Bueller?
Cant speak in way of setlists, but I will have pics and video available towards the end of the day!! It was an amazing show. Jim dug the Stubb's setting!!
i'm trying to put the pieces back together from last night but here is the "setlist" in the best order i can manage
one big holiday - left the stage after a "thank you good night" and all band members arm-in-arm bow to the crowd...haha
at dawn
lowdown!!!!!
wonderful man
just one thing!!!!!
gideon
off the record
phone went west!!!!!
wordless chorus
it beats 4u
dondante
xmas curtain
honest man
lay low
run thru (think they sandwiched something in between ?)
they ran ? i can't remember exactly what they closed with
celebrate
steam engine!!!!!!
golden
mahgeetah
anytime
that's all i got for now, i know i'm missing a few...someone help me out here.
they rocked it!
yeah it was an unreal environment.. i have tons of great pics and video as well
they come out and play OBH and they all come to the middle of the stage bow and say thank you for coming etc like the show was over.. it was classic.. go off stage for a bit and come back.. jim says i guess you want more
the first set was SUPER long.. i was starting to think maybe there was a curfew and they were going to have to cut it off at 11 bc they hit the stage at 920 and the main set didn't end till a bit after 11.. but of course they came back out and kept on rocking!!
sweet environment as well-- JIM loved the trees and was talking about the meteor shower at the end
wax fang said the Austin crowd was a lot better than dallas.. oh well
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they come out and play OBH and they all come to the middle of the stage bow and say thank you for coming etc like the show was over.. it was classic.. go off stage for a bit and come back.. jim says i guess you want more
that rocks! I love those guys.
Okay, how does this go... long time listener, first time caller? I just wrote this and then came over to the boards to post and now other reviews have been posted as well - so some some of these details will be repeats - sorry!
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The Austin show was, of course, fantastic. I've seen MMJ 4 times now and this was by far the most energy I've ever seen out of the guys. They started with OBH, tore through it, then all five of the guys walked to the front of the stage, towels on their necks Elvis style, arm in arm, took a collective bow, and walked off stage – all the way off – to the backstage. All buzzing and laughing, the crowd chanted "One more song!" over and over 'til the band came back out and Jim said, "Sounds like y'all want some more!" If this wasn't an outdoor venue, I'd say they blew the doors off the place, but they just rocked the f*ck out for 2 ½ hours. And whoever said before that they've noticed that Carl rocks a lot harder these days is totally right. All the guys were freaking out, but a pleasant surprise was when Jim would just walk to the very front of the stage, hair out of his face, and just smile out at the crowd. That was a first in all my many shows.
Let's see... Stubb's is maybe my favorite venue in Austin. Fantastic sight lines and trees around the edges and just always a great Austin-y vibe. Jim said he loved the courtyard aspect of it and felt like we'd all just wandered out of the forest and happened upon them playing there. He talked about the meteor shower that was supposed to happen last night... I don't have the setlist, but all the hits were there – OBH, Gideon, Dondante, Run Thru, Steam Engine, Low Down, Off the Record, They Ran, Magheeta... The encore was 7 songs I think – LOVE that! On top of which, we have a pretty strict sound ordinance curfew (of 11pm) downtown and the guys shot that all to hell. LOVE that too! I'd like to hear from someone else's account, but I felt like the crowd was singing along VERY loudly, which I thought was super-cool – but it may just have been the people around me.
I don't know what else to say – I live in Austin and grew up on live music and I feel like you can never encapsulate the live experience with blurbs like this, but I've been lurking on these boards forever and always love to read other people's accounts, so there ya go – I'm sure I'll think of more details later...
Still smiling. I miss 'em already.
My Morning Jacket
Stubb's Bar-B-Q, Austin, TX, November 18th, 2006
by Immy65
It was shortest gig in My Morning Jacket history. Almost. After a perfectly suspenseful pause once the roadies had made the set perfectly functionable, My Morning Jacket came crashing out with all their sparkle and spangle, thundering through their one song, bringing it to its roaring and almost interminable end. The band then came to the front of the stage, pretending to be winded, towel-clad, bidding "Good night!" with several rounds of "Thank you Austin!"
They then left the stage.
The assembly, for the most part, got the joke. There was a barrage of applause and laughter while one young man near me barked how lame that was. But a large section of the crowd farcically started chanting, "One more song! One more song!" and "Encore!! Encore!!" Morning Jacket then came back out and continued to play for the better part of three hours.
As with all the truly great live bands, it takes a few songs for them to truly warm up, but once they have, MMJ are unsurpassed in their ability to convey emotion, elation, nuance, exuberance and joy. Swooping from style to style, pedal steel laden ballads to reggae, 12-bar blues to techno—the sounds they create are really none of those things yet all of those things. They don't really sound like anything or anybody else and yet you hear all these influences clearly.
Their lyrics are impressionistic and even though it is difficult to discern exactly what those lyrics are, they will take you on some sort of peregrination. And oh boy, what peregrinations! If you just let go of any ideas of where you want to go, they will take you wherever... let them take you, you will somehow know that you will return safely and find yourself smiling broadly.
These seem to be truly sweet young men, and delightfully handsome despite the abundant whiskers with which all but one are in varying degrees adorned. They are partly Grizzly Adams or even something out of Deadwood and part squeezy toy. They look like genuinely kind, blissful, humorous and silly people. Silly in the good sense, light-hearted and devoid of arrogance and self-importance. They are Peter Pan meets Neil Young and Crazy Horse or, if you prefer, Spinal Tap meets The Muppet Show.
They play with such commitment and love for the flight and the soar. To experience them live is to go on a glimmering journey of sound and light, emotion and spirit. At one point last night, singer and guitar player Jim James told the story of Masuro Emoto's experiments where he tapes words to bottles of water. The water seems to transmute on an almost atomic level, somehow reflecting the nature of the words taped to them. A label of "F*ck you" will turn the water's molecules black and ugly. The bottles marked "I love you" crystallize into beautiful, snowflake-like microcosms. James then says, in a way that could be really very corny and in the "oh please" territory of cringe-worthy, new age blah blah blah but pulls it off with grace, sincerity and high spirits, "You guys are like a river and I wanna be that "I love you" bottle of water, flowing through. I want to keep that in mind when I'm playing." You know, love in, love out. You get what you give.
It was a magical evening as it always is with "The Jacket". It is always a pleasure and always a wonder of ebullience, buoyancy and jubilation.
Their new live record is called Okonokos. While contemplating what that word could possibly mean on their official forum, one person put forth this definition:
O-ko-no-kos (n)- a state of being in which the human soul transcends space and time through a sense auditory nirvana ; said state is reached when the pure power of rock and roll is so intense and spiritual that it can no longer be perceived by the eardrums and must be heard using only the heart.
See also: "eargasm," euphoria, enlightenment, My Morning Jacket
Amen to that.
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Their new live record is called Okonokos. While contemplating what that word could possibly mean on their official forum, one person put forth this definition:
O-ko-no-kos (n)- a state of being in which the human soul transcends space and time through a sense auditory nirvana ; said state is reached when the pure power of rock and roll is so intense and spiritual that it can no longer be perceived by the eardrums and must be heard using only the heart.
See also: "eargasm," euphoria, enlightenment, My Morning Jacket
Amen to that.
Ha. I totally wrote that!
I wish I had seen this show. Stubb's is one of my favorite venues--ever.
first pics are UP!
I went to the show last night. Made the drive from Corpus and was blown away. I do have a few negative comments though.
---Not loud enough
---The audience (some) seemed intent on talking over the band during the shows more (deliberatly) quiet moments.
---Stubbs didn't seem like the best place to showcase a band like this. Perhaps an ampitheatre?
Other than that is was stellar. Good set list, GREAT energy and it felt like they could have played forever. I've never been to Stubbs before, so if some of my comments are off base, fill me in.
hey laxican - how far back were you?
I always feel like in any outdoor venue, if you hang back, you might as well be playing the cd in your backyard - people will be talking/sound 'll be weird... We were about 20' from the stage and my boyfriend would go get a beer and come back and comment on how weird it was to go just 30' off to the side and back - like walking in and out of a bubble, like 2 different shows were going on - casual fans in back, diehards in front. Because everyone around us was singing at the top of their lungs (in a good way) and if it'd been any louder I honestly think my eardrums would have exploded. They physically ache today... I'm bummed it wasn't a better Stubb's experience for you...
Thanks for the heads up. Being a shorter dude up front was not the best place for me. I tried getting in a couple of times only to have some one taller right in front of me. I eventually moved to the middle, right where the 'hill' starts.
This being my first MMJ show, I wanted the total experience. So seeing them was just as important as hearing them.
Next time, I'm going to stay put up front.
Appreciate the help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vNoS5A4hB8
a few more videos to come-- this one was not the best but the next one is pretty sweet
a lot of pics sent to the gallery hopefully they will be up later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcdPPEzKVtw
ill try to add some more vids tomorrow
here are a couple of pics as well
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65411613@N00/?saved=1
PJ - those are fantastic! Thank you so much.
Oh god! That first photo is my new desktop background! Thanks!! :o
QuotePJ - those are fantastic! Thank you so much.
thanks-- i added a few more
did anyone run into Jim at Stubb's the restaurant part? i saw him in there a few hours before the show
also i was a little worried that 4 nights in a row could be rough but you would have never known the guys had played 3 shows in 2 different cities leading up to Stubb's
does anyone have a complete setlist for this show? I know someone's already posted most of it, but is there a certain setlist around? thanks, and this show was amazing by the way.
Here is the link for my pics:
http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/TXbywayofMS/
Here are the links for my vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xoTRXmt4fk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mluF9xzjrig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuYZnoFdPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8sgFBo81o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVaLkuoV6i4
There is a couple of more still processing.
ENJOY!!
I was a little disappointed in the Austin show.
Not fromt the Band and not at all from the set. The set was amazing and any band that is headlining in Austin, Tx wants to put on a great show.
But this was my first time to Stubbs. We arrived just as Wax Fang was ending and were able to walk around the crowd to the left side of the stage and up the steps. We secured a good area between the center and left of the stage about 40-50ft from the stage.
40-50ft was extremely close considering the size of the venue and the crowd.
HOWEVER, if you are able to have conversatioins with your friends, or if you are able to hear the conversation of others with very little effort, then the volume of the band isn't cranked up.
Now again, I was pretty close to the stage. I don't think that being at an outside venue had as much to do with it as maybe some of the Austin city ordinances that exist around stubbs.
There are a few residential houses that some how exist near stubbs. As mentioned, I think they have to end shows by a certain time, and I think there was an outdoor decibal law that was passed a couple of years ago.
For the Friday and Thurs shows at the Gypsy Tea Room, my ears were literally ringing into the early afternoon the next day. I understand that this is not a good thing for my hearing. But they rocked it out so hard on friday and that was also reflected in the shear electric energy being pumped out of the PA system.
Stubbs was much different, and casual fans and persons not within 20ft of the stage (in a venue that probably stretches 900 ft, didn't get to experience the sonic boom of an MMJ show.
Just my thoughts.
So I would order the shows:
Friday Gypsy Tea Room (did not play Steam Engine listed in the enchore)
Saturday Stubbs (Beautiful set and effort from band, but lacking in rocking loudness)
Thursday Gypsy Tea Room (felt a litte like a warm up gig for Friday, held off on a few songs, but played some other beautes as well)
QuoteHere is the link for my pics:
http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/TXbywayofMS/
Here are the links for my vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xoTRXmt4fk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mluF9xzjrig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuYZnoFdPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8sgFBo81o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVaLkuoV6i4
There is a couple of more still processing.
ENJOY!!
OMG, you must have been standing next to the excessivley HANDS-ON drunk fraternity guys. Everyone pretty much assumed they were going to make out with each other at some point during the show.
And if they were some of your friends, I apologize in advance. Well sort of. No I don't.
And lastly, I don't know much about tapers or taping, but the Austin show is going to sound beautiful due to the same reasons that made this show not as loud for the crowd.
So I really look forward to those. I did see one camera set-up on the stair case leading to the VIP deck.
Here's the set list (courtesy of a roadie, wrapped around one of Patricks drumsticks. I got a pick too) -
One Big Holiday
Wonderful Man
Gideon
Lowdown
Off the Record
Just One Thing
It Beats for You
Wordless Chorus
Xmas Curtain
O is the One that's Real
Phone Went West
Honest Man
Lay Low
Dondante
Run Thru
They Ran
Tonite I Wanna Celebrate with You (solo)
At Dawn
Golden
Steam Engine
Mahgeetah
Anytime
(At least have the guts to leave your post up, after all it's only the internet)
Stubbs was their best 'effort'[/b] (playing, humor, energy, setlist) out of the three shows that I attended, and that is just one fan's subjective opinion.
Feel free to insert whatever 'un-demeaning' word that you would prefer because I think we are both fans and greatly appreciate what they do.
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OMG, you must have been standing next to the excessivley HANDS-ON drunk fraternity guys. Everyone pretty much assumed they were going to make out with each other at some point during the show.
And if there were some of your friends, I apologize in advance. Well sort of. No I don't.
Yeah I was a few people down from them. Not friends of mine. Not the type of people I would associate with. It was loud on the VIP deck so I couldnt hear them. We had our own speakers up there.
Does anyone know if Thursday's Hopefully and I Think I'm Going to Hell were solo?
Could VIP people go back stage at all? The only time I've been VIP was at Stubbs for a band I didn't care about, so back stage wasn't all that exciting. But for MMJ, now that would be awesome!
Quote(At least have the guts to leave your post up, after all it's only the internet)
my post was made out of anger and I removed it because it was silly and pointless. since it truly is only the internet, i have no reason to be aggressive.
I too was wondering about the benefits of the VIP deck...
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Well I was told that the only amenities for the MMJ show were strictly limited to the deck. No back stage. That was the first time I have been up there. Soooo i dont know if that answers you guys' questions. I did eat about an hour before the show and Jim was in there getting some food. I spoke to him. His speaking voice is totally different from his singing voice. It kind of threw me off.
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Well I was told that the only amenities for the MMJ show were strictly limited to the deck. No back stage. That was the first time I have been up there. Soooo i dont know if that answers you guys' questions. I did eat about an hour before the show and Jim was in there getting some food. I spoke to him. His speaking voice is totally different from his singing voice. It kind of threw me off.
hah yeah i ran face first into him and was caught way off guard in stubb's
he say anything cool to you?
Hi everyone,
For some reason Stubbs wasn't the greatest venue for a MMJ show. I had few complaints. One, is my wife is about 5'5" and she really couldn't see the show, so I felt real bad for her. We stood on the stairs/bar on the right side of the venue. We could see Patrick, Carl, and Tommy, but only so Jim when he would step away from the mic. Wasn't the greatest standing area. Second, the volume was really low. I heard people talking all night and that has never happened at a MMJ show. The show was really crowded too (sold out). So I'm sure that didn't help the conversation level.
The band rocked though. Really into it and seeing Jim jump around was awesome. And Patrick!!!! I told my wife and buddy (who is short too, lol) that if I was in a band with Patrick as my drummer I would never run out of energy. That guy gives his all. The strobe light during Run Thru was the coolest thing I've ever seen.
To sum up the "Stubbs" show. Excellent show/Bad venue. Hope to see them again at La Zona Rosa or even San Antonio!! ;D
for the people complaining about the venue i dont get it
if you have a height problem get there earlier and find a good spot.. a lot of people did that
for the noise.. my ears are honestly still ringing/numb
if you stand off to the side yeah you are going to get the conversations and not the full effect of the music-- that will hold true with any band at any venue
i thought the venue was great because it provided a place for 2 types of fans to see the band
all of the big fans made it to the front and there was no talking just singing and it sounded perfect
againg thumbs up to Stubb's
there's a review of the show at this website, the tripwire. if anyone is interested....
http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2006/11/20/live-my-morning-jacket-sutbbs-austin
For those of you complaining, it could be worse.....
Got into MMJ about 3 months ago. Have been downloading stuff like crazy, bought the Okonokos DVD, etc.
Got tickets for the Stubb's show about a month ago and have been looking forward to my first MMJ show BIG TIME!
Wife and I went to Z'Tejas for dinner b4 the show. Mistake #1 - vodka martini for the 1st drink at dinner. I think you can see where this is headed.
Anyway, I'm fine going into Stubb's....mistake #2 - oilcan Foster's became the bev of choice for the evening.
Secured a good spot at about 7:15. A couple (or few? :-[)Fosters later, I'm feelin' good and enjoying Wax Fang. I remember MMJ coming on and playing OBH. My next memory is my wife dragging my idiotic drunk rear out of there while "Steam Engine" is being played during the encore. I also remember sitting down outside and eating a hot dog b4 we caught a cab back to the hotel.
I realize I was an idiot and I deserve it, but I can't even explain how depressed/upset I am. Next MMJ concert will be alcohol free, and it can't come soon enough! I just hope they get back to South/Central Texas SOON!
The one positive...my wife didn't really care that much about going to this concert. Just going because I wanted to. Yesterday she asks me all sorts of questions about MMJ and asks me to burn some CDs of their stuff for her car. So at least she became a fan.
And to anyone I might have offended with my probable boorish behavior, I sincerley apologize.
:-[
Bosch? Is that you?
(Sorry, I have a friend who does this exact thing on a regular basis. I have to tell him about shows he went to all the time.)
Next time this happens to you, get up, go as close to the stage as possible, and start head banging with the boys. Works everytime.
http://www.austin360.com/news/content/music/stories/xl/2006/11/23reviews.html
My Morning Jacket, the Deftones, McCoy Tyner, A. Mozart Fest
Monday, November 20, 2006
AN ETHEREAL EVENING WITH MY MORNING JACKET
For shows as egregiously sold out as Saturday night's My Morning Jacket gig at Stubb's, the best seat in the house is reserved for Orion, several hundred million miles straight up. Of course, the constellation usually has the best seat for pretty much anything that happens in the Northern Hemisphere, at least between late fall and spring.
But it seemed fitting that this giant hunter made of stars should be such a luminous presence at an MMJ show. Songwriter Jim James is a mountain-man lookalike with a guitar hero's chops, a frontman's charisma and the banter of a guy who reads too much. He shouted out a meteor shower and yakked about the story of alternative medicine doctor Masuru Emoto's "messages from water" experiments in between explosive rock rambles — it was corny, heartfelt and weirdly appropriate.
Opening with the spiraling "One Big Holiday," MMJ stormed through its catalog, most recently represented in record shops by the double live CD "Okokonos." "Stormed" is the operative word here. Thanks to MMJ's knowing combo of jump-around indie rock energy and mutant Southern-rock riffometry, MMJ has managed to triangulate a remarkable vector between indie rock hipsters, jam band devotees and beefy frat guys who wear a lot of Abercrombie and Fitch shirts. This made for a show that required a few songs to get moving, a reggae-tinged tune ("Off the Record") and some utterly spectacular guitar histrionics. They're also showmen enough to close with "Mahgeetah" and "Anytime," which, both on "Okokonos" and here, fulfill every expansive, spacey promise their music's ever made. Orion would be proud.
— Joe Gross
yeah whats up with all the drunk kids at the shows .. am I just too old or am I just not drunk enough , I mustve seen 5-6 people fall in front of me drunk off their ass ...
:-X
Quotefor the people complaining about the venue i dont get it
if you have a height problem get there earlier and find a good spot.. a lot of people did that
for the noise.. my ears are honestly still ringing/numb
if you stand off to the side yeah you are going to get the conversations and not the full effect of the music-- that will hold true with any band at any venue
PJ, just to say again. I am almost 6 foot and we were about 40ft back left of center, not on the sides, and it was not loud enough. (I could pretty much see alright at 6ft, but anyone shorter, they may have problems.)
I can hawk (sp?) a lugie (sp?) almost 20ft, so 40-50ft is nothing, and it was not loud enough, period. The space is probably over a 1000 ft. deep. If you have to be within 20ft to get the full experience, then something is not right.
And I'm not really saying this becuase I had a bad experience. It was my 3rd show in three days. Whatever I got would have been icing on the cake.
But I think MMJ missed out on a great opportunity to convert many casual fans into diehard MMJ lovers. The place was packed and they gave an excellent performance. It just didn't wow as many persons as it should have.
just curious how you know it didn't "wow" as many people as it should have?
i talked to a lot of people and it was their first MMJ show and they were in love
i didn't hear one bad word from anyone.. and the people were scattered about.. definately not all upclose
not everyone has to have it turned up so much to be able to enjoy it
any chance ur ears were still ringing from the dallas shows that it not being turned up enough was because u were still getting over the Gypsy shows
Anyone else feel like the white stage cover (with lights that lit it) looked a couple times like a rocket that was going to take off?
Man, great show.....first time I saw them...unreal! The three guitars are perfect....
i thought stubbs was incredible if you were up close!!!
it felt awesome up there... BUT i did go back to grab a beer about half way through their set, and it wasn't NEARLY as great towards the back... it was like a completely different feeling behind that big tree next to the balcony.
i think that tree sucks up a bunch of the sound, but i dunno... i'm no sound guy...
i thought the show was great, and that setlist looks right to me as far as what i wrote down.
there was a bunch of funny rambling by jim about being a bottle of water, and things being so beautiful and fucked up.
i can check my notes if anyone's interested.
fun stuff!! can't wait for next tour!
what's the best way to get a recording of the show?
anyone tape it? i'll send you cd's and postage. thanks!