MMJ in the new Elizabethtown Movie

[thebigbang]

May as well get this thread going in case it really happens.  Here's a story from the local weekly:
http://www.velocityweekly.com/2004/0804/sound/news_notes.html

Movie mania

In addition to pumping a barge-full of money into the local economy, the film "Elizabethtown" is reaping some unexpected benefits.

The Cameron Crowe-directed production has been in the region for several weeks, shooting in Louisville, Elizabethtown and Versailles, Ky., and our ears burn with stories of Kirsten Dunst sightings.

But lucky is the fortunate artist or musician who has been sucked into the Hollywood vacuum.

The biggest winner is My Morning Jacket, which was enlisted to serve as a shaggy group of singers in the film's crucial funeral scene, reportedly crooning Skynyrd's "Freebird." (Which, most Jacket fans would conclude, was probably going to happen at some point, anyway.)

Meanwhile, the folks at Lebowski Fest tell us that the production company sought and received permission to use an official Lebowski Fest poster in the movie, supposedly for an office cubicle.

Louisville artist Brad White is the best example of having something drop right in your lap.

Set designers were prowling for material at the Nitty Gritty in Germantown when they fell in love with one of White's distinctive paintings, which they quickly purchased to decorate an apartment in "Elizabethtown."

[MMJ_fanatic]

whoa!  MMJ does Skynrd?!?  zoinks!

[thebigbang]

Well, Crowe did say the movie was a comedy. If you saw MMJ cover Van Halen's Jump you'd know they can do tongue-in-cheek just fine.

whoa!  MMJ does Skynrd?!?  zoinks!

[MMJ_fanatic]

this is true I was actually hoping you'd respond with a clarification just of this sort.  the guys do have a healthy sense o' humor :D

[katkillad]

i would definately be interested in hearing them do freebird...plus it gives me an excuse to see the movie

[marktwain]

I saw Built to Spill do Freebird a few years ago.  I was really skeptical when i heard the opening bars, but by the guitar solos I was banging my head along with everyone else.  It ended up being the best part of the show.

Freebird may be a rock n roll cliche (and I still can't listen to it when it comes on the radio)  but that night it friggin' rocked.  I'm excited abt MMJ doing it.

[sweatboard]

Say what you will, Freebird fucking RULES!!!!!!!!

and I called it in the "What would you love MMJ to cover" Thread.  So give it up Bitches!!!!!!!!!   Next thing you know they'll be covering the Pina Colada song in the sequal (second movie).  If you have bare feet and a flying V you know Freebird Fucking Rules!

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

Say what you will, Freebird fucking RULES!!!!!!!!

and I called it in the "What would you love MMJ to cover" Thread.  So give it up Bitches!!!!!!!!!   Next thing you know they'll be covering the Pina Colada song in the sequal (second movie).  If you have bare feet and a flying V you know Freebird Fucking Rules!

Uh, maybe without lyrics, and just the last jamming part extended for about 10 minutes.  Then, a killer take of "Green Grass and High Tides" by the Outlaws.

[thebigbang]

Freebird has lyrics????

Uh, maybe without lyrics, and just the last jamming part extended for about 10 minutes.  Then, a killer take of "Green Grass and High Tides" by the Outlaws.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

yeah, pretty slow at the start and the lyrics just sound depressing...then, the killer ending kicks in at about the 5 minute mark and goes for at least another 4 minutes...just about rock perfection if you look past the lyrics, the slow part, the fact that it's Skynrd, and the Neil Young thingy.

[marktwain]

"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me..."
and so forth.

If you ask me (which no one has), I would much rather hear Simple Man.

I heard that Neil and the Skynyrd boys were actually friendly, and that wrote "Southern Man" hoping he could convince Skynyrd to record it.

[Erik Koral]

Phish does the best Freebird EVER.  All acapella, even the guitar wailing parts.  

[MMJ_fanatic]

that must have been a sight to see :D

[sweatboard]

Phish does the best Freebird EVER.  All acapella, even the guitar wailing parts.  

My friend does the same damn thing everytime it comes on the radio.  He's actually really good, there's no telling how many hours he spent practicing it.

[Chills]

mmm, this kinda puzzles me. Danny Cash saying he'll punch the first one who requests Freebird in the face and now this?? Don't get me wrong, i like Freebird and i think MMJ likes it too, but they did seem to be fed up with critics only comparing them with Skynyrd or Neil Young because everyone else did and were to lazy to actually listen for themselves.

This kinda thing will only corner them more into that 'Southern Rock'thing. Or maybe this is one big (inside)joke, i wouldn't be surprised.

[MMJ_fanatic]

my point exactly, I am disappointed

[corey]

I think it'll be kinda neat to hear MMJ do "Freebird". Yeah, it's cliche', but we haven't seen the film so it may be some big set-up that we're missing.

A little OT here... The Drive-By Truckers have a song called "Ronnie and Neil" on their album, "Southern Rock Opera". It's about how Ronnie VanZant and Neil Young were actually friends and that their feud was just in song.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

again, the mantra "exposure" needs to be said here...imagine millions of theater go-er's seeing MMJ on the big screen.  short of full on gay monkey porn (not that there's anything wrong with that), why should we object?

[MMJ_fanatic]

again, the mantra "exposure" needs to be said here...imagine millions of theater go-er's seeing MMJ on the big screen.  short of full on gay monkey porn (not that there's anything wrong with that), why should we object?

I guess you're right, I just think somethin of their own would create just as good an impression if not a bigger one ;)

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

true that, but like any other movie, they're probably bound by what the director dictates...in this case, it's Skynrd.

I'm not for certain, but isn't this movie set in the 70s?  kinda hard to have an MMJ tune playin' when they boys weren't but tiny tots in the late 70s... :)

Sure, I'd freakin' LOVE to have them star in their own biography, or long video, or as the Champions of Louisville Rock in "The Louisville Scene:  Why rock still matters".  But let's face it, this is CAMERON CROWE, so it's allllllllllllll good.