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Steam Engine, My Morning Jacket live at the Verizon Wireless Center 12/7/2011
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October 2011
Jim James:
I'm Jim and I play guitar and I sing
Patrick Hallahan:
I'm Patrick and I play the drums
Jim James:
And we've known each other since fourth grade, we have the same birthday. I'm four minutes older.
Interviewer:
Did you guys have beards back then?
Jim James:
We did
Jim James and Patrick Hallahan together:
We came out with beards
Patrick Hallahan:
I think that's what it was that drew us together, that we were the only fourth graders with beards
Jim James:
Yeah
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“Can I just say thank you to the lovely and talented James Valentine from Maroon 5 for mentioning My Morning Jacket in a tweet several months ago? If it hadn’t been for that, I might not have seen MMJ in concert this weekend and been moved almost to tears by one of Carl Broemel’s guitar solos.”
Vanity Fair interview, 2009
Jim James:
It was out at our old studio, which was on my cousin’s grandparents’ farm, in Shelbyville, Kentucky. We rented this big taxidermic grizzly bear, and it’s so funny when I think back on it, because you could just, like, Photoshop that kind of shit in. But we didn’t.
Sam Erickson:
If we had tried to do it digitally, it just wouldn’t have been as cool.
Jim James:
Yeah, I agree. I’m so glad we didn’t. But it’s hilarious to look back, in retrospect, and think about seven grown men hefting a stuffed grizzly bear up through this hole in the side of a barn.
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“My Morning Jacket at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. This one one of my absolute favorite concerts to have photographed.”
Listen to or download My Morning Jacket Live at Verizon Wireless Theater - 2011-12-07
I’m a 20-year-old video-store clerk playing in a band. A bandmate gives me a cassette for another project he’s working on. … I listen to the tape, amazed that this hilarious dude Jim has written these beautiful songs.
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Tom Blankenship, looking back at the time around The Tennessee Fire
October 2010
