Lamentably, I didn’t make it out to this year’s Bonnaroo, but thanks to some enterprising hippies, I’ve wrangled a bootleg of My Morning Jacket’s marathon four-hour set that was reportedly played in the midst of a torrential downpour. I haven’t had the chance to listen to it in its entirety but the sound quality isn’t bad, even if Jim’s voice sounds a bit strained. Naturally, there are covers galore (galore, I tell you), including cuts from Sly & the Family Stone, Erykah Badu, James Brown, Funkadelic, Kool & the Gang, Bobby Womack, the Velvet Underground and uh…Motley Crue. I’m presuming this is as a thanks to Tommy Lee for writing “Highly Suspicious.”
Setlist after the jump (jacked courtesy of the fine people at Hidden Track)
Download:
ZIP: My Morning Jacket-”Bonnaroo 2008, 6-13-08) (Left-Click)
Set I: Evil Urges, Off the Record, Gideon, Hot Fun (Sly & the Family Stone)* , Highly Suspicious, What a Wonderful Man, I’m Amazed, Thank You Too, Touch Me Pt 1, Sec Walkin, Golden, Two Halves, Laylow, Hit it and Quit it (Funkadelic), Tyrone (Erykah Badu), Steam Engine – with drum solo, Anytime, Aluminum Park, Easy Morning Rebel*, Dancefloors*, One Big Holiday**
Set II: Cold Sweat (James Brown)*, Get Down On It (Kool and the Gang)* , Across 110th Street (Bobby Womack & Peace)*, Phone Went West, Mahgeetah, Oh Sweet Nuthin (Velvet Underground), Librarian, Bermuda Highway#, Dondante, Run Thru, Smokin from Shootin, Touch Me Pt 2, Home Sweet Home (Mötley Crüe)$
4 comments
Scuba Steve says:
June 19, 2008 at 6:07 pm (UTC -7)
yo Weiss why didn’t you give us a tip-off about your piece in the LA Weekly about Dilla beats? I was waiting for that since you mentioned it earlier, and it was good.
Passion of the Weiss says:
June 19, 2008 at 6:51 pm (UTC -7)
I was actually saving it for a post Monday, complete with some best of Dilla tracks. Glad you liked it though. Thanks.
Russell says:
June 19, 2008 at 8:16 pm (UTC -7)
I learned a valuable festival lesson about partying too hard that day at Bonnaroo. I caught part of the first set, but was tired, saw a little Lord T and Eloise (which was kind of fun), and went back to my tent, where I could hear MMJ take it up a notch or two for the end of the first set and the entire second set.
I’m still kicking myself.
Ass Hat says:
June 20, 2008 at 3:52 am (UTC -7)
damn. i wish these guys would actually play a gig in england, rather than falling out with each other and pissing off back home every time they come over.