After ten years playing together and helping hold the "jamband" genre together you would think these guys would be getting the love they deserve, maybe the new release will put them over the top, or maybe they're just trying too hard. Regardless UM holds a permanent bookmark in my library and I'm sure a few of yours as well.
This vid reminded me of Ray's earlier post. Share the love.Mulche's Odyssey > Immigrant Song
11/2/06
Umphrey's McGee is a hard-edged jamband from Chicago, Illinois, whose music is often referred to as "progressive improvisation." The band's moniker is a twist on the name of a second cousin of bandleader Brendan Bayliss named Humphries McGee. In late 2004, the band was declared by Rolling Stone Magazine to be the successors to the jamband throne previously held by Phish. Besides being much heavier than its predecessor, the band also practices a completely different method of improvisation than Phish and other jambands such as the Grateful Dead. more...
[via FoxyTunes / Umphrey's McGee]
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Bruce, This ain't half bad! Not much of a jam-band guy anymore, and these guys won't change that, but they have a dynamism that moves things along so it does not seem like 8 + minutes.
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I believe this is the first time I've ever seen 'dynamism' used in a sentence, seems to work...thanks deadmandeadmanism
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Yeah, we coin words as needed here, Kimo Sabe.
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Thumbs up for umphreys,
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Worthy successors to the throne; I'm already a UM fan - appreciate the post!