Jay Farrar

Bob, you might be kind of biased since you are in the band.

5th Grade - I found GnR 8th Grade - Metallica 10th Grade - Pantera/Sepultura/White Zombie 12th Grade - Classic Rock (Skynard, SMB), Pink Floyd, Beatles Freshman in College - Bob Marley, Sublime Sophmore - Phish, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Greatful Dead Last 4 years - Son Volt/Jay/Wilco, Phish, GD I wou...

Okay, this is why I like the bands I like. Jay Farrar is a perfect example of a band or musician to obsess over. Say you are you hear a tune off Okemah and go out and buy the album. Being the music fan you are you start to like the tunes and want to hear more from this guy. You find other Son Volt a...

The last years of the dead were not the best, Jerry was in pretty bad shape and the music suffered. Before that they were an incredible band. Although their studio albums were not their forte (live performances were), American Beauty is really pretty good. Some of the compilation albums are good lis...

The Jerry Garcia Movie

http://musicnews.virgin.net/Virgin/Life ... ic,00.html

Check it... produced by the kid on Malcolm In the Middle? I don't know about this... Anyone else think it will be focused on teh drugs?

I'm not saying that I don't harbor MUCH LOVE for teh Buffett. I do! I've been to several Parrothead extravaganzas at the Shoreline Amphitheater in my time! I just kinda lost track of him after he lost the mustache. That would've been around the Floridays album, I believe. Also, upon reflection, hel...

Fenrisinho wrote:Snow can be overrated, sometimes it's nice, most of the time, it's a big bugger.

You must be jaded Fen.

What is this? A music snobitorium? Why can't Jimmy play his faux country/island music and people just let it be what it is? There is nothing very ground breaking with it, but he has some catchy tunes that can be enjoyed. And his concerts are that of a big party with all sorts of people enjoying the...

highlandcreek wrote:

Whoo-hooo! It's snowing outside my office window right now! I wanna go PLAY!!!

Nice!! It is freezing here! Where is my snow??

I love both Greatful Dead and Pink Floyd even though they are completely different bands. Greatful Dead is a grassroots/jammy type band not geared to write commercially successful rock tunes. Pink Floyd writes transcendant rock tunes that have acheived legendary status but not really grassroots or j...

have yet to see teh Frame.
have seen Spencer and met him as well, and he gets a big thumbs up.

I know Animals and some of their really old stuff has a jam feel to them, but I don't think that they ultimately made their name as a band that does free form jams. Actually they were really that realm very early. All their beginning stuff was free form jam sessions. That's how they came up with In...

Everyone is talking about Steve Mariucci being fired as the Detroit Lions' head coach, but team president Matt Millen should be mentioned in the same breath. Millen hired Mariucci, who was Millen's second hire since taking over the franchise in 2001. He also drafted the talent, selecting a wide rec...

keith21 wrote:My favorites:
One Particular Harbor

This is my favorite JB tune. I heard all the locals hate him too.

A jam band is a band that does free form improvisation in many of their songs. One night they might play a song off an album that is the standard version and the next time they play it, it may go for 20 minutes plus... you never know where the song will go. I have seen the Live in Pompeii DVD and th...