Madison Square Garden, New Year's Eve

[MyLifeISought]

Heard this from a source familiar with MSG dealings, who accurately passed on the dates of Pearl Jam's shows there, among several others. Yes, you may have heard it here first: My Morning Jacket will (hopefully) headline Madison Square Garden on New Years Eve.

[The DARK]

OH. MY. GOD.

This would be the most legendary show ever. I hope this is true...

[getinthevan]

People are going to throw a fit that you have leaked this here.  Ha.

But seriously, that would be pretty damn cool.  I wouldn't be there, but that could be the perfect ending to what's shaping up to be a huge year for them.

[bridget]

Heard this from a source familiar with MSG dealings, who accurately passed on the dates of Pearl Jam's shows there, among several others. Yes, you may have heard it here first: My Morning Jacket will (hopefully) headline Madison Square Garden on New Years Eve.

Seriously? The capacity of MSG is 20,000...

That's a lot.

Am I completely out of the loop here? I know they've gotten more popular, but THIS much more popular?

Last major tour they were in 3K ish capacity venues. Red Rocks is just shy of 10K...

I was kinda hoping we'd get a year or so of Red Rocks/Greek Theater size venues.

I feel like my head's kinda spinning.

[MyLifeISought]

Some bands who play MSG couldn't sell out a similar place anywhere else; keep in mind that Interpol played the Garden last year, while touring much smaller places elsewhere. The White Stripes sold the place out while otherwise touring theaters. And Wilco headlined the Garden for NYE in 2004, as did the Black Crowes in 2005. MMJ seems to be about as big of a draw as Interpol, the Crowes, and Wilco by now.
I think this is feasible. And I trust the source.

[Penny Lane]

you wouldn't toy w/me, would you!!!!?????

[alexzbik]

i hope this is true, i saw the same rumor on PT yesterday.

[pingybrown]

Wilco AND the Flaming Lips together...that was the NYE show.

[MyLifeISought]

Wilco AND the Flaming Lips together...that was the NYE show.

And Sleater-Kinney, if i remember correctly.

[pingybrown]

Wilco AND the Flaming Lips together...that was the NYE show.

And Sleater-Kinney, if i remember correctly.

you did. my bro was at this show.

[JerseyDan]

also remember depending upon the "degree of the stage" (PM me for explaination) capacity in any arena can vary. i have worked at the Wachovia Center for years and capacity varies from 14,000-19,500...i'm sure MSG goes from 12,000-18,000 in my mind...still massive, but seriously the 7,000 tickets for RCMH sold in under 10 minutes, the math works!

[CTdeadhead]

The way tickets sold for RCMH why wouldn't this be possible.  I was thinking the Fillmore again, this would be amazing.  OAR at MSG is running on TV lately.  It surprised me that OAR is big enough to play MSG and MMJ always bills above them on festivals.  

[evil horn]

was at the NYE show discussed.  it wasn't the wrap around seats behind the stage configuration (a lot of bands that could don't sell seats behind the stage - radiohead, roger waters), but it was packed.

after a taped Auld Lang Syne (MMJ would do a killer Auld Lang Syne, I bet) and acappella happy birthday serenade to Glen Kotche, Wilco lanched into the best group of covers I've ever seen a big band do in one show. Tweedy joked that we "paid $50 for a bar band".

first song after midnight was Judas Priest' "Livin' After Midnight" and then followed with a great cover of Captain and Tennielle's "Love Will Keep Us Together". then went to cover Randy Newman's "Political Science" and The Band's "I Shall Be Released" and Thunderclap Newman's "Something In The Air". such fun. they ended up playing for another for 45 minutes and covered B.O.C.'s "Don't Fear The Reaper", Devo's "Gut Feeling(Slap Yo Mammy)" and Charles Wright's "Comment".

such a happy way to ring in the year. would be awesome to do it again.

[buymycar]

and The Band's "I Shall Be Released"

I think Bob Dylan would disagree with you there.

[evil horn]

ha, you're right, of course. mistake was a combination of PWI and the fact that Tweedy sang it in the falsetto style of Manuel.

but as long as we're talking about it, I think The Band released the song first.

[Penny Lane]

you're right--BD wrote it and it was on their first album---