Jam Band Quotes

I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.

'Europe '72' came out right around the time that I started going to see the Dead, and it had a huge impression on me.

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

I used to be into the Grateful Dead, so I understand the Phish thing.

If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.

I've been a huge Gregg Allman fan since first hearing the Brothers' live 'Fillmore' album.

I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music.

That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince.

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that's a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what we're doing with Les Brers.

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

I saw the Dead in '73 at Nassau Coliseum, and that same year, I saw them at the crazy, big Watkins Glen festival. It was just outrageous. It was amazing to see the reciprocity between them and their audience.

It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew up. I actually went back there a couple years ago when I was on tour for Kroll Show. I performed at that theater, which was really cool to go back to the first place I'd gone to a concert.

The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

I grew up listening to The Band. I love Lowell George. I love Little Feat, and I was listening to some Springsteen, some of the deep album cuts. I just like the looseness of that kind of music. It all feels like they did it in one take. They let whatever happened happen. If it felt good, they kept it.

There are all kind of corners of the musical world that are deeply influenced by the Dead that one wouldn't expect. Lee Ranaldo is a crazy Deadhead.