Jam band

My dad showed me like I was really into the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin.

um and i wasn't really exposed to the grateful dead until i was a little bit older like i was probably like 16 or 17. um and i loved all that yeah yeah i loved the hippie stuff and classic rock stuff but then i slowly started to like learn about like jam bands and stuff when i started working with like some hippies at like a restaurant, like a pizza shop that I started when I was like 18 and they showed me these jam bands like the modern jam bands at the time like Papadosio and Dopapod and Talk and Lotus and STS-9.

Wait, paint the picture of this job in this pizza hut or pizza spot and how were you working in the kitchen and you guys would just crank the tunes like tell us the story of how paint the picture.

Yeah, I was the young cat there.

Which, it's not around anymore, but I think that name of that festival carries a lot of weight still in the jam community because it was really big, really central.

It was in Arkansas in the Ozarks on Mulberry Mountain.

Beautiful place for a festival, and it had all the great jam bands.

and there was a lot of people it's probably about the size of like a summer camp festival probably like you know 20 000 people or something not quite as big as like bonnaroo or something like that but uh it changed my life when i'm 18 years old go to the festival like that and saw every single band that i had been learning about wanting to see i saw every single one of them there at that same festival Papa Dozio, Humphreys McGee, Dopapod Talk, STS-9 Soundtribe.

I'm your host, John Buhler, lead writer for Fan Sighted.

I'm joined today by a man who likes his peanut butter crunchy, who showers when he can, usually every day because he's a good person, but he's not really into jam bands and that's okay.

Cody Williams, content director, fansighted.com. How are you?

I like jamming.

I just don't like it when that's your whole sole purpose of being a band man.

Shouts out Josh Wilson, who in the time that I've known him has gotten into jam bands and is like convinced he can convert me and it's just not going to happen.

No, I mean, you can convert anybody.

I mean, this isn't a religion.

We might have similar interests outside of music or playing music, but that glue is, you know, the wanting to play the songs and being interested in the music and being in a band.

Just having those differences where I've grown up on everything, but through time, my preference is I've navigated and been drawn towards jam bands and heavy improvisational music.

No wonder why you and Andrew Sherman are friends.

Sure.