Stubb's Anyone?

[BH]

Bueller?

[Dpeeps]

Cant speak in way of setlists, but I will have pics and video available towards the end of the day!! It was an amazing show. Jim dug the Stubb's setting!!

[puffertex]

i'm trying to put the pieces back together from last night but here is the "setlist" in the best order i can manage

one big holiday - left the stage after a "thank you good night" and all band members arm-in-arm bow to the crowd...haha

at dawn
lowdown!!!!!
wonderful man
just one thing!!!!!
gideon
off the record
phone went west!!!!!
wordless chorus
it beats 4u
dondante
xmas curtain
honest man
lay low
run thru (think they sandwiched something in between ?)
they ran ? i can't remember exactly what they closed with

celebrate
steam engine!!!!!!
golden
mahgeetah
anytime

that's all i got for now, i know i'm missing a few...someone help me out here.

they rocked it!

[HailHailPJ]

yeah it was an unreal environment.. i have tons of great pics and video as well

they come out and play OBH and they all come to the middle of the stage bow and say thank you for coming etc like the show was over.. it was classic.. go off stage for a bit and come back.. jim says i guess you want more

the first set was SUPER long.. i was starting to think maybe there was a curfew and they were going to have to cut it off at 11 bc they hit the stage at 920 and the main set didn't end till a bit after 11.. but of course they came back out and kept on rocking!!

sweet environment as well-- JIM loved the trees and was talking about the meteor shower at the end

wax fang said the Austin crowd was a lot better than dallas.. oh well

[ycartrob]

they come out and play OBH and they all come to the middle of the stage bow and say thank you for coming etc like the show was over.. it was classic.. go off stage for a bit and come back.. jim says i guess you want more

that rocks! I love those guys.

[bridget]

Okay, how does this go... long time listener, first time caller?  I just wrote this and then came over to the boards to post and now other reviews have been posted as well - so some some of these details will be repeats - sorry!

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The Austin show was, of course, fantastic. I've seen MMJ 4 times now and this was by far the most energy I've ever seen out of the guys. They started with OBH, tore through it, then all five of the guys walked to the front of the stage, towels on their necks Elvis style, arm in arm, took a collective bow, and walked off stage – all the way off – to the backstage. All buzzing and laughing, the crowd chanted "One more song!" over and over 'til the band came back out and Jim said, "Sounds like y'all want some more!" If this wasn't an outdoor venue, I'd say they blew the doors off the place, but they just rocked the f*ck out for 2 ½ hours. And whoever said before that they've noticed that Carl rocks a lot harder these days is totally right. All the guys were freaking out, but a pleasant surprise was when Jim would just walk to the very front of the stage, hair out of his face, and just smile out at the crowd. That was a first in all my many shows.

Let's see... Stubb's is maybe my favorite venue in Austin. Fantastic sight lines and trees around the edges and just always a great Austin-y vibe. Jim said he loved the courtyard aspect of it and felt like we'd all just wandered out of the forest and happened upon them playing there. He talked about the meteor shower that was supposed to happen last night... I don't have the setlist, but all the hits were there – OBH, Gideon, Dondante, Run Thru, Steam Engine, Low Down, Off the Record, They Ran, Magheeta... The encore was 7 songs I think – LOVE that! On top of which, we have a pretty strict sound ordinance curfew (of 11pm) downtown and the guys shot that all to hell. LOVE that too! I'd like to hear from someone else's account, but I felt like the crowd was singing along VERY loudly, which I thought was super-cool – but it may just have been the people around me.

I don't know what else to say – I live in Austin and grew up on live music and I feel like you can never encapsulate the live experience with blurbs like this, but I've been lurking on these boards forever and always love to read other people's accounts, so there ya go – I'm sure I'll think of more details later...

Still smiling. I miss 'em already.

[Immy65]

My Morning Jacket
Stubb's Bar-B-Q, Austin, TX, November 18th, 2006
by Immy65

It was shortest gig in My Morning Jacket history. Almost. After a perfectly suspenseful pause once the roadies had made the set perfectly functionable, My Morning Jacket came crashing out with all their sparkle and spangle, thundering through their one song, bringing it to its roaring and almost interminable end. The band then came to the front of the stage, pretending to be winded, towel-clad, bidding "Good night!" with several rounds of "Thank you Austin!"

They then left the stage.

The assembly, for the most part, got the joke. There was a barrage of applause and laughter while one young man near me barked how lame that was. But a large section of the crowd farcically started chanting, "One more song! One more song!" and "Encore!! Encore!!" Morning Jacket then came back out and continued to play for the better part of three hours.

As with all the truly great live bands, it takes a few songs for them to truly warm up, but once they have, MMJ are unsurpassed in their ability to convey emotion, elation, nuance, exuberance and joy. Swooping from style to style, pedal steel laden ballads to reggae, 12-bar blues to techno—the sounds they create are really none of those things yet all of those things. They don't really sound like anything or anybody else and yet you hear all these influences clearly.

Their lyrics are impressionistic and even though it is difficult to discern exactly what those lyrics are, they will take you on some sort of peregrination. And oh boy, what peregrinations! If you just let go of any ideas of where you want to go, they will take you wherever... let them take you, you will somehow know that you will return safely and find yourself smiling broadly.

These seem to be truly sweet young men, and delightfully handsome despite the abundant whiskers with which all but one are in varying degrees adorned. They are partly Grizzly Adams or even something out of Deadwood and part squeezy toy. They look like genuinely kind, blissful, humorous and silly people. Silly in the good sense, light-hearted and devoid of arrogance and self-importance. They are Peter Pan meets Neil Young and Crazy Horse or, if you prefer, Spinal Tap meets The Muppet Show.

They play with such commitment and love for the flight and the soar. To experience them live is to go on a glimmering journey of sound and light, emotion and spirit. At one point last night, singer and guitar player Jim James told the story of Masuro Emoto's experiments where he tapes words to bottles of water. The water seems to transmute on an almost atomic level, somehow reflecting the nature of the words taped to them. A label of "F*ck you" will turn the water's molecules black and ugly. The bottles marked "I love you" crystallize into beautiful, snowflake-like microcosms. James then says, in a way that could be really very corny and in the "oh please" territory of cringe-worthy, new age blah blah blah but pulls it off with grace, sincerity and high spirits, "You guys are like a river and I wanna be that "I love you" bottle of water, flowing through. I want to keep that in mind when I'm playing." You know, love in, love out. You get what you give.

It was a magical evening as it always is with "The Jacket". It is always a pleasure and always a wonder of ebullience, buoyancy and jubilation.

Their new live record is called Okonokos. While contemplating what that word could possibly mean on their official forum, one person put forth this definition:

O-ko-no-kos (n)- a state of being in which the human soul transcends space and time through a sense auditory nirvana ; said state is reached when the pure power of rock and roll is so intense and spiritual that it can no longer be perceived by the eardrums and must be heard using only the heart.  

See also: "eargasm," euphoria, enlightenment, My Morning Jacket

Amen to that.

[megisnotreal]

Their new live record is called Okonokos. While contemplating what that word could possibly mean on their official forum, one person put forth this definition:

O-ko-no-kos (n)- a state of being in which the human soul transcends space and time through a sense auditory nirvana ; said state is reached when the pure power of rock and roll is so intense and spiritual that it can no longer be perceived by the eardrums and must be heard using only the heart.  

See also: "eargasm," euphoria, enlightenment, My Morning Jacket

Amen to that.

Ha. I totally wrote that!

I wish I had seen this show. Stubb's is one of my favorite venues--ever.

[CC]

first pics are UP!

[laxican]

I went to the show last night. Made the drive from Corpus and was blown away. I do have a few negative comments though.

---Not loud enough
---The audience (some) seemed intent on talking over the band during the shows more (deliberatly) quiet moments.
---Stubbs didn't seem like the best place to showcase a band like this. Perhaps an ampitheatre?

Other than that is was stellar. Good set list, GREAT energy and it felt like they could have played forever. I've never been to Stubbs before, so if some of my comments are off base, fill me in.

[bridget]

hey laxican - how far back were you?

I always feel like in any outdoor venue, if you hang back, you might as well be playing the cd in your backyard - people will be talking/sound 'll be weird... We were about 20' from the stage and my boyfriend would go get a beer and come back and comment on how weird it was to go just 30' off to the side and back - like walking in and out of a bubble, like 2 different shows were going on - casual fans in back, diehards in front. Because everyone around us was singing at the top of their lungs (in a good way) and if it'd been any louder I honestly think my eardrums would have exploded. They physically ache today... I'm bummed it wasn't a better Stubb's experience for you...

[laxican]

Thanks for the heads up. Being a shorter dude up front was not the best place for me. I tried getting in a couple of times only to have some one taller right in front of me.  I eventually moved to the middle, right where the 'hill' starts.

This being my first MMJ  show, I wanted the total experience. So seeing them was just as important as hearing them.

Next time, I'm going to stay put up front.

Appreciate the help.

[HailHailPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vNoS5A4hB8

a few more videos to come-- this one was not the best but the next one is pretty sweet

a lot of pics sent to the gallery hopefully they will be up later

[HailHailPJ]

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

ill try to add some more vids tomorrow

here are a couple of pics as well

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65411613@N00/?saved=1

[bridget]

PJ - those are fantastic! Thank you so much.

[Immy65]

Oh god! That first photo is my new desktop background! Thanks!!  :o

[HailHailPJ]

PJ - those are fantastic! Thank you so much.

thanks-- i added a few more

did anyone run into Jim at Stubb's the restaurant part? i saw him in there a few hours before the show

also i was a little worried that 4 nights in a row could be rough but you would have never known the guys had played 3 shows in 2 different cities leading up to Stubb's

[foggy]

does anyone have a complete setlist for this show?  I know someone's already posted most of it, but is there a certain setlist around?  thanks, and this show was amazing by the way.

[Dpeeps]

Here is the link for my pics:

http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/TXbywayofMS/

Here are the links for my vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xoTRXmt4fk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mluF9xzjrig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuYZnoFdPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8sgFBo81o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVaLkuoV6i4

There is a couple of more still processing.
ENJOY!!

[JohnnyRage]

I was a little disappointed in the Austin show.

Not fromt the Band and not at all from the set. The set was amazing and any band that is headlining in Austin, Tx wants to put on a great show.

But this was my first time to Stubbs. We arrived just as Wax Fang was ending and were able to walk around the crowd to the left side of the stage and up the steps. We secured a good area between the center and left of the stage about 40-50ft from the stage.

40-50ft was extremely close considering the size of the venue and the crowd.

HOWEVER, if you are able to have conversatioins with your friends, or if you are able to hear the conversation of others with very little effort, then the volume of the band isn't cranked up.

Now again, I was pretty close to the stage. I don't think that being at an outside venue had as much to do with it as maybe some of the Austin city ordinances that exist around stubbs.

There are a few residential houses that some how exist near stubbs. As mentioned, I think they have to end shows by a certain time, and I think there was an outdoor decibal law that was passed a couple of years ago.

For the Friday and Thurs shows at the Gypsy Tea Room, my ears were literally ringing into the early afternoon the next day. I understand that this is not a good thing for my hearing. But they rocked it out so hard on friday and that was also reflected in the shear electric energy being pumped out of the PA system.

Stubbs was much different, and casual fans and persons not within 20ft of the stage (in a venue that probably stretches 900 ft, didn't get to experience the sonic boom of an MMJ show.

Just my thoughts.

So I would order the shows:

Friday Gypsy Tea Room (did not play Steam Engine listed in the enchore)
Saturday Stubbs (Beautiful set and effort from band, but lacking in rocking loudness)
Thursday Gypsy Tea Room (felt a litte like a warm up gig for Friday, held off on a few songs, but played some other beautes as well)