:D
Just got back from the Roseland show and all I can say, is Wow!
A few thoughts from the show and then the setlist (not necessarily in this order):
-Jim's new "moon boots" are a riot.
-I almost didn't recognize Two Tone with his new hair-do.
It's really weird seeing him with shorter locks.
-Sometimes I miss the MMJ of old, but if there's anyone out there who doesn't think that Carl Broemel isn't one of the most talented musicians out there right now, I have to say I think you're sorely mistaken. The saxophone? Are you kidding me?
-Following up that, MMJ simply kicked ass tonight. In a
notoriously bad venue, they showed why they are the best
live act going right now.
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One Big Holiday
Anytime
Tonight I Want to Celebrate with You
Dancefloors
Phone Went West
Dondante
Gideon
Golden
The Way That He Sings
It Beats 4 U
Lay Low
Lowdown
Mahgeetah
Nashville To Kentucky
Run Thru
Just One Thing
Off The Record
They Ran
Steam Engine
Wordless Chorus
What a Wonderful Man
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Not too shabby.......thanks MMJ.
Did they close with WWM? I know you said that it wasn't in order. But that would be different.
One Big Holiday
What a Wonderful Man
Gideon
The Way That He Sings
Off The Record (with amazing breakdown section)
Just One Thing
It Beats 4 U
Wordless Chorus
Lowdown
Lay Low
Phone Went West
Dondante
Run Thru
They Ran (full band)
Encore
Tonight I Want to Celebrate With You (Jim and Carl only)
Nashville to Kentucky (full band, including saxophone)
Golden
Steam Engine
Dancefloors
Mahgeetah
Anytime
-From another thread.
This was the first time seeing them headline. WOW Blown away. It's true they made Roseland an acceptable place to play. My fear is that they are 1 to 2 years away from an arena tour and the days of "pushing up front" are over. They are such an incredible band. I wish nothing but the best for MMJ.
Roseland is a crummy venue, but it has character. I think it fit the band pretty well. Hammerstein Ballroom was another venue that fits the band pretty well. (Saw them for the first time opening for the Foo there a few years back)
Actually a GREAT venue in NYC that has killer sound and is rather new is the NOKIA Theater, just down the street from Roseland.
It's convenient and has a cool vibe even for being a new venue.
Next time they come back, hope they play there!
Best. Time. Ever!!! Bravo to the band & sound engineer. It sounded sooo good. When the curtain dropped the crowd just lost it. :D Jumping up and down like a chimpanzee has never been more funner. HellBalls, I even got to smoke! ;D
Someone posted this on a Longhorn forum last night. It has a youtube link to the curtain dropping...
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posted by evilhorn on Hornfans.com - Cactus Cafe forum
12/01/06 01:39 AM
...so tonight as we gathered for pre-game we watched the dvd of radiohead's show at the astoria from '94. see it if you can, it's fucking great. great to hear them introduce songs off the bends as "here's another new one". awesome to see all those songs with bigger guitar heroics. and see a band so on top of their game and tight just explode on stage. my friend remarked that he wished we were going to see that show.
well, I thought we saw a better show than that one.
holy fucking shit.
what a great show. I am so wearing my new t-shirt tomorrow. they keep getting better every time I see them. such a big powerful rock and roll engine... here's how they took the stage and revved it up:
"let me tell you what melba toast is packing..." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ZMh_3Byrk)
QuoteBest. Time. Ever!!! Bravo to the band & sound engineer. It sounded sooo good. When the curtain dropped the crowd just lost it. :D Jumping up and down like a chimpanzee has never been more funner. HellBalls, I even got to smoke! ;D
Yeah, it was fucking Fantastic!!!! I was right up front for a lot of it as well.
The show was incredible. I was absolutely blown away. I wish I would have gotten tickets for the philly show too, I would drive down there in a second to go see them tonight again.
Steam Engine. Thats all I have to say.
QuoteThe show was incredible. I was absolutely blown away. I wish I would have gotten tickets for the philly show too, I would drive down there in a second to go see them tonight again.
Just remember what they played last night, they'll play the same thing tonight ;)
I'd watch them play the same thing every single night of my life.
Great, let them play the exact same setlist. I for one would welcome this kind of redundancy if it means getting my balls completely rocked for another 3 hours.
The proof is in the pudding my friend...
No offense (and I loved the show last night), but I wouldn't put it up there on the same transcendent level as I've seen them before. The sound was pretty good, and the setlist was not bad (much better than when I saw them at in Boston on the Z tour)....
I guess it will really take a lot to reach the heights of B'Roo '04 (near-Religious experience up at the barricade in front of gym), B'Roo '06 (obviously), but even nights like Irving Plaza 2 back in June of '04.
Anyway, they're still great all the time, but I didn't think this show ranked with some of their best.
QuoteNo offense (and I loved the show last night), but I wouldn't put it up there on the same transcendent level as I've seen them before. The sound was pretty good, and the setlist was not bad (much better than when I saw them at in Boston on the Z tour)....
I guess it will really take a lot to reach the heights of B'Roo '04 (near-Religious experience up at the barricade in front of gym), B'Roo '06 (obviously), but even nights like Irving Plaza 2 back in June of '04.
Anyway, they're still great all the time, but I didn't think this show ranked with some of their best.
Well I for one, was fucking Blown away. And I was at Roo '04 and '06.
Just my two cents
QuoteJust my two cents
No, thats cool, I was just saying.
:)
From the list in NYC that turned me on to MMJ:
Sick show, my first time and I thought it was unbelievable. What a great rock show, the definiteion of a rock show. The hype around these guys is enormous,
and yet they totally surpassed even with wildest expectations I had.
Some pics and vids:
http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/?p=124
superb show and i've seen em a bunch o times this year. i don't think it's so useful to compare to other shows as there are always nice little touches. crowd was way into it pretty much all the way through. the only negative comment i heard was from this guy behind me during nashville to kentucky when he yelled 'what's this shit?' but he was pretty out of touch in general and using my back, head and shoulders the whole night as a drum set. would have been more amusing if he could keep a beat. here are some pics. was a little late getting into town but easily got close enough to smell jim's sweat (too bad it was mixed with the perspiration of some less than desirables around me).
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k299/colleenabean/roseland1.jpg
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k299/colleenabean/roseland2.jpg
QuoteSteam Engine. Thats all I have to say.
I was thinking the same thing, my friend. I wasn't sure if they'd play it, but when they did, well........that was just the icing on the cake.
the show was stunning
I have to admire the band's energy- these guys just love to play
I thought that Steam Engine was it
Then they did Dancefloors...and I figured that was it
And they did Magheetah...and I figured there was no way they were going to do another one
But then they did a killer Anytime
They just love to play, it was if they didn't really want to end the show
The lights were killer
One of the best openers I've ever seen (the sheet was so badass)
Jim James is a god...I think he was programed to be a rockstar- he's so good at what he does
Carl is an incredible musician
Patrick is a real-life Animal....and he's sick at the drums
The show was what a great rock show should be- I left feeling better about everything and everyone...I was uplifted. And I don't even care that I still have a buzzing in my left ear 24 hours later. It was just that good
MMJ own. Period.
Hey jibboodude, Can I borrow $100 bucks?
Quotei don't think it's so useful to compare to other shows as there are always nice little touches.
Amen.
QuoteI'd watch them play the same thing every single night of my life.
and your favorite movie is probably groundhog day... :P
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/arts/music/02jack.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
December 2, 2006
Music Review | 'My Morning Jacket'
The Steady Sound of a Jam Band That Wasn't Really Jamming at All
By KELEFA SANNEH
Take a few steps back. Turn down the volume. Squint. If you do all that, it's easy to see My Morning Jacket, from Louisville, Ky., as some marvelous, mutant kind of jam band.
The group's most recent studio album, "Z," is a shaggy and lovable disc propelled by hazy grooves and glowing guitar lines. It was released by ATO, the record company founded by Dave Matthews and friends. The band's sets have become perennial highlights at the jam-centric music festival Bonnaroo. The new My Morning Jacket live double album and DVD, both called "Okonokos," were recorded at the Fillmore in San Francisco, which helped nurture an earlier generation of jammers. And on Thursday night, the band played for more than two hours at Roseland Ballroom, in front of a sold-out crowd that cheered every guitar solo.
This was, for the most part, a triumphant show. My Morning Jacket's ascent has been slow and steady and, in a way, utterly predictable; ever since 1999, when the band released its first album, word has slowly spread. And "Z," its first album with a new guitarist (Carl Broemel) and keyboardist (Bo Koster), felt like a turning point: the songs were weirder and riskier. ("Off the Record" begins with surf-rock, evolves into some Southern-rock variant of reggae, then adds a jazzy instrumental coda.) And those songs were at the heart of Thursday's set.
About that jamming, though: the longer the band played, the clearer it became that these weren't really jams at all. The band's leader is Jim James, who writes the songs, sings the songs and sometimes plays lead guitar, too. The other members rarely undermine his authority: instead of knocking the songs off kilter with ad-libs or digressions, they pull together, marching in lock step behind the guy with the glorious, melancholy voice.
In fact there were few surprises in Thursday's show. Though it sounds loose at first, "Z" is a tightly composed (and, at 47 minutes, relatively short) album, and onstage, the band recreates the songs pretty faithfully. The guitar solos generally had the same shape, and sometimes the same notes, as those on the CD. And in "Lay Low," which begins with a greasy guitar figure and a stiff-legged drum-machine beat, the crowd roared when Mr. James and Mr. Broemel locked into a dual riff, just like on the album version. They clearly weren't making it up as they went along.
You might say that the members of My Morning Jacket have traded freedom for heft. Thursday's best songs, like the show-closing "Anytime," sounded positively monolithic; instead of taking time to mess around, the members simply hurtled toward the end. And then there was "Run Thru," a song that builds as deliberately, as inexorably as this band's career has. A slow-motion guitar line eventually builds to a crashing, trudging climax. And part of the fun is its predictability: you just wait, as the band builds momentum, knowing that before too long the noise will die down and the song will seem to end and then that guitar line will come back to life, sounding even slower than it did before.
i don't mean to be a negative nancy...but i thought the roseland show really lacked their usual energy. it wasn't a bad time at all, and it converted my ladyfriend into a fan, but i thought some songs sounded extremely labored, especially off the record...like it was just a beat or two too slow. they started out really strong, and they ended really strong though.
which brings me to my question: what was the deal with someone being electrocuted? jj said something about that before the encores.
also, roseland's soundman sucked because the guitars weren't loud enough to give me goosebumps. and my last complaint is that they didn't do that sweet intro to lowdown like on the okonokos track.
i was at the bonnaroo show (which was the best performance of my life), so maybe its an unfair comparison.
Quote
B'Roo '06 (obviously), but even nights like Irving Plaza 2 back in June of '04.
Anyway, they're still great all the time, but I didn't think this show ranked with some of their best.
i agree. a few days after the irv show they headlined bamboozle back when it was something worth seeing and rocked my socks off there too. i can't say enough about 'roo 06 though.
I feel like I'm following everyone around here going, "come again?" but electrocuted?
One of my good friends who's in a band once got electrocuted through his lips - his lips on the mic - and he still has a bit of PTSD. Like a pitcher who really hurls it in there, only to catch a line drive to the face, my friend finds that he can't get totally lost in a song like he used to. There's a place in the back of his brain that's always ready to jump back.
Long story short - who do you think got shocked?
no idea...it was either shortly before the encore (i like how they take 2 second encores where they like take a sip of water instead of leaving the stage) or it was during the encore and he mentioned something like "thank yall for supporting us...it's been a long night, we had an electrocution back stage..."
it was hard to understand, because again, the roseland sound guy sucked i thought.
i dunno who did, but for some reason i want to say it was tommy only because he seems like he would do it by accident.
http://tarajonespages.blogspot.com/2006/12/thursday-night-i-took-much-needed.html
http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/?p=124/
http://koenma47.blogspot.com/2006/12/gig-my-morning-jacket.html
http://mcgrupp.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_mcgrupp_archive.html#116500311321718654
http://superdeelove.blogspot.com/2006/12/worlds-colliding-in-best-of-ways.html
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/12/my_morning_jack.html
http://lnnline.blogspot.com/2006/12/dane-cook-my-morning-jacket.html
the slip talked about the electocution incident before MMJ came on stage maybe it happened during the sound check
i am somebody..and i dig machazells scrote
roseland is now in the gallery...
http://hippophooray.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-wonderful-band.html
http://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2006/12/04/greatest-show-on-earth
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/entertainment/content.php?bid=260&aid=3
http://www.earvolution.com/2006/12/my-morning-jacket-shines-in-nyc.asp
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
My Morning Jacket Shines In NYC
By: David Schultz
My Morning Jacket has reached the stage of buzziness where they can simply do no wrong. Lauded in nearly every musical circle for the last couple of years, My Morning Jacket has killed at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival with a 3½ hour midnight set, brought crowds to the arena early during their summer stint opening act for Pearl Jam and have had fellow rockers Grace Potter & The Nocturnals running ragged to catch them play over the summer. All windows of immunity someday close, usually with an accompanying backlash. For My Morning Jacket, still riding the critical and commercial success of their 2005 release Z, that time has not yet come; nor does it seem imminent. Sometimes the world works out right.
MMJ have owed a visit to the Big Apple for quite some time. Due to complications from pneumonia befalling lead singer and guitarist Jim James, the Louisville, Kentucky rockers had to bail out of their last scheduled appearance, a New Year's Eve show at Madison Square Garden with the Black Crowes and North Mississippi AllStars. They made the most of their return by quickly selling out the roomy Roseland Ballroom. Unlike some other sold-out shows at the venue, Roseland felt sold-out: on the outside, the scalpers seemed a bit more prevalent and a lot more confident in their ability to unload extras; on the inside, the standing room - a little more claustrophobic, the beer lines - a little lengthier, the balconies and raised side stage - a little more populated.
Entrancing on record, My Morning Jacket are equally captivating on stage. Casting ominous silhouettes behind a gigantic translucent screen, the band opened the show appearing larger than life, easing into their opener, "One Big Holiday." A flute away from looking like Ian Anderson, Jim James was the focal point of the show; the crowd hanging on his every movement while he bounced, loped and swayed across the stage. While lead singers and front men always garner the most attention, they are nothing without a quality band behind them. Along with James, charter members Patrick Hallahan (drums) and Two-Tone Tommy (bass) and relatively recent additions Carl Broemel (guitar) and Bo Koster (keys) create an intriguing mix of sleepy psychedelia and dreamy blues. James' haunting voice deftly creates the same aura as Neil Young, giving a doleful feel to surreal carnivalesque dirges that call to mind Robbie Robertson and The Band. On "Off The Record" they incorporate a reggae beat before devolving into a seventies-era Stones groove. Going back even farther, their set closer, "They Ran," adhered to the more restrictive structure of the sixties soul standards, relying on James' vocals to convey the song's power.
On some level, MMJ look like a raw, hairy group of savages but there's a lot of finesse to the songs, especially how they play them. When they jammed, they met at the drum stand, much like Pearl Jam used to do in their formative years. Playing off each other as well as playing with each other, James and Broemel used Two-Tone's rumbling bass to take "Dondante" to lofty dimensions. During the relatively sedate encore, capped by impassioned if not hurried runs through "Mahgeetah" and "Anytime," Broemel showed true versatility. Remaining primarily on guitar for the main set, he contributed heavily to the country-blues feel: beginning the encore on the pedal steel guitar accompanying James on a duet of "Tonight I Want To Celebrate With You" and then breaking out the saxophone for "Nashville To Kentucky."
The cavernous Roseland Ballroom, which doesn't always provide the best acoustics, was not the best match for My Morning Jacket's straightforward style. On the surface, it felt that some intangible was missing from the performance. However, My Morning Jacket doesn't lack passion, they don't lack skill, they don't lack for quality songs and they surely don't lack for a mighty crowd response. Rather, the nagging feeling resulted from the fact that MMJ's gimmick-free style of playing each song as hard as they can didn't belong in a ballroom, they belonged in a much larger arena.
// posted by schultz @ 9:54 PM
Quotehttp://www.hightimes.com/ht/entertainment/content.php?bid=260&aid=3
Maybe they should lay off the weed and concentrate more on the MMJ catalog and less on the word transplendent. ;)
Quotehttp://www.thefader.com/blog/articles/2006/12/04/greatest-show-on-earth
does anyone else find it perverse that my chemical romance was even mentioned in the same article as as mmj? i mean aside from both having 3 word names beginning with my, i think that's as far as they go.
its nice seeing the mainstream press recognizing the fact that mmj is hte best live band period. and if they're saying that after the roseland show, they have no idea what they've been missing out on.
http://media.www.sjuhawknews.com/media/storage/paper763/news/2006/12/08/ (http://media.www.sjuhawknews.com/media/storage/paper763/news/2006/12/08/Entertainment/Hawk-Plays.Roadie.With.My.Morning.Jacket-2528077.shtml?sourcedomain=www.sjuhawknews.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com)
more roseland in the gallery.
http://sainthemingway.blogspot.com/2006/12/my-morning-jacket-roseland-ballroom-new.html
Quote from: Ghosts_on_T5 on Dec 01, 2006, 03:26 PM
Steam Engine. Thats all I have to say.
I was just poking around looking at these old posts and wanted to find this thread and see all the chatter that was gping on before our first show. Took me two more yrs to sign up on this here forum....too bad I waited so long.
Ironic that I found this comment by ghosts :)
Love this band! ADORE this forum!
this was also my 1st show and val's too, right? :thumbsup:
my first non festival Jacket show as well...!
Quote from: tdb810 on Apr 13, 2011, 09:09 PM
Quote from: Ghosts_on_T5 on Dec 01, 2006, 03:26 PM
Steam Engine. Thats all I have to say.
I was just poking around looking at these old posts and wanted to find this thread and see all the chatter that was gping on before our first show. Took me two more yrs to sign up on this here forum....too bad I waited so long.
Ironic that I found this comment by ghosts :)
Love this band! ADORE this forum!
;D
I was just kiddin on fb. ;)
this was my first MMJ show as a NYC resident.
Quote from: subinai on Apr 14, 2011, 09:38 AM
this was my first MMJ show as a NYC resident.
cool!
Quote from: Ghosts_on_T5 on Apr 13, 2011, 09:24 PM
Quote from: tdb810 on Apr 13, 2011, 09:09 PM
Quote from: Ghosts_on_T5 on Dec 01, 2006, 03:26 PM
Steam Engine. Thats all I have to say.
I was just poking around looking at these old posts and wanted to find this thread and see all the chatter that was gping on before our first show. Took me two more yrs to sign up on this here forum....too bad I waited so long.
Ironic that I found this comment by ghosts :)
Love this band! ADORE this forum!
;D
I was just kiddin on fb. ;)
i know silly goose :)
Quote from: Penny Lane on Apr 13, 2011, 09:22 PM
my first non festival Jacket show as well...!
did i know this?
and yes Brooke, bluesky too :)
Quote from: tdb810 on Apr 14, 2011, 09:45 AM
Quote from: subinai on Apr 14, 2011, 09:38 AM
this was my first MMJ show as a NYC resident.
cool!
very cool indeed! my first MMJ show was this: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934012 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934012)
Quote from: subinai on Apr 14, 2011, 11:39 AM
Quote from: tdb810 on Apr 14, 2011, 09:45 AM
Quote from: subinai on Apr 14, 2011, 09:38 AM
this was my first MMJ show as a NYC resident.
cool!
very cool indeed! my first MMJ show was this: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934012 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934012)
Is this show available on the live music archive? If not, I may record the stream.
Quote from: johnnYYac on Apr 14, 2011, 11:43 AM
Quote from: subinai on Apr 14, 2011, 11:39 AM
Quote from: tdb810 on Apr 14, 2011, 09:45 AM
Quote from: subinai on Apr 14, 2011, 09:38 AM
this was my first MMJ show as a NYC resident.
cool!
very cool indeed! my first MMJ show was this: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934012 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934012)
Is this show available on the live music archive? If not, I may record the stream.
I believe it is. My first show was a year later at the 930 club so I recall going back and listening to their other 930 shows. I don't think it was too good a recording however.
EDIT: http://www.archive.org/download/http://www.archive.org/details/mmj2005-10-10 (http://www.archive.org/download/http://www.archive.org/details/mmj2005-10-10)
I'm guessing the stream is of much better quality??
Quote from: Ruckus on Apr 14, 2011, 11:59 AM
Quote from: johnnYYac on Apr 14, 2011, 11:43 AM
Quote from: subinai on Apr 14, 2011, 11:39 AM
Quote from: tdb810 on Apr 14, 2011, 09:45 AM
Quote from: subinai on Apr 14, 2011, 09:38 AM
this was my first MMJ show as a NYC resident.
cool!
very cool indeed! my first MMJ show was this: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934012 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934012)
Is this show available on the live music archive? If not, I may record the stream.
I believe it is. My first show was a year later at the 930 club so I recall going back and listening to their other 930 shows. I don't think it was too good a recording however.
EDIT: http://www.archive.org/download/http://www.archive.org/details/mmj2005-10-10 (http://www.archive.org/download/http://www.archive.org/details/mmj2005-10-10)
I'm guessing the stream is of much better quality??
Thanks, Rob. I'll check it out when I'm home.
So, you're still in the Baltimore area, right? I've got an uncle on the other side of DC, Falls Church VA. We used to do Dead shows together. I'm hoping to get him to some MMJ this summer/fall, so maybe we'll cross paths.
BTW, he just got back from Japan. He is the head of radiation health safety for the FDA and got to ride 2 aftershocks over 7. He was in his hotel on the 37th floor for one of 'em and says its something he will NEVER forget. I'm glad he's home.
Has this thread been Johnny Yackked! Just kidding....love you Johnny........this was also my first show.....never heard a single jacket song before this show.........after rocking a few songs, they started playing this slow quiet song, and I told Trish that I was running to the bathroom........when I arrived back at our spot, all hell broke loose........the song was dondonte.......little did I know that those soft tender notes would lead to the crescendo of what was to become one of my favorite all time songs. Can't wait to see y'all in Alabama!
since the thread's been yackked..
my first show was at lebowski fest 2004 in louisville, ky.. i was a stage production guy in the summer time and had no clue who MMJ was.. i was just there to work a show..
first song out of the gates.. i see some guy in a dirty bathrobe dressed like "the dude" from the big lebowski and he's singing "Bob Dylan - Man in Me" at the top of his lungs.. I was hooked instantly