[ATTENDED: October 11, 2025] My Morning Jacket
After such a great night last night, we wound up leaving a little bit later (figuring there was no Friday night traffic) and arrived a few minutes later than last night. But when I walked up to the merch line there was literally one person in front of me–moments later when I looked again, the line was huge, going up the stairs. Then we headed down to the pit. It was a little more crowded than last night. We were going to try to get in front of Jim, but that’s what everyone else wanted, too. So we camped out more or less where we were the night before, in front of Carl. We were two people back from where we were, which isn’t bad at all.
So yes, last night as pretty tiring and we’d had a busy day, but we were psyched for a second night of My Morning Jacket. And I was super psyched when they opened with Highly Suspicious, a totally ripping song from Evil Urges and one that I’d forgotten about–it was also the first time I’d seen it live. This was also when I learned that Carl Broemel can do so many great backing voices (including the deep, angry chanting of “highly suspicious”). They followed it with Off the Record, one of the poppier songs off of Z.
Then Carl Broemel moved over to the pedal steel guitar and they played the short but fun Climbing the Ladder. It was interesting that last night Carl played the saxophone on a few songs but didn’t play it at all tonight. And last night he didn’t play the pedal steel at all but he played it about three times tonight.
And it was pretty clear that if last night’s show was all about jamming, tonight show was shorter, more rocking songs. And the guys in the front who were headbanging last night had much more cause to do so tonight.
Speaking of the pit. Tonight’s crowd was fascinating. There was a guy who kept walking around the pit area hugging and fist bumping people. He switched places with people and let other be on the barrier. In fact, one of the long-haired headbangers let some of the shorter folks switch places with him for a song or two. It was an incredibly generous and, dare I say it, loving thing to do. Appropriate for the next song Love Love Love, the only song they played from their previous self-titled album. The lighting at the shows was fairly simply but effective. They had five panels mounted behind them. All of the panels had lights that moved and spun and changed colors. But during Love Love Love, they spelled out Love! which was pretty nice.
Up next was Wordless Chorus, one of the great MMJ songs. The crowd went nuts and we all sang the wordless chorus over and over as Jim walked around the stage, coming over by us at last. (more…)
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