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71-450: The Disco Biscuits are an American jam band from Philadelphia . The band consists of Allen Aucoin (drums), Marc "Brownie" Brownstein (bass guitar, vocals), Jon "The Barber" Gutwillig (guitar, vocals), and Aron Magner (keyboards, synths, vocals). The band incorporates elements from a variety of musical genres with a base of electronic and rock . Their style has been described as trance fusion . The Disco Biscuits formed in 1995 at

142-554: A digital recording of the concert and download it to a USB flash drive or another portable digital storage device. Some bands offer concert recordings made available for purchase on compact disc or flash drive shortly after the show ends. Most major music festivals also offer digital live recordings at the event. Several vendors such as Instant Live by Live Nation and Aderra offer this remote recording service for instant delivery. Although these shows are freely traded in digital format, "official" versions are collected by fans for

213-399: 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 super-extended grooves." Another term for "jam band music" used in the 1990s was "Bay Rock". It was coined by the founder of Relix magazine, Les Kippel, as a reference to

284-590: A 24-minute version of "Whipping Post", and a 20-minute version of Willie Cobbs ' " You Don't Love Me ". The British space rock band Hawkwind were also progenitors of the jam band sound. In the mid-1980s and early-1990s, the bands Phish , moe. , Edie Brickell & New Bohemians , Blues Traveler , Ozric Tentacles , Widespread Panic , Dave Matthews Band , Bela Fleck and the Flecktones , Spin Doctors , The String Cheese Incident , Col. Bruce Hampton and

355-417: A Jam Band? Please cast aside any preconceptions that this phrase may evoke. The term, as it is commonly used today, references a rich palette of sounds and textures. These groups share a collective penchant for improvisation, a commitment to songcraft, and a propensity to cross genre boundaries, drawing from a range of traditions including blues, bluegrass, funk, jazz, rock, psychedelia, and even techno. Besides,

426-461: A different experience every night, with varying set lists , evolving songs, creative segues, and extended instrumentals. Some of their fans, known as "Deadheads", followed their tours from city to city, and a hippie subculture developed around the band, complete with psychedelic clothes, a black market in concert-related products, and drug paraphernalia. The band toured regularly for most of three decades. The Allman Brothers Band were also considered

497-535: 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 "jamtronica". Progressive bluegrass , progressive rock and jazz fusion are also quite popular among fans of jam bands. In the early 2000s, the jam scene helped influence the touring patterns and approach of a new wave of indie bands like Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Interpol, and The National. Hundreds of jam-based festivals and concerts are held throughout

568-418: A hit song on MTV in 1987. They eventually began playing football stadiums. Widespread Panic originated when Michael Houser and John Bell started playing together. In 1986, after Todd Nance and Dave Schools joined them, the band played their first show as "Widespread Panic". Blues Traveler and Spin Doctors - formed and fronted by school friends John Popper and Chris Barron , respectively - regularly performed at

639-967: A jam band, and one which makes for sought-after tapes. By the 2000s, as internet downloading of MP3 music files became common, the downloading of jam-band songs became an extension of the cassette taping trend. Archived jam-band downloads are available at various websites, the most prominent ones being etree and the Live Music Archive , which is part of the Internet Archive . Some jam bands distribute their latest shows online. Bands such as Phish , Widespread Panic , The String Cheese Incident , Gov't Mule , əkoostik hookah , Umphrey's McGee , Dopapod , Lotus , and The Disco Biscuits have offered digital downloads within days, or sometimes hours, of concerts. The Grateful Dead have begun to offer live releases from their archives for download. Some concert venues offer kiosks where fans may purchase

710-612: A jam band, particularly during the Duane Allman era. Songs such as " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed " and " Whipping Post ", which were 5–7 minutes long on their studio albums, became 20-minute jams at concerts. The Allmans performed a 34-minute jam with the Grateful Dead in 1970. Their 1972 album Eat A Peach included " Mountain Jam ", a 34-minute instrumental that was recorded live. The 1971 live album At Fillmore East featured

781-590: A jam band. Dave Schools of Widespread Panic said in an interview, "We want to shake free of that name, jam band. The jam band thing used to be the Grateful Dead bands. We shook free of that as hard as we could back in 1989. Then Blues Traveler came on the scene. All together, we created the H.O.R.D.E. tour, which focused a lot of attention on jam bands. Then someone coined the term jam bands. I'd rather just be called retro. When you pigeonhole something, you limit its ability to grow and change." An example of

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852-470: A link that would not only unite bands themselves but also a very large community around them." By the late 1990s, the term jam band became applied retroactively in jam band circles for bands such as Cream , who for decades were categorized as a "power-trio" and "psychedelic rock", and who when active were largely unrelated to the Grateful Dead, but whose live concerts usually featured several extended collective improvisations. In his October 2000 column on

923-867: A national, nonpartisan, non-profit, organization that partners with musicians to promote participation in democracy in the United States by registering voters at concerts. In 2010, the keyboardist Aron Magner was named to the Board of Directors for the Philadelphia Young Playwrights theatre arts program. Current members Former members Jam band A jam band is a musical group whose concerts and live albums substantially feature improvisational " jamming ." Typically, jam bands will play variations of pre-existing songs, extending them to improvise over chord patterns or rhythmic grooves . Jam bands are known for having

994-406: 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 . 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". Although Trucks suggests that this is only a difference of semantics,

1065-734: A replacement, headlined by the band and Lotus. Brownstein and Gutwillig have each written rock operas. Gutwillig was first, writing the Hot Air Balloon sometime before it debuted on December 31, 1998, at Silk City in Philadelphia. Brownstein wrote the Chemical Warfare Brigade in early 2000 while on hiatus from the band. It debuted at the Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia on August 19, 2000 along with his side project Electron. The Disco Biscuits played

1136-463: A revenue of $ 10 million. In 2002, Clear Channel Communications took over operations and management from MEG. Along with the new management came the first sponsor for the venue, Ford Motor Company . When Clear Channel became Live Nation , Toyota Motor Corporation became a new sponsor. In 2007, the roof collapsed on Valentine's Day during the Blizzard of 2007 . With the roof needing to be rebuilt,

1207-596: A shift in fan base), Manchester, TN ; The Warfield Theater , San Francisco, California; Higher Ground , Burlington, Vermont , Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garrettsville, Ohio ; and the Jam in the Dam in Amsterdam . One way to see many jam bands in one place is by going to a jam band-oriented music festival. Some popular festivals that include jam bands are: Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee; Gathering of

1278-598: A show at the venue. The show took place July 30, 2015 on his Kick the Dust Up Tour with Randy Houser & Dustin Lynch as openers. The Peach Music Festival , a music festival started by The Allman Brothers Band has taken place annually at the venue since 2012. It takes place over the course of several days in mid-August, and features stages around the venue and the nearby Montage Mountain Ski Resort , which

1349-489: A taper's section, segregating these people with their equipment into one area of the venue to keep them from interfering with other concertgoers. Improvisational jam bands perform their songs differently at each performance and generally have no fixed setlist, to encourage fans to see them on multiple nights. Some fans collect versions of their favourite songs and actively debate which is the best version of any particular song, keeping lists of notable versions. This may extend to

1420-551: A unique sound. The band received particular acclaim from fans during their 1999 tours for the thoughtful setlist compositions mixed with exploratory improvisation. This era (which has been referred to as 'the nine-nine' by Disco Biscuits fans) featured energetic musical improvisation that incorporated new musical elements while still remaining enjoyable to more mainstream jamband audiences whose tastes tended to gravitate towards folk-rock and blues. The first inklings of what ultimately became trance-fusion emerged during shows played by

1491-415: A very fluid structure, playing long sets of music which often cross genre boundaries, varying their nightly setlists, and segueing from one song into another without a break. The jam-band musical style, spawned from the psychedelic rock movement of the 1960s, was a feature of nationally famed groups such as the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers Band , whose regular touring schedules continued into

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1562-633: Is known as "jamtronica" or "livetronica" (a portmanteau of the terms " live music " and " electronica "). Bands includes The Disco Biscuits , STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), and The New Deal (although STS9 guitarist Hunter Brown has expressed basic reservations about the "livetronica" label, explaining that "it's a really vague term to describe a lot of bands", he did cite Tortoise as stylistic precursors). Entertainment Weekly also identified Prefuse 73 , VHS or Beta , Lotus , Signal Path, MFA, and Midwest Product as notable livetronica groups. The contemporary jam scene has grown to encompass bands from

1633-503: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) seems to call most fans pirates intent on stealing their music. Schultz said that the key concept here is reciprocity: Fans treated with generosity and respect by jam bands tend to be more loyal even to the point of helping enforce the copyrights the jam bands claim. Fans similarly reciprocate the hostility they perceive in the anti-piracy lawsuits filed by

1704-511: The University of Pennsylvania . Brownstein, Gutwillig, Magner, and the original drummer, Sam "Sammy" Altman, bonded over a shared affinity for psychedelic rock, electronic music, soul, blues, jazz and classical music. This eclectic mix of interests helped inspire their distinctive style of live electronic music, which is sometimes called 'trance fusion'. The term references the band's choice to incorporate elements of trance music - specifically

1775-449: The 1960s San Francisco Bay Area music scene, which included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape , among many others. By the late 1990s, the types of jam bands had grown so that the term became quite broad, as exemplified by the definition written by Dean Budnick, which appeared in the program for the first annual Jammy Awards in 2000 (Budnick co-created the show with Wetlands Preserve owner Peter Shapiro). What Is

1846-404: The 1980s, the Grateful Dead 's fan base included a large core group that followed their tours from show to show. These fans (known as " Deadheads ") developed a sense of community and loyalty. In the 1990s, the band Phish began to attract this fan base. The term "jam band" was first used regarding Grateful Dead and Phish culture in the 1980s. In 1998, Dean Budnick wrote the first book devoted to

1917-520: The 1990s. The style influenced a new wave of jam bands who toured the United States with jam band-style concerts in the late 1980s and early '90s, such as Phish , Blues Traveler , Widespread Panic , Dave Matthews Band , The String Cheese Incident , moe. , and Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit . The jam-band movement gained mainstream exposure in the US in the early 1990s with

1988-529: The Aquarium Rescue Unit , Medeski Martin & Wood , The Black Crowes , Leftover Salmon , The Samples , Galactic , əkoostik hookah , and Lettuce , began touring with jam band-style concerts. Their popularity increased in the early 1990s. Phish formed in 1983 at the University of Vermont. They solidified their lineup in 1985 and began their career with a few Grateful Dead songs in their repertoire. The Grateful Dead released " Touch of Grey " which became

2059-695: The Borgata's Music Box in Atlantic City. In December 2005 Allen Aucoin was announced as the newest member of the band. Aucoin knew members of the Biscuits' road crew and had opened for the Biscuits with his previous band, Skydog Gypsy, in the past. In 2006 the band purchased the Old City Philadelphia studio space that had previously belonged to DJ Jazzy Jeff . The space became a place for local musicians to congregate and work, culminating in

2130-709: The Chemical Warfare Brigade for the first time at the Vanderbilt in Plainview, New York on December 30, 2000. In 2022 the band begun to debut parts of a third opera entitled Revolution in Motion which was released March 29, 2024. The Disco Biscuits are involved in a number of charitable efforts including food drives and raising money for hurricane relief. In 2004, Brownstein (along with Andy Bernstein, author of The Pharmer's Almanac) founded HeadCount ,

2201-485: The Grateful Dead have continued touring since 1995 in many different iterations, such as The Dead , Bob Weir & Ratdog , Phil Lesh and Friends , Donna Jean Godchaux Band , 7 Walkers , Furthur , and Dead & Company . Members of other jam bands often perform together in various configurations and supergroups, such as Tedeschi Trucks Band , Oysterhead , and Dave Matthews & Friends . A consequence of Phish's repopularization of large-scale festivals can be seen in

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2272-450: The Grateful Dead were two of the first bands to have a Usenet newsgroup. Many new bands were formed, which were the first to actually be called "jam bands", including ekoostik hookah , Dispatch , Gov't Mule , Leftover Salmon , moe. , Rusted Root and The String Cheese Incident . During the summer of 1995 Garcia died. The surviving members of the Grateful Dead formed The Other Ones (appearing as " The Dead " for some tours). During

2343-532: The Phi Kappa Gamma fraternity house near the University of Pennsylvania campus is unofficially recognized as the first show that incorporated the JP-8000, helping cement the Biscuits' connection to live, improvised electronic music. In 2005 drummer Sammy Altman left the band to pursue a career in medicine. The band began a search for their next drummer ending with a two-night, sold-out drum-off concert at

2414-518: The Sky , Stretch Arm Strong , Kill Your Idols and Nashville Pussy . It also featured 42 tattoo artists from Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Malaysia, Manitoba, Spain, Switzerland and the US. Van Halen played the temporary venue on August 27, 1995 and July 28, 1998. In June 2005, upon their first visit to Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Toyota Pavilion, The Dave Matthews Band became

2485-467: The US. The Bonnaroo Music Festival , held each June in Tennessee, continues to provide a highly visible forum for jam acts, although this festival has attracted many different genres during its decade-plus history. As with other music scenes, devout fans of jam bands are known to travel from festival to festival, often developing a family-like community. These committed fan groups are often referred to by

2556-1156: The Vibes in Bridgeport, Connecticut; Rothbury Festival in Rothbury, Michigan (now known as Electric Forest Festival ); High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, California; All Good Music Festival ; The Peach Music Festival in Scranton, PA; Mountain Jam (festival) in Hunter Mt, New York; Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado; Lockn' Festival in Arrington, Virginia; The Werk Out Music Festival in Thornville, Ohio; and Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, Illinois. Law professor Mark Schultz found that jam bands had fundamentally different business models from

2627-616: The attendance levels of Phish, who themselves had never attained the peak attendance of the Grateful Dead. The long-term fragmentation of the jam-band scene has been a continuing process. Phish held a reunion concert in March 2009 at Hampton Coliseum , and again became one of the top US concert draws. The band were one of the highest-grossing touring musical artists of both 2016 and 2017, and their 13-night " Baker's Dozen " run at Madison Square Garden in 2017 grossed $ 15 million. Many of today's jam bands have brought widely varied genres into

2698-433: The band shortly after keyboardist Aron Magner incorporated a Roland JP-8000 into his live setup in late 1997. This analog-modeling synthesizer (which incidentally also features prominently in the popular track Sandstorm by Finnish electronic artist Darude ) supplied sounds that lent a distinctly electronic flavor to jams that were in most other ways typical Phish-inspired blues-rock improvisations. The Halloween 1997 set at

2769-468: The classic rock sound mixed with exploratory jams. Members of the Grateful Dead have continued touring in many different configurations as The Dead , Bob Weir & Ratdog , Phil Lesh and Friends , 7 Walkers , Furthur , and Dead & Company . The British Intelligent dance music (IDM) band Autechre became known as "the first digital jam band" after their 4-hour long 2016 album set elseq 1-5 . Blending jam-band elements with those of electronica

2840-494: The derogatory terms "wookies" or "wooks". Jam bands often allow their fans to record their live shows, a practice which many other musical genres view as "illegal bootlegging". The Grateful Dead encouraged this practice, which helped to create a thriving scene around the collecting and trading of recordings of their live performances. Starting in 1984, the band recognized the fact that people were already "unofficially" taping their shows, so they started to sell taper tickets for

2911-424: The driving, rhythmically repetitive drum beats and melodic sections that repeat and evolve over time - into the instrumentation and conventions of a live jamband where guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums play structured songs with sections for exploratory improvisation. The band honed their style while playing at bars and fraternity-house shows in the Philadelphia area in the mid-1990s. Bassist Marc Brownstein credits

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2982-541: The festival during July 2017 on Montage Mountain in Scranton , Pennsylvania . Camp Bisco was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The band participated in the drive-in "Pavement Rave" concert series at the same venue as a replacement event. The 2021 festival was also canceled, citing that it could not be organized in time without compromising the experience. Two concert dates in Philadelphia were organized as

3053-471: The first music act to ever completely sell out the pavilion, attracting over 18,000 people. On their return in July 2006, they once again sold out the pavilion. Their performance on July 14, 2010 was recorded and released as a live album, entitled Live Trax Vol. 22 . Kings of Leon were scheduled to perform during their Come Around Sundown World Tour on June 8, 2010, with The Whigs as their opening act, but

3124-572: The founding of the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2002. This multi-band, multi-day festival which annually draws close to 100,000 music fans, started as a jam band-focused event. Over time, bands from many genres have performed at Bonnaroo, but the similarities to Phish's festivals are still apparent. There was no clear jam-band successor after Phish's 2004 breakup. Newer bands such as STS9 , Disco Biscuits , and Umphrey's McGee grew their fanbase. No upcoming jam band has yet to reach

3195-577: The graphics, liner notes, and packaging. 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 Amphitheatre , Red Rocks Park , Denver, CO ; The Gorge Amphitheatre , George, Washington ; High Sierra Music Festival , Quincy, CA ; Saratoga Performing Arts Center , Saratoga Springs, NY ; The Greek Theater , Berkeley, CA ; Bonnaroo Music Festival (Bonnaroo has become increasingly mainstream in recent years, and has seen

3266-498: The improvisational ingenuity demonstrated by the jamband Phish during the 95-97 tours as a particular inspiration for the Disco Biscuits' unique sound. He recognized that improvisation-inclined bands needed to differentiate their sound in meaningful ways in order to stand out in the underground mid-to-late-1990s live music scene, and the Biscuits members' interest in electronic music provided an excellent opportunity to explore

3337-572: The jam band-friendly venue Wetlands Preserve in New York City. In 1991 Dave Matthews , together with jazz musicians Carter Beauford and LeRoi Moore , formed a trio which - after Stefan Lessard joined them - became the first iteration of the Dave Matthews Band. Improvisations have taken a backseat to more polished material, which may be due to their crossover commercial successes, MTV videos, and mainstream radio airplay. In

3408-461: The jam bands of today are unified by the nimble ears of their receptive listeners. Although in 2007 the term may have been used to describe nearly any cross-genre band, festival band, or improvisational band, the term retains an affinity to Grateful Dead-like bands such as Phish. Andy Gadiel, the initial webmaster of Jambands.com, states in Budnick's 2004 edition of Jambands that the music "...had

3479-569: 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. 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 band The B-52's . The Jammys have also awarded musicians from prior decades such as Frank Zappa . Artists such as The Derek Trucks Band have resisted being labelled

3550-468: The latter was more efficient. Jam bands encourage fans to bring recording equipment to live performances and give away copies of what they record. This practice may increase the sizes of their audiences and the total revenue received from concerts and the sale of recorded music. The fans reciprocate the generosity of the jam bands by helping enforce the copyright rules that the bands write, consistent with Tyler's "process-based" law enforcement. Schultz said

3621-528: The mainstream music industry. This could be seen in the perceptions of their fans: Jam-band fans view themselves and the band as part of a shared community, which the band management serves. In comparison, fans of mainstream music "often portray band management as part of a ruthless industry that ... mistreats fans and musicians alike". Professor Tom R. Tyler considered the main law-enforcement strategies for copyright protection, finding that deterrence and process-based strategies could both be effective, but that

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3692-595: The mainstream recording industry. It is unclear which business model is most remunerative for music industry managers, but Schultz insisted that jam bands tend to have more loyal fans, and the mainstream music industry might benefit from following this model and treating their fans with more respect. Montage Mountain Amphitheatre In 1990, the Montage Mountain Ski Area began to host music festivals to bring in additional revenue during

3763-550: The mid nineties, Dave Matthews band achieved commercial success and won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance with the song " So Much To Say ". By the end of the decade, Phish had signed a recording contract with Elektra Records , and transformed from a New England/Northeast-based band into a national touring band ( see: Colorado '88 ). With its fusion of southern rock, jazz, and blues, Widespread Panic has earned renown for appearing multiple times in Pollstar 's "Concert Pulse" chart of

3834-434: The new millennium with an enormous festival called "Big Cypress" in southern Florida, which concluded with an eight-hour set. Other jam bands followed the success of these festivals, notably the Disco Biscuits, who held their first Camp Bisco in 1999, and moe., which began its annual moe.down festivals in 2000. The third generation of jam bands appeared in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many inspired by Phish and other acts of

3905-960: The owners also replaced the seating and updated the lighting, sound and video equipment. This was all completed in time for the 2007 summer season. In 2013, Toyota's sponsorship contract was up for renewal. The car company chose not to renew the contract. The venue became The Pavilion at Montage Mountain beginning January 1, 2014. The amphitheatre played host to the Tattoo the Earth Tour on July 21, 2000. The show featured performances by Slipknot , Slayer , Sevendust , Sepultura , Hed PE , Mudvayne , downset. , Hatebreed , Full Devil Jacket , Famous, Amen , U.P.O. , Nothingface , PPM, Cold , Relative Ash, Kid Rock , Systematic , Six Feet Under , Candiria , Lamb of God , God Forbid , Darkest Hour , Unearth , All That Remains , Dropkick Murphys , Sick of It All , Tiger Army , Converge , The Unseen , Reach

3976-481: The resort's off season. A temporary stage with open lawn seating was opened on July 3, 1992, with a concert by Chubby Checker . Known as Montage Mountain Amphitheater, the popularity of the venue placed Scranton as a secondary market within the concert industry. In 1994, the resort teamed up with Metropolitan Entertainment further expand its concert season. The temporary staging remained, and bleacher-style seating

4047-592: The rise of Phish and the Dave Matthews Band as major touring acts and the dissolution of the Grateful Dead following Jerry Garcia 's death in 1995. Jam-band artists often perform a wide variety of genres. While the Grateful Dead is categorized as psychedelic rock, by the 1990s the term "jam band" was applied to acts that incorporated genres such as blues , country music , contemporary folk music , funk , progressive rock , world music , jazz fusion , Southern rock , alternative rock , acid jazz , bluegrass , folk rock and electronic music into their sound. Although

4118-538: The same period, Phish rose to prominence, and bands such as String Cheese Incident and Blues Traveler became successful. Many Deadheads migrated to the Phish scene, and Phish became recognized as more mainstream. The jam-band scene gained more recognition during the late 1990s, with Dave Matthews Band and Phish being among the most influential bands of the genre, drawing large crowds to amphitheaters and arenas. Dave Matthews Band played at Woodstock '99 while Phish celebrated

4189-509: The scene. A jam band festival may include bands with electronic , folk rock , blues rock , jazz fusion , psychedelic rock , southern rock , progressive rock , acid jazz , hip hop , hard rock , reggae , and bluegrass sounds. The electronic trend has been led by such bands as The Disco Biscuits , Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9), Lotus , EOTO , The New Deal , and Dopapod . Bands like moe. , Umphrey's McGee , Lettuce , Assembly of Dust , The Heavy Pets and The Breakfast have carried on

4260-476: The second wave. These included Soulive , Gov't Mule , The Derek Trucks Band , Steve Kimock Band and My Morning Jacket . Additionally, groups such as The Disco Biscuits and Sound Tribe Sector 9 added electronic and techno elements into their performances, developing the livetronica subgenre. The early 2010s saw a fourth generation of jam bands, including Dopapod , Pigeons Playing Ping Pong , CBDB , Goose , Twiddle , Moon Taxi and Spafford . Members of

4331-483: The show was cancelled, due to illness. The amphitheatre has played host to many music festivals, including All That! Music and More Festival , Anger Management Tour , Crüe Fest , Crüe Fest 2 , H.O.R.D.E. Festival, Lilith Fair , Lollapalooza , Mayhem Festival , Ozzfest , Peach Music Festival, Up in Smoke Tour , Uproar Festival and Vans Warped Tour . Luke Bryan was the first country artist to sell out

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4402-481: The ski resort, with a wooded area separating the venue and parking spaces. Construction was completed in June 2000, just in time for the newly sponsored Coors Light Silver Bullet Concert Series. The new venue was opened on June 24, 2000 with a concert by Harry Connick Jr. The following day featured a concert by Britney Spears. The venue proved to be a financial success for the resort and the county. The first two seasons saw

4473-401: The song's relative rarity in setlists of differing eras. Some bands will play on this anticipation by adding little "teases" into their sets. For example, playing a few bars of a famous cover song or hinting at a popular jam and then either never getting around to actually playing the song, or coming back to it after an extended jam. The use of segues to blend strings of songs is another mark of

4544-402: The subject for jambands.com , Dan Greenhaus attempted to explain the evolution of a jam band 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

4615-491: The subject, entitled Jam Bands . He founded Jambands.com later that year and is often credited with coining the term. However, in his second book on the subject, 2004's Jambands: A Complete Guide to the Players, Music & Scene , he explains that he only popularized it. 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

4686-430: The template for future jam bands was the Grateful Dead , founded in 1965 by San Francisco-based guitarist Jerry Garcia . The Dead attracted an enormous cult following, mainly on the strength of their live performances and live albums (their studio albums were only modest successes and received little radio play). The band specialized in improvisational jamming at concerts. They played long two-set shows, and gave their fans

4757-640: The term has a recent history for which it is used exclusively. An example of this discernment is the acceptance of Les Claypool as a jam band in the year 2000. Though known for his decade with Primus (a band that jams) and solo works, it was after he created the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade with members of Ratdog and released Live Frogs Set 1 that as Budnick wrote had "marked [Claypool's] entry into [the jamband] world." Budnick has been both editor-in-chief of Jambands.com and executive editor of Relix magazine. The band that set

4828-547: The term has been used to describe cross-genre and improvisational artists, it retains an affinity to the fan cultures of the Grateful Dead or Phish. A feature of the jam-band scene is fan recording of live concerts. While the mainstream music industry often views fan taping as "illegal bootlegging ", jam bands often allow their fans to make tapes or recordings of their live shows. Fans trade recordings and collect recordings of different live shows, because improvisational jam bands play their songs differently at each performance. In

4899-494: The top fifty bands on the road, and they have performed more than 150 live dates a year." In the early 1990s, a new generation of bands was spurred by the Grateful Dead's touring and the increased exposure of The Black Crowes , Phish, and Widespread Panic. At the same time, the Internet gained popularity and provided a medium for fans to discuss these bands and their performances as well as to view emerging concepts. Phish and

4970-793: The unique collaborations recorded in recording studio efforts known as the Planet Anthem sessions. Around the time Planet Anthem was released, the Biscuits also collaborated with noted hip-hop producer Damon Dash working on a variety of projects. The first Camp Bisco took place in August 1999 in Cherrytree Pennsylvania, the band seeking to combine the creative effects of electronic DJs with improvisational rock. Over 17 years Camp Bisco has grown by leaps and bounds, with its lineup expanding to include acts such as Shpongle , Lotus , Pretty Lights , Bassnectar , Gramatik , and STS9 . The band celebrated its fifteenth anniversary of

5041-558: Was added in addition to the lawn . The capacity grew from 5,000 to 16,000 along with a name change, the Montage Mountain Performing Arts Center. Beginning July 1994, the venue hosted an annual summer concert series. It was the success of the 1999 season that persuaded the owners to build a permanent facility. The $ 6 million project began construction in November 1999. The venue takes up 70 acres of

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