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Stellar show last night for "An Evening With My Morning Jacket." They played for nearly three hours. I had heard they had been covering Erykah Badu's "Tyrone" on this tour. She lives in Dallas, and as they went into it, she came out and joined the band on stage and it was awesome, crowd went crazy. I'll try to upload some more pictures of it later, but here's the set and video of Tyrone.

Evil Urges

Off the Record

Gideon

Wonderful Man

The Way He Sings

Touch Me Pt. 1

I'm Amazed

Thank You Too

Sec Walkin

Golden

Two Halves

War Begun

Laylow

Aluminum Park

Mahgeetah

Phone Went West

Bermuda Highway (Jim solo)

Look At You

Dondante

Smokin From Shootin

Touch Me Pt. 2

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Tyrone (with Erykah Badu)

Wordless Chorus

Highly Suspicious

Cobra

Anytime

Run Thru

One Big Holiday

Local H - Pack up the Cats

Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri La Dee Da

NIN - With Teeth

Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara

Okkervil River - Down the River of Golden Dreams

Silverchair - Diorama

Toadies - Hell Belove Stars Above

Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells

The Wallflowers - Rebel, Sweetheart

Nickle Creek has done a couple, pretty positive Poor Places was one.

God, that Rolling Rock show was their best, ever.

That song always reminded me of The Moody Blues' "Knights in White Satin." But speaking of the Doors, they were on a tribute album and Weiland did a few shows with the band in Morrison's place, like this VH1 special. Listen and tell me he isn't damn near spot on, especially towards the end:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oCDVvnLPyD0

Their best song is "Atlanta".

I agree 100%. Here they are performing it on VH1 Storytellers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3XSJjzheHs8

Analog, if you're interested, their 5th, Shangri La Dee Da, is my second favorite. But its quite different from Purple.

A&R?

They are. Atlantic was prepared to strike a deal that would get them out of their record contract (7 albums, they've delivered 6) until this tour started, because they didn't see it taking off. But now that they're playing sold out shows (in front of as much as 30,000)...they want that 7th record. The lawsuit has only been filed against Weiland/Kretz (drummer) because Atlantic relieved the DeLeo brothers (guitar/bass) of their responsibility to pursue other endeavors, which included Army of Anyone with Richard Patrick.

Yea, I know that this probably isn't the place for STP discussion, but I was very excited for this massive reuion gig as they are my favorite band growing up, and still are one of my favorites today. Their stage show iss really high up there.

When this tour was announced, I was furious. They ripped off fans, started a BS "fan club" that you had to pay 50 bucks to join, just to get presale access for their overpriced shows, and a slew of other complaints I won't bore you with. I went in impossible to please and came out really surprised. Those guys could have phoned it in and they didn't. They came out, gave it 110% for nearly two hours, and just fucking nailed it. Got to hear all the hits, and even some deep cuts I wasn't expecting that they've never/rarely played like, Coma, Too Cool Queenie, Lounge Fly, Sin, Silvergun Superman.

After the show my friend and I bolted for the tour bus. Of course Weiland blew us off because he's a cocksucker (has his own bus btw) and bolted. So did the drummer and bass player. I would understand if there were like 200 people lined up for autographs, but there were 10 of us at this gate. It would have taken 2 minutes of their precious rock star time and they could have signed for literally everyone. The guitar player did come out and sign my Shangri La Dee Da liner notes and took pictures with everyone who was waiting, which I thought was very cool (not that I don't feel we deserved it with the amount of money they're making off this thing. 70 bucks a pop per ticket...and fucking T-SHIRTS were going for 45 dollars (!))

Anyway, some of my pics came out okay:

Pretty good record. Nothing earth shattering but I really enjoy it.

Also, no big deal, but I read a lot of people here saying that The Wallflowers have four albums, and that Bringing Down the Horse (the one with One Headlight, 6th Ave, 3 Marlenas, etc) is their first album. They actually have 5 albums, their first was self titled and released 4 years prior.

Sorry, kind of a big Wallflowers nerd.

lol. Only 20 posts and I've established a legacy.

I saw Strangers today, and Sad and Lonely was in there, but I'm almost positive it was not the album version, but a Jeff solo version.

I just finished The Road yesterday. I've read a lot of books in my life, and that was one of the best. I actually teared up. What an emotional punch in the gut. I can't recommend it enough. Brilliant.

I've shifted now to American Gods by Neil Gaiman today.

Bought a ton, but stand outs for me include

Okkervil River - The Stage Names

Two Gallants - The Scenery of Farewell EP/Two Gallants

Kings of Leon - Because of the Times

Wilco - SBS

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger

Local H - Local H Comes Alive

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Burning Brides - Hang Love

Modest Mouse - We Were Dead...

Yep, and it was killer.

I'm dead tired, but it was awesome. Better than last year.

Ham Fisted

As Good As Dead

Pack Up the Cats

Here Comes the Zoo

Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?

Core

Purple

Tiny Music

No.4

Shangri La Dee Da

Vs.

Vitalogy

No Code

Yield

Binaural

De Stijl

White Blood Cells

Elephant

Get Behind Me Satan

Icky Thump

Odelay

Mutations

Midnight Vultures

Sea Change

Guero

Wallflowers

Bringing Down the Horse

Breach

Red Letter Days

Rebel, Sweetheart

What other band does this?

 

None.

And Local H.

Needs a Wallflowers cover.

Local H rocked it.

Their set:

Michelle

BMW Man

Buffalo Trace

Them's Fighting Words

Fine and Good

Hey Rita

Heavy Metal Bakesale

Bloodstains (Agent Orange cover)

That's What They All Say

Fritz's Corner

All Right, Oh Yeah

Bound for the Floor

Hands on the Bible

All the Kids Are Right

California Songs

May be missing some. Not in that order.

And a couple vids of new tracks Michelle and BMW Man

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FE12410607CF4066

I'll be there. Its one of the "nicer" venues but only because its relatively new. Saw Army of Anyone there earlier. As for loudness, I think that while they songs may be loud, the nature of Wilco's music makes it easier on the ears than taking them to a hard rock show. You'll be fine.

SBS

YHF

AGIB

BT

ST

AM

California Stars was my wedding song. Reservations and We're Just Friends stand out too.

I grab one, stop at my local QT for a big ass fountain drink, and sit in the back of a church parking lot around midnight to play through one of the records.