Jam Bands ('90s)

rpirl

Recently looking into this scene a bit more, American bands from the '90s who were influenced by stuff like The Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers etc.

Names such as

Dave Matthews Band

Phish

Blues Traveler

Big Head Todd and the Monsters

From AllMusic :

Jam Bands were frequently pegged as Grateful Dead or Allman Brothers copyists when they first emerged in the early '90s. There was some truth to that, since jam bands were influenced by these groups, but jam bands were hardly mere revivalists. They were synthesists, borrowing elements of everything from classic rock and bluegrass to soul jazz and Sting & Paul Simon's worldbeat explorations. The first jam bands -- Blues Traveler, Widespread Panic, Spin Doctors, among others -- were more rock-oriented, but as the decade rolled on and more bands were formed, the genre's diversity deepened. Of all these bands, Phish towered above the rest, due to their musical eclecticism, uncanny technical abilities, and massive popularity. They weren't really like the Dead, but they shared one distinct similarity -- they sold more tickets than records.

rpirl

Blues Traveler -- 'Hook'

One of the more successful songs (and somehow nearly 50m views for the vid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz5kCaCRFM

rpirl

A tune from my own collection by a band called The Why Store, had revisited it and was trying to figure out what genre it was. Has that kind of practice-room feel and bits of improv on there as well.

'Lack of Water'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH6_BCJCsW0