Take Your Money and Your Drugs...

[EverythingChanges]

Take your money and your drugs
Take your money and your drugs
To anyone who wondered
What old Jebus meant to me

Take him out to go diving
In Red Patoka sea
The brain melts in the twilight
With the boar and moving trees

Your skin looks good in moonlight
And goddamn those shaky knees
The fact that my heart's beating
Is all the proof you need

I believe
I believe
I believe

The single best moment of any song I have ever heard. Ever.

That is all.

[johnnYYac]

When learning to play Steam Engine on the Omnichord, I noticed a repetition of chords such that it would allow for the line "take your money and your drugs" to be repeated throughout the ending.  I always wondered how it would sound...

Take your money and your drugs...
To anyone who wondered

Take your money and your drugs...
What old Jebus meant to me

Take your money and your drugs...
Take him out to go diving

Take your money and your drugs...
In Red Patoka Sea

Take your money and your drugs...
The brain melts in the twilight

Take your money and your drugs...
With the boar and moving trees

Take your money and your drugs...
You skin looks good in moonlight

Take your money and your drugs...
And goddamn those shaky knees

Take your money and your drugs...
The fact that my heart's beating

Take your money and your drugs...
Is all the proof you need!

[EverythingChanges]

I now must listen to this part again and sing take your money and your drugs and see!

Btw, not sure if Jim sings I believe there at the end or what it exactly is, but I always felt like I believe fit.

[EverythingChanges]

Also, if anyone has a good quality recording of Steam Engine that exceeds 13 minutes (preferably by a lot), or is unique I'd love to snag a download of it. 

I want the T5 version, and I know I could probably find it in the archives, but when I download sets from the archives, they won't play as loud in my car as my other MMJ stuff. 

[Fully]

Also, if anyone has a good quality recording of Steam Engine that exceeds 13 minutes (preferably by a lot), or is unique I'd love to snag a download of it. 

I want the T5 version, and I know I could probably find it in the archives, but when I download sets from the archives, they won't play as loud in my car as my other MMJ stuff.

That has to do with the way it was taped. Also, I don't believe there is anything from T5 in the archives - one of the reasons so many of us want that boxed set.

[EverythingChanges]

Also, if anyone has a good quality recording of Steam Engine that exceeds 13 minutes (preferably by a lot), or is unique I'd love to snag a download of it. 

I want the T5 version, and I know I could probably find it in the archives, but when I download sets from the archives, they won't play as loud in my car as my other MMJ stuff.

That has to do with the way it was taped. Also, I don't believe there is anything from T5 in the archives - one of the reasons so many of us want that boxed set.

I suppose that is a good thing, the T5 boxset will probably be my favorite set of music I'll own.  I love their live music.  It is so much more powerful than their studio works. 

[MamaKel]

I'm on it like white on an Irish newborn...

1) Pantages 6/22/11: Clocks in at 14:00
"http://archive.org/details/MMJ2011-06-22.MMJ-Pantages-2011-06-22"

2) Wiltern 9/12/12: Clocks in just over 13:00
"http://archive.org/details/MMJ2012-09-12.MMJ-Wiltern-9-12-12"

3) Mann PA 8/17/12: Clocks in at 15 1/2
"http://archive.org/details/MMJ2012-08-17.MMJ2012-08-17"

4) Grand Prairie TX 12/7/11: 12:30 but the sound is really good
"http://archive.org/details/mmj2011-12-07"

5) Tuscaloosa AL 8/19/11: 11:30, but my most favoritest
"http://archive.org/details/mmj2011-08-19.flac"

6) PNC Pavilion 8/17/11: 16:16
"http://archive.org/details/MMJ2011-08-17.flac16_MKH416"

7) Mountain Jam 6/5/11: 15:30
"http://archive.org/details/mmj2011-06-05.tlm170.flac16"

[EverythingChanges]

Thanks MamaKel! I'll have to sort through these when I finish my homework.  Finals week is the worst :/.

Ah, what the heck! I can give one a listen right now, what is the harm in that?

[dylyn]

Also, if anyone has a good quality recording of Steam Engine that exceeds 13 minutes (preferably by a lot), or is unique I'd love to snag a download of it. 

I want the T5 version, and I know I could probably find it in the archives, but when I download sets from the archives, they won't play as loud in my car as my other MMJ stuff. 

The Red Rocks '11 bootleg that is "included" in Roll Call membership is a damn near perfect rendition.  So, I do believe(heh) that is what you're lookin for

[johnnYYac]

I hope folks don't mind that I keep fixing your Archive links.  If you paste the Archive URL into your message, put it in quotes to avoid some weird auto-formatting that disables the link's functionality.

For example, if I post the link to the Philly show from this summer, I put the URL in quotes and get this:

"http://archive.org/details/MMJ2012-08-17.MMJ2012-08-17"

If I do so without quotes, I get this:

http://www.archive.org/download/http://archive.org/details/MMJ2012-08-17.MMJ2012-08-17

Click both links to see which one takes you to the taping.  I've yet to understand why this happens, but find the use of quotation marks to be the simplest fix.

[MamaKel]

I don't know what I would do if music and studying were mutually exclusive!!!

I can say, in all honesty, if it weren't for My Morning Jacket, I would have never graduated from college.  I am really thankful to them for that.

Good luck, and keep up the good work, my friend!

[MamaKel]

Apparently LC Pavilion in Ohio this Summer had a 17 minute version. I have yet to find substantive evidence to support this conjecture.

[MamaKel]

Apparently LC Pavilion in Ohio this Summer had a 17 minute version. I have yet to find substantive evidence to support this conjecture.

The only thing I've got came from one "Dirk Dirkleton"...and who knows about that guy.

[robb]

I was at the Columbus show and can confirm that steam engine was a monster that night. Closed the show with an awesome Pat solo.

[LeanneP]

Uh, what DOES JJ sing at the end of Steam Engine?!

I just listened to it on head phones and I swear he says, "diggety bottom" over and over again. Go ahead, listen close, I swear he sings that!

[TheThird]

Uh, what DOES JJ sing at the end of Steam Engine?!

Bo and Tom had a online chat a while back with Roll Call members and I believe this topic came up. I think Bo said that it's a loop that he cues that's of Jim signing vowels over and over?

[Fully]

Uh, what DOES JJ sing at the end of Steam Engine?!

Bo and Tom had a online chat a while back with Roll Call members and I believe this topic came up. I think Bo said that it's a loop that he cues that's of Jim signing vowels over and over?

I noticed recently in the acoustic version  from a Rolling Stone Session that you can hear it much better. It really isn't Kenny Loggins as several of us think it is. I would link to the video, but I'm on my phone and it just isn't as easy.

[LeanneP]

So, no takers for "diggety bottom"? 

Jim James - Steam Engine

It sounds and looks very much like Jim is singing, "He lied" at the end. Thoughts?

[vespachick]

Uh, what DOES JJ sing at the end of Steam Engine?!

Bo and Tom had a online chat a while back with Roll Call members and I believe this topic came up. I think Bo said that it's a loop that he cues that's of Jim signing vowels over and over?

I noticed recently in the acoustic version  from a Rolling Stone Session that you can hear it much better. It really isn't Kenny Loggins as several of us think it is. I would link to the video, but I'm on my phone and it just isn't as easy.

It is clearly Kenny Loggins.  I don't care what Bo says!   

http://forum.mymorningjacket.com/index.php/topic,3706.msg45997.html#msg45997

[MamaKel]

If I know Jim, and I'm quite certain I don't, I would guess he's either saying

1) Midi File

or

2) Gene Wilder

or maybe a distorted version of idiot that sounds like

Iii-dii-ooot.

Yep. That's it. Nailed it.

(BTW, It's definitely Gene Wilder)