My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket (October 22, 2021) • Page 6

28th I'm pretty sure

 

Nice! Looks like a great setlist. I’ve been chasing “Sooner” for years, kinda jealous there

 

Think they’d ever release these shows in vinyl form like the other two they’ve put out recently?

 

Before this upload to Nugs I would have said yes but they’ve never made something available digitally and then later released it on vinyl. It’s confirmed (unofficially but from a trusted account on the MMJ forum) that there will be a Vol. 3 next year though. I know they taped the two hometown shows I was at in 2016 so I’m really hoping for one of those. Or this years Red Rocks shows which supposedly were unreal

 

I discovered My Morning Jacket sometime around or during the rollout of Z, when my mom showed me an article in The Boston Globe about a band that I had never heard of with a funny name that was playing some shows with The Boston Pops. I am assuming I picked up Z on CD at Newbury Comics, as one did back in those days, but I don’t actually remember doing so. What I do remember, however, is sitting in the backyard of my parents’ house that I had grown up in, on a beautiful warm and sunny day, in my then-recently deceased grandfather’s frayed folding aluminum lawn chair, and playing Z on my round Aiwa boombox for the first time, and instantly falling in love.

For some reason that is lost to the vagaries of time and actual brick & mortar music stores’ inventories on any given day, I picked up At Dawn next, and loved it just as much. It was a little shaggier and scruffier sounding than Z, but that same magic was still there in spades. It Still Moves followed soon after, and I was blown away hearing the boys blasting the doors off the grain silo and kicking their sound wide open for the universe to hear. The Tennessee Fire was the last of their albums out at that time that I found my way to, and, even then, I can remember sometimes thinking it was the best thing that they had done, just pure unbridled musical bliss willing itself against all odds into existence and a glorious state of infinite future possibility.

I distinctly remember the buildup to Evil Urges coming out. In fact, when my parents sold that same house I mentioned earlier years later, I can all but guarantee that there was still an issue of Paste (maybe?) with a picture of the band on the cover and featuring a Jim James with shockingly shorn locks (but I don’t think quite yet mustachioed as he was on the actual album artwork for EU) on the floor of the bedroom closet in the second to last room on the right. The album came out, and there were some songs like Smokin’ From Shootin’ that I considered masterpieces almost immediately and still do to this day, but for the first time there were also some MMJ songs that I just didn’t like at all, and some that I honestly thought were straight up bad. I was thrown for a loop. My unshakable faith was shaken. For the first time I questioned Jim James’ wisdom. What was he doing messing around with side projects like Monsters of Folk…? Surely it would be better if he focused his energies on - and saved his best songs for - his main gig, no?

Circuital, for me, was and is a very good album. Very good, but their first 4 albums were bonafied all-time masterpieces for the damned ages. The Waterfall came and went, and there were a bunch of genuinely amazing songs on it, but it wasn’t until several years had passed and The Waterfall Part 2 finally saw the light of day that I gained a full appreciation for the first half of that project, as the 2015 album surely is.

All of this is a *VERY* long-winded way of saying that I listened to the self-titled album again on my ride home from work tonight, just as I did a few nights ago when a few of you glorious and enlightened bastards were talking about it on here, and I just have to say it again: this album is an hour of straight bliss and magic from my favorite band on the planet, and it is absolutely an album that proudly stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the best of anything these beautiful wizards have conjured up in the past.

 

I really think I might make a trip out to Berkeley to see their two co headliners with Fleet Foxes in August, that’s got bucket list potential

 

Plus my wife has been dying to take another trip to the Bay area since our first one in 2018

 

Could see a cool collaboration or two happening at these shows.

 

I’ve always thought Jim and Robin sounded similar since the first time I heard “Your Protector” and have dreamed of a show with both

 

The two Waterfall records in particular have a lot of tracks that give me big FF vibes

 

I commented "bring this to NYC!" on MMJ's Instagram and Fleet Foxes liked it, so...maybe? Haha.

 

I bought GA presale tickets to Berkeley shows today while they’re available and am just gonna figure it out later whether I can go. Would love if they made this a tour!

 

This would be as good of a pairing for a national tour as the one where they went out with Band of Horses in 2012

 

Caught that tour on a road-trip to the Mann Center in Philly with my now wife on one of our first real dates as a couple!

 

I'm gonna buy it of course but man if these live vinyl releases are now gonna be every 6 months...woof, the ol' budget haha. Legendary set though, super stoked it's being remastered and pressed!

My Morning Jacket - Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 - LP | Shop the ATO Records Official Store

 

Yeah I’ll see y’all in Chicago on Nov. 9th, literally cannot miss an ISM play through (also will do the STL show and hopefully the other two Chi ones!)

 

Sooooooo sick.

 

The three night runs are gonna be legendary. Nights two and three with them doing their usual no repeats practice for a multi night run AND with all of ISM already off the board…gonna be some serious deep cut action

 

Oh damn - I may actually have to come out of retirement and catch a live show for the first time in years.

 

When was the last time you saw MMJ? I’ve been seeing em for a minute (privilege of being from Kentucky) and their live show is as good as it’s ever been. Highly recommend.

 

MMJ was my first concert post-COVID. it was, to say the least, rejuvenating.

 

Alright I registered for the CHI dates. We’ll see if I get lucky with tix for night 1.

anyone know when passwords get sent out for One Big Holiday 2024? I think I’m going to actually do it

 

Yeah weren’t you and @Jim at the Chicago show that became live vol 2?

 

How many tickets do you need because I’m going solo probably, could share the wealth if I get accepted for the presale. Gonna register tonight

 

I'm ashamed to say it's been over a decade. The last time I saw them was at The Mann Center in Philly in 2012. I think I've only seen them twice, honestly.