Q: How old were you when you started to play guitar? A: If you were taller than the guitar, you were too old.

This is almost beyond belief:

Listen to Now: Umphrey's McGee

Never need to apologize for more UM.

One of my favorites:

Watching/Listening Now: Smells Like Teen Spirite

Several versions of the song which comes in at number 7 on the Rolling Stone best ever list:

First, a Ukelele Orchestra

Next, Bad Plus

Finally, the original (in a somewhat overdone video).  But the sound is good.

Listen to Now: Bo Diddley

Yes, another distraction.

But what radical music for 1955.

Evidently this was from the Ed Sullivan show.  This is from wikipedia:

On November 20, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show, where he infuriated the host. "I did two songs and he got mad," Bo Diddley later recalled. "Ed Sullivan said that I was one of the first colored boys to ever double-cross him. Said that I wouldn't last six months". The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit "Sixteen Tons", but when he appeared on stage, he sang "Bo Diddley" instead. This substitution resulted in his being banned from further appearances.

Watching Now: Perpetual Groove

Still undecided about these guys, but definitely a Jam Band, and decent sound and picture and jam in this clip:

Vies with 'Slightly Stoopid' as worse name for a jam band however.  Not that Umphrey's McGee or Disco Biscuits are much better.

Jam Bands. What strikes you?

These are the Jam Bands I am enjoying most:

Umphrey's McGee
   - formed at the University of Notre Dame in 1997
Phish
   - formed at the University of Vermont in 1982
Disco Biscuits
   - formed at the University of Philadelphia in 1995
moe.
    - formed at the University of Buffalo in 1989
New Monsoon
    - formed at Penn State in 1998
String Cheese Incident
    - formed by ski bums in Colorado in 1993

And as proof of sorts...UM from 1998

Watching Now: Lotus

Music for a Saturday morning...

Lotus is on the margins of my jam band interests and also kind of a guilty pleasure.

But at least it's still a guitar band.