Name Your Favorite Jam Band

definately phish and the dead but thats a given so besides them..blueground undergrass is amazing jamgrass band and im seeing them on the 22nd. yondermountain is the mutz nutz and the cheese and spread make me blow my load. as far as UM from what ive heard; i think they sound more like Rush than a jamband. dont get me wrong, rush is fantastic but i dont think UM belongs on the jamband scene.

 

bands that influenced jams, jellys, and spreads of that sort.

 

1-Grateful Dead
1-(tied w/) moe. (could ya guess?)
3)-Phish
4)Widespread Panic
5) BISCO

p.s. for other moe.rons i know my screen name's spelled wrong

 

the disco biscuits!


GD and Phish will always be first in my heart though.

 

these may be a little out of date, because i'm not really trying to keep up with anything, but every once in a while i listen to sam gorski's red heaving on kvmr. which is where i've heard these people for the most part.

sound tribe sector nine
cosmic wobble
blue turtle seduction

and of course the cheese and the fish
and left over salmon (the later a couple of years defunct of course,
the other two uncertain)

probably several others who'se names i don't recall at the moment.
and i'm sorry but i couldn't specificaly name any of their songs either.

i haven't been able to make it to any festivals myself, even though a number of them
ARE held annualy within less then a hundred miles of me, up here in my sierra mountains in northern california.

well i did hear mumbo gumbo a few years back when the did a freebe in the local park the town where i live. mumbo gumbo being more zydico then jam but pretty much in the jam spirit.

i'm not sure really where you draw a line between one genre and another, especialy as most bands tend to blur whatever lines there might otherwise be. which is of course good.

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In somewhat particular order:
The Grateful Dead--Phish--late 90s Widespread--old school moe. (when Rob was tearin' it the hell up)--LoS--Garcia, Saunders, Vitt, and Kahn(holy God!)

THE AQUARIUM RESCUE UNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I forgot la frommage

 

I'm not sure,but I think that the Grateful dead and PHiSH are givens.They kinda started the wole "jamband" label that folks put on a band that has long "jams" in their songs. Allman bros. is another.Warren haynes cut his teeth in the ABB.Now he is one of my fave guitar slingers out there.

So my pick is Govt. Mule/Warren Haynes(he played with the dead too.)
WSP is another I have travelled to see,along with the rest I've named

There are alot of good ones out there though.

SCI
moe.
Umphree's
Disco biscuits
Big Wu(don't know if they are still around tho)

too many to name

 

lol everyone has the dead, phish, cheese, moe, and umphreys, and spread. i think there needs to be some new BIG ones out there. im in one with a few of my friends but we are more funk/bluegrass/jazz fusion jam. and to proove this isnt a plug im not gonna tell you our name or give you a link lolol.

 

P-Groove
Blueground Undergrass

 

Im not gonna bother listing the obvious ones

Medeski martin and wood has been one of my favorite bands lately
jacob fred jazz odyssey never ceases to blow my mind
ive been getting into Benevento Russo duo
love garaj mahal recently
Assembly of dust, perpetual groove, yonder, umphreys, bela fleck and the flecktones (can't get enogh of victor wooten) - are all great

.. i got a ltitle carried away - but like drummin said, who can name one??!!

 

Definitly GD and Phish.
I am surprised no one has said Dave Matthews Band!!

so I would have to say
dave matthews band
Phish
Les Claypool and and of his side projects(it is debatable wether they could be considered jam)
Grateful Dead
and uhh...any old blues and bluegrass...pretty much anyone with a name like "stinky missisippi johnson"

 

Black Crowes

 

Grateful Dead.

In fact, I don't even listen to any of the other ones. Unless you call Traffic a jam band as well, then they'd be second.

 

Leftover Salmon

 

ekoostik hookah
boogie matrix mechanism

 

grateful dead allllllllllll the way

 

the oxford circle and frumious bandersnatch.look for live at the avalon 1966 and a young man's song and grateful dead for the sixties