BeRKeLeY - Sept 19th, 2008 * The Greek *

[coldengrey12]

Review of last night's show here:
http://dailyrepublic.typepad.com/forthoseabouttorock/2008/09/show-time-my-mo.html

[BH]

Rollin' Back! You sons ah' bitches!  Awesome. [smiley=beer.gif]

[theymoveme]

Finally!  My first show,  sounds like i wasn't  the only one, mmj found me a couple years back.  Playin' far and few between  i kept missin'  them.  I knew the studio albums could not justify them live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tight!!!
Great VIBE. They move me, might of even shead a tear. Amazed!
    Little late to show, trucked up from santa cruz, last minute gettin' tix.

Walked in on Amazed. That's right!

  Anyone going to S. CAL/seattle? Just pondering right now, anxiously.

[mahgeetah]

Was my 6th MMJ show, and it easily took the cake. Just wish they had played two Bay Area shows. Maybe they would've had the show sold out?  

Highlights include War Begun, a smokin' Off the Record early in the show, a Dondante that just blew my fucking mind, plus all the regular face melters: Lay Low, Mahgeetah, Run Thru', and One Big Holiday.

All the new songs are sounding great too. Just an amazing unabashed rock show.  :D

[Jellyfish]

Rollin' Back! You sons ah' bitches!  Awesome. [smiley=beer.gif]

My thoughts exactly!

[Drawk]

Here's an example of the video and audio.  Video is jumpy at 1st.  Clears up and gets way better after the 1st minute.  I just chose this song cuz it was short and fast to sync and up.

I have the entire set in this quality and will be putting it up on DIME in a few weeks.

In order to get the audio to sound what I consider to be acceptable I applied the following in Final Cut:
3 Band EQ, pulling all the freq up to 100hz lower by 14db
all freqs up to 2500 and higher by 6db
all freqs up to 10k higher by 6db

running a compressor on it
tolerance set to -18db
ratio = 2
preserve volume

then boost overall sound by 3db (I had the levels too low).

Check it out 129MB streaming Quicktime file that is downloadable:
http://blip.tv/file/1279923

[loonylobo]

epic show.  lots of bass

2 of the friends i brought said it was the best show they ever been to; better than slayer even.

...Even better than Slayer!!!  You don't say!!   ;) Now I feel redeemed...Yeah, the boys can rock...And that JJ...quite a ham, ain't he?! Bitch'n show.... but Patrick needs to mic up his toms and muffle them less...Carl and Bo need to be higher in the mix...Jim...thanks for the vocal stylings - that was over the top last night...especially when combined with the edge of stage kicks (over our heads).  :D The Greek is great, but hope to see them in a smaller venue (with fewer talking kids) next time....How bout 5 nights at the Fillmore next time?!

[Weeks Go by Like Days]

Huh? I thought it sounded Amazing considering the Greek has a strict DB limit. A great show through out in my opinion.

[BH]

They move me, might of even shead a tear.

"might" my ass!  You know you did.  Don't worry, most of us have.  I just want to know what song did it to you.

[lime1968]

wow. first show. just wow. cobra, phone went west, war begun, ROLLIN' BACK, and that dondante. friendly scottish battlefields, the beginning of fall...i loved it when he thanked everyone in the bay area for being a bunch of fucking weirdos and keeping the weird alive and well....he was just so on

[BuyOrangeRacket]

I know some of you guys hate me right now...bitchin' about set lists and all, but put all that aside and let's party in 2 weeks! When it comes down to it, I'm gonna be losing my shit - no matter what the fuck they play.

I'll be waving a My Morning Jacket Flag some friends and I made.  It's the California Flag, but rather than saying "The Republic of California" it says "My Morning Jacket".  It's got the appropriate bear gracing the front.  We'll be waving it! (not during the songs...i promise not to block anyone's view) and I plan on trying to give it to the boys at the end of the show....WooT!!!

HONEST MAN!!!

PS: My brother owns the Shattuck Down Low and Blakes.  Pre Party anyone?

Roll Call:
1.DaFunkyPrecedent
2. Slichard

Saw ya in the pit. Jim was definitely pleased with your flag, man. What an awesome show that was! His voice just gets better with age. Great crowd. Great energy. Safe to say that we were all one with the band. Too bad it just didn't pour. Woulda been so much more fun jamming in a soaked mob. There is simply no band in my opinion that can rock the house live like MMJ! Studio recordings do not do these guys justice.

Also, gotta say something about the good people of Berkeley...

We would have missed this show had we not run into a good samaritan. Apparently I asked the right person for directions to the Greek after having parked our car and walked in the WRONG direction for a mile and a half (thank you Google maps!). Not only did this man give us proper directions to the Greek, but he went out of his way to drive us back to our car so we could drive the other FOUR miles. In the end we were still an hour and fifteen early. The guy was a true angel.

Peace!

[Drawk]

Rollin Back'
http://blip.tv/file/1280443

[buymycar]

The show's already up for download at etree:

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=518749

[cko]

Wonderful posts everyone, just validates what I said earlier about so cool fans.

Drawk, I think I love you! That vid -- well, I'm amazed!--fantastic quality sound and look.

And also Senor Cardage. I linked that at LJ, hope it's ok with you. Let me know if not.

Keep posting people. Loving it.

[ms. yvon]

last night was the first time i've seen the band perform war begun!  :D
ho-lee smokes. gorgeous live!  TTF has real bay area associations for me, so it was really something to hear this in berkeley. bbill, thanks for sending out the request vibes  [smiley=beer.gif] stellar!)

the song that's been in my head all day:  rollin back.
"aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh....."
soooo beautiful.  a stunner.  

was it me or was dancefloors just BADASS last night?

and phone!  and the "speed dondate?!!"  at the top of the song the stage was dark but for a light on jim.  i thought "oh, this is going to be a challenge for the chatty kathies."  but as the song started to build they were brewing that pull the song has  (damn.  i am exhausted.  my vocabulary has taken a powder.  it took me about 3 min to come up with the word "pull".  i had written "draw you in thing"   ;D :P )  cutting to the chase:  during the instrumental break, the music got faster!  much faster!  can't remember how they did it, but they came back to the slower rhythm to finish the song.  

and highly suspicious --> cobra.  hot damn!

funny tone shift of the night:  touch me pt 2 -->  run thru.   we all went from singing "this feeling, it is wonderful!"  to "oh shit, run!"  ;D


boy howdy, i am wiped out. danced my socks off at the show.  after which went for late night thai food in san francisco...stayed the night with friends who were having a "rockband" party that went til 3am, then got up at 9:30 to catch a flight home.

random spotting of the night:  reenie!  great to see you on the west coast!  [smiley=beer.gif] good to meet you, dfp!  glad you dig the sticker!  after the show i gave one to the guy next to me in the crowd.  he was sooo happy to be at the show and was a great show neighbor.

[aMillionDreams]

I'm so happy bbill got to see Rollin Back and Yvon got to see War Begun!

Turns out I had a friend in attendance.  He flew in last night and came to the party I was at.  He had rave reviews for the venue and the performance.  He said musically it was as good as Louisville.

[logan5ive]

Here's an example of the video and audio.  Video is jumpy at 1st.  Clears up and gets way better after the 1st minute.  I just chose this song cuz it was short and fast to sync and up.

I have the entire set in this quality and will be putting it up on DIME in a few weeks.

In order to get the audio to sound what I consider to be acceptable I applied the following in Final Cut:
3 Band EQ, pulling all the freq up to 100hz lower by 14db
all freqs up to 2500 and higher by 6db
all freqs up to 10k higher by 6db

running a compressor on it
tolerance set to -18db
ratio = 2
preserve volume

then boost overall sound by 3db (I had the levels too low).

Check it out 129MB streaming Quicktime file that is downloadable:
http://blip.tv/file/1279923

Drawk,
Very nice.  8-)  Thank you for videotaping what looks to be an excellent show. Looking forward to seeing the complete show. Thanks!  :)

[ms. yvon]

 He had rave reviews for the venue and the performance.  He said musically it was as good as Louisville.

nice!

[DaFunkyPrecedent]

I'm so happy bbill got to see Rollin Back and Yvon got to see War Begun!

Turns out I had a friend in attendance.  He flew in last night and came to the party I was at.  He had rave reviews for the venue and the performance.  He said musically it was as good as Louisville.

WELL DUH!

[DaFunkyPrecedent]

remember how fuckin' sick Dondonte was...I Do!