MMJ at the Chicago Theater

[phan]

Best show I've ever seen.

so fucking tight...way better than the bootlegs i've heard from this tour.

I can't wait for another night of it tonight.

[sleepyhead]

I agree, both shows were fucking on. I was front row in front of Jim on Saturday and sixth row on Karl's side for the second night. Phenomenal shows. Here's a couple pictures I took on Saturday on my Blackberry





Here are the setlists for those that are interested

Saturday:
Evil Urges
Touch Me Part 1
Off the Record
Aluminum Park
I'm Amazed
Thank You Too
Sec Walkin
The Way That He Sings
Mahgeetah
Golden
Where to Begin
Librarian
Evelyn is Not Real
War Begun
Lay Low
Phone Went West
Gideon
Dondante
Smokin From Shootin
Touch Me Part 2
Enc:
Wordless Chorus
Highly Suspicious
Anytime
One Big Holiday

Sunday:
At Dawn
It Beats 4 U
I'm Amazed
Gideon
What a Wonderful Man
Golden
I Will Sing You Songs
Low Down
Sooner
Thank You Too
Anytime
Remnants
Lay Low
Highly Suspicious
Off The Record
I Think I'm Going to Hell
Smokin From Shootin
Touch Me Part 2
Run Thru
Enc:
Look At You (Jim solo)
From Nashville to Kentucky
Steam Engine
Cobra
Wordless Chorus
One Big Holiday

[Mikey]

MMJ?

[sleepyhead]

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My Morning Jacket

[phan]

i though saturday was much tigher and higher energy though the setlist on sunday was a bit more rare

[sleepyhead]

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Agreed

[Vine]

I'm so friggin jealous of you guys. Guess I'll have to wait until they come back to Louisville later next year...I think they're overseas for a while.

[Brock]

Sounds excellent, great looking set lists. I've become a pretty big fan since around the time I saw them in Milwaukee back in the fall. At Dawn is probably my favorite album.

[Brock]

I'm really looking forward to both of these projects.

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Wednesday, June 24
My Morning Jacket's Jim James to Release George Harrison Tribute EP
It's credited to "Yim Yames" My Morning Jacket's Jim James to Release George Harrison Tribute EP

My Morning Jacket aren't doing much at the moment, but angelic-voiced frontman Jim James isn't using that band's downtime to sit around combing his gigantic beard. This fall, James will be on his grind.

We already reported that the long-awaited self-titled album from Monsters of Folk, James's supergroup with Conor Oberst, M. Ward, and Mike Mogis, is due September 22 from Shangri-La in North America, Rough Trade in Europe, Spunk in Australia, and P-Vine in Japan. But before that album even drops, we'll hear even more new music from James.

On August 4, ATO will release Tribute To, James' EP of George Harrison covers, Billboard reports. Under the goofily adorable pseudonym Yim Yames, James takes on six of the late Beatle's songs. Two songs from Tribute To are Beatles jams that Harrison wrote, while the others come from the solo Harrison album All Things Must Pass.

According to Billboard, James recorded the EP a few days after Harrison died in 2001; it's been sitting in the vault since then. James did the whole thing himself, on vocals and acoustic guitar. In the liner notes, James calls Harrison "a prime example of the healing power of music." The Tribute To tracklist is below.

Also, Billboard claims that Monsters of Folk are "expected to" tour in September.

Tribute To:

01 Long, Long, Long
02 Behind That Locked Door
03 Love You To
04 My Sweet Lord
05 Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
06 All Things Must Pass

Posted by Tom Breihan on June 24, 2009 at 12:40 p.m.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[liner]

i actually first got into mmj and m ward because i really like bright eyes and saw an hour special they all recorded together. "monsters of folk" they're calling it now i guess. it was so good i had to check out mmj and m ward and i'm glad i did. hopefully they tour

[phan]

sweet

[Brock]

You can download a song from the James/Oberst/M Ward project (Monsters of Folk) here

http://monstersoffolk.com/

I also downloaded James' George Harrison tribute EP from Soulseek, so I'm sure it's available using whatever it is that the rest of you guys use to download stuff.

[liner]

i've been listening to an old show of theirs i have and it's pretty great. jim james sings a version of "you were always on my mind". good stuff

[liner]

i just got some pre-sale tickets for the monsters of folk auditorium show and it didn't say where the seats were. weird.

[rok]

Also, Oberst is going to be retiring the Bright Eyes moniker after one more album, according to Pitchfork. He's still going to carry on solo and with other side projects, so I'm not really sure if it matters.