Favorite "Jam Bands"

[Bluzmann57]

I put Jam Band in quotation marks because I'm not sure that it's an appropriate term and besides, I treally don't categorize music like a lot of people do. But anyway, one reason I bring this up is because I see Metallica is scheduled to be at Bonnaroo (sp?) this year and most people wouldn't really consider them in the "Jam Band" mode. And I like a lot of the bands who make the circuit at these types of festivals each year. So I subit to you some of my personal faves in that style of music.
Present bands. In no particular order of preference.
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
North Mississippi All Stars. World Boogie lives in Deltarado!
Widespread Panic
Derek Trucks Band
Yonder Mountain String Band. I saw this band at around 3 PM a few years ago on a Wednesday or something like that and they PACKED the place with young people. It was truly impressive.
And a band which bridges the past with the present.
Little Feat.
And the original "Jam Band" in my humble opinion, The Allman Brothers Band. And I feel they were the best in their original form. Very few better guitar players than Duane Allman.
One thing about these type of bands, they are hard for music critics and record companies to categorize, hence the term "Jam Band". And that is one reason I like bands like that. Screw convention.

[Tikki]

1. Merritt Mountain Music Festival...that's in B.C....

http://www.mountainfest.com/
I bet you'd find someone/band there that is/are amazing..

I have always wanted to go...it is each year in July..
It's not my genre of music...but it is set in a really sweet surrounding and sounds fun.


Tikki

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Funkadelic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3bleXWaCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoklTKgJTxU

[Initech]

10. George Clinton kicks ass.

[piratefish08]

3. String Cheese Incident

OAR
Allman Brothers - hell yeah! And Haynes is sounding INCREDIBLE on tour right now with the Dead......
The Dead
Tea Leaf Green
Dark Star Orchestra

oh yeah - can't leave out the grandaddy of the funk jam - George Clinton!!

[Bennyboy]

5. I love them all but really hate the label

String Cheese Incidnet are awesome. It is like grateful dead v2. Not the music but the spirit. Seen em about 100 times.

The thing is, the term jamband fits so many catagories. Yonder is bluegrass.

Galactic is New Orleans funk
SCI is themselves.

every type of music is represented. john Scofield, he is a jambander. Gov't Mule, they are jambanders.
one thing though, WARREN HAYNES IS GOD.

[abq e streeter]

4. Pearl Jam, The Jam...( sorry, sometimes can't resist being a smart-ass)

[no name no slogan]

6. Um, none of the above

Although I've been a fan of Traffic (who have influenced many of the new jam bands) since I first heard them as a teenager in the 1980s.

[fight4my3sons]

7. the ones you listed plus:

moe.

the dead

The Kind

The Electric Woodshed (the last two are local bands out of Virginia)

[SoxFan]

8. Minutemen

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[Initech]

9. Govt. Mule, Grateful Dead, P-Funk, Allman Bros.