Good to see that Yo La Tengo helped tip Tonic’s fundraiser over their stated goal. And what a blissful set the second one was. I’ve been treated to the band accompanied by many instruments, but the cello was a new one for me. During the first portion, it took many of the guitar lines, freeing Ira up for some electric piano. “Big Day Coming” was a gorgeous intro, with “Did I Tell You?” and “The Summer” being other ephemeral highlights. “Center of Gravity” and a couple instrumentals got more sprightly treatment before the band built into rock mode with “We’re an American Band” and “Little Honda/Mushroom Cloud of Hiss”. The closers were “Somebody’s Baby” and an infrequently performed “Griselda”. I’ll have to admit, though, that two of the highlights were covers I can’t quite place. A quotation from each, perhaps it will come to one of you: “It was late last night, I was feeling something wasn’t right, there was not another soul in sight…And you gazed up at me, and the answer was plain to see, and I saw the light in your eyes…” That one’s driving me crazy, as is this “I was lost all alone, like a statue made of stone, and now I’m coming home…” I know these aren’t that obscure, which makes it worse. Help!