My Morning Jacket at Greek Theatre, September 25, 2021

Another Planet Entertainment presents My Morning Jacket, with opener Durand Jones & The Indications
William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre
2001 Gayley Rd., Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
7:00 PM, Saturday, September 25, 2021

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[7:00 PM] {lights down, performers out}

1. [7:01 PM] Smile
2. [7:05 PM] Don’t You Know
3. [7:08 PM] Circles
4. [7:12 PM] Love Will Work It Out
5. [7:16 PM] How Can I Be Sure (AF)
6. [7:20 PM] Long Way Home
7. [7:24 PM] Cruisin to the Park
8. [7:28 PM] Walk Away
   {Durand off for next song}
9. [7:31 PM] Is It Any Wonder? (AF)
   [7:36 PM] {DJ back onstage}
10. [7:36 PM] True Love
11. [7:40 PM] Dreams
12. [7:45 PM] Witchoo
    {DJ introduces the band}
13. [7:49 PM] Sea of Love
14. [7:53 PM] Groovy Babe
    [7:56 PM] {set ends}

Durand Jones & The Indications

• Lola Adanna: harmony vox;
• Aaron Frazer: drums, lead and harmony vox;
• Durand Jones: lead and harmony vox;
• Kate Mattison: harmony vox;
• Mike Montgomery: bass, harmony vox;
• ? fem ? Morales: congas, percussion, harmony vox;
• Steve Okonski: keyboards, harmony vox;
• Blake Rhein: guitar, keyboards, harmony vox.

[8:30 PM] {lights down, intro music, performers out, JJ on Gibson Flying V guitar}

1. [8:32 PM] One Big Holiday >
   {JJ takes off the guitar}
2. [8:38 PM] Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 2 >
   [8:43 PM] {JJ puts on guitar mid-tune}
   {Tune ends: JJ guitar off, cape on}
3. [8:47 PM] Wordless Chorus
   {JJ: cape off; Flying V on}
4. [8:52 PM] Spring (Among the Living) >
   {JJ: guitar swap}
5. [9:01 PM] Feel You
   {JJ: guitar swap}
6. [9:09 PM] Regularly Scheduled Programming
   {JJ: guitar swap}
7. [9:14 PM] Love Love Love >
   {CB swaps to lap steel guitar}
8. [9:19 PM] Climbing the Ladder
   {JJ guitar swap; CB back to guitar}
9. [9:23 PM] Run It
10. [9:31 PM] Tropics (Erase Traces)
    {JJ: swap back to Flying V}
11. [9:36 PM] Master Plan >
    {JJ: guitar swap}
12. [9:44 PM] I'm Amazed >
    {JJ takes his jacket off, swaps to acoustic guitar}
13. [9:48 PM] Circuital >
    {JJ swaps back to guitar}
14. [9:56 PM] Wasted >
    {JJ: guitar swap}
15. [10:03 PM] Steam Engine > {CB swaps to tenor saxophone for awhile} > [10:16 PM] {JJ: What a Wonderful World tease}
16. [10:20 PM] What a Wonderful Man >
17. [10:23 PM] Phone Went West > [10:27 PM] {JJ: Everyday People tease}
    [10:34 PM] {set ends; feedback continues awhile}
    
    Encore
    {Back in a minute or two; JJ with cape & ?sampler, no guitar}
18. [10:37 PM] Victory Dance >
19. [10:44 PM] Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt 1
    {JJ: cape off, guitar on; then long yack to the aud: Thanks, be good to each other!}
20. [10:49 PM] Mahgeetah
    [10:56 PM] {show ends, band offstage}
    {Feedback continues for another minute or two before lights up}

My Morning Jacket

• Tom Blankenship: bass;
• Carl Broemel: guitar, pedal steel guitar, tenor saxophone, harmony vox;
• Patrick Hallahan: drums, percussion;
• Jim James: guitars, electronics, lead vox;
• Bo Koster: keyboards, percussion, harmony vox.

While both acts on tonight's bill put on great sets, I was also reminded how annoying big GA shows can be: there are just too many idiots out to have a good old party instead of listening to the music.

Figuring that this would be a fairly crowded show, we headed down to the venue with a goal of getting in line about the same time as the doors opened: not psyched enough to go really hard core and wait, but willing to arrive early in order to pick our spot. This proved to be a pretty good move: it was really easy to get neighborhood parking, and the wait to get through vax & security & ticket check was tolerable.

Annoyingly, the Ticketmaster ticket transfer snafu-ed me again: Ting goes in first (of course!), using the ticket I've transfered away, then I get turned down when I try to enter. WTF?? Took a few minutes to get straightened out. Hard to keep cool when you feel like you've done things right and the system doesn't work. I guess the solution going forward is NOT to transfer tickets!

Anyways, the crowd is still pretty sparse once we enter the bowl – certainly we're in the first 1000 tonight – and it's no big deal to find room for the two of us in the dead center sweet spot a few steps up from the pit. I'm surprised that we don't see more people we know – a few acquaintances are here already, but no one to set up camp with. Shoulda tried to get that together in advance!

Something from dinner has upset my stomach tonight: too much Sriracha in my soup? Or the almond milk Ting suggested as an antidote? Who knows. Ting gives me a charcoal pill, and I'm kinda unhappy for awhile, but it eventually starts to do it's thing, and we're early enough that I can go deal with it and not worry about missing the start of the show.

7 PM on the dot and the PA fires up with the walk-on music for Durand Jones & the Indications. The crowd has filled in – the space is somewhere above half full – and happily, most of the folks nearby seem to be into dancing and listening instead of ignoring the opener. This is a good thing, since the sexy R&B of Durand Jones isn't necessarily very loud, so I can hear yackers 20 or 30 feet away, but it's more like background buzz than an in-your-face distraction. They put on a good set

• DJ comments
• MMJ transitions vs full stop
• sing-along

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Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2021 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2021 event list! ☸ On to the next event!