...what should I expect? Anything I should be listening to? I only have Guero and Midnight Vultures.

Have fun! Don't worry about "cramming" before the concert. You'll enjoy the songs even if you haven't played them for awhile (possibly even more so for that reason).

i'm going with you, and i don't even know what to expect!

i hear he does a really nice acoustic set in the middle of the shows on this tour.

Well, If nothing else, this is what you can expect of the opening act:
http://mcrorie.net/



Im scurred to get there early.

eleven said:

What the hell is that?

so how was the show?

DavidEye said:

Hey sweetie. It's tonight.

Stymie said:

Be afraid...
Be VERY afraid.

I can't find any setlists (not even on his own site) for this tour.
Does anyone have any idea what he's doing?

If I hear any of the following:
Black Tambourine
Clap Hands
Get Real Paid
Motherfucker

...then I'm gonna be one happy camper.

eleven said:

Being in the same room with you is gonna make me one happy camper. If I was a dude, I'd even be pitching a tent right now.

Stymie said:

oh my gosh.

eleven said:

I think you are gonna be happy!!

Just saw the show in MPLS last nite and had A BLAST!

He relied rather heavily on material from Odelay, Midnight Vultures and Guero. Which was FINE by me as those are the only CDs I have from Beck!

It was a fantastically fun show. It was in a pretty awful venue here, but even that didn't detract from my enjoyment of the show.

Have fun tonite!

Here's the review from the Star and Tribune...

don't read it if you don't want any possible set spoilers!

Music review: Beck, band hit their groove, then get weird
Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune
September 20, 2005

For his visual backdrop Monday night at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, California alt-rock veteran Beck used what he called a "DJ film-scratcher" -- collages of movie images overlapping onto each other in an oftentimes dazzling myriad of light.

The music in the nearly sold-out 90-minute performance was similarly piled on thick and occasionally confused, but the overall effect was alluring and sometimes even fascinating.

The show started out sounding as scruffy as Beck looked back when he made his 1994 breakout hit, "Loser" (which he played toward the end on Monday). Credit the Wilkins Auditorium's insanely inadequate acoustic for muddying early gems like "Devil's Haircut" and current single "Girl" from the new album "Guero." Beck and his five-piece band also seemed tepid during these songs.

The guys hit their groove -- and the concert found its purpose -- when "Hot Wax" was reinvented with a wicked, bluesy slide-guitar and stomping rhythm. From there, the 35-year-old singer and his cronies remade many other nuggets from the catalog: "Sissyneck" sounded more like the Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" than the original from 1996's classic album, "Odelay" (heavily relied on Monday); the new "Broken Drum" was stripped to a raw, staticky electronic whir; and best of all, "Nobody's Fault But My Own" was played on accordion as the band members kicked and clapped the rhythms à la Broadway's "Stomp."

For the much of the show, one of rock's great satirists seemed surprisingly straight-laced. One of his bandmates played the role of goofball instead, dancing around Napoleon Dynamite-style to songs such as "Qué Onda Guero" and the encore of "E-Pro."

As the night wore on, though, Beck turned odder and odder, culminating in a version of "Where It's At" wherein a cavalcade of boomboxes was brought to the stage. Who'd have thought the singer could have gotten any weirder than he did touring with Oklahoma acid kings the Flaming Lips two years?

The craziest part was a long solo set, during which his band members sat at a table and chairs on stage and ate some dinner. They egged him on as he plucked out "Get Real Paid,"Lost Cause" and, best of all, snippets of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" and "I Like the Crotch on You."

Just when you didn't think it could get any weirder, the diners, er, musicians started using their silverware, plates and glasses to play the beats in "The Golden Age" and "Clap Hands." Brilliant stuff, and best of all, it's something you can throw at mom when she yells at you for playing at the dinner table - you could be in Beck's band, tell her.
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The bolded portions were my favorite parts of the nite. So strange but SO perfect...

Thanks Darin.

endorphin74 said:

Thanks endorphin74!!!

Anxiety said:

Ooooooh it's gonna be a fun night!!!
Shouldn't you be gettin in line soon, son?

eleven said:

no, i made arrangements with the roadies.

butt seriously, folks...we're gonna meet up an hour later than planned.

Saw him last night in St.Paul!

This was my first Beck concert and IT WAS FANTASTIC!

The review endorphin74 posted was right on and mentioned some of the songs played, but here is a (mostly complete) setlist from the LA show on 9/16 (I, unfortunately, wasn't at this show, just saw this posted on a Beck fansite):


Black Tambourine
Girl
Where It's At
Little One
Golden Age
Medley
Hot Wax
Nicotine & Gravy
Hollywood Freaks
Hell Yes
Sissyneck
Scarecrow
We Dance Alone
Knock Out
Landslide
::end of medley::
New Pollution
Jackass
Broken Drum
Loser
Acoustic - band around dinnner table
Cold Brains
Lost Cause
Do You Realize
Guess I'm Doing Fine
Clap Hands
Devil's Haircut
Mixed Business
E: E-Pro


Pretty close to what he played last night, though he evidently did mix it up a bit and change a few songs here and there...

Have fun everybody who is yet to see him! I know you will.

Stymie said:

YOU WILL LOVE IT! Really - he's a great performer. You might wanna listen to Sea Change - he does some slower, more accoustic stuff from there

DiminutiveRocker said:

I second that suggestion. That's a beautiful album. Really proves just how versatile and talented Beck is, imo.

I was so happy he did stuff off Sea Change last night!
[Edited 9/20/05 16:12pm]

we had a blast last night! the show was pretty close to the mpls show detailed on this thread, with some small differences, but the energy sounded about the same. they started out with some sound problems - in fact, beck said at one point he felt like he was in that will ferrell SNL skit - "hot mic!" - because of some feedback issues - but by the time he went into his acoustic set, they had it all together. fun stuff.

How does his wacky uptempo numbers mix with his depressing country-folk ballads live in a single set? How does that transfer to the audience?

Novabreaker said:

pretty well, really. it's just like listening to one of his albums, where they're mixed in together.

Last night was off tha fuckin' chain. When I read about the band playing silverware and shit, I thought it was gonna come off pretty cheesy but that was my absolute favorite part....oh, and my lustful fantasies about tha Beckness.

Great show! I loved it. Even that McRorie guy was entertaining for a while.

I'm glad everyone had fun!

Stymie said:

Whoo hoo!

i liked the motherbox.