Wilco and Okkervil River
Friday, July 3, 2008
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Better than: Wilco's show at the Pikes Peak Center last year.
Just as Wilco took the stage, the theme from the Price is
Right played and two people cloaked in a
camel suit pranced across the stage. Sure, it might have been a bit silly, but
so is having a camel on the cover of your album, which is the case on the
band's latest recording, Wilco (the album). Whatever the case, the camel, the game show theme and the bouncy
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