M. Ward

[EC]

EC--this your first M Ward show?  if so yer gonna love it!!!  Have fun, drink mass quantities ;D

Oh, if I haaaave to, okay.  But I'll blame you on Monday morning!  

(It depends, though.  When I know shows are going to be really good, and I suspect this will be, I don't like to drink tooooo much, because I actually want to enjoy [read: remember] the show.)

There's no tellin' what'll happen after, though...

[MMJ_fanatic]

[read: remember] the show.)

gotcha ;) he is a fairly subtle artist and being inebriated may affect your fond memories

[Shaun Hayden]

You're a stowaway on a boxcar. All you have is a cheap guitar, a bottle of whiskey, and an old beat up radio. Its dusk in august, and as you look out across the expansive countryside, your radio sputters to a start. As you fiddle with the knobs, a scruffy young vagrant wearing a straw hat steps out of the shadows and sits beside you. You tell yourself he probably isn't real. The young vagabond asks for your guitar. He's real. You look at the whiskey bottle, and then at the young man, and pinch yourself to make sure you aren't dreaming. As you prepare to bash the bottle over the vagabonds head and take his belongings, a familiar tune emerges from the radio and mixes gently with the clatter of the railroad tracks. Maybe it's the humidity, maybe the loneliness, maybe even the radio, regardless, you have a change of heart, and hand over the guitar. He begins to strum along and croon softly. You've made the right decision, it's the prettiest thing you've ever heard. He tips his hat slightly and says his name is M. Ward.

[MMJ_fanatic]

yup, that about sums it up!

[EC]

Yayyyy!  That was terrific.  The perfect thing to read before bed.    :)

[sweatboard]

I picked up Transistor Radio on Vinyl last night.  It's an amazingly recorded album.  During "Lonesome Fuel For Fire" I was thinking "these are the best recorded Vocals on any album anywhere" and that was before Jim's voice came in, at which point I declared "Fuel For Fire" a certifiable masterpiece!

I loved "4 Hours in Washington" it reminded be of that Johnny Cash song "24hrs to go" and a little bit of the first track on Bright Eyes "I'm Wide Awake" (the one Jim sings on)

I was really suprised Chan Marshall didn't make an apperance on this album.

[Coltrane]

EC--- Scout Niblet is opening for M. here in San Diego next month....maybe she's with him the whole tour. She's very cool. Played on the self titled Magnolia Elecrtic Co. record...!

[EC]

EC--- Scout Niblet is opening for M. here in San Diego next month....maybe she's with him the whole tour. She's very cool. Played on the self titled Magnolia Elecrtic Co. record...!

Cool - thanks!  I shall report back...

[EC]

I am not going to say anything about this.  Just watch it.  (Sorry if you've seen it already - but you're probably increasing your life span, as well as your happiness level, by watching it again.)

http://lifesrichpageant.typepad.com/lifes_rich_pageant/files/MOV02394.MPG

Sucky quality in that it's small, but it gets the achievement and "holy shit" award just on the basis of what it is a recording of.

:)

Now I can't wait even more.

p.s.  Not sure about this person's bandwidth issues, but I would bet it's nicer if you right click and "save as".

[MMJ_fanatic]

AWWWWWW FUCK! my favorite piece, M backed by MMJ on his fuckin' best song!  I am jonsesing so fuckin bad

[EC]

Holy fuck.

I can't even think straight.  (RyanCorpse were you there?  I was looking at forearms, but couldn't find any MMJ skeletons...)

Okay, before I get going, NO MERCH.  No cds, no buttons, no tshirts, no nothin'.  So I waited for no reason.  Ah well.  I can deal.

What an incredible experience.  

Throughout the show he kept saying "I'm gonna be back real soon with a big band."

And I kept thinking "Oh my god, Riny wasn't so cryptic after all, and fanatic is right!"

BUT, I went up and thanked him as he was loading up his gear, and I asked him which band he was coming back with, and it is not My Morning Jacket.  He'll be playing Lee's Palace (which is WICKED), for those of you who know it, in April.  Hoooooraaaaaayyy!!

What a beautiful show.  

Okay, I can't really articulate well right now.  I'm still in it.

[RyanCorpse]

i was there. i was the gentleman sitting on the stage to the right of m.ward. it was a great show. had fun.

[MMJ_fanatic]

did he do "Let's Dance" and O'Brien's Nocturne"?

[EC]

did he do "Let's Dance" and O'Brien's Nocturne"?

Yep.  He did a lot of songs from Vincent, actually.  

He's a pretty dynamic performer, as well - kind of interesting to watch him move all over the stage.

Ryan, our right, or M. Ward's right?  If you were sitting on the stage, then I think I saw you.  

[RyanCorpse]

to m. wards right. i have relly dorky glasses. black hair.

[EC]

Okay.  I think I saw you.  :)

(I don't remember dorky glasses, though.)

What'd you think of the opening band?

[MMJ_fanatic]

hey guys here's a memory jogger for ya that I took at one of the JJ/MW/BE collaboration shows (apologies to Riny in advance if I fuck this up):

[RyanCorpse]

hey guys here's a memory jogger for ya that I took at one of the JJ/MW/BE collaboration shows (apologies to Riny in advance if I fuck this up):

http://img237.exs.cx/img237/2294/10024981pb.jpg

Have any more from this show.

[Zmog1974]

its in the post

[RyanCorpse]

the opening band was good. sad though they have all those problems.