Let's Talk Jam Bands

You definitely don't embody any of the positive vibes that I associate with "the scene".
...nor are your tastes particularly "underground".

Joe psychology would quickly identify such snobbery as a sure sign of low self-esteem.

 

Probably Primus or Bela Fleck and the Flecktones....both have amazing bassists.

 

dont get me wrong... i dont see anything wrong with younger people at fests... its the dumb ignorant ones that run around tryin to score(kiddies) instead of listening to the music and having a good time....

 

Everybody here judges everyone else. Yes I am very judgemental when it comes to who I run into on the lot. It ruins the scene to have a bunch of frat boys running around, who dont respect the scene, the lot, the bands, the people, or themselves.

 

Yeah, there were a lot of crazy drunk frat boys fucking around the last time I was at the norva.

 

Im not saying that all people who listen to panic are custies, but you hafta admit they if you were at Roo that most of the Dave kids were there to see panic and the other way around. Even Phish and GD attracted custies...i still love them

 

Is fucking awesome!

 

That is a joke! I don't happen to like Dave or Panic all that much, nor was I at Bonnaroo, but it would seem to me that if the folks enjoyed the music, who is anyone to say that they are wrong? This remind me of the "Parking Lot" episode with Phish in Philly where these morons are huffing gas in the lot while the show was happening saying that "the kids" know "whats up", and that "custies smell like money". I mean, what a fucking retarded outlook to have, I was IN the show, so I do believe I would, for instance, be more likely to have known "what's up" than this moron who calls himself a kid that wasn't in the show when tickets were available in the lot.
I think the term "custy" is more an indication of a wannabe "kids" jealousy that some people don't have to sling drugs outside a show and actually GO INTO THE SHOW and enjoy the music...

 

Thats makes no sense at all. Everyone can get pissed off at my statements in this thread. Every statement I have made here is from my experience on lot, from those experiences I have formed opions. Thats all they are is my opions. Sorry if you take what I say personally.

 

I say check out:
String Cheese Incident,
'97 phish or maybe miami '03 if you want something post hiatus, grateful dead,
Panic especially the past shows at bonnaroo,
Railroad Earth,
New Monsoon,
Hot Butter Rum String Band,
my personal favorite Yonder Mountain String Band,
Soundtribe Sector 9,
Keller Williams,
Zilla,
Matisyahu,
Kyle Hollingsworth Band,
LEFTOVER SALMON
&
if you like jambands check out some good ol' bluegrass

 

'97 phish? thats all you can really dig? i've go you in my scopes now. starting to understand your musical tastes.....you don't like alot of experimentation do you? i'm guessing you like music thats to the point? do you like songs more than jams? most people who long for the 97 phish days, usually are into less jamming and more of the written song element....i myself, like to be taken on long journeys, that can sometimes crash and burn in your face....its like extreme sports, just in a musical sense......but thats just me.....

 

I think I love you.

 

ROFL smokey is a moron- he's calling people custies... dude a custie is a customer if you're a drug dealer, the term has NOTHING to do with a jam band. Grow the fuck up mister big time drug dealer. I guarantee you don't know shit about the real drug game... come down to the ghetto and try to be mista big shot, see how far you get.

And anyways, WHY THE FUCK do you bring up the drug scene when people are talking about the bands, not the dumbasses in the lots scoring crappy drugs off of trustafarians. People being customers of drug dealers has nothing at all to do with their music preference... You sound like a fourth grader dude, your logic is just totally absent. The sixteen year old who you were hating on for being sixteen actually displayed more intelligence than you.

 

has anyone mentioned My Morning Jacket. they are awesome, they are like a mix between a southern rock band and led zepplin. Particle is also great. I also love Keller Williams, he is awesome, with lots of energy, and alot of is songs are comical.

 

Particle just isn't that musically talented if you ask me. (In comparison to other jam bands out there, obviously they have a lot more talent than me ;-) )


If you're looking for funk/groove- listen to Herbie Hancock, Galactic, Soulive, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Sly and the Family Stone (Not really jammed out but some reaaall groovy riffs), MMW kills the funk on certain albums also.

 

Gotta love MMW...hopefully I'll catch them opening up for Trey in philly.

I haven't heard too much from My Morning Jacket, so I'll definately check them out. Every time I go to the CD store, I forget what I'm looking for.

Robert Randolph & The Family Band have probably been metioned already...but they're awesome, so they get another mention.

 

I saw My Morning Jacket the other night and wasn't all that impressed. They play with a lot of energy, but use so much reverb in the vocals that you can't understand a word their saying. They were alright, but I don't understand what all the fuss was about at Bonnaroo with the reviews I read about them. Now all the reviews of Assembly of Dust were completely warranted - Best show on the road today in my opinion, bar none.