MMJ Boston

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Just got in from the show last night, will post more thoughts later. Awesome show, great setlist (did I mention the great setlist?), sweet sound and nice venue. Lay Low was epic, Phone Went West, Run Thru... Nice. Missed the Slip. Note to venues - if you publish the door time as 7 on the tickets, don't put the opener on at 6:45.

Boston is an amazing city, from what I saw.

One Big Holiday

What A Wonderful Man

Gideon

The Way That He Sings

Off The Record

Just One Thing

Golden

Wordless Chorus

Lowdown

Lay Low

Phone Went West

Dondante

Run Thru

They Ran

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Tonight I Want 2 Celebrate With You

It Beats 4 U

Dancefloors (w/ Boston Horns)

Easy Mornin Rebel (w/ Horns)

Mahgeetah

Anytime

[boiler]

An opener at 6:45?? WTF, they must like to go to bed early in Boston. What's up with that?

[Jaimoe]

Nice set with a share of refreshing unpredictable songs.

[mattyp]

Glad to hear that you liked Boston. I'm moving there soon. Not happy to hear the mix up with the opening set times.

I have heard that Boston closes down even earlier than Toronto does...

[Jaimoe]

I have heard that Boston closes down even earlier than Toronto does...

I was in Boston a few years ago and thought that the city closed surprisingly early. Chinatown in NYC and Boston both close early too, so if you get the munchies late at night and have a hankering for some beef with black bean sauce, you may be out of luck.

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Here's a link to the Slip's opening set.

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=502269

01. Airplane/Primitive #

02. Even Rats

03. If One Of Us Should Fall

04. First Panda In Space>

05. The Soft Machine

06. Let There Be Horses

07. Children Of December

NOTES:

# Brad broke a string

According to the comments in the linked thread, there were 3 tapers of MMJ, two of them went to DAT so it will take a while for the show to show up. If anyone finds it in the meantime, please post here!

Cheers.

I wish you could all hear how awesome Lay Low and Dondante were... The whole show was great.

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[Jaimoe]

I wish you could all here how awesome Lay Low and Dondante were... The whole show was great.

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I used to believe that One Big Holiday was the best modern southern rock anthem, but now I think it's Lay Low. Man, it's truly thrilling when that song takes off into the guitar jam.

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Lay Low on Saturday was 100 times better than Okonokos, the guitar 'jam' spent more time developing, sounded like the guitars were tuned better, and the pace was perfect.

Two reviews:

Boston Globe Review

My Morning Jacket turns up heat

By Jonathan Perry, Globe Correspondent | December 4, 2006

Much like its music, which often sounds more like a rolling tidal wave of pure electricity and energy than something so quaint as a rock song, My Morning Jacket's momentum just keeps building. It wasn't very long ago -- a Saturday night in 2003, in fact -- when frontman Jim James gazed out at a crowd that had jammed the downstairs room at the Middle East in Cambridge, visibly astonished that 500 people had shown up to hear and cheer his band from Louisville, Ky.

This past Saturday night at Avalon, James looked neither amazed nor even mildly surprised at the fact that four times as many folks had crammed into every nook and cranny of the ballroom, eager to envelop themselves in My Morning Jacket's glittery fusion of re-imagined Southern boogie, cosmic cowboy songs, and peyote-dusted psychedelia.

Just how unique and, more important, good a band is My Morning Jacket?

Consider that the group is touring in support of a new double-disc live album and companion concert DVD called "Okonokos," recorded last year at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco. Moreover, both are terrific (and how many concert DVDs and live albums, never mind double albums, can you say that about?).

As the quintet seems to do just about every time it takes the stage, James and Co. -- guitarist Carl Broemel , bassist Two-Tone Tommy , drummer Patrick Hallahan , and keyboardist Bo Koster -- managed to match, and perhaps surpass, its own best performances on Saturday evening.

From the group's blistering guitar jams and storming armies of feedback to the celestial howl of James's voice, bathed in reverb and soaring as if from a space mountain on high, this was a mesmerizing two-hour triumph, and one that underscored MMJ's growing reputation as one of America's very best rock bands.

"Gideon," which launched the show, was an exhilarating rocket ride to the stars, and once the band members reached the rarified air of their destination -- it didn't take them long to transport themselves, and the crowd -- they showed no sign of stopping or turning back.

Instead, they thrust forward with abandon, headlong into the possibilities that awaited them, shooting toward a universe where old - guard titans like Neil Young's Crazy Horse and the Allman Brothers plugged in alongside newer sonic avatars such as Sparklehorse and the Flaming Lips. Blissfully romantic hymnals ("Lowdown") gave way to rippling, excursive epics ("Off the Record") and then exploded into something new and electric yet again, just as dazzling, just as bright.

Boston Herald Review

Audiences awakening to Morning

By Jed Gottlieb/ Music Review

Monday, December 4, 2006 - Updated: 04:56 AM EST

Epic rock is a dying art. If you’re a fan of skate-punk, post-grunge or rap-metal, you’ve got plenty of carbon-copy bands to adore. But if you’re on a quest to find your generation’s Who or “Misty Mountain Hop,†well, you’re on an odyssey of near-Homeric proportions. But don’t give up, if you look long enough you’ll find that most roads lead to My Morning Jacket.

My Morning Jacket may not evoke the force inherent in a name such as Steppenwolf or Deep Purple, but the band’s music more than makes up for its odd moniker. Saturday night at the Avalon, My Morning Jacket validated its growing reputation as an foundation-shaking live band.

Often called a jam band or alt-rock group, My Morning Jacket is really just pure, epic rock. Like a legendary Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin or Traffic show, the Jim James-led Kentucky quintet wandered furiously across dozens of genres and scores of sounds over the course of Saturday’s two-hour set. “Gideon†dove into strange, Floyd-like atmospherics, “Just One Thing†flirted with an acoustic-guitar, folk-ballad feel, and both “Off the Record†and “Phone Went West†were driven by classic reggae beats. Yet no matter how far they drifted - and they drifted plenty from reggae and country to psychedelic and electronica - every song retained a rock ’n’ roll core.

My Morning Jacket has yet to connect with a large, mainstream audience, but after touring with Pearl Jam earlier this year and selling out Avalon this weekend, that probably won,t be the case for long. There are too many guys looking for the band’s ’70s-style heroic energy for it to stay underground much longer.

Opening the show was the Boston- and Montreal-based the Slip. Invited on tour by fans My Morning Jacket, the double billing worked perfectly. The Slip share its patrons’ flare for genre-bending riffs rooted in loud, long rock. After the Slip’s too-short set, the crowd gave the band a euphoric applause usually reserved for a headliner -which was doubly impressive considering half the night’s audience was still outside waiting to get in.

[Jaimoe]

I thought about posting those reviews earlier this morning, but I thought you were working on a reivew AD and I didn't want to step on your feet.

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Nope no review from me on this one; I'll let the pros take care of it. Thanks for thinking of me though!

That was my fifth MMJ show and I can't wait to see them again. And again. And again. (How's that for a review? )

[Jaimoe]

That was my fifth MMJ show and I can't wait to see them again. And again. And again. (How's that for a review? )

I know what you are saying.

[Freeker]

Did anyone from Ottawa get peed on in Boston??

From www.mymorningjacket.com forum

"during the encore he told the audience he got wind that somebody was caught peeing in the crowd and that he was glad we were comfortable enough to laugh at that, carl was cracking up "

"He was joking when he said the monitor guy was the one peeing. How do I know this? Because I'm the one who got peed on, and the peer was some 50-ish year old, short, stocky, graying drunkard. I was standing in the back right corner, near the sound boards, in front of the stairs to get off the floor and towards the bathrooms. About 3 songs in, this guy who was absolutely wasted made his way back there to try to get to the bathroom. I guess he wasn't able to make it through the throngs, because a few minutes later I felt what felt like a vibrating cell phone on my shoe. It took me a minute to realize I had just been pissed on....the last thing I was expecting was to be peed on in public. I confronted the guy and was so close to decking him, but it was only a few songs in and there was no way I was going to miss the show. I said something to a security guard and the thought it was hilarious and said it was too crowded for him to go get the guy. I told one of the girls in the back selling beer about it and she started telling everyone, so I guess that's how the band heard about it. I decided to just enjoy the show and was laughing hysterically when Jim called him out on stage. We turned around to watch him then and the guy outright bolted out during the story, shoving his way towards the exit. I ran into him again outside about half an hour after the show and got some cash out of him for new shoes (not nearly enough, but he only had a $20 on him....what do you expect from a guy who pees in crowds?). I hit home with a comment about an ex-wife and estranged kids and he drunkenly stormed off again. "

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haha that was one of the funnier moments of the show... jim came out for the encore and said he heard someone got peed on... then he said he thought it was their monitor tech guy who was the pee-er... carl and jim both cracked up and launched into Tonight I Want 2 Celebrate With You, Jim on omnichord and Carl on pedal steel. Jim was also wearing rather large skeleton boots, talked about how the Avalon was where John H Airplane invented and stored the first airplane, and tossed a stuffed mastodon around while singing.