OT: The lost era of long songs & Jams...

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Okay, I'll make it as easy for you as I can.
I'd like a hot tuna salad sandwich, the Funky #7, on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce, and a side of jam.
Now all you have to do is hold the salad, hold the toast, give me some extra tuna, give me some extra jam, and you haven't broken any rules.

Live, 11/20/1976, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, HJ. 15:56.
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[rounder]

Originally Posted by William

Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy (7:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSQ1akE2CcM





William

Good song. A lot of people did not know that Steve Winwood could play guitar. But he was great. Here is another S. Winwood song, but it does not meet the 8 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-SFgkVlno

[rounder]

Paul Butterfield and the Band - Mystery Train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uto9t8k-Flg

[beeatnik]

Can - Halleluwah

18:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZbAFmnRVA

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...rsary-edition/

[charliedid]

Originally Posted by beeatnik

swans - cloud of unknowing
30:34 long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tewxmbqbaq8

swans - the glowing man
28:33 long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfhqiyvuvlm

:d

[William]

Dread Zeppelin - Kashmir (10:02)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miXu...yNT0L_h_OoACtj








William

[Bob Ross]

Okay, I'll play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOz5w8Lb1m4

First time I heard this tune it was a live concert broadcast from the Meadowlands (or whatever New Jersey's outdoor sports stadium was called in 1974) on FM radio. For those of you who didn't live through the 1970s, just think about that for a second: 22 minutes of non-stop music without a commercial interruption. On the radio. In prime time.

[rounder]

Not sure that this was posted. Duane Allman. Wish there were more Duane stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUvxRjYqjEQ#t=9.5880732

[beeatnik]

Originally Posted by beeatnik

Can - Halleluwah

18:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZbAFmnRVA

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...rsary-edition/

For some musicians of that time, that meant replacing (or augmenting) composition with improvisation: letting the unconscious mind take over in the instant, and recording the results. Can's insight was that jamming alone wasn't going to do the trick. One of their solutions to that problem was that, like Miles Davis' electric group at the time, they were not a jam band but a jam-and-edit band. Their working method involved collectively improvising on little riffs and grooves at enormous length, but that's not quite what you hear on Tago Mago. Bassist Holger Czukay chopped up, layered and extensively reorganized pieces of their recordings (including recordings they made when they didn't think the tape was rolling), imposing afterthought on instinct to create something as densely packed as composition but distinctly different.

[GonaSovereign]

Originally Posted by beeatnik

I like your sympathetic style.

These cats would probably be horrified to be included in this thread...

Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVekJTmtwqM

Godspeed You Black Emperor - East Hastings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Ty3YnWN80

beeatnik - I went to high school with one of the guys in GSYBE and have seen them many times. Only half the band would be horrified.

[GonaSovereign]

Originally Posted by beeatnik

Can - Halleluwah

18:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZbAFmnRVA

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...rsary-edition/

Well played.

[m_sasso]

Moby Grape - Boysenberry Jam, 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYpzD5XkO_I

The Byrds - Eight Miles High, 1970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ymkBEhdHBE

Spooky Tooth - Evil Woman, 1969, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtVTHB319ns

James Gang - Stop, 1969 https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=cCQ9d3WqDwo

Stanley Clarke - School Days, 1976 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrnI7TQ44U0

Tony Williams - Fred, 1975 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCaixOPkgaQ

Lou Reed - Sweet Jane, 1974 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdWPeHFAMk

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And, now, for something completely different...

... not really jams per se...

...but nonetheless pretty amazing stuff, on all levels.

Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler - I'll See You In My Dreams - Walk Of Life

8:29 medley. Pure class.

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[Bob Ross]

Twelve minutes of solid face-melting (...though disturbingly close to a contemporary understanding of the term "jam")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ3UnGQCT1E

[beeatnik]

Originally Posted by GonaSovereign

beeatnik - I went to high school with one of the guys in GSYBE and have seen them many times. Only half the band would be horrified.

So that would be about 15 musicians. Haha.