Astoria - AFTER PARTY - Set list and Reviews

[Mr. T.]

Thanks dragonboy for your effort! It was great fun reading your review!

[dragonboy]

Thanks dragonboy for your effort! It was great fun reading your review!

You're very welcome Mr T  :)

[SMc55]

Wow great review dragonboy - a pleasure to read. What did Miki make of the big hair band?

[SMc55]

We are back in Croatia. Just returned from Pearl Jam Zagreb concert.

Here is my review from London. On Croatian  8)

http://www.vip.hr/sp/d_show?idc=2100208&page=&idnews=78742

Divan koncert!
I got that translated as wondrous concert. Sounds about right.  ;D

[dragonboy]

Wow great review dragonboy - a pleasure to read. What did Miki make of the big hair band?

Thanks Doc!
Miki loved the big hair & is still feeling the effects today. She fell down a couple of stairs in the venue but led me to believe it wasn't that bad & didn't hurt.
When we got back to the hotel & took her boots off I nearly went into shock! I've sprained my ankle a few times playing basketball but I swear I have never seen anything like the swelling & bruising on her foot! Goodness knows how she managed to stand let alone jump up & down...that's the magic of the Jacket I guess!

[Mr. T.]

MMJ = Christ

They make the cripple walk!

Here's hoping for a quick recovery!

[dragonboy]

MMJ = Christ

LOL!!! John Lennon got into a lot of trouble a few years back for saying something like that!  ;)
Cheers for the well wishes Mr. T, I'll pass them on!

[LaurieBlue]

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article1766673.ece

I'm SO happy for you Dragonboy!  Great review - thank you!

My Morning Jacket, Astoria, London  
By Nick Hasted
Published: 27 September 2006
My Morning Jacket are from Louisville, Kentucky, but to British ears they might as well be from another planet. They are long-haired, wide-eyed rock idealists, raised in a nation where the improvisatory boogie of doomed Seventies Southern bands such as the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd has never left the radio.

They are so addicted to touring that two founder members quit, shattered, a setback the band overcame by making their best album, last year's Z, which added reggae, funk and hip hop to their sonic stew, with the express intention of widening their audience. If the crowd tonight remains a rock one, its international make-up suggests My Morning Jacket are assuming the Grateful Dead's mantle, as underground heroes whose playing is worth pursuing across the planet.

They start with "Wordless Chorus", about a falling off of passion in daily life. The performance that follows is an answer to that malaise, with bandleader Jim James's startling voice at its core. James recorded My Morning Jacket's early records in grain silos, to gain other-worldly echoes, and reverb remains crucial to him.The Astoria isn't quite up to James's sonic perfectionist standards. If it was, his voice's piercing clarity could pin you to the wall.

"One Big Holiday" soon shows the whole band at their most focused and potent. A fast bluegrass guitar solo leads with deceptive softness into verses given pounding emphasis by Patrick Hallahan's drums, while Carl Broemel takes another guitar solo with the sexual rasp of Duane Allman's on "Layla", and James shrieks over it all.

Equally impressive is the sight of them. Heads down and sweaty long hair flailing, James, Broemel and bassist "Two-Tone" Tommy move to internal beats, while Hallahan attacks his equipment with the comic ferocity of The Muppet Show's Animal. The levels of un-ironic passion could make some cynical British viewers laugh. I do, but with pleasure at their thrilling vitality. Inevitably, there are longueurs, as the band's penchant for soloing leads them down dead ends.

But there are also moments when their improvisation hits a groove which takes you out of yourself, to a trance-like, spiritual place. By their closing brace, pint glasses are being raised to the simple, rare pleasure of rock, played with soul.

My Morning Jacket are from Louisville, Kentucky, but to British ears they might as well be from another planet. They are long-haired, wide-eyed rock idealists, raised in a nation where the improvisatory boogie of doomed Seventies Southern bands such as the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd has never left the radio.

[dragonboy]

Cheers Laurie!
Finally a review by someone who knows what he's talking about.
Thanks for posting, twice for effect?  ;)

[dragonboy]

while Hallahan attacks his equipment with the comic ferocity of The Muppet Show's Animal

I love this line, clearly this guy knows his stuff...
Quite how Patrick has a kit standing at the end of a gig is yet another MMJ miracle (they healed my crippled wife, don't you know!)
This man simply DESTROYS on the drums!!!

[SMc55]

Thanks Doc!
Miki loved the big hair & is still feeling the effects today. She fell down a couple of stairs in the venue but led me to believe it wasn't that bad & didn't hurt.
When we got back to the hotel & took her boots off I nearly went into shock! I've sprained my ankle a few times playing basketball but I swear I have never seen anything like the swelling & bruising on her foot! Goodness knows how she managed to stand let alone jump up & down...that's the magic of the Jacket I guess!

Oh no! Sorry to hear that. Give her my very best. Hope she's better really soon.

[dragonboy]

Thanks a lot Doc, I tried to take a picture of her foot but she wouldn't let me (don't tell anyone but she has very strange toes!!!)

[SMc55]

All the best people have strange toes  ;)

[Mr. T.]

Great review! Thanks!

pint glasses are being raised to the simple, rare pleasure of rock, played with soul.

I loved that line  8)

[Chills]

Cool review Dragonboy  8)

I'll sign yer "come to Japan" petition for sure!

By the way, how was the wedding?
And was the opening dance I'm Not In Love by 10CC?

[janvdpoel]

Heeeeey guys!!
Thought I'd quickly post some pictures of the gig and some of the people I met. The gig was freakishly AMAZING. It was definitely one of the best I've ever seen. All of the songs I absolutely wanted to hear were there, especially -yes- The Bear. Quite emotional moment, the song means a lot to me :-). I don't have time to write more, I'm leaving for America in just a few hours. When I have some time in a few days, I'll write some more. It was great to meet you guys: CC, Stuart, Zoran and 2 friends with weird croatian names ;-), Sore, and some more people I forgot the names of. Thanks for a great night and hopefully it occurs to me that we see each other again, someday. Cheers!

Ok, I have no clue how to post these pictures urghh. I'll post em later. Anyone who can givce me a real quick picture posting manual? Thx!!
Jan

[FrankHarrigan]

2 friends with weird croatian names ;-),

vatroslav & drazen, i think  ;D
still haven't sleep properly
still under the impression
too good...
hope to see all you beautifull people from belgium, states, norway & uk again

[CC]

chimpo lads review the show:
http://www.chimpomatic.com/reviews/review.php?id=258

[vatro]

Still doin' the solos.

[manicminer]

I have to say I rocked screamed jumped and whistled all night long ... but when Dondante came on ... I literally just stood there in silent awe.

Just that, silent awe. Wow.

I got a video of them doing Dondante at Austin City Limits which blew me away but ... live ... ouch, I think my jaw just hit the floor.