My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket => The Band => Topic started by: mikenhat on Aug 03, 2011, 03:01 PM

Title: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: mikenhat on Aug 03, 2011, 03:01 PM
I thought it was kind of a mascot like the bear. Then a co-worker asked while I was getting screwed out of sound check tickets this morning and it got me wondering. Thanks for the help!
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: ManNamedTruth on Aug 03, 2011, 05:02 PM
The owls are not what they seem.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: smhoffmann02 on Aug 03, 2011, 06:21 PM
Quote from: ManNamedTruth on Aug 03, 2011, 05:02 PM
The owls are not what they seem.

Meaning?
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: ManNamedTruth on Aug 03, 2011, 06:31 PM
Quote from: smhoffmann02 on Aug 03, 2011, 06:21 PM
Quote from: ManNamedTruth on Aug 03, 2011, 05:02 PM
The owls are not what they seem.

Meaning?

A quote from Twin Peaks. Just a surreal quote from a bizarre show, have no idea what it means. Yim is a fan of the show, maybe he knows what it means?
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Jeff Murray on Aug 03, 2011, 06:40 PM
Owls are usually used on docks and boats to keep other birds from hanging around and pooping all over the place... maybe this is their way of avoiding a Kings Of Leon pigeon type situation!
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Bigsky on Aug 04, 2011, 11:43 AM
Quote from: Jeff Murray on Aug 03, 2011, 06:40 PM
Owls are usually used on docks and boats to keep other birds from hanging around and pooping all over the place... maybe this is their way of avoiding a Kings Of Leon pigeon type situation!


;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Nicholas Yames on Aug 15, 2011, 01:52 PM
Quote from: Jeff Murray on Aug 03, 2011, 06:40 PM
Owls are usually used on docks and boats to keep other birds from hanging around and pooping all over the place... maybe this is their way of avoiding a Kings Of Leon pigeon type situation!


So then how do they avoid canceling entire tours because one of them is a drunk and drug addict?!?!
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: lasvegas on Aug 15, 2011, 05:36 PM
yes there is.

and it has to do with Iron Maiden.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Angry Ewok on Aug 20, 2011, 09:22 AM
The owls thing, right --- we will decide when you are ready for that, and now is not the time. The owls are not explained, they will make thwmselves known to you when the time is right for them.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: DaFunkyPrecedent on Aug 21, 2011, 01:29 PM
...I think the band just likes owls....
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Jeff Murray on Aug 23, 2011, 09:14 AM
Quote from: Nicholas Yames on Aug 15, 2011, 01:52 PM
Quote from: Jeff Murray on Aug 03, 2011, 06:40 PM
Owls are usually used on docks and boats to keep other birds from hanging around and pooping all over the place... maybe this is their way of avoiding a Kings Of Leon pigeon type situation!


So then how do they avoid canceling entire tours because one of them is a drunk and drug addict?!?!

It's called professionalism and gratitude to their fans...   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: jahabe08 on Nov 07, 2011, 01:30 PM
Yesterday i am driving down a 2 lane road and 2 cars are just stopped. After a few minutes of waiting i see a gentleman carrying an OWL, yes thats right an OWL from the middle of road to safety. My friend asked was she high, i said no im seeing this too. What makes this story really cool is that this happened while we were listening to the Jacket.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: woodnymph on Nov 07, 2011, 02:21 PM
Quote from: jahabe08 on Nov 07, 2011, 01:30 PM
Yesterday i am driving down a 2 lane road and 2 cars are just stopped. After a few minutes of waiting i see a gentleman carrying an OWL, yes thats right an OWL from the middle of road to safety. My friend asked was she high, i said no im seeing this too. What makes this story really cool is that this happened while we were listening to the Jacket.
Very cool tale!  Must be the season of the owl-- I've never seen one outside of captivity my whole life til Halloween last week..... then when I went to close my bedroom window yesterday afternoon, I startled a bird and it flew up from the ground to the tree outside of my window.... and it was another owl!!!  A small little thing... just perched on the branch outside my window, kinda looking at me like 'what made that noise!?'  And it did the head-swivel thing!!  Looked all around, checked me out a couple times, then flew off to a sunny spot below about 50 feet away......... cutest darn thing... can't believe I've never seen one, then two in one week!

But that's awesome you manifested the one you saw with some Jacket tunes yesterday!  Do you remember which song was on when you saw it??
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Rufus T. Firefly on Nov 07, 2011, 04:46 PM
Harry Potter has an owl, and Jim wears a cape

coincidence?
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: johnnYYac on Nov 07, 2011, 05:09 PM
Quote from: Rufus T. Firefly on Nov 07, 2011, 04:46 PM
Harry Potter has an owl, and Jim wears a cape

coincidence?
I hope so.  ;)
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: jahabe08 on Nov 08, 2011, 01:01 AM
It was Magheeta. It was very cool indeed.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: jahabe08 on Nov 08, 2011, 01:03 AM
I am also pretty certain thats the first owl i have ever seen in person.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: SaraBananaBear on Nov 10, 2011, 05:16 PM
Not that much help perhaps, but still interesting!  :thumbsup:
QuoteYeah, we have bears. We have always had animals and shit like that since the beginning of time. There is a bear on the cover of It Still Moves. There is a song called "The Bear." It's been part of the band for a long time. It's our spirit animal. It's our totem. Have you seen those animal totem books? I have a couple of those at home. That's kind of a thing. It's fun. (...) We have the owl, too. I forgot how the owl got in there. But it's been part of album artwork. We had this really cool white owl that we put on the top of the recording desk when we recorded Z, I believe. Ever since then, it has been our mascot as well.
Quote from Bo, featured here (http://www.citybeat.com/cincinnati/blog-2291-qa-with-my-morning-jacket.html)
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: CTdeadhead on Nov 11, 2011, 12:05 PM
Quote from: lasvegas on Aug 15, 2011, 05:36 PM
yes there is.

and it has to do with Iron Maiden.

Yes it is a constant reminder to the band never to fly to close to the sun, like Icarus. 
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: CTdeadhead on Nov 19, 2011, 05:28 PM
Since were on the subject of owls...


http://youtu.be/3G1PFLuTrgM (http://youtu.be/3G1PFLuTrgM)
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Taterbug on Jan 16, 2012, 03:02 PM
I saw this story about OWl attacks in our local paper.  "Dog rescues canine pal from owl attack" 


""The craziest thing was that the owl turned its head all the way around, you know the way they can do, and looked right at us," Evans said. "It really freaked us out."

Sounds to me like he was possessed  ;)   
If you look at the pictures in the link, it looks like the owl tried to bite off more than he could chew.  Them are some beefy dogs.  That owl had some beer muscles, or really big balls.

http://couriernews.suntimes.com/9946957-417/dog-rescues-canine-pal-from-owl-attack.html (http://couriernews.suntimes.com/9946957-417/dog-rescues-canine-pal-from-owl-attack.html)

(http://michaelfairchild.com/landscapes_wildlife/images/Great-Horned-Owl-flat-best-.jpg)
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: megalicious on Jan 19, 2012, 03:49 PM
If you stand in your bathroom in the dark, face the mirror, and say "My Morning Jacket" three times, an owl will appear and peck your eyes out.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Fully on Jan 19, 2012, 05:30 PM
Quote from: megalicious on Jan 19, 2012, 03:49 PM
If you stand in your bathroom in the dark, face the mirror, and say "My Morning Jacket" three times, an owl will appear and peck your eyes out.

Um, Meg, I'm pretty sure that's the Bell Witch.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: megalicious on Jan 19, 2012, 05:33 PM
Quote from: Fully on Jan 19, 2012, 05:30 PM
Quote from: megalicious on Jan 19, 2012, 03:49 PM
If you stand in your bathroom in the dark, face the mirror, and say "My Morning Jacket" three times, an owl will appear and peck your eyes out.

Um, Meg, I'm pretty sure that's the Bell Witch.

but what if they're the same thing?
:o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Fully on Jan 19, 2012, 05:37 PM
Quote from: megalicious on Jan 19, 2012, 05:33 PM
Quote from: Fully on Jan 19, 2012, 05:30 PM
Quote from: megalicious on Jan 19, 2012, 03:49 PM
If you stand in your bathroom in the dark, face the mirror, and say "My Morning Jacket" three times, an owl will appear and peck your eyes out.

Um, Meg, I'm pretty sure that's the Bell Witch.

but what if they're the same thing?
:o :o :o :o :o

O to the M to the freakin' G!!!! :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: megalicious on Jan 19, 2012, 05:40 PM
if i say any more the avian illuminati will kill me.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: Fully on Jan 19, 2012, 05:43 PM
Quote from: megalicious on Jan 19, 2012, 05:40 PM
if i say any more the avian illuminati will kill me.
Well, that will solve that other problem you're having ;D .
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: bandbench6306 on Mar 03, 2012, 03:44 AM
they recorded how many albums in a grain silo? owls are known to occupy those.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: ManNamedTruth on Mar 06, 2012, 03:04 PM
Quote from: bandbench6306 on Mar 03, 2012, 03:44 AM
they recorded how many albums in a grain silo? owls are known to occupy those.

I think just one, It Still Moves.
Title: Re: Is there any significance to the owl that's always around?
Post by: stackjacket on Mar 18, 2012, 07:34 AM
It doesnt really have a meaning,'The dfrum kit for z tour habd a panda bear on it.
Evil urges toit had the owls ans since just carried it on. prob an love for animals and an inside love with the band.