i know the obvious, DMB, but what are some other really good jam bands out there?
There are plenty more true jambands than Dave. Although Dave is real good!
Just some general bands that are hippy-ish/bonaroo-ish, some of them don't fit, but it's the basic music group that people will listen too, just a few off the top of my head...
String Cheese Incident
Ani DiFranco
Guster
Ben Harper
Disco Biscuits
Jurassic 5
Dispatch
Ween
G. Love and The Special Sauce
Grateful Dead
moe.
Jump Little Children
Jack Johnson\\John Lennon
Keller Williams
Bela Fleck
John Brown's Body
Mojo (ask if you want something from them)
OAR
Phish
Trey Anastasio
Tracy Chapman
Strangefolk
Yonder Mountain String Band
The Recipe
Weezer
Samite
Any artist from Bonnaroo will be good, and festivals like the All Good Festival and Grass Root Festival
Good jam bands? I thought the two contradicted each other?
[ducks and hides behind a VW van selling hemp skirts)
I LOVE shoulder dancing for 25 minutes to a never-ending vamp in A minor!
There is something to be said about feeling the music and being able to flow with it. You know someone is truely happy...or drunk, when they are twirling, and I don't see much twirling to coldplay.
I'm not sure of what songs you have heard, but when bands go out on a jam it is normally pretty awesome. You know a real jam bad when you go to burn a track and their first song...just one song, not flowing into the next, is over 15 minutes.
Edit: I like all music though, well hard metal for the most part sucks, but the rest is pretty good. I've been listening to more lately, but with jambands mixed in. It's interesting to go from real punk (not ska type stuff) and then the happiest music in the world.
Most deffanatly DMB (notice my handle, gotta give props to the boys). Phish, The Dead (who I did not have the pleasure of seeing), Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Not too many people are familiar with the Flecktones...but wow, they put on one heck of a show. Blues Traveler gets the job done too.
I love the jam bands, it takes a much better musician to jam for 25 minutes than it does to play 3 power chords for a minute and a half.
Most deffanatly DMB (notice my handle, gotta give props to the boys). Phish, The Dead (who I did not have the pleasure of seeing), Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Not too many people are familiar with the Flecktones...but wow, they put on one heck of a show. Blues Traveler gets the job done too.
I love the jam bands, it takes a much better musician to jam for 25 minutes than it does to play 3 power chords for a minute and a half.
How could I forget oysterhead?!
Flecktones...I assumed they were just put in with Bela Fleck...guess I shouldn't have, but they are great.
Not exactly jam band per se but if you're looking for something with epic long songs, check out Godspeed You Black Emperor. 30 minute songs and such. Interesting indie stuff.
Generally speaking, it's a band that likes to jam. The adapted definition would be more akin to bands whose music is primarily composed of jams, with lots of free form playing and ideas.
It's also been known as stoner rock, although the modern jam band scene is generally far more sophisticated.
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Originally posted by mattjohndrow
i know the obvious, DMB, but what are some other really good jam bands out there?
There are plenty more true jambands than Dave. Although Dave is real good!
Just some general bands that are hippy-ish/bonaroo-ish, some of them don't fit, but it's the basic music group that people will listen too, just a few off the top of my head...
String Cheese Incident
Ani DiFranco
Guster
Ben Harper
Disco Biscuits
Jurassic 5
Dispatch
Ween
G. Love and The Special Sauce
Grateful Dead
moe.
Jump Little Children
Jack Johnson\\John Lennon
Keller Williams
Bela Fleck
John Brown's Body
Mojo (ask if you want something from them)
OAR
Phish
Trey Anastasio
Tracy Chapman
Strangefolk
Yonder Mountain String Band
The Recipe
Weezer
Samite
Any artist from Bonnaroo will be good, and festivals like the All Good Festival and Grass Root Festival
Also check out JamBase.com
[ducks and hides behind a VW van selling hemp skirts)
I LOVE shoulder dancing for 25 minutes to a never-ending vamp in A minor!
Originally posted by pscates
Good jam bands? I thought the two contradicted each other?
[ducks and hides behind a VW van selling hemp skirts)
I LOVE shoulder dancing for 25 minutes to a never-ending vamp in A minor!
There is something to be said about feeling the music and being able to flow with it. You know someone is truely happy...or drunk, when they are twirling, and I don't see much twirling to coldplay.
I'm not sure of what songs you have heard, but when bands go out on a jam it is normally pretty awesome. You know a real jam bad when you go to burn a track and their first song...just one song, not flowing into the next, is over 15 minutes.
Edit: I like all music though, well hard metal for the most part sucks, but the rest is pretty good. I've been listening to more lately, but with jambands mixed in. It's interesting to go from real punk (not ska type stuff) and then the happiest music in the world.
Originally posted by pscates
Good jam bands? I thought the two contradicted each other?
[ducks and hides behind a VW van selling hemp skirts)
I LOVE shoulder dancing for 25 minutes to a never-ending vamp in A minor!
Post of the year!
Besides, we can use a break from the ****ing political threads.
Moving, with pleasure, now.
coincidentally, I saw primus not too long ago, they've really become a jam band.
I love the jam bands, it takes a much better musician to jam for 25 minutes than it does to play 3 power chords for a minute and a half.
Originally posted by DMBand0026
Not too many people are familiar with the Flecktones
Maybe where you live....
they are a lot bigger than you think.
In The Fillmore Concerts , Mountain Jam comes in at just over 34 minutes. It's all good.
Originally posted by DMBand0026
Most deffanatly DMB (notice my handle, gotta give props to the boys). Phish, The Dead (who I did not have the pleasure of seeing), Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Not too many people are familiar with the Flecktones...but wow, they put on one heck of a show. Blues Traveler gets the job done too.
I love the jam bands, it takes a much better musician to jam for 25 minutes than it does to play 3 power chords for a minute and a half.
How could I forget oysterhead?!
Flecktones...I assumed they were just put in with Bela Fleck...guess I shouldn't have, but they are great.
Originally posted by dmz
The Allman Brothers Band\t must be included!
In The Fillmore Concerts , Mountain Jam comes in at just over 34 minutes. It's all good.
Very true. I love the Allman Brothers. I got into them from my dad, awesome stuff. I saw Dickie Betts this summer in Chicago, that was a sweet show.
George Clinton and Parliament.
Nice simple down to earth costuming too.javascript:smilie('8)')
it takes a much better musician to jam for 25 minutes than it does to play 3 power chords for a minute and a half.
Ekoostik Hooka is good as well. Freedom Tribe is up there as well (ask me for this group as well)
RUSTED ROOT of course!
Oh yeah, if you want Samite, ask me, I have a good live recording.
Widepsread panic is good as well.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are good.
Originally posted by Ganondorf
What is a jam band? Is that like garage rock?
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are good.
Generally speaking, it's a band that likes to jam. The adapted definition would be more akin to bands whose music is primarily composed of jams, with lots of free form playing and ideas.
It's also been known as stoner rock, although the modern jam band scene is generally far more sophisticated.