Comments on: My Morning Jacket: September 3, DAR Constitution Hall http://auralstates.com/2008/09/my-morning-jacket-september-3-dar-constitution-hall.html Baltimore-based music blog focusing on all things music-related in the region. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:17:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff Mewbourn http://auralstates.com/2008/09/my-morning-jacket-september-3-dar-constitution-hall.html/comment-page-1#comment-636 Jeff Mewbourn Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:48:51 +0000 http://auralstates.com/?p=615#comment-636 <p>Sleepy Pedro, a taper out of Annapolis, taped this show:</p> <p>http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=518363</p> Sleepy Pedro, a taper out of Annapolis, taped this show:

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=518363

]]> By: Greg Szeto http://auralstates.com/2008/09/my-morning-jacket-september-3-dar-constitution-hall.html/comment-page-1#comment-569 Greg Szeto Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:26:25 +0000 http://auralstates.com/?p=615#comment-569 <p>I gotta disagree on some points. I think you can break new ground by stoking the past. MMJ have successfully done so, assimilating much that has come before and making new, bold music from the bits and pieces.</p> <p>In some ways, deconstructing their influences is, in fact, a moot point. It's like the structure of matter itself...if you start examining things on a smaller and smaller scale, you start to see similarities since all matter is made of subatomic particles and share the same physical properties.</p> <p>So it is with music.</p> <p>I think the biggest testaments to MMJ's artistry and originality are that: 1) the majority of their music is unmistakably theirs, and 2) their versatility (evidenced by their wide range of successful covers) is astounding.</p> <p>artists today generally break new ground in one of two ways: finding one of those increasingly obscure, unexplored areas of sound and music or they synthesize and fuse aspects of musicians and genres before them into a brand new musical alloy. MMJ fall into the latter category.</p> I gotta disagree on some points. I think you can break new ground by stoking the past. MMJ have successfully done so, assimilating much that has come before and making new, bold music from the bits and pieces.

In some ways, deconstructing their influences is, in fact, a moot point. It’s like the structure of matter itself…if you start examining things on a smaller and smaller scale, you start to see similarities since all matter is made of subatomic particles and share the same physical properties.

So it is with music.

I think the biggest testaments to MMJ’s artistry and originality are that: 1) the majority of their music is unmistakably theirs, and 2) their versatility (evidenced by their wide range of successful covers) is astounding.

artists today generally break new ground in one of two ways: finding one of those increasingly obscure, unexplored areas of sound and music or they synthesize and fuse aspects of musicians and genres before them into a brand new musical alloy. MMJ fall into the latter category.

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