Favorite Live Moment

[kyjed48]

Meeting JJ on the streets of Asheville while he was carrying a box of pastries was very memorable.  But then, getting front row directly under him later that evening topped it off!

The entire Louisville Gardens show changed my life!  What a great night!

"F***ing Megadeath man!"
-Jim James, 11/22/06

[ms. yvon]

i love this thread in a way that some cultures find beautiful.   :D

[TheBigChicken]

i love this thread in a way that some cultures find beautiful.   :D

:-?

[TheBigChicken]

ill take 8 hours of MMJ over 3 days anytime.

YESSIR!!!!! ;D ;D

[DaFunkyPrecedent]

i meant to say, i'll take 8 hours over 3 day's of MMJ over 3 1/2 hours 1 day. but i think it got across this way, so never mind my this...god im an idiot.

Thus: NYE = best MMJ event of their career and Roo = Best exposure.  

Another thing i loved about this string of shows is ALL THE COLORS.  LOTS AND LOTS OF COLORS.  there's footage of wordless Chor on you tube from Langderado...and when the lights hit, it looks like a giant unicorn is farting out a rainbow.  it's fucking beautiful.  that must have been some surprise to all the Tre and Spread fans who just happened to stumble upon them.  

Kinda like a..."WOW, is this a magic trick?" kinda thing.  


PS.  this thread rocks - thanks for all your post.  finally one of my threads got somewhere...the last one i tried to start "what drugs do people take at MMJ shows" got deleted.  this is a big step for me.

[ms. yvon]

 ;D

for the record:  i favor the double cappuccino.   ;)

ok: golden moment from prom night 2:  during the second set, conferring with the couple to my left who'd been rocking pretty fierce up at the stage, and saying, "what do you think, run thru?"  and having the band launch into a massive run thru right there.


also:  i came across three sets of notes taken during shows (set lists scrawled on ticket envelopes, mostly).  i have them hanging up next to my desk.  brings me right back.   :D

[Chubbs McMammoth]

Saw the Jacket in Austin while just getting into them. Needless to say, BLOWN AWAY. So after getting into them way the hell more, me and my special lady friend (ehh? did you get that Lebowski reference??) decided to road trip up to Colorado for the final 2 shows of this last tour. So in Dee-inver, as Jim would say:

-During the final show, Jim broke his little E string during OBH. But being the genius that he is, he just kept right on playing flawlessly, walked up to the front of the stage during the final outro right where we were standing, playing the best improvised guitar part I've ever heard. He didn't even look at his guitar, he just gave the Jim stare to the crowd and played the baddest ass part ever. Even without the crucial little E-String, it sounded perhaps even better that the original, because it was plain to see that he just improvised it on the spot, during the climax of the song. Fucking mind blowing!!! The crowd collectively shit their pants!!

-Again during the final show, but during the encore, they brought out the other members of Elvis Perkins to play horns on Dancefloors!! Awesome already right? Well guess what happened next. Two tone broke his FAT E string on his bass, you know the biggest one, for all of you non-guitarists, which breaking one is all but unheard of. And of course, Tommy just kept right on playing, moving up to higher octaves when necessary to compensate. And when Jim saw, during the final jam out of the song, he "helped" Tommy by backing him up with guitar underneath what would normally be the licks that are only bass. And after a few bars, the horns come blasting in and the band engages in a full on, jam out with all 6 standing musicians dancing and jumping. (Pat and Bo were seated and weren't able to dance so much but they still rocked out) Truly transcendent. After the show we walked down the street and met up with Dave, their sound guy, and the guy responsible for making the best live band in the world sound the way they do!! He was awesome and even bought us beers and we talked for hours about life on the road, etc. After, we said our goodbyes, took some pictures  and made our way back to our hotel in the falling snow. It was truly one of the best nights of my life. I've heard people say before that seeing MMJ right now is akin to seeing a band like Zeppelin at their peak, and I couldn't agree more. Life changing.

[sweatboard]

Broken strings don't mean shit when you got the spirit running through your fingers.

[whothrewthecake]

Broken strings don't mean shit when you got the spirit running through your fingers.

word UP

[Chubbs McMammoth]

Amen to that.

[jeremywku]

I have already left my favorite live moment on this thread but this is somewhat in connecetion with it.  My first MMJ concert was the Ryman show, and I will never forget getting to nashville early in the afternoon to take in the historic areas of the city and low and behold, I see Jim James walking down the street down from the Ryman.  I wanted to go up to him and say hi but decided not to because I believe that its only a limited time that he can still do that and I wanted to respect that.  But still, its an MMJ moment and just a perfect coincidence in a perfect town.

[megisnotreal]

I have already left my favorite live moment on this thread but this is somewhat in connecetion with it.  My first MMJ concert was the Ryman show, and I will never forget getting to nashville early in the afternoon to take in the historic areas of the city and low and behold, I see Jim James walking down the street down from the Ryman.  I wanted to go up to him and say hi but decided not to because I believe that its only a limited time that he can still do that and I wanted to respect that.  But still, its an MMJ moment and just a perfect coincidence in a perfect town.

what about folgers, brotha?  ;) glad to see you finally joined the board.

[ratchetisfake]

one. ryman in nashville. for one, because its the ryman for godsakes, and because it was on nov. thirteenth which just so happened to be my twenty first birthday. nothing could ever top the way the music made me feel that night. plus i think the woodford reserve had something to do with that too.

two. athens ga, prom night one. i was in the front row, in front of jim. serveral times i just felt like i was in a trance. i actually got knocked in the head by the "flying v" a few times after jim and i rocked out in tandem. plus i got to be a mermaid. ive always wanted to be a mermaid. plus i had a brief convo. with tommy about corvettes and bowling green in general, and then he signed my cd cover. i also took some sick photos and they posted them on the website (here), under the gallery.

three. louisville gardens in nov. front row again, in front of carl and two tone. the opener to OBH made me think my heart was literally going to explode. i felt faint once the curtain actually dropped. ive never rocked out harder in my life. my neck was sore for days. then went to the makers mark lounge afterward and had a blast.

of course i had fun at urbana and nashville city hall, exit inn and whatnot, but these are my top three.
people in illinois do NOT know how to rock out, meg and jeremy can testify to this.