February 2012
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WatchCarried Away, Carl Broemel At SXSW For IFC
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The Day Is Coming, My Morning Jacket
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February, 2012
Interviewer: Now when it comes to the show you’re doing at the moment, you’ve got such an extensive back catalogue of songs to choose from. How do you put a setlist together every night?
Patrick Hallahan: This next set of shows, we don’t have any parameters so to speak. I am feeling a cross section of everything. To have that many to choose from, we get into some disputes from time to time.
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June, 2011
Interviewer: The new song "Outta My System" has a Ramones vibe: They told me not to smoke drugs, but I wouldn't listen / Never thought I'd get caught and wind up in prison. What's the story?
Jim James: Disney asked us to write new music for the Muppet movie. It was one of the first sketches I cooked up. If it ended up being for the Electric Mayhem band, I would've taken out the drug references.
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October 2003
Interviewer: If you had $17.99 to spare, what album would you buy for a friend?
Jim James: If it was a younger friend who didn't really know the music that I love, I would take that $17.99, add another $10 and buy Physical Graffiti. The first time I heard Led Zeppelin was on Halloween night when I was in fifth grade. It was Ramble On from Led Zeppelin II, and it changed my life.
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Run Thru, My Morning Jacket
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June, 2005
Interviewer: Do you have a lot of creative input on the songs arrangements?
Tom Blankenship: Yeah, I think most of the time they stay pretty close structure-wise to what they were on the demo and sometimes they’re radically different. Especially on It Still Moves, that whole middle part on Run Thru with the weird distorted synth and the drum and bass thing was kind of a happy accident that happened while we were rehearsing. And that stuff still happens.