The Jam Band thread

[spawnofthesith]

Jam band is more of an approach and mindset of music then a "genre" per sey.

Yonder Mountain String band and STS9 are both jambands but obviously those are two -completely- different sounds

 

[PAFF64]

Jam bands are not a genre I've explored... could you suggest a few albums to help me explore the genre? Thanks

The live Goose album is really good.

 

[spawnofthesith]

 

[Greywolf]

my 1st show of hundreds at Winterland ..

 

[Greywolf]

and oh so many years later .. my son's first show .. we lived within walking distance!

 

[Greywolf]

perfect for a 95 degree hump day ..

 

[Doug B]

Saw around a dozen Grateful Dead shows, another dozen Allman Bros, lots of Zero, KVHW, Phil & Friends, Galactic, Vinyl, Taos Hum, etc. Even saw a couple Dead & Co shows. I played around the Bay area with Buffalo Roam, one of the top Dead cover bands back in the day. Temporary diminished health issues has me doing couch tour this past couple years, but I am loving Goose, Spafford, Phish, TAB, JRAD and others.

Here's a link to a Phish-based radio station, they do play other bands too: https://jempradio.com/

 

[FragileThunder]

Hmm...missed this thread when it started. I saw my first of 100+ Grateful Dead shows in '85, saw my first of 75 Phish shows in '89 and have countless other "jamband" shows under my belt. Do I qualify?

Too bad Rich/k from Goose isn't on the PRS bandwagon any more. They've been playing on fire, but I don't like the tone of his DeLuis as much as the PRS HB. The SPAC show from last week though is killer.

 

[Doug B]

Hmm...missed this thread when it started. I saw my first of 100+ Grateful Dead shows in '85, saw my first of 75 Phish shows in '89 and have countless other "jamband" shows under my belt. Do I qualify?

Too bad Rich/k from Goose isn't on the PRS bandwagon any more. They've been playing on fire, but I don't like the tone of his DeLuis as much as the PRS HB. The SPAC show from last week though is killer.

That DeLuis is too brittle. I guess he's still dialing it in, but I too wish he'd go back to his PRS HB.

 

[Greywolf]

Have a rockin mid july weekend!

 

[Greywolf]

 

[Greywolf]

So nice they played for my Bday ! .. skip to 5:30 for music

 

[FragileThunder]

Happy Belated Birthday @Greywolf, I'm assuming you weren't literally buried alive, given you are posting this morning. Although depending on how late you celebrated, you may be feeling like you were. Did you go to the show? Incredible weekend of music, looking forward to listening to last night.

 

[FragileThunder]

I was at this show!

 

[Greywolf]

While I would have loved to , I was at the Cafe' I host Open Mic at they had a great band and threw me an awesome party ..
All my Family and Friends were there , and a lot of fellow musicians

 

[spawnofthesith]

Just grabbed a ticket for STS9 at red rocks on saturday

 

[Greywolf]

 

[Greywolf]

 

[Slow Dog Noodle]

Big Grateful Dead and Phish fan here. There is some other good stuff out there too, but IMHO these are the two bands that were truly unique in the genre. Never got to see Jerry (i was born in '79), but have caught about 30 phish shows over the years, and see probably 10-15 jamband shows a year. Either you're on the bus or you're not!

 

[Shrews824]

Big jamband fan here. Found the scene around 1995/96 while in college.

Of course, Dead and Phish, but Panic, String Cheese, Allman Bros., Leftover Salmon, Yonder Mountain, Billy Strings, moe., Railroad Earth, Goose, Infamous Stringdusters, Kitchen Dwellers, Greensky Bluesgrass, Hiss Golden Messenger, and Strangefolk just to name a few. I'm sure I'm leaving several out, but those immediately popped in my head.