Comments on: It’s Hip to Hate Jam Bands

By: Tomyorke

Tomyorke — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:34:00 +0000

If you’ve heard one jam band you’ve heard them all. The reason jam bands exist is because there are thousands of people out there with physical musical talent, but have no f-ing clue how to write a good song. So they start out with about 30 secs of a familiar cover, go into a 20 min jam, then come back to that familiar melody. The crowd goes wild…. Because they’re all on molly and whatever other trust fund drug they can find in the lot. Anyone with a few music lessons can jam with a band, just stay in the right key and your good. I’m really sick of hearing “theres an awesome jam band playing downtown tonight”. Theres no such thing. So hopefully one day all you hippie kids with jam bands will wake up one morning with a bit more class and start jazz bands or something
P.S. Never trust a widespread panic fan, phish fans are much more benign.

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:01:17 +0000

Ant:
Yeah, you’re right. I think the problem is when a band jams out live on a song that’s much shorter on the album. Like if Iron Maiden turned an 8 minute song into a 20 minute epic live. I’d be bored out of my ass, even if Eddie was there to entertain everyone.

By: ant

ant — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:05:13 +0000

Jam bands do suck, But I wouldnt go as far as saying any song over 5 minutes is way to long. Iron Maiden. Most of those songs are way above 5 minutes. And they don’t jam out, Iron Maiden is one of the most original bands ever, so.. I dont mind listening to them for hours on end.

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Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:57:07 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:09:15 +0000

Yes… yes… Feces for all… and don’t forget the peanuts…

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:16:14 +0000

I knew you’d react to that, Michael. My brother told me you’re a big Floyd fan.

By the way – Good dig on the Dave Matthews incident. Awesome!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:00:21 +0000

I can’t believe Pink Floyd was lumped into that list. I nearly cried when I saw them perform together again. I have to say they could have played forever the last time I saw them and I wouldn’t have had any quarles with that.

Dave Matthews… the only jam there is the jam that falls from his bus over a bridge onto a tour boat of unsuspecting tourists…

By: CCrider

CCrider — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 00:54:11 +0000

If we are talking Phish, String Cheese, and Panic style jam bands , ya gotta throw in the Jam Band Festivals. I think these are a dirt hippies….”Special Place”. Dirt twirlers unite! And whats up with the fest? Love Fest, Flower Fest, Jam Fest, Schwag Fest, Grilled Cheese for $2 Fest….. Fest Fest and damn fest…enough already! Oh and I agree with JJ…The Who kicks ass.

By: trav

trav — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:24:38 +0000

man, such heated debate over music… and JJ opening yet another can of worms just now…

forget jam bands… forget all mainstream bands… corporate rock suck and it always will… give me a bar band from austin any day of the week… the don’t jam… they rock…

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:34:51 +0000

I included Pink Floyd based solely on their Live8 performance. I was completely bored out of my skull. And the thing is, I actually really love a few of their classic songs. But they dragged them out with uninteresting guitar runs and flying pigs, etc.

I also saw the replay of The Who from Live8. They too played their classics. But they rocked out, then moved on to the next song. Plus, The Who kicks Pink Floyd’s ass any day.