Wilco - half hour live set - Snow Job Much Music (Canada) 1997 Jeff Tweedy

Living on the North Coast of the United States meant we got CFPL-TV from London Ontario (over the airways or even cable). CBC and Much Music both had unique music shows I feel lucky to have watched/recorded. Here is WILCO in 1997 playing the SNOW JOB '97 festival as broadcast on Much Music. The band is interviewed and performs songs including RED EYED AND BLUE, KINGPIN , I GOT YOU (AT THE END OF THE CENTURY).

[@LiveWireRemoteRec]

I was the recording engineer for this gig. The band was so happy with it that they put a couple of the tunes on a vinyl lp. Guitarist Bob Egan (the one that fell off the stage). He later became a member of a beloved Canadian band, Blue Rodeo.

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

Now that is cool

[@eoj_dlc]

you were? great job you did man! congratz.

[@oedipalpopsicle]

wow. I was just thinking how good the recording was . were you local or with Much?

[@alexgrantham4747]

Dude! It sounds so good. I have no idea how drums sound this good outside in the snow haha.

[@muchmusicclips5299]

Yo Doug! How you keeping? I just posted a better quality copy of 5 songs. Thought I had them all, but just those. Plus a few Sloan and Big Sugar's set.

[@northaveable]

This is making me so freaking happy right now. Thank you.

[@scottross2762]

Wow. Wow. Wow. This is wonderful because I am a snowman. And can you imagine how hard it is to play in the cold of winter? Fingers bad. Arms cramped. Snot running down your nose. Voice challenged. I see LiveWire and say well done to all of YOU! Bookmarked. And there are skiers on the slopes in the back! I am gobsmacked in the best.

[@christopherpayne1280]

I remember skipping off school to see Wilco that day. Awsome Sno Job 97

[@WhenYouWakeUpFeelingOld]

holy shit just realized you uploaded this in 2020. yer an angel. been lookin for this whole show for ages. thank ya kindly

[@WhenYouWakeUpFeelingOld]

maybe dont have those subscribe texts in yer vids but goddamn thank ya

[@RuudLang]

Great stuff! So Nice to see them laughing and having fun! My fave line up, closest they were here at being pop stars

[@TM-rf5vv]

Wow, I had no idea this existed. Nice. Thanks for sharing.

[@davidmckelvey2601]

Young Jeff is so cute!

[@HankMorris-el6jg]

He is a fatty now, but I hope he is cool with that. I think he probably is because he is fat now.

[@MrWeezer55]

This is GOLD!!

[@jerryaldeens3903]

Man you are on fire...keep em coming and thanks so much...

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

More to come! Fave band you need to see?

[@jerryaldeens3903]

I trust your judgment with the great diversity thus far keep em comin!! Thanks!! Needed!!

[@pkpsail4441]

@@ClevelandLiveMusic More Wilco

[@mandostroke1]

WOAH I WAS NOT READY FOR SOMEONE ELSES SONG AAAAAAAAAAAA I FUCKING LOVE WILCO

[@dinosaur6756]

So cool to hear the lineup that made me love Wilco. I was obsessed until Sky Blue Sky came out. Their new record, Cruel Country, is pretty damn good. The boys are rocking out again. It's about time.

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

With you on eras of Wilco

[@SpikeShooter92]

What do you think of Cousins?

[@michaeldematteis3409]

I love sky blue sky😂.everyones different I guess

[@JohnWhittle]

Thanks for sharing

[@tonyballz9023]

Whoa. Did this actually happen? Surreal. Pretty smokin' set from the boys, too bad Outta Mind (Outta Site) got cut off. Thanks for posting!

[@brendenohanlon9027]

So cool.. found this during a Wilco KZbin wormhole. Such a loose band back in 1.0.

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

I loved the early years...lost me awhile back

[@darylcumming7119]

😊.

[@johnned4848]

This is very cool! Off of Being There with the original version before all the bad stuff.

[@johnned4848]

Outta Sight, Outta Mind got cut off. Is there much more? This is great!

[@duncefunce1513]

How did the friggn guitars stay in tune?

[@michaelheydon5266]

It's not.CBC Music 1997, it's MuchMusic 1997. I directed.it. Wilco and Sloan. I have the full HD files. I'll have post em. The quality is great, but I'm afraid that distracting editing doesn't get any better

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

Sorry to have put CBC....great work!

[@ClevelandLiveMusic]

If you read my description I relate us North Coasters receiving Canadian broadcasts on CFPL and Much Music, but this clip was clearly denoted as Much Music. Again, you did all the hard work....will look forward to your upload.

[@alexgrantham4747]

What's the first song?

[@codybruner7608]

Red Eyed and Blue

[@alexgrantham4747]

@@codybruner7608 Thanks man

[@hannathelion6844]

cuba libre

[@jixxxxer17]

wow the guitar player fell right off the stage and rolled in the snow at 8:03 hilarious, what's the guys' name ?

[@ve3yjt]

Bob Egan. A Canadian Treasure. Went on to be a member of Blue Rodeo for years (decades?) and is now something like Digital Librarian for the City of Hamilton Public Library

[@stantonshelby]

Interesting to see how hard a band needed to rock to be relevant at the tail end of the grunge era. One would be forgiven for wondering "Where's the country in this alt-country?"

[@michaeldematteis3409]

I really hate that alt country term.lol.nothing they play sounded country to me.maybe I’m nuts

[@stantonshelby]

@@michaeldematteis3409 I think AM is fairly called alt country. Jeff has obliquely referred to it as such (' a record made for a perceived audience' ). Or at least that's my interpretation - AM was consciously/intentionally made for the alt country consumer.

[@redadamearth]

Jeff had punk roots and Wilco's live shows were always like this, dude. And most of the songs here they play JUST like they are on the album, "Being There" at the time. The only thing they changed up was "Someone Else's Song" and they'd already done it this way long before. They weren't trying to be "relevant" lol - this was every single live show they ever did. They rocked out like crazy at those shows.

[@kennhiser]

Not quite the rocking opening tune they expected I think.

[@ve3yjt]

For sure. Word around town before the show was something like "Who's playing? Wilco. Woolco? like the store? No... Wilco. They're like a country band from Chicago, or something"

[@historynerd85]

Jay almost killed Jeff!

[@robertwolovitz2349]

jay bennet is missed

[@historynerd85]

This is a terrible Wilco lineup.