Talk:List of jam bands

Country Joe and the Fish
Do you really think Country Joe and the Fish can be considered a jam band? They were more a 60's era psychedelic and folk group. Jam bands are bands that follow in the tradition of the Grateful Dead and rely on improvisation, admittedly overlapping with psychedelic music but clearly a seperate category. I think it probably should be removed, but I would like to hear other's thoughts first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.82.146 (talk • contribs) 04:37, 31 October 2004

Jimiller Band
I have twice written an article about the jimiller band, and twice had it deleted as "CSD A7", unremarkable people. This being said either let me write my article or excise jimiller band from this list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FozzyMaple (talk • contribs) 21:45, 24 July 2006

Bands Without Wikipedia Articles
The top of the article states "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.", but someone is deleting any entries that do not have corresponding Wikipedia articles. This seems kind of shortsighted. In this genre it is reasonable to think that many bands are worthy of inclusion on this list, but might not have an article written or might not be notable enough under the guidelines. Keeping those entries on the list may encourage someone to start writing the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonymasiello (talk • contribs) 19:58, 19 September 2006

I removed some bands from the list
These ones:


 * Led Zeppelin
 * Pink Floyd
 * Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Ween
 * Primus
 * Talking Heads

The first 3 definitely shouldn't be on here, since although they have jams, so do most rock bands... and their jams don't really follow traditional jam band ideas of lengthy improvisations. I feel like the person who put them on here wanted to include super popular bands who solo on the list without any rational reason for them to be here. Might as well put every progressive rock and blues rock band ever on here if you're going to include these three, but seriously don't.

The next two are a bit jammier, but not really. They'll occasionally have jams, but for the most part (despite the fact they attracted a lot of jam band fans) are more straight forward like the first three. It can be especially confusing since Les Claypool is in a couple of jam bands and works with Trey Anastasio from time to time, but his main band Primus is more straightforward alternative metal, funk, and occasionally prog and jazz fusion.

As for Talking Heads... why on Earth would anyone put them on here? They're funky pop rock and rarely do anything even close to jamming.

So unless you believe that every band that has solos, including occasional long ones, should be on here, I'd refrain from re-adding any of these bands. Mrmoustache14 (talk) 22:28, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Where's The Mars Volta?
I'd consider them a jam band. 2601:646:8D01:EA0:DC67:CFA1:46F7:8426 (talk) 03:42, 18 May 2024 (UTC)