Ok,
So I was thinking about the upcoming tour and my mind is going crazy in anticipation. I think back to seeing MMJ at my first show in Milwaukee at Summerfest 2006. As the show was going on, there were fireworks going on in the background and I just got overcome with emotion!
There are usually moments in an MMJ show that I just have to stop rockin' out and take in the emotion that I'm feeling.
I'm curious about other stories some on here may have.....what songs bring out the most in you? Certain venues? Etc....
CHIMMJFAN
no.
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Mar 26, 2011, 06:20 PM
no.
shocking answer from a guy with "plop go my balls on your chin" under his name
I haven't but I understand the sentiment. Their music makes me feel deep emotion. the slow burn of the guitars and vocals is overwhelming a lot of the time. CANT WAIT for the two shows I'm hitting
i have...but only because it always reminds me of me of someone that i met through the music, someone i'll always consider the great love of my life...like the one that got away syndrome... :'( ;)
Quote from: Penny Lane on Mar 26, 2011, 06:51 PM
i have...but only because it always reminds me of me of someone that i met through the music, someone i'll always consider the great love of my life...like the one that got away syndrome... :'( ;)
:( I'm sorry.
I'm that way with a song by Wilco. Love the song, but can't listen to it without thinking about someone
If they play Steam Engine, I'm a mess.
I just posted in another thread that I could hardly see the stage at my first show, but I did look up at that point in Lay Low when Jim, nearing the end of his vocal duties, reached out with his left arm for the guitar tech to bring him his flying V. I had an emotional reaction to that moment that stayed with me.
This rough video of that very moment brings me back, right at 2:13
My Morning Jacket - Lay Low (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_T34DaNc3I#)
Great thread! I haven't been to any show yet, so don't know how that will be, but I imagine it will be pretty emotional. I experience so many feelings when listening to the music at home, it's hard to even put into words, it's just wordless love! :thumbsup: I have to think about which songs that makes me the most emotional... hmm... to be continued!
i cried for a week starting on 10/24/10 after going to T5 every night and being turned away.
Quote from: ALady on Mar 26, 2011, 07:49 PM
If they play Steam Engine, I'm a mess.
This.....
Opener at Ziggy's Winston Salem 6/6/05,1st note and I was a mess.
yes, nashville last april, when my buddy came back from the concessions and informed us that they had already stopped selling beer. :'(
yeah, tears made of solid rock!.....No not really, but cried probably. Too many emotions at those shows that I'm sure tears of complete joy have leaked from time to time.
Not a jacket show, but I did actually cry at a Pearl Jam show. It was during the song "Inside Job," which is strange because I had never really paid that song much attention before. But I had been drinking at it just kinda hit me.
Here's my man card.
Bonnaroo 08 ...but I was so high I don't think it counts.
No, but I have come close (probably during Magheetah at the 40 Watt show in 2005) but that was ecstacy and tears of joy (but I blamed the cigarette smoke ;))
I did cry at a Bob Dylan show in 2000 when he played Not Dark Yet.
Quote from: slappymoe on Mar 27, 2011, 08:47 AM
yes, nashville last april, when my buddy came back from the concessions and informed us that they had already stopped selling beer. :'(
;Dthat's funny
Quote from: slappymoe on Mar 27, 2011, 08:47 AM
yes, nashville last april, when my buddy came back from the concessions and informed us that they had already stopped selling beer. :'(
razor sharp
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numerous times...
first show ever at Radio City, definitely cried a bit during The Bear...cried again for that one at Terminal 5. First jacket song that ever really really deeply effected me.
As others, if Steam Engine gets played, I'm gonna lose it, especially after the initial "take your money and your drugs" explosion, the build up into "all the proof you need" always gets me
I cried at T5 when At Dawn began. I think it may be my favorite album opener on a Jacket record (and I feel bad saying this, discrediting all the others, especially mahgeetah and WC) and the progression from just strumming into percussion, all coming together when Jim bursts in with "at daaaaaaaaaaawn we ride again." Waterworks. Beautiful.
have shed tears during during every Lay Low bridge/solo section I've ever witnessed live. close to musical perfection
Dondante, for sure, every time.
There are just so/too many Jacket songs that I have deep emotional ties with
Quote from: De1euze! on Mar 27, 2011, 01:21 PM
numerous times...
first show ever at Radio City, definitely cried a bit during The Bear...cried again for that one at Terminal 5. First jacket song that ever really really deeply effected me.
As others, if Steam Engine gets played, I'm gonna lose it, especially after the initial "take your money and your drugs" explosion, the build up into "all the proof you need" always gets me
I cried at T5 when At Dawn began. I think it may be my favorite album opener on a Jacket record (and I feel bad saying this, discrediting all the others, especially mahgeetah and WC) and the progression from just strumming into percussion, all coming together when Jim bursts in with "at daaaaaaaaaaawn we ride again." Waterworks. Beautiful.
have shed tears during during every Lay Low bridge/solo section I've ever witnessed live. close to musical perfection
Dondante, for sure, every time.
There are just so/too many Jacket songs that I have deep emotional ties with
1st POST!!!!!!!!!
and you talk about your tears....
Quote from: DaFunkyPrecedent on Mar 27, 2011, 01:39 PM
Quote from: De1euze! on Mar 27, 2011, 01:21 PM
numerous times...
first show ever at Radio City, definitely cried a bit during The Bear...cried again for that one at Terminal 5. First jacket song that ever really really deeply effected me.
As others, if Steam Engine gets played, I'm gonna lose it, especially after the initial "take your money and your drugs" explosion, the build up into "all the proof you need" always gets me
I cried at T5 when At Dawn began. I think it may be my favorite album opener on a Jacket record (and I feel bad saying this, discrediting all the others, especially mahgeetah and WC) and the progression from just strumming into percussion, all coming together when Jim bursts in with "at daaaaaaaaaaawn we ride again." Waterworks. Beautiful.
have shed tears during during every Lay Low bridge/solo section I've ever witnessed live. close to musical perfection
Dondante, for sure, every time.
There are just so/too many Jacket songs that I have deep emotional ties with
1st POST!!!!!!!!!
and you talk about your tears....
Sorry to get all emotional with the first post
I've lurked for a very long time, and posted for a short while about a year and a half ago under a different name, but this thread in particular inspired me to start a new account
Yes, I was still ripe with emotion from the loss of my father is sept 08. During the show in december at the Chicago theater they played "Look at you" and the combination of Jack Daniels and still in shock of his passing I lost it. In his last weeks I gave him an I-pod full of music he liked and included some MMJ tunes including "look at you" and he really enjoyed it. He made a point to me that the songs from the Ipod be played at his viewing. Every time I hear it I get a lump in my throat and the memories of our good times together. Music for me is a way to attach certain memories to songs that remind me of the good the bad and the ugly times in my life.
The more I think about this, the question becomes, have I ever not cried at a Jacket show... :embarassed: I'm a big softy, I guess. But I think it's beautiful that their music has the ability to connect with something in so many of us. Makes me think about bigger questions.
Damn, love the responses, I was curious if this thread would elicit many responses but it's nice to see how others have been affected by MMJ'S music!
I was thinking if I ever hear Jim sing "Suspicious Minds" live I will hands down be a mess, has a lot to do with my father's passing.
I know it sounds strange but I'm real excited to know that very soon there will be new songs that are going to strike deep emotion in me from "Circuital". LOL I may cry over a new song I haven't even heard yet!
CHIMMJFAN
Strangulation! @ t5, like a big baby.
Welcome De1euze! This forum is meant for people who can really get moved by the music.
Quote from: ALady on Mar 27, 2011, 04:03 PM
The more I think about this, the question becomes, have I ever not cried at a Jacket show...
^this :)
It's not just sweat pouring down my face at these shows.
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9hOFOgqOds#)
My very first show. The Bear. I was a mess before I even realized it was happening.
I'm crying right now... :'(
The Cure also makes me cry -- for different reasons...
I'm not sure if I have physically shed tears or not, but the emotions is always there during the last half of Dondante.
i don't think i've ever cried, but i've definitely welled up @ a few different shows. 1st time was @ the MoF show @ united palace theater 11/6/09 during IWBTWYD. i'd just found out earlier that day that my dad needed quadruple bypass surgery so i was really, really upset. wasn't even gonna go to the show but my dad insisted and, man, when he & conor duetted on this - i almost lost my shit completely. not out of being sad though. i just felt this overwhelming sense of peace about everything, like i knew everything was gonna be ok (which it did turn out to be).
other songs that seem to get me, just about every time, are TWTHS, Steam Engine & Dondante.
Quote from: ynwa on Mar 28, 2011, 02:13 PM
i don't think i've ever cried, but i've definitely welled up @ a few different shows. 1st time was @ the MoF show @ united palace theater 11/6/09 during IWBTWYD. i'd just found out earlier that day that my dad needed quadruple bypass surgery so i was really, really upset. wasn't even gonna go to the show but my dad insisted and, man, when he & conor duetted on this - i almost lost my shit completely. not out of being sad though. i just felt this overwhelming sense of peace about everything, like i knew everything was gonna be ok (which it did turn out to be).
other songs that seem to get me, just about every time, are TWTHS, Steam Engine & Dondante.
I think the Monsters of Folk show I saw in Boston was the closest I actually came to tears. I brought my Mom on her 65th birthday and during At Dawn took her hand.
I was seeing Jim live for only the second time, the first being MMJ Boston a year earlier and WAY back in the crowd. For MoF, we were 7th row. I was consumed with emotion but fell short of producing tears. Bermuda Highway moved me too.
Quote from: johnnYYac on Mar 28, 2011, 02:57 PM
Quote from: ynwa on Mar 28, 2011, 02:13 PM
i don't think i've ever cried, but i've definitely welled up @ a few different shows. 1st time was @ the MoF show @ united palace theater 11/6/09 during IWBTWYD. i'd just found out earlier that day that my dad needed quadruple bypass surgery so i was really, really upset. wasn't even gonna go to the show but my dad insisted and, man, when he & conor duetted on this - i almost lost my shit completely. not out of being sad though. i just felt this overwhelming sense of peace about everything, like i knew everything was gonna be ok (which it did turn out to be).
other songs that seem to get me, just about every time, are TWTHS, Steam Engine & Dondante.
I think the Monsters of Folk show I saw in Boston was the closest I actually came to tears. I brought my Mom on her 65th birthday and during At Dawn took her hand.
I was seeing Jim live for only the second time, the first being MMJ Boston a year earlier and WAY back in the crowd. For MoF, we were 7th row. I was consumed with emotion but fell short of producing tears. Bermuda Highway moved me too.
clearly testament to how powerful live jim is. i mean, we hear these songs over & over on the albums & various live recordings; but there's just something different about BEING THERE. it's a completely different, almost tangible, connection to the music. it's powerful shit.
my eyes just nearly teared up while listening to the newly released T5 version of 'it beats 4 u,' so afterward i put on the new song, 'think you can wait' by the national ;D
Quote from: BH on Mar 28, 2011, 10:39 AM
My very first show. The Bear. I was a mess before I even realized it was happening.
Awww. Really? :)
I cried every night at T5. First tears of joy, then they played One in the Same and I thought about someone who had not been on my mind in a long, long time. More tears during Where to Begin. It was
awesome. Then the last night I cried because it was over.
I most def have. Their shows are so magical, it's hard not to during certain moments.
:-X
Quote from: kydiddle on Mar 28, 2011, 10:15 PM
Quote from: BH on Mar 28, 2011, 10:39 AM
My very first show. The Bear. I was a mess before I even realized it was happening.
Awww. Really? :)
I cried every night at T5. First tears of joy, then they played One in the Same and I thought about someone who had not been on my mind in a long, long time. More tears during Where to Begin. It was awesome. Then the last night I cried because it was over.
I cried the first night just from the realization of what an excruciatingly beautiful week it was going to be, and the realization that although it was just beginning, it was going to be finite in nature.
Quote from: ALady on Mar 29, 2011, 12:19 PM
Quote from: kydiddle on Mar 28, 2011, 10:15 PM
Quote from: BH on Mar 28, 2011, 10:39 AM
My very first show. The Bear. I was a mess before I even realized it was happening.
Awww. Really? :)
I cried every night at T5. First tears of joy, then they played One in the Same and I thought about someone who had not been on my mind in a long, long time. More tears during Where to Begin. It was awesome. Then the last night I cried because it was over.
I cried the first night just from the realization of what an excruciatingly beautiful week it was going to be, and the realization that although it was just beginning, it was going to be finite in nature.
Good lord there was a ton of crying going on one room over. I could have used some tears to drown some mutha f'in bedbugs!
when Jim first did the ba-ba-bananas-nanas Geroge Michael bit on NYE at the Filmore in 06, I was laughing so hard I think I cried. So yeah....I've shed tears.
Quote from: Ruckus on Mar 29, 2011, 12:34 PM
Quote from: ALady on Mar 29, 2011, 12:19 PM
Quote from: kydiddle on Mar 28, 2011, 10:15 PM
Quote from: BH on Mar 28, 2011, 10:39 AM
My very first show. The Bear. I was a mess before I even realized it was happening.
Awww. Really? :)
I cried every night at T5. First tears of joy, then they played One in the Same and I thought about someone who had not been on my mind in a long, long time. More tears during Where to Begin. It was awesome. Then the last night I cried because it was over.
I cried the first night just from the realization of what an excruciatingly beautiful week it was going to be, and the realization that although it was just beginning, it was going to be finite in nature.
Good lord there was a ton of crying going on one room over. I could have used some tears to drown some mutha f'in bedbugs!
If you were any kind of gentleman you would have come over and dried our tears with your frog hat. :'(
Thank You - T5.......... It was just a million emotions at once. It felt amazing
Came real close when they closed their Sasquatch set with Steam Engine. There really is something about that song that always gets to me.
I don't think I've ever actually cried, but I have to catch my breath when they first hit the stage - the feeling of euphoria is so intense! Then my heart just soars throughout the show and you can't wipe the stupid grin off my face. :D
Quote from: JaneCool on Apr 03, 2011, 09:36 PM
I don't think I've ever actually cried, but I have to catch my breath when they first hit the stage - the feeling of euphoria is so intense! Then my heart just soars throughout the show and you can't wipe the stupid grin off my face. :D
great post, JaneCool! :dankk2:
I consider myself a strong person - but with that said, I am only human. We all cry. And MMJ has moved me on many occassions. My good friend died at the early age of 27. I was the bagpiper at his funneral. My best friends carried out his casket at the end of the mass while I played amazing grace. Everyone was balling crying but me. I was stone cold just doing my job as the bagpiper. A couple of weeks later I was listening to Golden and I just broke down crying. It finally hit me that I would never get to hang out with my buddy again. The words "And on heaven's golden shores we'll lay our heads" get me everytime. I just teared up now thinking about it. :'(
Anyway... lets start a thread that is more fun than this.... LOL How about "What's your favorite MMJ song to make Love to?" ;)
Quote from: Dodobird on Apr 04, 2011, 09:57 AM
I consider myself a strong person - but with that said, I am only human. We all cry. And MMJ has moved me on many occassions. My good friend died at the early age of 27. I was the bagpiper at his funneral. My best friends carried out his casket at the end of the mass while I played amazing grace. Everyone was balling crying but me. I was stone cold just doing my job as the bagpiper. A couple of weeks later I was listening to Golden and I just broke down crying. It finally hit me that I would never get to hang out with my buddy again. The words "And on heaven's golden shores we'll lay our heads" get me everytime. I just teared up now thinking about it. :'(
Anyway... lets start a thread that is more fun than this.... LOL How about "What's your favorite MMJ song to make Love to?" ;)
The strongest people cry.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle— Charles Dickens
Quote from: JaneCool on Apr 03, 2011, 09:36 PM
I don't think I've ever actually cried, but I have to catch my breath when they first hit the stage - the feeling of euphoria is so intense! Then my heart just soars throughout the show and you can't wipe the stupid grin off my face. :D
Stupid grins are the best!!!
This will be my first show (Louisville) and I already know I'm going to lose it the moment I hear "I will sing you songs", "The way that he sings", "Run Thru" or " Thank You Too". These songs have such a deep significance in my life. To see and hear them live is going to blow my mind.
I have never cried but I did get very emotional at the Jim James Newport 08 set. It was just a very magical and special moment for me.
Quote from: DejaView2011 on May 02, 2011, 08:53 PM
This will be my first show (Louisville) and I already know I'm going to lose it the moment I hear "I will sing you songs", "The way that he sings", "Run Thru" or " Thank You Too". These songs have such a deep significance in my life. To see and hear them live is going to blow my mind.
i'm a relative newbie, have only seen the full band four times. iwsys is my holy grail. if they play it at the palace, my life will be complete........until i think of another song i haven't seen live. masterplan, maybe?
I just watched the documentary preview on the home page and it made my eyes tear up bad. Why does this band affect me this way???? Louisville is going to be life changing. I can feel it.
Wow, I have to admit I didn't know what kind of responses I would get by starting this thread but THANK YOU!!! to everyone who has posted.
Last second I got the day off to make it to MMJ'S Lousiville Halloween show last year and I jumped in my car and drove to Louisville to see their hometown show. Watching the documentary preview really did choke me up a bit.
I can't wait for the shows this summer, I'm going to Milwaukee, Chicago, and Indianapolis shows and somehow I find myself still needing to see them more! lol
CHIMMJFAN
I regularly cry at concerts. When the first note of Wordless Chorus hits, something happens. Same thing happens when Run Thru ramps up. Doesn't happen because I'm associating it with something sad, it's because my body is overcome with energy. More of a catharcis. Dondante, Steam Engine, Lay Low, Bermuda, Highway, Gideon, and Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt.2 may have done this too.
Yep, I'm an emotional being.
I cried at Grateful Dead shows in the 80's and Decemberists shows too (when Shara Worden walked out on stage-trust me).
The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB4vcMVvBFk#)
Oh wow -- I had similar reactions to the additions of Shara Worden and Becky Stark to the Decemberists for the Hazards of Love. I was distraught at the end of the one show I saw with them, knowing I would never see that again.
Yes I have, a few times. And we'll leave it at that.
Quote from: CHIMMJFAN on May 19, 2011, 11:37 PM
Wow, I have to admit I didn't know what kind of responses I would get by starting this thread but THANK YOU!!! to everyone who has posted.
Last second I got the day off to make it to MMJ'S Lousiville Halloween show last year and I jumped in my car and drove to Louisville to see their hometown show. Watching the documentary preview really did choke me up a bit.
I can't wait for the shows this summer, I'm going to Milwaukee, Chicago, and Indianapolis shows and somehow I find myself still needing to see them more! lol
CHIMMJFAN
See you in Chicago CIMMJFAN!!!!!!
Oh god. T-5 War Begun... During the solo I looked up at the ceiling and tears rolled down my face. I had been looking forward to seeing that song play since the moment they announced the show. It has so much emotional meaning in my life. It's like the song was written for me... Even though we all feel that way for different songs for different reasons. Every show I go to I want to hear that song and having it guaranteed like that was a no brainer that I was going. Sad part is, I warned my friend, who isn't the biggest MMJ fan who tagged along with me, that things "might get weird" and I might start crying when that song plays. I was right.
Speaking of big stupid grins. Just when "Untitled" came on at the T-5 show.. It was like the only thing I was looking forward to for the past 6 months came true and was finally here... And then the opening strums of Heartbreakin Man and it was over, I was in my happy place. I know that's how I'll feel when I first hear Circuital on the 31st... cant wait.
Quote from: DejaView2011 on May 21, 2011, 10:45 AM
Quote from: CHIMMJFAN on May 19, 2011, 11:37 PM
Wow, I have to admit I didn't know what kind of responses I would get by starting this thread but THANK YOU!!! to everyone who has posted.
Last second I got the day off to make it to MMJ'S Lousiville Halloween show last year and I jumped in my car and drove to Louisville to see their hometown show. Watching the documentary preview really did choke me up a bit.
I can't wait for the shows this summer, I'm going to Milwaukee, Chicago, and Indianapolis shows and somehow I find myself still needing to see them more! lol
CHIMMJFAN
See you in Chicago CIMMJFAN!!!!!!
Can't wait to see some Jacket' Fans!!!!
CHIMMJFAN