Leith you aren\'t getting what I am saying, they have been getting more and more electronic with Jordan too. You are blindly just sticking with your belief that the band is somehow at a disadvantage w/o Jordo. You made such a point of things going downhill and being aomehow bad w/o Jordan w/o hearing a note. All genres of music are feeling the effects of electronic technology which is opening up doors to newer sounds that all bands are taking advantage of.
This is my point about the "Jams" being listed. It is redundant, period. They are a jamband!!! The people who are looking for setlists will get the fact that there was a jam or segue when they see a ">". If there is a jam that comes out of a song moves out of the song, yes it is improvised but that is the point. Unless it is a jam based around an actual theme that is recognizable, it is just a transition jam...that is what this band does. Look at the old setlists; are you trying to tell me that they never "jammed" from one song to another, it was all just drops into songs w/o stopping??? Like I said, until recently, these were not noted...UNLESS there was an actual reason that stuck out to make it a mentionable jam...something that wasn\'t just improvisation. Even when they drop into other songs without real smooth segues there is somewhat of a "jam"...they don\'t hit said end of song every time and just hit the 1st note of the next song. Why isn;t there a listing of "Jam" after every ">" then? Pec you are the archivist and it all comes down to what you think, but I just was curious, it seems like it would make things cleaner and it would make those jams worth noting seem even more important.
And to start a set with a random "jam" that has nothing to do with the song it is going into is a different story all together. If they are in a jam and then drop into a diff key for the song, then of course it should be listed as Jam ->Song A. But when a jam evolves out of a song into another it is just a transition into another song, that is what this band is about. I just think we should have stuck with the same way of writing setlists that had been being used.
