoic and letting the music do the talking.
And in the song’s breakdown, mirroring the chaos of the album cut, the band broke down into noises and instrument changes.From there, the band went into the disjointed, Devo-like title track from its new album, proving that Wilco can never be put into a box, even from song to song. “We played there,” he said, and without missing the opportunity for a good dad joke, added, “We’ve never played here before.”
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