Knoxville Experience (Yes, I was there)

[cfloyd3]

How else did it go for everyone?  I felt like I was watching a band in there prime at there fuckin' absolute best.  It felt great.  My body went numb at about the 80 minute mark and I just went into convulsions for the rest.  Jim really seemed to be enjoying himself, some jump kicks, complimenting the audience, and alot more.  The band was on fire, Patrick got a drum solo going there.  Tommy was into it too.  The venue is so superb obviously that it just really felt like a wall of sound sometimes.  Save the Sunsphere.

Jim did some amazing new things.  Ninja kick during I think Dancefloors.  He did the break down yell during THEY RAN like Van Morrison would do during Cyprus Ave. in his heyday and threw the mic down and walked off the stage.  I think I'm the only one who knew that.

They played (not in order and probably missing some)

Gideon
What A Wonderful Man
Dancefloors (WACKA WACKA)
Phone Went West (GREAT)
Wordless Chorus
One Big Holiday
Off The Record
Nashville To Kentucky
Old Sept. Blues
Mahgeetah
Golden
I Will Sing You Songs
Anytime
Lay Low (WOW, I got my face blasted off with this one this time, the Tennessee Theater was a fuckin' rockin' for this one.  I saw Blue Cats front row for 2 shows and didn't get rocked out like this)
THEY RAN (the HIGHLITE)
Dondante
RUN THRU (rocked my ass off hard again)

I was going to take great pictures from Orch Row D but my camera some reason fuckin' turned on its auto-focus light which I had turned off but apparently didn't save in my settings during my photos and I got told to put it away.  I wasn't getting into any shit and missing The Jacket over photos.  I have about 4 or 5 lame ones I will post here in a minute.  Early day at work too, hope to hear some great stories.  

[megisnotreal]

Phone Went West?

Old September Blues?

AHH! Why didn't I go to this show?

[cfloyd3]

Here's some of the photos, pretty lame I am aware.  I cropped out the heads so they are strange sizes.  Heads in photos, blah.  Yes, instead of owls there are now wooly mammoths.  Very dapper vest/dress shirt combo on Jim here tonight.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10688568@N00/?saved=1

[BH]

Thanks for the report floyd.  Quick stuff for us jealous folk at home watching acoustic chorale.

Tracy?  Brian?  I think you got a nice setlist there fellas... ;)  I hope your still alive for more reports.

[TheWeave83]

i don't remember the order of the setlist either, but i know they definitely opened with "the bear."  the show was badass to say the least!

[HailHailPJ]

thanks for the report-- any idea how long they played for.. and remember what they closed with?

[dmbariola]

well i can officially say that my first MMJ show was an amazing experience. not a show, but an experience.i loved it and they opened with the song i wanted to hear the most.

[Anu]

Thanks for posting right after the show!  

Great for us insomniacs piping the Jacket on our headphones.

Nashville is now that much closer.

[tobeyoung1214]

This show was amazing. Easily my favorite show of theirs that I have seen. Here are some pics from the show:

http://flickr.com/photos/18635017@N00/sets/72157594370016491/

[cfloyd3]

They played around 2 hours for us.  

Great, I just slept for 2 hours now I can't sleep anymore.  Great photos Tobe, what I planned on doing and didn't get accomplished.  Thanks.

[ultravisitor]

Nice to see Jim wearing something new!

[dragonboy]

This show was amazing. Easily my favorite show of theirs that I have seen. Here are some pics from the show:

http://flickr.com/photos/18635017@N00/sets/72157594370016491/

Thanks for the pics, I love the 3rd to last one of Carl  :)

[Mr. T.]

This show was amazing. Easily my favorite show of theirs that I have seen. Here are some pics from the show:

http://flickr.com/photos/18635017@N00/sets/72157594370016491/

Damn fine pictures!!! I love the crows on Patrick's drums, I love the mammoth on the amp, I love Jim's suit (Classy). It all looks mighty good!

And the setlist: Oh my god what a setlist.... :o

[dragonboy]

I love the crows on Patrick's drums

I missed those, cheers Mr. T  :)

Are you 100% sure they're crows though? They could be rooks or even (god forbid)....ravens? Maybe Patrick is a closet Edgar A. Poe fan?
Let's turn this over to the forum's resident ornithologist Ratsprayer...Rats, any thoughts?

[Mr. T.]

I missed those, cheers Mr. T  :)

Are you 100% sure they're crows though? They could be rooks or even (god forbid)....ravens? Maybe Patrick is a closet Edgar A. Poe fan?
Let's turn this over to the forum's resident ornithologist Ratsprayer...Rats, any thoughts?

You got me thinking Dragonboy. I'm a little bit of an ornithologist myself and I guess you're right. Crows are smaller than ravens, and these black birds on the drums are actually quite big. So I'm going for ravens.

Maybe Patrick himself might come over here and shed a light on this burning issue...

[dragonboy]

Maybe Patrick himself might come over here and shed a light on this burning issue...

You think so?!!
Then I'm never going off-line, I fucking love Patrick!!! !!!

[Mr. T.]

Everything you always wanted to know about ravens and crows (but were afraid to ask)!

From:

http://www.angelfire.com/id/ravensknowledge/ravensvscrows.html

Ravens Versus Crows

When I speak of ravens or crows to people, often they want to know what difference exists between the two. Usually, they know of a size difference, but want to know how else to differentiate the two. Therfore below, are listed some of the defining physical differences, social/behavioral deffences, as well as some expert thoughts and perceptions on the American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) and common raven (Corvus corax).

"To get at the mind of a crow is a great challenge, but to get in the mind of a raven, as I found in living with one for a year, is an even greater one. Ravens are, to enthusiasts like myself, at the top of the avian pyramid in mental attributes."

-L. Kilham from "The American Crow and Common Raven"

"Given the tendency of corvids to be large, intelligent, adaptable, ground-foraging birds independent of trees, it is probably only a slight exaggeration to say that the raven (C. corax) is the ultimate Corvid. If so, it is also at the top of the most species-rich and rapidly evolving line of the birds. Is is the ne plus ultra of up-and-comming birds."

-Bernd Heinriech from "Ravens in Winter"

Physical Differences: Crows average around 17 inches long, and ravens about 24-27.

A raven weighs about four times that of a crow.
Crows have a wing span around 2.5 ft., and ravens about 3.5-4 ft.
A raven's wing sometimes makes a prominent "swish, swish" sound, while a crow's wingbeat is usually silient.
Ravens have pointed wings, while crows have a more blunt and splayed wing tip.
Crows have a fan-shaped tail (squared-off), while raven tails are long and wege-shaped.
Besides having a bigger, more powerful bill, a raven's bill is curved, while a crow has a more-or-less flat bill. Additionally, atop a raven's bill is a tuft of hairs absent on crows.
As a result of being larger and more powerful, ravens are the more efficient predator. (Predation is a very small percentage of crow and raven diets.)
Range/adaptive skills: While both crows and ravens have experienced persecution in the eastern United States, the crow managed to adapt and increase in numbers, while the ravens greatly declined (although recently the raven is making a comeback in places like Maryland). B.Heinriech says this may be due, in part, to the raven's propensity to reuse nest sites, which are easy to find and destroy. Additionally, ravens, utilizing carrion more than crows, probably disappeared along with the wolves and buffalo. Poisons to rid wolves from the landscape also contributed. Agriculture, however, increased in the east, increasing the crow's food base and ability to increase in numbers.

Crows are more at home in the urban landscape, given their ability to be more socially inclined than ravens.
Diet: While both are commited to being vociferous omnivores, ravens are drawn to carrion (especially sheep), while crows may be less picky.

Ravens probably find food faster in the wild, considering anecdotes from tappers about how fast ravens could find the carrion in their traps.
Vocalizations: For the sake of basic reference, a crow's call is a "caw" and a raven's is a low and slow croak.

Crows exhibit at least two dozen differnt calls, while ravens can express themselves with 20-100's of different vocalizations, depending on the expert cited.
Interspecies relations/behavior: L.Kilham, from The American Crow and the Common Raven (1989)wrote that he observed ravens repeatedly chasing crows from a feeding station, always resulting in the crow dropping the cache. This would unnerve th crows to no-end; causing them to gather at a roost and caw vehemently, yet they still repeated the cycle.

Jollie (1976) stated that ravens seldomly attack crows because crows can outmaneuver and outclimb them. However, Kilham observed the opposite to be true at the New Hampshire farm study site, where the ravens outmaneuvered the crows in the forest and well as in the open.
Kilham observed crows doing fewer jump-backs when approaching food. Ravens are more cautious or less audacious. (Jump-backs are reactions that crows and ravens do in times of caution, possibly testing for a reaction from the possible food source.) Furthermore, Conner (1975) noted that ravens would not approach a landfill until there were at least four crows present. After awhile if no crows were present, they would use their own lookouts. Several accounts exist of ravens using crows as their sentinels.
While subjective, limited, and hard to extrapolate from, Kilham's hand-raised raven liked being indoors much more than the hand-raised crow. Additionally, h noted that the raven liked low place (chairs, counters) while the crow liked higher spots such such as atop a door.
Ravens at times will fly wing-to-wing with their mate, with the females just below the males.
Science: Bernd Heinrich, an academic field biologist, spent four consecutive winters at a cabin in Maine watching ravens at feed stations, attempting to fill-in a piece of the puzzle to a question concerning an obvious paradox he witnessed with the ravens. The question that pervaded his mind occured while he was doing some work on bees: He had observed ravens at a carcass "sharing" the prized meat and wondered why a pair of ravens would not defend such a prize at a time when meat supply was scarce. The logical, and proper evolutionary response would seem contrary, with the discovers indignantly fending-off other prospective takers.
After his four winters of observation and eperimentation, he learned that the raven's (unmated juveniles) possibly "recruit" others to a food source because, by sharing with others it gains "friends," from which it may gain a mate from in the future due to its foraging abilities. While mated pairs are more-or-less anchored to their localized nesting area; low status juveniles are left to form wondering unmated "gangs." Thus, mated pairs would not benifit from "recruiting" others to a food source, and likewise, juveniles are careful not to tip-off dominant mated adults.

More information can be obtained from Ravens in Winter, by Bernd Heinrich (1989).

Email: tkarki@hotmail.com

[sweatboard]

First of all I have to give it up to the people in charge of the lighting.  It was the best light show I've seen for a concert ever.  Someone said "a wall of sound" and that's exactly what it was.  The Tn Theater was packed to capacity and it was ROCKING!  I was really impressed with the crowd.  At one point audience members unleashed a bunch of balloons and blow up sea creatures that were being bounced around the Audience, Trey got to take one of the sea creatures home.  Tracy and L.A. got a setlist and autographed it for me, It's hanging on my refrigerator.  My wife said it was her favorite show music wise yet.  It's true they are on fire.  It's true that we should protect our sunsphere.  It was a beutiful concert and they played "Rollin Back"  

Set List

The Bear - Great way to start the show and fully unexpected
Lowdown
Gideon
Off The Record
Wonderful Man
O is the one - Holy shit Jim let loose on this one
Rollin Back
Wordless Chorus - Crowd singing the outro to it's full extent
Phone Went West - Me shitting my pants
Lay Low - My hair actually being blown right off of my head
Don Dante - Just when you thought he was going to end the solo we got and extra two min. of guitar bliss.
One Big Holliday - Crowd losses their colective minds
Dancefloors - I had to piss damnit but I'm sure it rocked
Run Thru - You know how this one goes. :o
They Ran - Jim with no guitar, His voice was on fire

Encore-
Old. Sept Blues
Nashville To Kentucky - full band
Golden
I Will Sing You Songs - we are not worthy
Anytime - The theater is pulsating
Mahgeetah - Total euphoria

It was great seeing Tracy, L.a. Trey and Gregg I looked for you after the show but I couldn't find you I hope that wasn't you in the cop car.   ;)  

[dmbariola]

oh yea i forgot to mention that before the show we parked in a parking deck behind the theatre and we were walking up beside it and we saw a tour bus and i said to my friend, "wouldnt it be cool if jim just popped off the bus haha" and right as i said that he was standing on the corner talking to some guy.  so i walked across the street and shook his hand and briefly talked to him.  i must say it was one of the most exctiting things thats happened to me in a while. ive been a MMJ fan for a while and meeting jim james at my first show is awesome.  just thought id share that with you guys.

[roberthunter]

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3391/mmjtntheaterfb2.jpg

Here's the setlist from the drum kit.

Does anybody know if the show was taped?