@skidmorephish said:

I especially liked your juxtaposing the Sunday Hampton experience with this show...

This was so weird for me, because having not gone to Worcester, I got literally two second sets in a row with almost the same songs! But it really was two very different experiences, with totally different jams. And as I said, that's the real beauty of it all.

@FACTSAREUSELESS - I kept thinking of that Lou Reed quote where he says that 1 chord is fine, but 3 is jazz, with reference to all these big two-chord rock jams this year. It's about texture and timbre and rhythm as much as melodic and harmonic invention, which to my ears define a lot of pre-97 jamming.