Umphrey's McGee

long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning
long time Sound Caresser Kevin Browning

Their show from 2004 Bonnaroo is enough to convince me. Their own music is more rock than hippy, all the sets are amazing, but for what they did on set 3: Metallica's "Enter Sandman" into some jam into Metallica's "And Justice For All" just plain kicked ass. I've never heard anyone do Metallica so perfectly (actually sounded just like them; never realized what a great drummer Lars was before) and with a crazily intricate jam in the middle.

wait so UMPHREY'S MCGEE convinced you that lars is a good drummer

i am listening to this band for the first time ever on youtube. and it's really horrible.

one of the guitar guys (ballcap on backwards) just did some tapping.

having the audience crowd-source your fucking song is antithetical to every artistic impulse that exists

Hah I read that on Zing and knew it was Whiney before I even looked at the poster name. I would love to know your thoughts on interactive installation art? Or jam bands in general? Or if you feel there is a requirement to have "artistic impulses/aspirations" if you want to make any sort of music in any form?

I mean, I love John Zorn's game pieces and Christian Marclay's unusual scores because it makes already atonal and unpredictable music even more atonal and unpredictable.

However, for a genre whose basis is groove, flow and hypnosis, I honestly feel a good jam band should just go where the music takes them, not where a digital cue card says.

yeah but most players who jam think the audience is already a big part of what goes down, this is kind of an extension of that imo

oh man blarrrrggghhghhhh

xpost - hilarious delusions coming from the most masturbatory musicians on the face of the planet.

i try so hard but stuff like this just makes me all irritating 15 year old punk jerkass kill the hippies all over again

From someone who listened to jam music almost exclusively for a couple of years, it's a v audience-involved thing, much more than a lot of other genres and forms. So much of it is just about connecting with other people and creating music that makes everyone feel good, man. So, in context, something like direct participation seems like a really interesting and appropriate thing and it is absurd to approach something like this and say "they shouldn't be doing this because I feel it lacks artistic integrity"

And of COURSE they're going to go where the music takes them. They're not just going to stop dead and start something else entirely. But I'm sure it's nice to have different variables that sort of shape the ebb and flow of what you're doing.

i am still stuck over here trying to make a really good todd rundgren TR-i joke

I don't really listen to jam stuff except for the dead and the allmans but really hating on jam bands is the tired most phoned-in look imo

ARRGH IT'S SO SELF-INDULGENT AND BORING THOUGH THEY JUST PLAY BORING STUFF FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES STRAIGHT HOW DOES ANYONE LIKE THIS

yah but this is like a jam band trying to incorporate the lamest parts of shopping mall improv club comedy xpost

iirc they do the same thing at UCB's ASSSSCAT 3000 which is sort of the polar opposite of "shopping mall improv club comedy"

xp What if you got to choose all the interactive cue-cards, then it would be cool right?

I'm having a really shitty night and I want to blast Whiney for being kind of a dick with his "this is cool if hipster namedrop A does it, but not if lameass third-tier jamband B does it", but I honestly feel like he's doing a pretty good job of doing himself in.

namedropping Marclay is more a snob move than a hipster move, but i get your point

cool, so this is the thread where we defend "Umphrey's McGee"

shut the fuck up whiney

http://i36.tinypic.com/nfi902.jpg

is it still okay to hate jam band? cuz i still hate jam bands and would like to feel okay about it.

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http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/a-jam-band-experiment-in-live-hi-fi/