Sonic Bloom and collaboration with The Human Experience

[Tom22]

Haley Reinhart w/ The Human Experience @ Gratifly Music Festival 2014

Haley Reinhart performing with The Human Experience during the sunset on the new Jelly Dome/ Boat Stage @ Gratifly Music Festival 2014

Wow.. I really dig this !

I think that this duo could work financially as an opening act for many many types of bands because of qualities that a headliner wants in terms of preparing an audience for the "real" act on top of it being very high quality and musically interesting to many true musicians at heart I believe.

... but hey, I"m a "jam band" kind of guy,, and that's how I'd define this music. It's techno jam and in my book it has no connection to SMYM which is techno dance...techno is like an intrument and all music using guitars aren't the same genre (ok that was a why analogy)

Santana's connection to jazz was mentioned in another thread. I connected Haley to Santana in that mashup video I did....to me an electric guitar wail is the same as a trumpet rift... someone can wear tie-dies like the greatful dead, or suits and thin ties like Louis armstrong, cowboy shirts like the Alman Brothers , or too tight jeans and at ripped t shirt like Van Halen but the defining and unifying element to a jam band "genre" is a trance inducing poly-rhythm or deeply shuffled groove in which the musicians ad lib an interplay of theme and variation with a blues based chord structure.

Oops... I slipped.

I just got to laugh at people who'd even remotely call this a "sell out" (no one here feels that of course!). To me it is quite complicated with lots of subtle ironies but.. to other's it's "aimless" as its far from a linear trip with any conclusion or single point to it.

"jazz" is too complicated a term to define in a way that people agree on... I have mixed feelings about using the word... not all jazz jams imo and its like the jazz genre and the country genre of the alman brothers or grace potter isn't the defining thing but those two are connected to a grateful dead or carlos santana in ways other rockers or countryish artists aren't and in recent years is applying to some techno groups and even some(not all) hip hop sounds.

.. .my "jam band" clasification of it is subject to disagreement too.

evidently "jam band" just won't agree on any definition... some try to define it by culture, others by atttendance and propesity for people making live recordings ( groupies following a band around making tapes and putting them on the internet !) .... interesting discussion in this Wikipedia article

it's really long and people would probably get lost in the first 2/3ds with grateful dead references so I'll quote a bit of the bottom of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_band

2004–present[edit]
After Coventry, many Phish fans found themselves in a predicament similar to that Deadheads faced almost a decade previously. With no more Phish to follow around, the hundreds of thousands of Phish fans began investing time in the other top jam band acts of the day. This gave newer bands such as STS9, Disco Biscuits, and Umphrey's McGee a greater opportunity to grow their fanbase. These bands have steadily increased their popularity, but so far, no jam band has reached Phish's attendance levels. It should be noted that Phish never reached the Grateful Dead's peak attendance levels, so the fragmentation of the jam band scene has been a long term trend. Phish announced on October 1, 2008 that they would return to the stage in March 2009 at Hampton Coliseum.
Widespread Panic became the top jam band (by attendance) after Phish broke up in 2004.[citation needed] Their southern jam style brings out large crowds to amphitheaters and large indoor venues. Bringing in Jimmy Herring in 2006, a virtuoso jam band veteran guitarist, added a fresh edge to their huge catalog of songs.
moe. has maintained a tightly-knit fanbase through this period. Their enduring popularity is supported by steady touring, including frequent festival appearances. String Cheese Incident has mixed bluegrass and electronic sounds to build a devoted fanbase as well. SCI has significantly reduced their touring schedule in recent years, giving each of their shows a special reunion vibe.

Many of today's jam bands have brought widely varied genres into the scene. A jam band festival may include bands with electronic, folk rock, blues rock, jazz fusion, psychedelic rock, southern rock, progressive rock, acid jazz, hip hop, hard rock, and bluegrass sounds. The electronic trend has been led by such bands as The Disco Biscuits, Business As Usual, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9), Lotus, EOTO, The New Deal. Bands like moe., Umphrey's McGee, Assembly of Dust, The Heavy Pets and The Breakfast have carried on the classic rock sound mixed with exploratory jams. Members of The Grateful Dead have continued touring in many different configurations as The Dead, Bob Weir & Ratdog, Phil Lesh and Friends, 7 Walkers, and Furthur.
Jam scene[edit]
The contemporary jam scene has grown to encompass bands from a great diversity of musical genres. A 2000-era genre of jam-band music uses live improvisation that mimics the sounds of DJs and electronica musicians and has been dubbed "trancefusion" (a fusion between trance music and rock and roll). Progressive bluegrass and progressive rock are also quite popular among fans of jam bands.


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After that it moves into an interesting discussion of copyright law and fan recordings etc.