Then came the guests of honor: guitarist Ira Kaplan, drummer Georgia Hubley, and bassist James McNew. They began with “Ohm,” off of their 2013 record,\u00a0Fade.\u00a0<\/em>Normally a rather innocuous and\u2014per its name\u2014meditative track, here it was reincarnated as abrasive and noisy, with Ira flailing along with his guitar. They truly ripped the song to shreds, and this for their opening number. The rest of the set took the audience on a tour through Yo La Tengo’s thirty years, featuring\u00a0bygone gems “The Cone of Silence” from their debut album\u00a0Ride The Tiger\u00a0<\/em>(with longtime YLT pal Dave Schramm on guitar) and “Upside-Down” from 1992’s\u00a0May I Sing With Me,\u00a0<\/em>as well as crowd favorites “Hey Mr. Tough” and an outstanding, nearly fifteen-minute-long version of “I Heard You Looking” with Feelies’ guitarists Glenn Mercer and Bill Million along for the ride. Ira, in his classic striped t-shirt and jeans uniform, commented\u00a0at one point that “the idea that we get to play with [The Feelies] in this century is so special to us,” and the crowd heartily agreed.<\/p>\n For their encore, the threesome treated the crowd to an intimately acoustic, Georgia-led version of “Big Day Coming” (featured on the recently released deluxe album\u00a0Extra Painful<\/em>) and a cover of Neil Young’s “Time Fades Away.” For their very last number, Yo La Tengo were joined by all members of The Feelies onstage, with Ira commenting,\u00a0“Thirty years and two days ago we played at Maxwell’s for the first time and this is the last song we played that night.” And\u00a0midway through this momentous cover of The Psychedelic Furs’ “Pretty in Pink,” Ira snuck a glance back towards his two bandmates huddled by the drum set, and the three of them exchanged smiles. It was a rare\u00a0moment and possibly the biggest public display of affection from Yo La Tengo, and the perfect ending to a show that genuinely felt like a family affair (albeit a very badass one). The bands left the stage and\u00a0the crowd poured out into the blistering cold,\u00a0but the show’s warmth lingered on each of us like a blanket for the rest of the night.<\/p>\n
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