Jam bands (or jambands) are musical groups whose albums and live performances relate to a fan culture which originated with the 1960s group Grateful Dead and continued in the 1990s with Phish and similar bands. Livetronica, a Portmanteau of the words live music and electronica, is a sub-genre of the Jam band movement that blends such musical styles as The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a geographically and ethnically diverse metropolitan region that surrounds the East Florida was originally a part of Spanish Florida. Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763, which ended the Seven Years' War, Spain ceded Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U Burlington is the largest city in the US state of Vermont and is the shire town ( County seat) of Athens-Clarke County is a unified city-county in Georgia, US, in the northeastern part of the state at the intersection of U The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Phish is an American Jam band noted for their Musical improvisation, extended Jam sessions and cult following The performances of these bands often feature extended musical improvisation ("jams") over rhythmic grooves and chord patterns and long sets of music that cross genre boundaries. A musical ensemble is a group of two or more Musicians who perform instrumental or vocal Music. Musical Improvisation is the creative activity of immediate Musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental A jam session is a Musical act where Musicians gather and play (or "jam") without extensive preparation or predefined Arrangements Groove is the sense of propulsive Rhythmic "feel" or sense of " Swing " created by the interaction of the music played by a band's Rhythm section In Jazz, gospel, soul, and Musical theater, a vamp is a repeating Musical figure or Accompaniment. ^[1]

While the seminal group Grateful Dead were originally categorized as psychedelic rock,^[2] by the 1990s, the term "jam band" was used for groups playing a variety of genres including funk, progressive bluegrass, and jazz fusion. Psychedelic rock is a style of Rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended Soul music, Soul Progressive bluegrass, also known as newgrass (a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker is one of two major subgenres of Bluegrass music Fusion or more specifically jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a Musical genre that merges Jazz with elements of other styles of music particularly The term is also used for some groups playing blues, country music, folk music, world music, and electronica. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous The term world music includes Traditional music (sometimes called Folk music or roots music of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary Electronic music designed for a wide range ^[1]

History

Origin and definition

Early use of term

The term "jam band" was established by at least 1937. In February that year, a glossary of terms used by dance orchestra musicians recorded, "A jam band depends entirely on improvisation, using no written music. A big band is a type of Musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the Swing Era from the early 1930s until the late "^[3] In April that year, Coleman Hawkins recorded with a band named Coleman Hawkins and His All Star Jam Band. Coleman Randolph Hawkins ( November 21 1904 - May 19 1969) Nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean" was a prominent ^[4][5]

Evolution of term

The first modern use of the term "jam band" was likely in the early 1990s. ^[6] However, the Grateful Dead fan culture and scene, from which the modern use derived, existed decades earlier. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the 1970s, the Grateful Dead's fan base included a large core group which followed their tours from show to show. From following the Dead, fans developed a sense of community and loyalty. By the early 1990s, the Grateful Dead were touring less regularly and bands such as Phish inherited their fan base. Phish is an American Jam band noted for their Musical improvisation, extended Jam sessions and cult following The term "jam band" was first used by these fans to describe the Phish-type of bands. ^[6]

The original term for jam band music was "Bay Rock", coined by Les Kippel, probably in the 1990's, as a reference to the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a geographically and ethnically diverse metropolitan region that surrounds the After a web site using the name "Jam Bands" started to promote the name, and Relix Magazine was sold in 2000, the new owners also bought the web site "Jam Bands", trademarked the name, and started to promote the name as an official, approved term for the second, third and fourth generation of Grateful Dead influenced bands.

Rolling Stone Magazine asserted in a 2004 biography that Phish "was the living, breathing, noodling definition of the term" jam band, in that it became a "cultural phenomenon, followed across the country from summer shed to summer shed by thousands of new-generation hippies and hacky-sack enthusiasts, and spawning a new wave of bands oriented around group improvisation and superextended grooves. "^[7]

Also in the 1990s, the number of jam band-oriented music festivals increased. Jam band-favoring festivals by size and number also included other "complementary"^[8] bands who were musically related in cross-genre styles, though not at first culturally related. Jambands. com was co-founded in 1998 by writer Dean Budnick and webmaster Andy Gadiel. In Budnick's book Jambands, Gadiel explains that "during that time (his) tastes in music had evolved to include bands even beyond the highly addictive [band] Phish. "^[9] Although in 2007 the term may be used to describe nearly any cross-genre band, festival band, or improvisational band, the term retains adulation for Grateful Dead-like bands such as Phish. ^[10] Gadiel states about the 1998 beginning of Jambands. com:

By the late 1990s the number of types of bands and numbers of fans had grown so that the term became used quite broadly as is exemplified by the definition written by Budnick which appeared in the program for the first annual Jammys in 2000 (Budnick co-created the show with Wetlands Preserve owner Peter Shapiro).

Ambiguity

By the late 1990s some use of the term jam band had become quite ambiguous. An editorial at jamband. com pondered that perhaps any band of which a primary band such as Phish has done a cover might be included as jam band. In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released The example was including New York post-punk band Talking Heads after Phish performed the cover of Remain In Light. Post-punk was a popular musical movement in the mid to late 1970s following on the heels of the initial Punk rock explosion of the early 1970s Talking head Talking Heads was an American New Wave band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991 Remain in Light is the fourth album by Talking Heads, released in 1980. ^[12] A broad sense of the term also became used retroactively in jam band circles for bands such as Cream^[13] who for decades were categorized as a "power-trio" and "psychedelic rock," but who when active were distinctly unrelated to the Grateful Dead. Cream were a 1960s British rock band In his October 2000 column on the subject for jambands. com, Dan Greenhaus attempted to explain the evolution of a jamband as such:

"At this point, what you sing about, what instruments you play, how often you tour and how old you are has become virtually irrelevant. At this point, one thing is left and, ironically, after all these years, it’s the single most important place one should focus on; the approach to the music. And the jamband or improvisational umbrella, essentially nothing more than a broad label for a diverse array of bands, is open wide enough to shelter several different types of bands, whether you are The Dave Matthews Band or RAQ. "^[14]

The Jammy Awards have had members of non-jamming bands which were founded in the 1970s and were unrelated to the Grateful Dead perform at their show such as new wave B-52's. The Jammy Award (also known as the Jammys) are an awards show for bands typically called Jam bands and other artists The B-52's originated as a New Wave Rock band formed in Athens Georgia, United States, in 1976 ^[15] The Jammys have also awarded musicians from prior decades such as Frank Zappa. Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21 1940 – December 4 1993 was an American Composer, Electric guitarist Record producer and Film director ^[16]

Debatability

Some artists such as Dave Matthews are known for resisting the jam band label. David John Matthews (born January 9, 1967) is a South African now naturalized American, Grammy award-winning An example of a prior-era band that gained the label "jam band" through an active affiliation with the 1990s jam band culture is The Allman Brothers Band. The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia. However, Gregg Allman has been quoted as recently as 2003 by his fellow band member Butch Trucks in stating that rather than being a jam band The Allman Brothers are "a band that jams. Gregory Lenoir Allman (born December 8, 1947 in Nashville Tennessee) known as Gregg Allman (sometimes spelled Greg Allman) is a Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks (born May 11, 1947 in Jacksonville Florida) is an American Drummer who is one of the "^[17] Although Trucks suggests that this is only a difference of semantics the term has a recent history for which it is used exclusively. An example of this discernment is the "marked" acceptance of Les Claypool as jam band in the year 2000. Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool (born September 29, 1963 in Richmond, California, U Though famed from an entire decade with Primus (a band that jams) and solo works, it was in creating the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade with members of Ratdog and releasing Live Frogs Set 1 that as Budnick has stated "marked (Claypool's) entry into (the jamband) world. Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade (also known as The Les Claypool Frog Brigade) is one of many musical projects involving Primus Bassist RatDog (often misspelled Ratdog and also known as Bob Weir and RatDog, is an American rock band Live Frogs Set 1 is a live album by Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, released by Prawn Song Records on 10 April "^[18] Budnick has been both editor in chief of Jambands. com and senior editor of Relix Magazine. Relix Magazine was launched by Les Kippel in 1974, stemming from the underground network of Grateful Dead concert-goers who taped and traded ^[19] He wrote Jam Bands (1998, ECW Press) and then an updated book Jambands (Backbeat Books, 2003) and is typically credited for "popularizing" the term "jam band. "^[6]

Mid-1980s-mid-2000s

In the mid-1980s, the bands Phish, Ozric Tentacles, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and Aquarium Rescue Unit, began touring and playing jam band-style concerts. Phish is an American Jam band noted for their Musical improvisation, extended Jam sessions and cult following Ozric Tentacles (commonly known as the Ozrics) are an instrumental band from Somerset, England, whose music can loosely be described as psychedelic Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is a multi- Grammy winning primarily instrumental group from the USA, that draws equally on bluegrass, fusion Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit is an experimental jazz rock group originally founded by Col These groups' fame increased in the early 1990s. Bands such as Blues Traveler, and the Spin Doctors also came from the same scene, playing jam-friendly venues and festivals. Blues Traveler is an American rock band formed in Princeton New Jersey in 1987 Spin Doctors are an American Jam band / Alternative rock group formed in New York City, best known for their 1993 hits " Two Princes " In some cases, their improvisations have taken a backseat to more polished material, which may be due to their crossover commercial successes, MTV videos, and mainstream radio airplay. MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. Most notable in pre-jam band history was the obvious influence of the Grateful Dead.

In the early 1990s, a new generation of bands was spurred on by the Grateful Dead's touring and the increased exposure of The Black Crowes, Phish, and Aquarium Rescue Unit. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Black Crowes are an American, blues -oriented Hard rock Jam band that has sold over 20 million albums Phish is an American Jam band noted for their Musical improvisation, extended Jam sessions and cult following Col Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit is an experimental jazz rock group originally founded by Col Many new bands were formed in the blooming scene. These were the first new bands to actually be called "jam bands", including Rusted Root, ekoostik hookah, Dispatch, Gov't Mule, Leftover Salmon, Jambay, moe., and String Cheese Incident. Rusted Root is a band from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania known for their fusion of Grateful Dead style bluegrass rock with a strong Dispatch was an American indie / roots folk Jam band formed at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont Gov't Mule (pronounced Government Mule is a Southern rock / Jam band formed in 1994 as an Allman Brothers Band Side project. Leftover Salmon is a jam band from Boulder Colorado, formed in 1989. moe is an American Jam band, formed at the University at Buffalo in 1990 The String Cheese Incident, one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1993 During the summer of 1995, the venerable Grateful Dead guitarist, frontman, and genre spokesman, Jerry Garcia, died. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1 1942 &ndash August 9 1995 was a Musician, Songwriter, Artist, and Lead guitarist and During the same period, Phish rose to prominence, and bands such as String Cheese Incident and Blues Traveler became successful. Phish is an American Jam band noted for their Musical improvisation, extended Jam sessions and cult following The String Cheese Incident, one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1993 Blues Traveler is an American rock band formed in Princeton New Jersey in 1987

Phish's rise in popularity in the mid 1990s may be attributed to the death of Jerry Garcia and the subsequent terminus of the Grateful Dead in 1995. Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1 1942 &ndash August 9 1995 was a Musician, Songwriter, Artist, and Lead guitarist and The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. However, a rapidly expanding concert-going market in the early 1990s saw Phish playing mid-sized amphitheaters already in 1993 and 1994. The void left by the sudden departure of the Grateful Dead may have helped to give impetus to the fertile jam scene that came after. The surviving members created a band called The Other Ones, and then officially became The Dead.

From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, jam bands tended to be more influenced by Phish than by the Grateful Dead. Phish is an American Jam band noted for their Musical improvisation, extended Jam sessions and cult following The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Earlier jam bands, such as Phish, got their start playing Grateful Dead covers^[20]; but mid-1990s bands, such as The Disco Biscuits, started out playing covers of Phish songs^[21]. Phish is an American Jam band noted for their Musical improvisation, extended Jam sessions and cult following The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Disco Biscuits are a Trance fusion Jam band from Philadelphia.

Mid-2000s-present

The current state (2008) of the Jam band scene is multi-genre. Genre mixing has always been welcome in the jam band community (see the Grateful Dead's bluegrass influence), but is now much more prevalent. It is now usual for jam bands to include folk rock, blues-rock, jazz fusion, rock and roll, psychedelic rock, southern rock, country rock, and bluegrass sounds. Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of Folk music and rock music. Blues-rock is a hybrid musical genre combining Bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended Boogie jams with Rock Fusion or more specifically jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a Musical genre that merges Jazz with elements of other styles of music particularly Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African Psychedelic rock is a style of Rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. Southern rock is a subgenre of Rock music. It developed in the Southern United States from Rock and roll, Country music, and Blues For the geological term see Country rock (geology. Country rock is a Musical Genre formed from the fusion of rock Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of Country music. Today's Yonder Mountain String Band and String Cheese Incident are generally considered to be newgrass, however both groups find themselves playing across several genres. The Yonder Mountain String Band (abbreviated YMSB) is an American Progressive bluegrass group from Nederland, Colorado. The String Cheese Incident, one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1993 Dirty Dozen Brass Band and The Primate Fiasco are traditional jazz bands who "jam". The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a New Orleans Louisiana, Brass band. Many jam bands today are moving toward the electronic sound, such as Particle, The Disco Biscuits and Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9). The Disco Biscuits are a Trance fusion Jam band from Philadelphia. STS9 ( Sound Tribe Sector 9) is an Instrumental band who are known for their live performances

Bands like moe. and One-Eyed Jack bring together a classic rock sound mixed with a psychedelic groove and extended jamming sessions. Global rhythm bands include Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra. The Dead have continued to perform after the loss of members through death or other reasons. The Dead is an American rock band composed of former members of the Grateful Dead. Spin-off groups from the Grateful Dead, such as Bob Weir & Ratdog, and Phil Lesh & Friends are still touring internationally. RatDog (often misspelled Ratdog and also known as Bob Weir and RatDog, is an American rock band Many bands are forming Allstar jams, formed from a number of bands.

Jam scene

The diverse genres and styles of the jam band scene are held together by a common musical approach: an emphasis on creative improvisation and live performance as opposed to structured, arranged live performances and planned studio recordings. Additionally, another common thread uniting all of the jam bands today is a common fan base of festival-goers and touring fans.

The contemporary jam scene has grown to encompass bands from a great diversity of musical genres. A 2000-era genre of jam-band music uses live improvisation that mimics the sounds of DJs and electronica musicians and has been dubbed "trancefusion" (a fusion between trance music and rock and roll). A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary Electronic music designed for a wide range Trance is a style of Electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African Jam band fans also listen to progressive rock and progressive bluegrass bands. Progressive rock (often shortened to " progressive " " prog " or " prog rock " is a form of Rock music that evolved Progressive bluegrass, also known as newgrass (a term attributed to New Grass Revival member Ebo Walker is one of two major subgenres of Bluegrass music

The String Cheese Incident

Hundreds of jam-based festivals and concerts are held throughout the United States every year. The String Cheese Incident, one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1993 The Bonnaroo Music Festival held each June in Tennessee continues to provide an international forum for jam acts. The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day annual Music festival, created and produced by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, first held in 2002 It has introduced these bands to a wide audience via film, albums and television. Other notable jam-based events in the United States are Jambaloosa Music And Arts festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the All Good Music Festival held at Marvins Mountaintop, in West Virginia.

As cited in the December/January 2006 issue of Relix magazine and a contemporaneous issue of the Village Voice, the term post-jam has come to define a group of more song-oriented live bands with roots in the jam scene. Perhaps more unified by their fans than their sound, post-jam acts appeal to a contingent of concert-goers who grew up on jam bands but who shifted their interests to groups like Wilco and Radiohead largely through the festivalization of the music industry. Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of Alternative country group Radiohead

Taping

Jam bands often allow their fans to make tapes or recordings of their live shows, a practice which many other musical genres call "illegal bootlegging". The Grateful Dead encouraged this practice, which helped to create a thriving scene around the collecting and trading of recordings of Grateful Dead live performances. Most of the live shows on the Grateful Dead's 30 years of touring were recorded.

The album cover of Live/Dead (1969) by the Grateful Dead. Live/Dead is the first official Live album released by the San Francisco -based band Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Critic Robert Christgau remarked that it contained the "finest rock improvisation ever recorded". ^[22]

It was probably the trading of recordings of Grateful Dead shows which built the band's fan base. The bands sold "taper" tickets for a taper's section which had a soundboard line-out for the tapers to record from. This type of encouragement has spread to nearly all of the jam bands. Some jam band enthusiasts argue that if a band does not allow fans to tape their live shows, this band is not actually a jam band in the Grateful Dead tradition.

Fans trade recordings and collect recordings of different live shows because improvisational jam bands play their songs differently at each performance. Fans can collect various versions of their favorite songs. They can keep track of how many times a specific song has been played, and thus increase the momentousness of a rare song being dusted off and played live, or played for the first time. ^[23]

Some bands play with this phenomena by throwing short little "teases" into their sets. Playing, for example, a few bars of a famous cover song or hinting at a popular jam and then either never getting around to playing the song, or coming back to it after an extended jam. The use of segues to blend strings of songs together is another mark of a jam band, and one which makes for treasured tapes. A segue is a smooth transition from one topic or section to the next ^[24]

Music downloading

By the 2000s, as internet downloading of MP3 music files became common, downloading of jam band songs became the logical extension of the cassette taping trend. Archived jam band downloads are available at Live Music Archive. Nugs.net is also a source for music and provides MP3 and FLAC files. Streaming radio and downloads are available at JamRadio.org. Peer-to-peer trading is also a common way for fans to trade recordings of live shows. For other uses of the term see Peer-to-peer (disambiguation For peer-to-peer networks used for file sharing see File sharing The Furthur Network is a site for trading jam band recordings. ^[25] In 2005, Relix Magazine lanuched its own podcast, Cold Turkey, hosted by writers Benjy Eisen and Mike Greenhaus.

More bands have been distributing their latest shows online. Bands such as Phish, The String Cheese Incident, Gov't Mule, ekoostik hookah, Umphrey's McGee, and The Disco Biscuits have been offering digital downloads within weeks of concerts. Phish is an American Jam band noted for their Musical improvisation, extended Jam sessions and cult following The String Cheese Incident, one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1993 Gov't Mule (pronounced Government Mule is a Southern rock / Jam band formed in 1994 as an Allman Brothers Band Side project. Umphrey's McGee is an American Progressive rock / Jam band from Chicago Illinois (now residing in the Chicago area whose music is often referred to The Disco Biscuits are a Trance fusion Jam band from Philadelphia. The Grateful Dead have begun to offer online, digital download only, live releases from their archives as well. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. While there is some obvious conflict of interest between the "free and open trading of shows" and artists packaging and selling the same shows for money, a dynamic equilibrium has been reached where die-hards trade and others are happy to pay for the convenience.

Some venues offer kiosks where fans may purchase a digital recording of the concert and download it to a USB flash drive or another portable digital storage device. Some bands, including The Allman Brothers, offer Instant lives, which are concert recordings made available for purchase on Compact Disc shortly after the show ends. Instant Live is a service by Live Nation which provides for the distribution of digital live recordings of concerts and music events available soon after a performance has ended Most major music festivals also offer instant digital live recordings at the event. The fact that these shows are available and freely traded doesn't diminish their commercial popularity. Every show of Phish's famous "Live Phish" series or the Dead's "Dick's Picks" series and their spin-offs are all available freely in lossless digital format should one be willing to dig or trade for them; and yet, people regularly plunk down large sums of cash for these "official" versions largely due to their excellent graphics, liner notes, packaging, and often superior, polished sound quality.

Venues and festivals

In the August 2006 issue of Guitar One on jam bands, the following places were referred to as the "best places to see jam music": Red Rocks Amphitheater; Red Rocks Park, Denver, CO; Jam Cruise, Fort Lauderdale, FL; The Gorge Amphitheatre, George, Washington; High Sierra Music Festival, Quincy, CA; The Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA; Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN; The Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA; The Barrymore Theater, Madison, WI; Higher Ground, Burlington, Vermont; and the Jam in the Dam in Amsterdam. The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States Held annually in January Jam Cruise is a music festival on a Cruise ship. Fort Lauderdale, known as the "Venice of America" due to its expansive and intricate Canal system is a city in Broward County, Florida, The Gorge Amphitheatre is a 20000 seat concert venue located above the Columbia River Gorge in George Washington. George is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 528 at the 2000 census High Sierra Music Festival is a multi-day Music festival held in Quincy California, a mountainous area about 80 miles north of Reno Nevada Quincy is a Census-designated place and the County seat of Plumas County California. The William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, known locally as simply the Greek Theatre, is an 8500-seat Amphitheater owned and operated by the University Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day annual Music festival, created and produced by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, first held in 2002 Manchester is a city in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States. The Warfield, also known as The Warfield Theater, is a 2300 seat Music venue located at 982 Market Street, San Francisco, California The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Madison is the capital of the US state of Wisconsin and the County seat of Dane County. Higher Ground is a nightclub located in South Burlington Vermont. Burlington is the largest city in the US state of Vermont and is the shire town ( County seat) of Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west

One way to see many jam bands in one place is by going to a jam band-oriented music festival. A music festival is a Festival oriented towards Music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as Musical genre, Nationality or locality Some popular festivals that include jam bands are: Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee; Jambaloosa in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the aforementioned High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, California; All Good in West Virginia; Langerado in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival in Lawrence, Kansas; 10,000 Lakes Festival in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota;Camp Bisco in Hunter Mountain, New York; Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado; Hookahville in Ohio; Schwagstock in Missouri; moe.down in Turin, New York; and Vegoose in Nevada. The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day annual Music festival, created and produced by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, first held in 2002 High Sierra Music Festival is a multi-day Music festival held in Quincy California, a mountainous area about 80 miles north of Reno Nevada The All Good Music Festival and Camp Out is an annual weekend-long event held every year in July Langerado Music Festival is an annual music festival in South Florida founded in 2003 by Ethan Schwartz of South Florida Jams Productions and Mark Brown Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival is a four-day weekend Music festival held annually in early June just outside of Lawrence, Kansas at Clinton State Lawrence is the sixth largest city in the US State of Kansas and the County seat of Douglas County. The Telluride Bluegrass Festival is held annually in Telluride Colorado by Planet Bluegrass Hookahville is a Music festival hosted by the Ohio -based Jam band Ekoostik hookah. Schwagstock is a music festival that takes place over the course of a weekend in an outdoor setting and is intended to carry on the vibe of the Woodstock festival moe is an American Jam band, formed at the University at Buffalo in 1990 Vegoose was an annual Halloween music and arts festival that took place in 2005 2006 and 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Also Illinois hosts Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe Illinois. Summer Camp Music Festival began in 2001 through a partnership between Jay Goldberg Events and Entertainment and Jam Productions

See also

• Grateful Dead
• Phish
• String Cheese Incident
• The Disco Biscuits
• moe.
• Mars Mushrooms
• Relix Magazine
• Deadhead
• Umphrey's McGee
• Bonnaroo Music Festival

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13. ^ Cream 2005 Pat Buzby, JamBands. Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. com, November 13, 2005, Retrieved September 10, 2007
14. ^ The Jamband Backlash: Where did Things Go Wrong? Dan Greenhaus, Jambands. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. com, Oct 2005
15. ^ Anastasio, Phish Win At Jammy Jam Jon Wiederhorn, MTV News, October 4th, 2002 Retrieved October 4, 2007
16. ^ My Morning Jacket Lead Jammys Charley Rogulewski, Rolling Stone, Feb 24, 2006 Retrieved October 4, 2007
17. ^ Jambands, Dean Budnick, Backbeat Books, 2003, pg XII
18. ^ Jambands, Dean Budnick, Backbeat Books, 2003, pp 248-9
19. ^ Jambands, Dean Budnick, Backbeat Books, 2003, pg IX
20. ^ PT | Phish | Shows | 12/01/84 Nectar's - Burlington, VT
21. ^ PT | Disco Biscuits | Shows | 12/02/95 Blarney Stone - Philadelphia, PA
22. ^ Robert Christgau (1969). Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Live/Dead review (php). Music reviews. Robert Christgau. Retrieved on 2007-02-02. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor
23. ^ One such event was The Grateful Dead's playing of "Unbroken Chain," a song bass-player Phil Lesh penned (and sang), and a fan-favorite from the Dead's much-loved From The Mars Hotel (1974) LP, in their final year together. Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley California) is a Musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead. The reemergence of their archetypal jam song "Dark Star" after years of absence from the repertoire is another such event.
24. ^ Fans will frequently wax rhapsodic about performances such as "that one show where Phish segued out of 'Fee', into 'Stash', into 'You Enjoy Myself', and then back into 'Stash' again. "
25. ^ for examples, go to: http://www.jambands.com/deansdownloads/ Moe or http://www.jambands.com/deansdownloads/index.php?start=9 Steve Kimock and The Slip, Soulive, Merl Saunders and host Peter Prince for a version of the Isley Brothers’ “It’s Your Thing. ”

External links

• Jambands.com
• JamBase
• JamRadio.org
• Jam Band