What is your favorite taper friendly bands? Mine are (In no particular order): Grateful Dead Yonder Mountain String Band String Cheese Incident Hot Buttered Rum String Band Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Leftover Salmon Keller Williams Tea Leaf Green Railraod Earth Phish New Riders of the Purple Sage North Mississippi Allstars ........................alright i'm gonna stop because I love too much music to list, but you get the point!
311 Allman Brothers Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (My #1 favorite of all taper friendlies) Buckethead Butthole Surfers CKY Clutch The Dead Derek Trucks Band Disco Biscuits Gov't Mule Oysterhead Primus Chili Peppers (Only their older stuff I like like 2000 back to 82. SCI Tom Petty Widespread Panic All the ones I like, can't think of anymore.
Good Forum! A lot of the music I really dig is from taper friendly bands. Here are some of my favorites... Lotus Particle Perpetual Groove Pnuma Umphreys Moe. Signal Path Yonder Mountain String Band Hot Buttered Rum Moonshine Still Papa Mali Blue Turtle Seduction Jah Works Dubconcious Accoustic Syndicate Raq Dark Star Orchestra Gomez John Butler Trio Sound Tribe Sector 9 Unexplained Bacon Tea Leaf Green Chinese Fingertrap Green Lemon String Cheese and all the incarnations... Many more that I can't come up with right now. I love Archive.org!
pretty much everybody i like lets people tape their stuff. Save for Galactic, they arent too cool with that for some reason. And Jazz Mandolin Project shows are pretty tough to find but ive got my hands on a few. My faves (on a live album) : Charlie Hunter - most his shows are very crisp and you can hear them very well. There is one in particular i really like with some guy on Vibraphones playing at a Jazz festival somewhere in Poland or Russia or something. ive never heard Charlie playin w/some vibes on any other show (except when hes with Garage a Trois and Mike Dillon ofcourse) Pnuma Trio - most electronic bands like Pnuma for some reason come out a lot better sounding than acoustic shows like Keller Williams per say. I have yet to find a really crisp sounding Keller live show. dl a few Pnuma or Lotus shows and if you find the right ones you would have thought it was recorded in the studio. Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood. the Tour they did in 2006 was one of the best pieces of music i have ever witnessed. and it shows on the live recording. Do a torrent search for them at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS in December of 2006. Extremely good qual and set. Scofield steals it. Lotus, STS9 also have some really good live albums as well. Robert Walter's 20th Congress also has some really funky shite.
Just a few here. Tea Leaf Green Wishbone Ash(do not confuse Wishbone Ash with Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash, as Martin has a bone up his ass when it comes to taping.) Joe Bonamassa Honeytribe Kelly Richey
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