It only made sense that we’d wrap up our Jamband Graveyard week with a tasty ode to the bands that filled up all those Maxell XL-II’s that came flooding in and out of our mailboxes packed in bubble mailers on a weekly basis back during the tape trading heyday. Sifting through tape lists and getting an unexpected filler from an opening act surely turned a lot of us onto some of the bands we’ve mentioned this week. So sit back and enjoy some great live music…
We kick things off with GSW running through one their signature tunes: Nightingale. This song actually appeared on their first two studio albums. We’ve got a version from August of ’92 at Bogie’s in Albany, NY. Next up is The Samples from around the time of their peak in popularity with Did You Ever Look So Nice from a 1993 show at Sandstone Amphitheater in Bonner Springs, KS. From there, we’ve got Leftover Salmon’s mash-up ode to marijuana that cribs music straight from the Grateful Dead with Pasta On The Mountain from the The Fillmore in San Francisco. Next, we’ve got Taste Sensation Overload from a Ominous Seapods ’97 show at the now defunct mecca of jambands: The Wetlands. Finally, we close things out with Deep Banana Blackouta and a blistering twelve-minute long Bump And Sway from Irving Plaza.
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Wow! Blast from the past indeed. Makes me want to dig an old mix I did circa 1989. As I recall there was some Indecision on there as well as New Potato Caboose and a few other also-rans. At the time I remember thinking, “Wow, it will be weird looking back on this in 20 years or so!” Strange to think we’re almost there!