A Live One – My Morning Jacket MSG 12.31.08
If good looks was a minute/ You know that you could've been an hour- Smokey Robinson, 'The Way You Do The Things You Do'
White tails and laser lights- It's a MMJ NYE in MSG!
Today, Shambollocks! starts a new feature- A Live One. When I was in high school, my friend Stas, Jeff, and I would frequent the Hillside Holiday Inn to join the vinyl geeks and Trekkies in quest of ever more of the pop culture artifacts we held dear. I loved going home, throwing on the earphones, and cranking up the Boss at the Spectrum or Zeppelin at the Garden. All those great classic rock bands, all those great venues I could never see. Well, the internet makes those runs to Hillside unneccessary. The first resource I’ll send you to if you’re a real nut for live music, like myself, is Wolfgang’s Vault. And the next resource is right here, every other week.
We kick off the new feature with a Shambollocks! favorite- Kentucky’s own My Morning Jacket. One of my favorite concert memories of recent vintage is attending Lollapalooza in ‘06 and walking toward the MMJ stage. I was midway through Grant Park, almost at the Buckingham Fountain, when I began to hear the strains of ‘Off The Record’. My head bobbed. MMJ was still six city blocks away. That was how loud they were. When I got to the stage, they preceded to tear my head off for two hours. Fantastic festival set.
Two weeks ago at MSG, MMJ were at the top of their game. They do what every band should do with a NYE gig. They have lots of fun! They cover Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, and James Brown. And they do the songs justice. They do all the songs of theirs you’d want. The version of ‘Dondante’ plain out trawls. The wife and I would definitely made it out for this kind of NYE. Download here. Or play here.
Disc 1/Set 1:
1. intro music – What Are You Doing New Years Eve
2. Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield) *
3. Evil Urges *
4. Off The Record
5. Gideon
6. The Way That He Sings
7. Thank You Too
8. I’m Amazed
9. Golden ^
10. Librarian
11. You’re All I Need (marvin gaye) * +
12. Express Yourself (charles wright) *
13. Wonderful Man
14. Lay Low
15. Phone Went West
Disc 2/Set 1(cont):
16. Look At You
17. Dondante
18. Smoking from Shootin->
19. Touch Me Part 2->
20. Run Thru
21. The Wanderer (Dion) *
22. Dancefloors *
23. Magheeta
Disc 3/Set 2:
1. new years’ countdown
2. Celebration (kool & the gang) *
3. Get Down On It (kool & the gang) *
4. Wordless Chorus
5. Highly Suspicious
6. Cobra
7. Islands in the Stream (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers) +
8. Bring It on Home to Me (Sam Cooke) *
9. Cold Sweat (James Brown)*
10. Anytime
11. One Big Holiday
12. Auld Lang Syne (sung by Jim James over a prerecorded backing track)
13. outro music – We’ll Meet Again 
O'Hare Arpt., IL
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