“tell me there’s nobody else in the wold”
See: when I’m on the lazier side of things I just post the music links I find on the internet, instead of writing anything. I’ve got time on my hands to comb the web for good music so you don’t have to. I woke up at 4 am today and I don’t know why, so I’m kind of haggard. archive.org is one of the best parts of the internet, and i’ve been swimming around in its glory for at least 15 years.
I want to point out that archive.org does other things besides streaming Grateful Dead tapes. Now, I have never seen my morning jacket live, but I got hip to the fact that they have killer tapes with great songs that get stretched out for over 15 minutes, like any jam band worth a damn. As a rule, I don’t really like jam bands anymore but the mmj archives contain a little more RAWK than your basic b to d list jammers. it rocks but its still nice and roomy and spacious.
It was one of the better days I’ve ever had, cruising in the Rocky Mountains with my oldest friend prior to one of the better nights of phish I’ve seen, and Jam On Sirius satellite radio was playing that year’s (2015) mmj red rocks show. I was so impressed, it was sounding like some of the best music I had ever heard. Now, i can’t link that tape because I literally had to pay for the soundboard copy, and it’s locked in a google drive I can’t get at right now, but i can link the set from lock’n festival in 2016, which is maybe just as good. It has great jammed out originals (steam engine being very stand out ) and some really choice covers (rebel rebel, purple rain) . I’m a fan now, and I’d very much like to see them sometime. i regret being such a close minded jam band hippie at bonnaroo 2004 and not catching their set.
I think the frontman Jim James put out a solo album pretty shortly after this which I kept in pretty constant rotation for the next few months. “here in spirit” became one of my all time favorie tunes. the whole record is pretty brilliant, I’ll link that too:
