Travis Dickerson Recording Studio Forum

I think he could take Oprah.

Maybe Buckethead was following the yellow brick road.

I\'ve seen Elton John in concert.  He was great.  I think he did 3 encores.

My favorite part of the clip is the belch at 2:19.

I love live music.  Live music has actually helped me shape my life.  The jam band scene was a part of that.

My original post was actually the last part of my epiphany.  The realization came slowly over several years.

It all started when I dressed like a hippie to go to a show, saw pictures of myself and asked, who is that.  From then on I made sure I was dressed in a way that was true to myself.

Next, I stopped participating in lot activities, saw a band I had seen several times before and loved, and found myself asking myself why I ever thought they were good.  But, everybody around seemed to be having a good time...so I thought it was me and I lost my feel for the vibe.

Next, I went to a Yes concert and within minutes heard and saw a much cleaner and clearer sound than anything I had heard from a jam band in the past.  Plus, the musicianship blew any jam bad I had seen out of the water.

All this time I\'m seeing jam bands too.

At a Meshuggah show (opening for Tool), everyone around me seemed to be wondering what the hell was going on.  But I was thinking, I kind of like this.

Back to the jam bands.  Everyone around me is really into it and I\'m waiting for something to happen.  Four or five shows like that and I realized...it\'s not me.  My vibe radar is fine.  There is just nothing going on.

To me, the time the bands spend trying to find the groove is not jamming.  It is a waste of my time.  I didn\'t come to a show to see 5 minutes of brilliance every 1/2 hour.

One of the last jam shows I was at was a Phil Lesh show and it was fun.  I love live music and I will continue to see live shows.  I\'ve had enough of jam bands.

Phish was a big one.  Members of that band formed other bands.  The Disco Biscuits are popular.  Of course there are the members of the Grateful Dead.  There are a few Allman Brothers Band guys floating around.  Santana has been known to jam.  There are a lot of others out there.

You\'re right.  It\'s not all bad.  I get what it\'s about.  The spontaneity of the moment and being there.  I can appreciate improvisation and dissonant sounds as long as the music is saying something, and something worth listening to at that.

I realize that no one can be 100% all the time either, but a lot of the shows I was at before my epiphany...well, breakfast cereal had more interesting things to say.

For some reason jam bands seem to collect lazy fans, the kind of people who want something for nothing.  It isn\'t all cases everywhere.  But from what I saw, those were the people who thought the music was saying something, and the convo got to dumb for me.

Thanks nuff-said.  That warmed my heart.