Author Topic: rollingstone.com top 15 jambands (Read 3063 times)

FrankZappa · « **Reply #15 on:** January 14, 2009, 12:20:01 pm »

Quote from: ellis-d;216569

hmmmm, quite silly indeed. It was a readers poll for anyone interested, which goes to show the only people dumber than RS writers are their readers

rotfl

simpletwistupdon · « **Reply #16 on:** January 14, 2009, 02:55:17 pm »

Ok... so does anybody else believe that a "jamband" would consist of bands that play improvisational music? As far as I\'ve listened Dave Matthews should not get the nod as a jamband. Just because people follow him around like other "jamband"ish types of groups that shouldn\'t qualify him. Don\'t get me wrong he\'s good at what he does but as far as jamming... for real? Everything is structured and over time he just learns new things to do and adds them in. There\'s never a change in the feel or the mood that is completely "improvisational"... Again, I\'m not bashing him just don\'t think he fits that genre. He just blends with it well.

Yoda · « **Reply #17 on:** January 14, 2009, 02:58:13 pm »

Listen to Jimi at Woodstock, that\'s definitely a jamband type show.

bdfreetuna · « **Reply #18 on:** January 14, 2009, 03:00:45 pm »

I dunno DMB is cuttin the criteria pretty close... but My Morning Jacket is def not a jam band. I\'d call that pretty much straight up rock and roll (served with a side of weak sauce).

tyzack · « **Reply #19 on:** January 14, 2009, 03:04:11 pm »

I have never liked the term "jam band."

Firstly, it doesn\'t sound very professional:
Rock and Roll
Classic Rock
Funk
Punk
Post-Punk
Alt Rock
Post-Rock
Metal (and it\'s sub-genres)
Noise
Industrial
Tribal
New Age
House

...jam band?

I think "Improv band" at least sounds better or "experimental rock"

simpletwistupdon · « **Reply #20 on:** January 14, 2009, 03:07:29 pm »

Quote from: bdfreetuna;216604

I dunno DMB is cuttin the criteria pretty close... but My Morning Jacket is def not a jam band. I\'d call that pretty much straight up rock and roll (served with a side of weak sauce).

I will give you that DMB is close... to me they\'re just not as off the cuff improv and others that I\'d consider jamband. And as far as MMJ, I d/l one of there albums... the singer kills me at times, sounds like old Beck stuff but you defintely are right from there studio albums. I haven\'t heard any of their live stuff.

Quote from: tyzack;216606

I have never liked the term "jam band."

Firstly, it doesn\'t sound very professional:
Rock and Roll
Classic Rock
Funk
Punk
Post-Punk
Alt Rock
Post-Rock
Metal (and it\'s sub-genres)
Noise
Industrial
Tribal
New Age
House

...jam band?

I think "Improv band" at least sounds better or "experimental rock"

I just list is as "Jam" in my iTunes

bdfreetuna · « **Reply #21 on:** January 14, 2009, 03:26:14 pm »

Musics which subsequently jam.

thatguy · « **Reply #22 on:** January 14, 2009, 04:10:30 pm »

if either gd or phish is not number 1 on that list,smells like horse **** to me in my book!

Mark · « **Reply #23 on:** January 14, 2009, 04:52:50 pm »

Willie Waldman Project = #1

Yoda · « **Reply #24 on:** January 14, 2009, 05:06:32 pm »

Here\'s my thinking:

1 - Grateful Dead
2 - Phish
3 - Allman Brothers

After that it get tough and goes pretty much by personal opinion.

derickw · « **Reply #25 on:** January 14, 2009, 07:49:53 pm »

Quote from: tyzack;216606

I have never liked the term "jam band."

Firstly, it doesn\'t sound very professional:
Rock and Roll
Classic Rock
Funk
Punk
Post-Punk
Alt Rock
Post-Rock
Metal (and it\'s sub-genres)
Noise
Industrial
Tribal
New Age
House

...jam band?

I think "Improv band" at least sounds better or "experimental rock"

i agree.

what do all those have in common........ no band at the end

kindm's · « **Reply #26 on:** January 14, 2009, 07:54:05 pm »

Miles Davis should def be on the list as well as any number of Jazz musicians

The list is terrible tho.

simpletwistupdon · « **Reply #27 on:** January 14, 2009, 08:35:35 pm »

Doesn\'t the term jambands refer to the groups as a collective though? Not neccesarily the genre they are classified under... You wouldnt say look at all those Rock & Rolls or those , would you? It would be those Rock and Roll bands (as a generalized collective). It really is difficult to put a label on the "genre name" that these groups would fall under because they are all so individual in their sounds. The only common theme for most of them is improvisation (aka "jamming" I guess) but stylistically thier "sounds" for the most part are extremely different from each other.

Spacey · « **Reply #28 on:** January 15, 2009, 09:35:54 am »

Quote from: ellis-d;216569

hmmmm, quite silly indeed. It was a readers poll for anyone interested, which goes to show the only people dumber than RS writers are their readers

Ever since the Newport Folk Festival this summer, you really have become sharp, ked.

Nice to see you still got it.

JSleeper240 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 15, 2009, 09:41:44 am »

Cream