Station To Station: Union Station Concert, featuring Beck

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Setlist:

“The Golden Age”

“Lonesome Tears”

“Wake Up”

“One Foot in the Grave”

“Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods”

“Everlasting Nothing”

“Free Me”

“Where It’s At”

“I used to come down to the train station when I was a kid and read books in the lounge until security kicked me out,” said Beck Hansen on Thursday, September 26, at the Los Angeles stop of Station to Station, the roving train tour dreamed up by L.A.-based multimedia artist Doug Aitken. Beck played at Union Station, the penultimate leg of the public art project that moved from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Coast over the past month. After starting the journey in Brooklyn, with stops in such cities as Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City and Santa Fe, the train arrived at track 13 in L.A. where Aitken’s friends, including photographer Catherine Opie, boarded the parked railroad cars to see the living quarters of artists, writers, musicians, photographers and designers onboard. One train car was outfitted with recording equipment and a soundboard, and there was also a bank of computers in another where Aitken could edit video footage.

 Pictured: Beck at Union Station in Los Angeles.

FROM HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Bentley: "Will you ever record these songs?"  

Beck: "I wasn't planning on it. Initially I just wanted people to get their hands on the songs and not be influenced, because I think recordings have become definitive for songs over the decades, so we really associate a song with whether Tom Petty did it or Black Sabbath, so I thought there was something interesting about the period before recorded music where songs didn't have anyone telling you how to play it or how to hear it or how to feel it."

Audience Member: "Did you write any of the songs with a particular artist in mind or would you like to hear any artist living or dead perform one of these songs?"  

Beck: "I thought of Hank Williams, I thought of George Gershwin or Cole Porter-type of singers. I thought of this sort of group of songs as playing with the American songbook; something that could include everything from Stephen Foster to punk rock to folk to country to everything."

Audience Member: "When was the last time you dropped acid?"

Beck: "I don't know, maybe in 10 minutes."