It's funny that you bring up this topic. I've been thinking this for quiet sometime after hearing some jam bands I could definatley see the prog influence. Phish in particular manage to break into some pretty sick jams that are pretty similar to King Crimson. They manage to change the atmosphere on a dime. I love progressive music such as King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant ect. and I also love jam bands such as Phish, Grateful Dead, Moe, String Cheese Incident ect. There's hardly any difference between the 2 different styles of music much like poetry/lyrics. The only real noticeable difference I've seen is that progressive music is a bit more coherent than jam music. That being said jam bands base there music around the fact that there's a pretty big difference between one show to the next and where the jam takes them. It's cause of this that tapes are circulated and live material is sought out by these bands as there finest work.
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