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"
― ksh ksh ksh ksh it ksh it (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ksh ksh ksh ksh it ksh it (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i am still stuck over here trying to make a really good todd rundgren TR-i joke
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ARRGH IT'S SO SELF-INDULGENT AND BORING THOUGH THEY JUST PLAY BORING STUFF FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES STRAIGHT HOW DOES ANYONE LIKE THIS
― ksh ksh ksh ksh it ksh it (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
yah but this is like a jam band trying to incorporate the lamest parts of shopping mall improv club comedy xpost
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc they do the same thing at UCB's ASSSSCAT 3000 which is sort of the polar opposite of "shopping mall improv club comedy"
― ksh ksh ksh ksh it ksh it (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
xp What if you got to choose all the interactive cue-cards, then it would be cool right?
― popular music is destroying our youth (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 21 October 2010 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
namedropping Marclay is more a snob move than a hipster move, but i get your point
― 'wich house (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
cool, so this is the thread where we defend "Umphrey's McGee"
shut the fuck up whiney
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i36.tinypic.com/nfi902.jpg
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:22 (thirteen years ago) link
is it still okay to hate jam band? cuz i still hate jam bands and would like to feel okay about it.
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/a-jam-band-experiment-in-live-hi-fi/
― how's life, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 12:30 (ten years ago) link