Live Review: Wilco

Live Review: Wilco

Aidin Vaziri | Wilco can do no wrong for rapt Fillmore crowd: Some people still haven't gotten over it. "I don't believe in red and blue states," Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy said, introducing the song "Kingpin" during the band's second encore at the Fillmore on Monday. "I don't believe anybody voted for Bush. I honestly don't. It's impossible." No wonder the experimental rock group sold out three Bay Area shows in just hours -- it couldn't find a more sympathetic audience even if it headlined the biggest kebab joint in Fallujah. Then again, Tweedy could have said just about anything and inspired the same roar of approval. "Some of our favorite shows were played here," he cracked at one point. "Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Who, Moby Grape." Whooooooh! Then, after a quick run through "Monday," he shrugged, "That's the first time we played that song, but it's Monday, so it's appropriate." Yeaaaaaaaah! The Chicago band's entrance alone, to the sound of ringing alarm clocks and a grainy film of a swimming octopus, inspired the kind of hysteria usually reserved for things like the last few seconds of the Super Bowl or the return of certain biblical figures.