An Evening with My Morning Jacket

I'll just state this now, these guys get my vote for best live rock band on the fucking planet and if they're coming to a town near you i highly recommend you get a ticket and check them out cuz they will blow your fucking doors off, this was the 6th time i've seen them live over the last 9 years or so and they keep getting better every time, (this is the band i missed last year when Nick Disaster was in the hospital), I'm starting to wonder if they ever play a song the same way twice, and just how good are they you ask? well inevitably when you go to a show there will be songs you don't really care about hearing but last night even the ones you didn't feel like hearing kept you riveted they were that good, Jim James seems to love the burgh and he gave a nice little sermon about what a gem the city was and how gorgeous it is, how they rode the incline and ate on Mt. Washington, seems like they were more than up for it last night, it'd be hard to pick some highlights cuz the whole show was pretty much one but we'll start with a 20 minute version of Dondante that morphed and twisted and ended up right back where they started, it was one part Miles Davis, one part Grateful Dead and one part Black Sabbath and yes you read the correctly, at one point during the song Carl Broemel put down his guitar and started playing sax, it was fucking mind melting, combine that with an 8 minute blues-ed out version of Honest Man, which is one for the seasoned fan, an old tune that separated the old dogs from the new kids, another old one Eveleyn is Not Real, and a killer version of Smokin from Shootin' which just might be one of my favorite songs ever put to tape, it hits home on one of those personal levels in  a number of different ways, then of course there was the complete fucking jam of the end of Run Thru, a Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers cover with Neko Case, fucking brilliant start to finish, what's great about the Jacket is that they actually are having just as good a time as the audience, at one point watching them i said that they had the best job in the fucking world, they were all smiling and rocking and enjoying themselves,  i enjoyed the show with special guest The Hassler who by the end of the night looked as if he had had one swell fucking evening...

I'd also like to commend Stage AE, yeah it's sponsored by some mall kid clothes store but this venue is gorgeous, great sight lines, great sound, looks out over the north side and up into Mt. Washington, the staff where friendly and relaxed and didn't bat on eyelash at the amount of herb that was being blown through the whole show (which had to be a fucking ton judging by the smell and yes i helped contribute to the cause), a beautiful night for a show to boot, the above video is from last night taken by someone i don't know, i was to busy jumping around and drinking and getting high to take any footage, enjoy...

Set List:  Victory Dance- Circuital- Off the Record- I'm Amazed- Gideon- You Wanna Freak Out- Knot Comes Loose- Slow Slow Tune- Evelyn is Not Real- Honest Man- Dondante- Movin Away- Smokin from Shootin- end of Run Thru- First Light- Touch Me I"m Going to Scream Pt. 2- Mageetah--- Encore: Wordless Chorus- Islands in the Stream (with Neko Case)- Holdin' on to Black Metal- One Big Holiday