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Wilco performs at the Play a joke on Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021. Karen Goldman/STAFF.

OAKLAND — A light drizzle vicious on Dominicus night equally Chicago rock grouping Wilco played the first of two nights at the Fox Theater. Many are hopeful the rain signaled an stop to the long, hot and dry summer. The attendees at the Fox may have been hoping Wilco's epic ii-hr set marked another footstep on the route to recovery for live music. The pair of dates, which had been rescheduled from March of last year, are in support of Wilco'southward 11th studio anthology, 2019'southward Ode to Joy. The sextet featuring frontman Jeff Tweedy and guitar hero Nels Cline, mined the ring'southward extensive catalog, leaping from intimate audio-visual songs to overdriven sonic assaults and dorsum over again.

Wilco
7 p.m., Monday
Trick Theater, Oakland
Tickets: $50-$120

Pounding drums and guitar noise filled the one-time moving picture house as the band started its marathon set with "Bright Leaves" from Ode to Joy. But information technology was "A Shot in the Arm," off the 1999 anthology Summerteeth, that really captured the evening'south mood. "Perchance all I needed was a shot in the arm/ Something in my veins bloodier than blood," Tweedy sang to the masked and vaccinated crowd.

"Good to see you lot," Tweedy finally said later shut to half an hr onstage, before explaining that he isn't talking much on this tour considering he says "stupid shit," and considering the ring "loves playing" and "simply wants to play some songs."

Wilco'southward sonic variety was accomplished in part by an epic array of gear with multiple piano and keyboard stations, forth with Nels Cline's staggering array of gear and audio effects. Jeff Tweedy, clad in a light-green military-style jacket and jeans, received new guitars with almost every new song, alternating between gorgeous vintage axes both electric and acoustic. The envy from the many guitar-collecting lawyers and doctors in the crowd was palpable.

Nels Cline performs with Wilco.

If the vibe onstage occasionally veered toward a drove of dads gathered in a lawn to sing some songs during halftime, it was the wizardry of Nels Cline's guitar playing that provided the beer, bud and brats, calculation the quintessential sonic excitement to the mix. His mind-bravado level of talent as a guitarist places him somewhere between a virtuoso and a savant. A virtuoso because there's seemingly nothing he tin can't do on the guitar, from confront-melting shredding on songs like "How to Fight Loneliness" to angular blasts of broken glass guitar during an extended freakout on "Art of Almost." Savant because Cline seems not but at home in each of these genres, but as if he has something important to say in every emotional register. His masterfully enigmatic solo on ballad "Impossible Frg," from Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky, was easily the highlight of the dark.

Other highlights during the fix included a couple deep cuts off Wilco's 2004 album,A Ghost is Built-in. Both "Theologians" and "Hummingbird" fabricated first-class utilise of the band'southward elaborate instrumentation to deliver powerful and dynamic renditions that strayed from the album versions in interesting ways. "Laminated Cat," a song off Tweedy's Loose Fur collaboration with creative person and producer Jim O'Rourke unleashed a churning barrage of sonic weirdness that swirled through the theater for close to 10 minutes.

After almost 2 hours, the band closed it set with a sparse, acoustic rendition of "Reservations," off 2001'due southYankee, Hotel, Foxtrot. The crowd stomped and cheered until all six musicians returned to the stage for the much-loved "California Stars," a song composed by Woody Guthrie but given life by Wilco and English vocaliser-songwriter Baton Bragg on their 1998 collaboration album,Mermaid Avenue.

"Is it OK we played that song?" Tweedy asked. "It's not pandering is it?"

The band airtight out the encore with a pair of rocking songs from its earliest albums. "I Got You lot (At the End of the Century)" and "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" gave everyone onstage a chance to rock out with complete abandon. Bassist John Stirratt delivered an Eddie Van Halen air walk boot, while multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone held his blonde Fender Telecaster over his head as the guitar rang out with feedback.

Faye Webster.

"We'll see some of yous tomorrow night. Let's exercise this once again," Tweedy said as the band left the stage to enthusiastic applause.

Atlanta'southward Faye Webster opened the testify playing lush music with a country twang. Webster'southward six-member band offered upward sweet pedal steel, piano, and her electric guitar playing as it ran through songs from her four studio albums, including her latest, 2021's I Know I'm Funny Haha.

Wilco performs at the Fob Theater in Oakland on October. 17, 2021.

Wilco performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on October. 17, 2021.

Wilco performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

Wilco performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

Wilco performs at the Fob Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

Wilco performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

Wilco performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

Wilco performs at the Trick Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

Faye Webster performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

Faye Webster performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

Faye Webster performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

Faye Webster performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on October. 17, 2021.

Faye Webster performs at the Play tricks Theater in Oakland on Oct. 17, 2021.

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