Yo La Tengo, "The Story of Yo La Tango" (9/20/08)

Yo La Tengo performing in the Festival Theatre of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the headliners of the Pygmalion Music Festival. Recorded from sidestage on September 20, 2008.

This song was the finale of the set, before the encore. Yes, the song name is "Tango", not "Tengo". The performance of this song was approximately 17 minutes long, so this video is cut down to fit the YouTube time limit. Watch it in "high quality", yo!

Sure it's long, but watch the whole thing to appreciate the build up from mellow beauty to freakout angry rock spectacle. Ira battles his guitar to the death and comes out the victor!

More info @ http://www.thekinghead.blogspot.com.

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• Yo
• La
• Tengo
• Tango
• indie
• Champaign
• Krannert
• Center
• Urbana
• Pygmalion
• Festival

[Locarco]

Awesome! What's the original length?

[thekinghead]

The full song was around 16-17 minutes. Most of what I cut out was subtle build-up near the beginning, which I enjoyed but wasn't as exciting as the outburst near the end of the song. I don't think I had to cut any of the vocals.

[gr3g0r5]

This Shit sounds like a horse, that is being raped by a fucking unicorn!

[galvatron3030]

Amazing footage. Agree with emudoug though; any chance we could see the uncut version?

[rhinowing]

I was at this show as well. one of the most mindblowing things i've ever seen in my life

[emudoug]

Any chance you could upload the uncut version in two parts? This is the most kickasss version of this song i've seen.

[pimpyfish]

I was sitting front row at this concert. They tore the roof off that mother. It was ridiculous. Georgia and James were just trying to keep up with Ira.

[Locarco]

Good decision! Thanks.

[mercury0x0]

Yes