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0Posted on Aug 17th, 2010 | re: My Morning Jacket - "Circuital" Live Video (6 comments)
I was also a big Evil Urges fan. But I gotta say I’ve never agreed with My Morning Jacket being lumped in with jam bands. Southern Rock, maybe, but they are definitely not in the same genre as Phish or Umphrey’s McGee.
































Agreed that the fan base has changed, but does that really make them a jam band? They don’t really have any control of who comes to their shows. They do play a lot of covers and improvise a bit, but I still wouldn’t call them a jam band. I guess it all comes down to how you define the jam genre. When I think of jam bands I think of a bunch of needless guitar noodling with weak original material and an overall lack of structure. I do agree that bands are now largely defined by their audience, which I think is a little unfair to their music.