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My Morning Jacket => The Band => Topic started by: SaraBananaBear on Jul 27, 2010, 02:53 PM

Title: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: SaraBananaBear on Jul 27, 2010, 02:53 PM
"Relix caught up with co-founder and bassist Tom "Two-Tone Tommy" Blankenship to discuss this historic five night stretch in New York City, the reason behind the event, an upcoming record and more."

More here:
http://www.relix.com/features/2010/07/27/from-the-tennessee-fire-to-evil-urges-a-look-ahead-and-back-with-my-morning-jacket
:D
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: BH on Jul 27, 2010, 02:55 PM
I was just about to post that!  Damn your quick.   :)
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: BH on Jul 27, 2010, 03:09 PM
Tons of great info, although the person asking the questions sure makes a lot of mistakes.  Contra?
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: SaraBananaBear on Jul 27, 2010, 03:13 PM
QuoteI was just about to post that!  Damn your quick.   :)

Mwahaha!  ;)
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: SaraBananaBear on Jul 27, 2010, 03:15 PM
QuoteTons of great info, although the person asking the questions sure makes a lot of mistakes.  Contra?

Yes? Contra comes up next to me... or wait?  ;)
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: Crispy on Jul 27, 2010, 03:15 PM
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QuoteI was just about to post that!  Damn your quick.   :)

Mwahaha!  ;)
It's hard to beat Saraba to the punch on these things...
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: Hawkeye on Jul 27, 2010, 03:16 PM
Nice read, thanks!  Yeah, I did notice the "Contra" mistake!  Now I'm going to have to go listen to the theme song from Contra...it's been too long, don't remember what it sounds like.
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: SaraBananaBear on Jul 27, 2010, 03:24 PM
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QuoteI was just about to post that!  Damn your quick.   :)

Mwahaha!  ;)
It's hard to beat Saraba to the punch on these things...

Psh, mostly I'm just lucky! Or maybe it was that radioactive internet spider that bit me... hmm...  :-?
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: Penny Lane on Jul 27, 2010, 03:32 PM
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QuoteI was just about to post that!  Damn your quick.   :)

Mwahaha!  ;)
It's hard to beat Saraba to the punch on these things...

Psh, mostly I'm just lucky! Or maybe it was that radioactive internet spider that bit me... hmm...  :-?

also Sweden is like a half day ahead of St. Louis...so...don't feel bad, BH
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: ALady on Jul 27, 2010, 04:22 PM
I'm sort of geeked to hear that they'll be playing the songs in sequential order.   :)  Was wondering about that.
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: .Walt on Jul 27, 2010, 10:00 PM
QuoteI was just about to post that!  Damn your quick.   :)

BH, she lives in the future. It's Wednesday there already. Sara clearly had the advantage, I think you both tied ;)

Thanks, Sara and BH!  8-)
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: weeniebeenie on Jul 28, 2010, 01:21 AM
Thanks for posting!!
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: buymycar on Jul 28, 2010, 03:34 AM
QuoteNice read, thanks!  Yeah, I did notice the "Contra" mistake!  Now I'm going to have to go listen to the theme song from Contra...it's been too long, don't remember what it sounds like.

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: SaraBananaBear on Jul 28, 2010, 03:38 AM
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QuoteI was just about to post that!  Damn your quick.   :)

BH, she lives in the future. It's Wednesday there already. Sara clearly had the advantage, I think you both tied ;)

Thanks, Sara and BH!  8-)

Hahaha, yup I totally live in the future and actually we don't have a lot of MMJ stuff here in the future since all the info comes from the past.  I do however have some lottery numbers for you guys and gals...  ;)
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: joey_rogo on Jul 28, 2010, 07:39 AM
a different opener every night!!! (hoping dr dog is in there :))
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: el_chode on Jul 28, 2010, 09:43 AM
Quotea different opener every night!!! (hoping dr dog is in there :))

Just when I think they couldn't be any dumber...they go and TOTALLY REDEEM THEMSELVES!

Seriously? I mean I just assumed there's no openers for this. If Dog opened, I don't know what I would do. IF WAX FUCKING FANG OPENS I MIGHT KNOCK OVER THE ENTER PIT WITH MY HUGE ERECTION
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: ALady on Jul 28, 2010, 11:56 AM
Ooooh, Dr. Dog or the Fang would be so nice.   :)

I know they'll do us right with these openers.  
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: ALady on Jul 28, 2010, 12:06 PM
 :o :o :o

10/18 – The Tennessee Fire – Dungen
10/19 – At Dawn – Hacienda
10/21 – It Still Moves – Elvis Perkins in Dearland
10/22 – Z - Holly Miranda
10/23 – Evil Urges – Everest
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: mahg33ta on Jul 28, 2010, 12:58 PM
Tommy said:

It should definitely be interesting to see how everything comes full circle. They're songs like "Honest Man," "Just Because I Do," and "Butch Cassidy" that we haven't done in years. I don't even think we've ever done those live.


I don't understand what he's talking about in the last sentence.   What are the THOSE he is referring to - the 3 songs he just listed?   Because they've certainly played those songs live a ton.   I was wondering if he meant with the band in current incarnation - but a quick search of the archive shows those songs played occassionally in 06, 07, 08.... does he really not remember playing them?
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: el_chode on Jul 28, 2010, 02:08 PM
Quote:o :o :o

10/18 – The Tennessee Fire – Dungen
10/19 – At Dawn – Hacienda
10/21 – It Still Moves – Elvis Perkins in Dearland
10/22 – Z - Holly Miranda
10/23 – Evil Urges – Everest
While I am slightly saddened it is not fang, those are all interesting and I've never heard of any of them aside from Dungen
Title: Re: Tom Blankenship Relix article
Post by: BH on Jul 28, 2010, 02:16 PM
QuoteTommy said:

It should definitely be interesting to see how everything comes full circle. They're songs like "Honest Man," "Just Because I Do," and "Butch Cassidy" that we haven't done in years. I don't even think we've ever done those live.


I don't understand what he's talking about in the last sentence.   What are the THOSE he is referring to - the 3 songs he just listed?   Because they've certainly played those songs live a ton.   I was wondering if he meant with the band in current incarnation - but a quick search of the archive shows those songs played occassionally in 06, 07, 08.... does he really not remember playing them?


I think he meant with the current lineup, or maybe he just meant Butch Cassidy because he says this on the very next question:

I don't think there is anything that I really want to stay away from, not at this point in my career. There were definitely songs like "Just Because I Do" and "Honest Man" that we have stayed away from for a while now. I'm not even sure why we've stayed away from them. It's probably because we played those two songs so much in the first year we started that we just stopped playing them once new material was produced. But I'm looking forward to bringing those songs back. Songs like "Nashville to Kentucky" we've done recently with Carl Broemel doing a sax solo and "They Ran" we did a couple times and had this big kind of loungy ending. So I'm excited to see how these songs work out. It would be boring to plainly watch us go straight through the album, so it's going to be interesting to see what happens to those songs once the five of us get together and improvise on them. It's going to make the songs different for ourselves and switch it up for everybody in the audience as well.

Jim's only played Butch Cassidy three times ever, and I saw one of them.  Nahna na nah na na.