Full Show Audio: My Morning Jacket Welcomes Johnny Quaid & Covers Prince At Red Rocks
By Andy Kahn May 30, 2016 • 9:20 am PDT
My Morning Jacket concluded off a two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Sunday evening. The Louisville rockers welcomed founding guitarist Johnny Quaid to the stage at the famed outdoor venue near Denver, who sat-in for a number songs during the encore.
MMJ opened their Red Rocks finale with “Compound Fracture” from last year’s The Waterfall LP. The main set also saw Jim James and the band deliver their new song “Throwback (When We Were Young)” as well as longtime favorites such as “I Will Sing You Songs,” “The Bear” and “The Way That He Sings.” The band introduced another Prince cover last night with their mid-set debut rendition of The Purple One’s “Take Me With U.” Other highlights included extended takes on “Dondante” and “Gideon” to draw the main set to a close.
My Morning Jacket opened the encore with “Peaceful Easy Feeling” by the Eagles, which according to Setlist.fm had only been performed once before in Janauary 2002. At that point Quaid emerged to lend guitar to “Holding On To Black Metal” and “Wordless Chorus” as well as Lionel Richie’s “Easy.” Quaid also sat-in on three songs which were written and recorded by MMJ prior to his departure in 2004, closing the night with “Phone Went West,” “Dancefloors” and “One Big Holiday.”
Last night’s concert was taped by Mike B, stream the full show below:
Here’s audience-shot video footage of “Phone Went West” captured by George Daigh:
Setlist
- Compound Fracture
- The Dark
- Off the Record
- Spring (Among the Living)
- It Beats 4 U
- Throwback
- War Begun
- I Will Sing You Songs
- The Bear
- The Way That He Sings
- Take Me With U
- Lay Low
- Bermuda Highway
- A New Life
- O Is the One That Is Real
- What a Wonderful Man
- Easy Morning Rebel
- Tropics (Erase Traces)
- Dondante
- Gideon
- Peaceful Easy Feeling
- Holdin On to Black Metal
- Wordless Chorus
- Easy
- Phone Went West
- Dancefloors
- One Big Holiday
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