Have you ever shed tears at a Jacket show?

[Ruckus]

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!

[walterfredo]

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. 

[ALady]

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.   :'(

[sweatboard]

Thank You - T5..........  It was just a million emotions at once.  It felt amazing

[wonderfulman]

Came real close when they closed their Sasquatch set with Steam Engine. There really is something about that song that always gets to me.

[JaneCool]

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

[darkglow]

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:

[Dodobird]

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?"  ;)

[Tracy 2112]

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

[Jon T.]

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!!!

[DejaView2011]

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.

[midwesterner]

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.

[slappymoe]

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?

[DejaView2011]

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.

[CHIMMJFAN]

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

[Caseydog]

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

[Crispy]

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.

[mjk73]

Yes I have, a few times. And we'll leave it at that.

[DejaView2011]

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!!!!!!

[Nicholas Yames]

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.