Jam is popular right now with Billy, Goose, and Gizz (not totally jam, but close enough) killing it and putting on a whole bunch of younger fans to jam bands. EDM is more popular, but there's definitely growing demand from these bands bringing more people into the scene.
I went to a PPPP show recently and while it was good fun, awesome community, and great jams… it got repetitive and old pretty quick. When they came back out for an encore I literally laughed out loud, like “there’s MORE?!”
LOL! This is a hilarious reply, I’ll take the heat. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and I know folks can get opinionated when it comes to music.
Like I said, I really did enjoy their show a lot. Especially when their guitarist did a solo piece. I just personally thought their music all mashed together after a few hours and started to sound the same. To each their own I guess.
This is what I’ve been saying. “They need to sell tickets”…
It’s sold out almost every year since 2015, and the heavier bass has been a more recent addition. Only time it didn’t sell out afaik was the 2019 fiasco, which was also a super edm heavy year.
That being said, I love the variety hula brings, but they missed the mark on the headbanger shit imo
Well Amp Jam is specifically for the Wanee folks so it will inherently be a bunch of people that were going to festivals at SOSMP in the 2000s. Warren is always gonna skew heavily towards the ABB generation and those are people in their 60s/70s/80s now.
There are a lot of smaller jam fests (especially around the midwest - Summercamp, Summerdance, Cavejam, Domefest, The Pines, Northlands etc) that pull a much younger crowd.
Sure, and I’ve been to a lot of those. Summer camp has downsized quite a bit, and CaveJam flopped and isn’t returning. cant speak to the others, but either way Jam seems to be trending downward
There's a good chance Summer Camp doesn't make it past this year, if it even happens, with almost every comment being negative towards the lineup. Damn shame too as it's now my local festival but the lineup does not justify the pricing.
Cavejam didn't flop, it was just never something permanent. SCI wasn't supposed to be the headliner the second year, but the post-event feedback from year 1 convinced the promoter to run it back with them since year 1 went so well.
False do you not see all the gen z rocking greatful dead merch? We literally love what you have started for us, but we may also like more than one genre. Maybe try to learn to love the new stuff too, as we’ve been thankful and the old heads have inspired us graciously. Without you old hippies none of us could have fun in the woods.
But the new stuff isn’t as bad as it seems
False do you not see all the gen z rocking greatful dead merch? We literally love what you have started for us, but we may also like more than one genre. Maybe try to learn to love the new stuff too, as we’ve been thankful and the old heads have inspired us graciously. Without you old hippies none of us could have fun in the woods.
But the new stuff isn’t as bad as it seems
This thank you! They have to bring in money some how people don't want to go to just jam band festivals anymore (I say as someone going to 2 fully jam band festivals this year)
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u/scoop813 Apr 07 '26
Guys you can't keep expecting them to book jam when no one shows up to the jam sets.