I love this band!!!!!!!!!!!

[Crispy]

Way to go, johnny! Yeah, boo hoo, Denmark. My home state of Oklahoma has remained Jacket-free since...forever. The closest MMJ has played to me is Dallas, a four-hour drive from Stillwater. My accumulation of MMJ miles through the years is fairly significant, and has been documented in another thread about road tripping. I hear there's a pretty good rail system in Europe too.

[mlbrady89]

ah i had to pass on the ATL show im just too broke. doin charleston and raleigh though. Yeah i go to school in boone and grew up in charlotte. i love NC. still might get crazy and try to make the ATL show last minute

[johnnYYac]

Way to go, johnny! Yeah, boo hoo, Denmark. My home state of Oklahoma has remained Jacket-free since...forever. The closest MMJ has played to me is Dallas, a four-hour drive from Stillwater. My accumulation of MMJ miles through the years is fairly significant, and has been documented in another thread about road tripping. [highlight]I hear there's a pretty good rail system in Europe too[/highlight].

Fuckin' A!  Good point.

[johnnYYac]

ah i had to pass on the ATL show im just too broke. doin charleston and raleigh though. Yeah i go to school in boone and grew up in charlotte. i love NC. still might get crazy and try to make the ATL show last minute

This is the cheapest I could find on eBay: 2 for $155

http://cgi.ebay.com/My-Morning-Jacket-Tickets-Atlanta-Chastain-4-23_W0QQitemZ230451634918QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Tickets_all_in_one?hash=item35a7fce2e6

I'll leave you on the Atlanta roll call, +1, to maintain some optimism.  No tax refund? ;)

[Grandpaboy]

Cheer up, my dour European friend.

I refuse to cheer up. And I must say it's a cold, cold heart that can't feel sorry for a country which has been stood up twice by MMJ, a country which the boys haven't come anywhere near for almost two years and which they probably won't come anywhere near for another year or two. As for my heart, it bleeds with sympathy for the sad plight of the northeastern US – and yes, Crispy, despite your nasty gleefulness it bleeds for the state of Oklahoma as well.

[mlbrady89]

ah i had to pass on the ATL show im just too broke. doin charleston and raleigh though. Yeah i go to school in boone and grew up in charlotte. i love NC. still might get crazy and try to make the ATL show last minute

This is the cheapest I could find on eBay: 2 for $155

http://cgi.ebay.com/My-Morning-Jacket-Tickets-Atlanta-Chastain-4-23_W0QQitemZ230451634918QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Tickets_all_in_one?hash=item35a7fce2e6

I'll leave you on the Atlanta roll call, +1, to maintain some optimism.  No tax refund? ;)

man i appreciate you scouting out me a ticket. thats awesome ill keep my eye on it. ima fist timer and the atl show would be my first. which is very tempting. the optimism is also greatly appreciated! ive been tax exempt at all my jobs for some reason so no returns haha. maybe i can sell some junk. well see

[johnnYYac]

ah i had to pass on the ATL show im just too broke. doin charleston and raleigh though. Yeah i go to school in boone and grew up in charlotte. i love NC. still might get crazy and try to make the ATL show last minute

This is the cheapest I could find on eBay: 2 for $155

http://cgi.ebay.com/My-Morning-Jacket-Tickets-Atlanta-Chastain-4-23_W0QQitemZ230451634918QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Tickets_all_in_one?hash=item35a7fce2e6

I'll leave you on the Atlanta roll call, +1, to maintain some optimism.  No tax refund? ;)

man i appreciate you scouting out me a ticket. thats awesome ill keep my eye on it. ima fist timer and the atl show would be my first. which is very tempting. the optimism is also greatly appreciated! ive been tax exempt at all my jobs for some reason so no returns haha. maybe i can sell some junk. well see

What's blood plasma going for these days?

[johnnYYac]

Cheer up, my dour European friend.

I refuse to cheer up. And I must say it's a cold, cold heart that can't feel sorry for a country which has been stood up twice by MMJ, a country which the boys haven't come anywhere near for almost two years and which they probably won't come anywhere near for another year or two. [highlight]NOT WITH THAT ATTITUDE![/highlight]As for my heart, it bleeds with sympathy for the sad plight of the northeastern US – and yes, Crispy, despite your nasty gleefulness it bleeds for the state of Oklahoma as well.

I've actually received many compliments on my exceptionally warm heart.  After your post, I checked out the number of shows near you, including Germany about a 5 hour drive (and let's not forget Europe's rail service; something to be proud of) and can't imagine not taking the trip.  That's just me.

If Denmark wants MMJ doing a show IN DENMARK than I would propose less whining and more positive MMJ fan activity.  I can't blame MMJ, however, for deciding not to play in New Hampshire when there are only two members on this forum from the Granite State.  When planning a tour, it seems foolish to play to half-filled venues.  As a fan of music, I often wish I lived in Boston or New York or San Fransisco, where there are more opportunities to see live music.  Its a trade off.  If you want to see more Jacket, move to Brussels or London.

I'm not trying to give you a hard time.  I'm just saying, make lemonade, bro!  (will that make sense to him?).

[Grandpaboy]

I'm not trying to give you a hard time.  I'm just saying, make lemonade, bro!  (will that make sense to him?).

I refuse to make lemonade, and I really wish someone somewhere somewhen would have taught you that it's extremely impolite to refer to other people in the third person when you're actually in the same room with them – as if they didn't exist, as if they were an imbecile, a baby, a cute pet animal for you and your equals to laugh at. I would also ask you to please stop editing my posts; makes it hard for people to distinguish my lucid truths from your bizarre nonsense. Thank you. Other than that, I don't think I can help you any further. And since this whole thread is beginning to make me regret that I was ever born, I'll just stop my "whining" and cede the point to you. One last question though: What's it like being tone deaf? Can you still enjoy music? Or do you just follow bands around, practising "positive fan activity"?

[johnnYYac]

I'm not trying to give you a hard time.  I'm just saying, make lemonade, bro!  (will that make sense to him?).

I refuse to make lemonade, and I really wish someone somewhere somewhen would have taught you that it's extremely impolite to refer to other people in the third person when you're actually in the same room with them – as if they didn't exist, as if they were an imbecile, a baby, a cute pet animal for you and your equals to laugh at. I would also ask you to please stop editing my posts; makes it hard for people to distinguish my lucid truths from your bizarre nonsense. Thank you. Other than that, I don't think I can help you any further. And since this whole thread is beginning to make me regret that I was ever born, I'll just stop my "whining" and cede the point to you. One last question though: What's it like being tone deaf? Can you still enjoy music? Or do you just follow bands around, practising "positive fan activity"?

Christ, I hope he's kidding.    ;)

Truce, Grandpaboy.  My best friend is much like you.  We refer to him as Rainbow Eater.  Nothing can change his outlook.  I hope you find happiness, I hope MMJ comes to Copenhagen, and I hope you stop taking things personally on this forum.  Good friends like to give each other shit.  I consider any fan of MMJ willing to spend time on this forum a friend.  And so, shit I give, but with love in my heart and angels shooting out of my ass (along with some of my opinions, I suppose).  

Imagine all the people, living life in peace... You oooh oooh oooh oooh.

[johnnYYac]

Maske en dag vi kan nyde en ol sammen pa et min Formiddag Jakke concert.

translation (I think its close)- "Maybe one day we can have a beer together at a My Morning Jacket concert."

I think we had us one of these.

[Crispy]

First, Grandpaboy, I greatly appreciate your heart bleeding for my poor state, lord knows we (I) deserve it. Second, lighten the fuck up, bro, as Johnny has tried repeatedly to get you to do. I understand how difficult it is to be a My Morning Jacket fan in a land where not only do the boys rarely (never) visit, but fellow peeps are also hard to come by. And you have it worse that us North Americans, no doubt about it. But the fact is you have had ample opportunity in recent years, and with a modicum of effort. It has not been that hard to scratch that MMJ itch, or even to just sympathize with like-minded music fans and not bitch so much. "Positive fan activity"? The day I attend an My Morning Jacket show and don't enjoy it is the day I will cease to be a fan, and until then, I have nothing but positive things to say, no matter how far I have to travel to see that show.

Danish Go-Rounds sound delicious!

[capt. scotty]

My Morning JAmerica, Fuck Yeah!!

[Haldon]

Rainbow Eater  ---  priceless.  love than name

[johnnYYac]

Rainbow Eater  ---  priceless.  love than name

We renamed our CounterStrike clan and server to Rainbow Eaters, but didn't tell him we were naming it after him.  We love the guy, but he is the most pessimistic sumbitch I've ever met.  He has reason to be unhappy,  but much of it is his own doing.  

[Grandpaboy]

Maske en dag vi kan nyde en ol sammen pa et min Formiddag Jakke concert.

Oops, Mr. Yac, I'm sorry to have left you hanging there, waving the white flag. Busy day yesterday. Your offer is very cute, and hopefully one day we shall have a beer together at an MMJ show. Anyway, you had me at the word "Truce" in your previous post, and besides, it's all just a load of nonsense on my part. I'll be the first to admit that I've made some absolutely daft decisions regarding MMJ (related) shows in the past. To be honest, I don't remember ever even considering going to the Hamburg show in July 2008, and I'm not sure why – maybe the Copenhagen show that later got cancelled had already been announced at that point, or maybe I had reason to believe that a show would be announced, as indeed it was. It gets worse though. For an MMJ fan, the next best show to go to in recent times would probably have been a Monsters of Folk show, right? Now, when MOF played here in Copenhagen in November last year, they literally played "down the street from me" to paraphrase your first post; I think it's about a quarter of a mile from my front door to the venue where they played (the same venue where MMJ were supposed to have played in 2008). Nevertheless, I didn't go, because I'm an idiot. Even though I had known about the show for months I still managed to be absolutely tied up with work when the night finally came, plus, when I realized I wouldn't make it, I sort of justified it to myself with this retarded line of thinking that went something like "Hell no, the first time I go see Jim, it has to be with MMJ, not MOF." Big mistake, because by all accounts, MOF totally killed it that night. All the music mags and blogs gave the concert rave reviews, and by late December, when the media printed their "Best of 2009" lists, one of the largest newspapers in Denmark (you could probably compare it to the NY Times) even went as far as calling it the best rock n roll show of 2009 (or maybe one of the three best, can't remember exactly). Actually, I'm not sure if anybody ever posted anything about that show, so here's a link to a (six-starred) review from the largest music magazine in Denmark:

http://gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/35811

I can't be bothered to translate the thing, but judging by your beer proposition, you're a fairly adept user of Google Translate, so maybe you can get an idea of the content that way. Besides, I'm mostly posting the link for the sake of the archives; I seem to remember there being a thread with MOF setlists, and this review contains just that (the parenthesized info after some songs states who performed the song and who originally wrote it; songs with no parenthesis were obviously written and performed by MOF collectively. By the way, the setlist resembles those from most of their other shows; the only anomaly appears to be that Conor played "Amy In The White Coat", and as the review explains, he did so because some female fan had asked him to before the show). Oh, and also for the sake of the archives; remember how during these concerts Jim would usually take the time to lay some seriously over the top praise on Will Johnson? Well, I just read on some blog, that his Will Johnson saying of the night went like this: "All men are created equal, but Will Johnson is a cut above the rest!" As for recordings from the show, I don't think any exist. Apparently, the recording police were in full effect that night, but a couple of concert goers did manage to snatch a few videos and put them up on Youtube. Here's a full length "Lullaby + Exile" (mediocre sound quality, but a nice performance and shot pretty up close):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nWqRmdxkno

And here's a somewhat louder but only partial "Whole Lotta Losin", shot from the balcony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvLIEYF_k0g

> Look at Jim dancing on stage in Copenhagen, just a few feet away from 500 Danes. It hardly looks like he hates Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe, or anything else for that matter, and I'm amazed that anyone would even take me halfway seriously when I suggested that he does. I was simply expressing my wish to see an MMJ concert sometime soon, and yes, preferably not in Germany but here in my own country where I can drag along a couple of friends who do like MMJ but not to the point where they would travel to another country and spend money on trains and hotels to see the band. Call it positive fan activity with a twist – or call it negative fan activity if you wish. It's all the same. I realize that you probably didn't take my post too literally, but rather used it as an occasion to express your own frustration with the lack of MMJ shows in your part of the US – and maybe nag a bit on stupid Europeans who think you Americans have it all to easy. That's fine. I totally understand. In the best of all possible worlds, no one willing to travel 1246 miles to see their favourite band would have to do so. Sadly, this world sucks. Somewhere in South Africa some kid is reading this thread, thinking we're all a bunch of MMJ spoiled assholes. By the way though, your idea that I should move to Brussels or London is almost as absurd as most of my propositions in this thread. Although it does make sense to consider Europe as comparable to the US in a strictly geographical sense, we're still talking about three different countries with three different languages, currencies, cultures etc, so for one thing, it might be hard for me to find a job in those places. More to the point, Copenhagen is actually a pretty good place when it comes to concerts – at least as good as Brussels – and in fact that's one of the reasons I moved here (I grew up in the opposite end of the country). Let me name a couple of examples, using bands that are roughly similar to MMJ in terms of size and appeal: In the past few years, Wilco have already played here twice (August 2007 and November 2009) and they're coming back in may this year. Band of Horses have been even more present: They played here in March 2008, July 2008, August 2009, and they'll be back in just a couple of weeks (18th of April). And no, MMJ hasn't been here once during all that time, but they have had intentions of coming here twice, and it's just bad fuckin luck that they we're forced to cancel both times; rumour even has it that they actually did play here on one occasion many years ago, but I can't find that show in the archives, and besides, it was way before I had my own baptism by reverb. All in all though, I think I've positioned myself in an okay spot for seeing the Jacket, and I'm confident that I will see them before too long, and probably right down the street too. Anyway, this post is ridiculously long and I've just used up my annual quota of forum time so let's just make peace. This thread's no fun anymore anyway.  Except for this:

lighten the fuck up, bro

I refuse to lighten up. You lighten the fuck up. Go back, read the thread again, look carefully, take in the details, and then tell me who should learn to "sympathize with like-minded music fans"?

[jones]

 :-? :-/ :(  :'( :P

[Penny Lane]

Grandpaboy---I hope you get to a show, soon. Nothing wrong w/loving them so much you're at a point of frustration.

In spite of the rail system, I think Americans travel more and easier than Euros. (from my limited experience in Eur). So it's not as big of a deal to travel 400 miles to see MMJ here as it is over there. (i think culturally, economically, etc) I don't think it's a fair argument to compare distances and all the little extra JJ appearances in this country, where we all speak a common language and can all stay at the cheap holiday inn express (holla!).... That said, MMJ have made a fair effort to play in Europe. At least you acknowledge you had a few missed opportunies to see the flying V in action. i could be wrong about all of this.

crispy-never knew that about oklahoma....do you think JJ is just not a sooners fan or something?

[Crispy]

Sorry grandpaboy, I had a bit of stupid going in me then and went overboard.

Penny - I'm not sure what the deal is here, I guess it's probably just a deal where the guys in charge of setting up tours don't think of Oklahoma as a place where MMJ would get a lot of love, and they may be right. I have a feeling though that they'd fill up the Cain's Ballroom pretty well nowadays. I've seen Wilco, Neko Case, Ryan Adams, Black Keys, The Decemberists, Mars Volta, and others, and missed several other comparable acts in Tulsa and OKC over the years.

And I'm sure JJ isn't a dirtburglar fan ;)

[BH]

Thanks for the setlist grandpaboy, I needed that one.  Only 7 missing now from 2009.