re: My morning jacket. jam band?

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Jam Band isn't a genre its a scene and withing that scene are bands with many different genres.

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I hate labeling shite but this is pretty much it. It doesn't matter who/what/where/why WHATEVER...so long as they 'jam'.

Now WTF defines a jam band is beyond me. I've played a couple times before and we would extend songs or mesh a couple tunes or just (by my definition) 'jam' for a few minutes. It wouldn't be the whole show but we would open up with a little 5-10 minute intro jam. If we were a few songs in and felt a little too tight, we would just jam to loosen up and get right. It wasn't an every night thing so I wouldn't consider us a jam band.