LET'S ALL MOVE TO LOUISVILLE, FUCK, OH GOD!!!!!!!!

[songdiver]

I got back to my home of now, Fort Wayne, Indiana, around 7pm today, after getting my fucking face melted off, being reborn, rejoicing with thousands of others, realizing once again that we are all one, watching the skies part and melt and digitize and reach out for me, and now I have finally come down enough to put something on here that might make sense to someone who wasn't at the Louisville show...

I am moving to Louisville within the next year; I have to.  I left such a big part of my soul there that I think I should live in the same area so I can go and visit it daily and celebrate.  Are you fucking serious?!  If you were at this show and it wasn't the best thing you have ever encountered then you have no connection to the human race, the only race we know; anyone who was there knows how face-melting it was, and was probably reborn (I was), and felt the energy that made 10,000 people elevate above the ground.  No words can even come close to the feeling of this show; even Jim was totally in that zone/force field of pure fucking joy.

After like 1 million lifetimes' worth of liberation and happiness, the crowd was freaking out and cheering like I've never heard, and at the same moment the whole audience needed a breather...Jim stops...and out of nowhere/out of a trance WE were all feeling, Jim says: "Holy Shit," and the audience was feeling the same thing and errupted from the life-changing trance of rebirth!!!!!!  We all felt that!

Everyone around me felt it.  I kept moving around the audience...I was beside people my age (I'm 28) -they were freaking out, and I remember listening to "LAY LOW" and the guy next to me was fist-pumping along with me, screaming with me "here it comes, here it comes..." and JIM grabbed his GUITAR and fucks up my brain and we are freaking out and head-banging, and when it's over the guy next to me says..."it doesn't get any better than this," and we were all on the same page.  

And then I moved out to the open areas in the lawn, b/c my girlfriend (Lindy) needed some air before we entered the dragon again, and I saw people completely destoyed already from MMJ's power and energy, lying on the fucking dirt, face-down with uncontrollable excitement, then I took Lindy to the potty (which was fun and funny because I was dancing like a crazy person in the bathroom lines and looking back at the stage and it felt like I was watching OKONOKOS on a small tv set...THAT WAS FUCKING TRIPPY) so then..

So we entered the beast again...AND I WAS READY TO BE LIFTED FAR UP INTO THE SKY...and it was amazing what I saw...to the left of me I saw a man that was in his mid-50s drinkin' some beers, and he was fist-pumping and freaking out like he was 18 and seeing the Beatles and Elvis and Dylan and Neil Young and Pink Floyd and the Beach Boys at the same time...What the fuck?!(I was doing the same)

Then I walked up some more and looked around me...to the left was a group of young girls and a bunch of moms and dads who were all totally tweaking out with HUGE eyes and getting their minds blown to bits, and then I see this other guy in his 60s or older getting his face melted off and singing to the songs, and I'm screaming and looking over at my girlfriend and she is in total shock at what we are witnessing... and then we look around and every-single-person-that-we-look-at is dancing their fucking asses off and going crazy, and then I go up more and see this boy around 10 years of age freaking out, going nuts with eyes the size of Kentucky, and his dad screams out: "DO YOU WANT TO GET ON MY SHOULDERS?" and the kid is immediately on his dad's shoulders and he is freaking out as much as me and we are are screaming and in a state of pure joy, as I take out my joint and smoke it with my girlfriend, and there is a collective trance that seemed to make over 10,000 people go some place we've never been before.  

It kept building, and building, and building, and the encore was so fucking intense I didn't even know what to do... I have never felt so liberated from every restraint; I am somewhat shy, but I was screaming, howling, freaking out in general, squeezing my girlfriend, hopping up and down, high fives, dance moves, extreme clapping, imploding, face melting and yelling out crazy shit about my face melting and how this is the greatest thing in the history of the world and everybody was feeling the same way, jus total happiness and freedom.

I was at Bonnaroo 2006, and yes MMJ fucking ruled, and I've been to many other concerts, but there is just simply no other band ever that has been able to elevate an audience in this way just using the greatness of the music, and this was MMJ's best show, and what is really freaky is that they might not even be at their peak.  I am almost scared at what they might do in the future.

Normally, at a show I consider great, I will experience anywhere from 1 to 5 moments in which I feel moved to the point where I think something along the lines of "that was amazing," but at this EVENT I experienced at least 100-200 moments where I was moved to the point of severe happiness.  I don't even know if I slepted last night...no, I didnn't, I just kept seeing smoke and flashing lights with JIM JAMES peaking in and out of my thoughts while he was completely fucking shredding and destoying on his guitar...keeping me awake...I have not slept since the night before the night of the show, and the energy just kept me going while I was trying to sleep, on the 4-hr car ride home, and all of tonight until now when I was telling everying in Fort Wayne that they have to go to a MMJ concert in Chicago or Columbus, OH...I don't care if they aren't fans or don't know about them, there is a reason why MMJ fans are more passionate and connected to the music than anyone else in the world...It's because if you ever go to at least one show, or maybe the right MMJ show... you will feel so much joy that you almost won't even know how to control it...until you realize that there is just so much joy that is is impossible to control, so you let it out until it is around us all and we collectively embrace in the unity of elevated love.

MMJ kept building the whole show, until alien spaceships came down and took them away... and at some point in the middle, Jim started in on quantum physics, and discussed how every moment we are alive, we are living in that moment forever, and we will basically always remain in that moment, in Louisville, KY, August 16th, 2008, forever, and Jim let us know that the moment would be with us all for the rest of our lives and that we would remain in that moment till the end of time, but in the vacuum of time, we shall remain until we decide to turn it off...BUT LET US NEVER TURN IT OFF, b/c it works.

LAY LOW!THE WAY THAT HE SINGS!DONDANTE!TOUCH ME PT 2!HIGHLY SUSPISCIOUS?!STEAM ENGINE!COBRA!DANCE FLOORS!RUN THRU!ONE BIG HOLIDAY! I might have heard 20 million songs during the trance and seen the future (yes, I did) but it's hard to remember right now; it will piece itself together in the days to come)

I love all of you, good night, and I want to see us all together again.

[TheBigChicken]

now tell us how you REALLY felt :) :D

[kymomandstuff]

Right on songdiver!You nailed it as well as words can nail an experience that's both physical and spiritual.The more I think about the music I realize it really wasn't music at all but more like magic.I guess it's no coincidence the two words sound so much alike.This was pure unadulterated sex for the soul with a continuous wave of pleasure and enlightenment tingling the top of your head and levitating your feet until you saw the face of God.I wonder if the band knows what they did to us?Hell I wonder if WE even know what they did to us?I sure hope we pleasured them back in the same ridiculous vibratory fashion they showered upon us for three hours.Moving to Louisville sounds like a plan to me.We could all set up tents on the now sacred ground of Waterfront Park and never leave.We'll call ourselves the enlightened ones and we'll jam to the jacket for all eternity feeling one big eternal mindgasm forever.
Well,at least a girl can dream. ;)

[Penny Lane]

 :) wow--sounds like you were really moved! i love reading stories like this. thanks for sharing.

[songdiver]

no, seriously, let's all move to Louisville

[YouAre_GivenToFly]

Maybe it was the perfect weather. Or the perfect venue. Or the gorgeous sunset & the bridge and skyline all lit up. Or the nice people. Or the sky full of glowsticks. Or the indescribeable concert and crowd.

Louisville was fucking perfect. I'll be back.

[Penny Lane]

no, seriously, let's all move to Louisville

yeah i'm down for that. anywhere where there is less people and more grass

[buaawwww]

no, seriously, let's all move to Louisville

yeah i'm down for that. anywhere where there is less people and more grass

mmmmmmmmmmm... grass.

[Kris]

blue grass.

:P

[easy way]

my grass is blue.