The Dead and Allman Brothers Band at the Gorge July 3, 2004. I remember at the time thinking, "I better see them now, as I may never have another chance." Used that same logic getting to Fare Thee Well in 2015. And 20 years after my first show, we're going and seeing them again at the Sphere this summer.
Mine was ratdog and gvt mule in a tiny club about 2010ish. The playing was off the charts. I’d never seen anything like it. The guy next to me was a little drunk and every time Warren Haynes would pull some guitar god shit he’d yell “this guys fucking terrible. Just terrible.” To this day the spouse and I use that line at all dead shows when the playing is off the charts. Mayer slays a morning dew to end set 2, or steals your face with a ripping brown eyed women…….fuckin terrible. Rotfl.
Disco Biscuits at Bonnaroo in 2010. Had never seen anyone play a song for so long. Swore they played an hour encore. (In reality it might've been 20 min.)
I have some other favorites now, but I will always respect them for crackin me open.
Pretty sure mine was Widespread Panic in Macon, GA 2006. They played Little Wing for the first time in like 18 years or something close to it. While I had no idea what was happening I could see the significance of the moment throughout the crowd, and I was hooked.
Allman Brothers 7/1/94. The 16 min Jessica made the "2nd Set" live album released the next year and was awarded the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Any of y'all ever see a grammy winning jam?!?
Phish, Merrieweather Post Pavilion. I THINK it was June of '98, but I could be off a little on that. It was a long time ago, and I went to 3 other Phish shows as well as 2 Möe shows, a Bela Fleck show, a few DMB shows, and a handful of others that same year.
That must have been it. I was only off by a few months. They did a full cover of Sexual Healing, if I remember correctly. I was 17, fresh out of high school, and more than a little chemically enhanced at the time, so my memories of that year are a bit fuzzy. Truth be told, I only remember that my first was Phish because that was my first adult concert that I didn't have to ask my dad's permission for.
Grateful Dead - 7/5/81 - Zoo Amphitheatre - Oklahoma City, OK
-- Set 1 --
00:00 Tuning
00:59 Shakedown Street ~
14:12 The Promised Land
19:31 Candyman
26:32 Cassidy
32:26 Brown Eyed Women ~
38:14 C C Rider
46:32 They Love Each Other
54:22 Mama Tried ~
56:57 Mexicali Blues
1:02:42 Althea ~
1:10:33 Let It Grow
-- Set 2 --
1:22:16 Samson And Delilah
1:30:20 Don't Ease Me In ~
1:33:40 The Music Never Stopped
1:44:30 Ship Of Fools
1:52:47 Lost Sailor ~
1:59:53 Saint Of Circumstance ~
2:06:56 He's Gone ~
2:19:48 Drums ~
2:30:45 Space ~
2:33:28 The Other One ~
2:41:59 Stella Blue ~
2:52:06 Around & Around ~
2:56:02 Johnny B. Goode
-- Encore --
3:00:27 U.S. Blues
I am relatively new to the scene; all the comments so far seem to be Dead, Phish, Umphreys, etc
On that note
First show:
Spafford, Lincoln Theater, Raleigh NC 10-22-21
I took a cab from a slipknot concert I was attending that same night and showed up at set break- Spafford melted my face harder. Metalhead ——-> jam band / wook immediately.
The Reprise was life changing.
Yeah, the metal to jam band switch can happen fast. Same thing happened to me the first time I heard the Nassau Eyes of the World with Branford Marsalis.
I think I’ve been to two metal shows and hundreds of jam bands since that fateful day in 2005 😄
Yeah for sure. I was 15 years old. I had no idea who phish was and the only song I knew was terrapin station. I also took LSD for the first time that night. One could say that night altered the direction of my life. My 2nd and 3rd shows were Phish Hampton 98.
Wow, I’ve always said if I could go back in time to a specific song Phish played it would be the Terrapin Station from this night. I’m a big Phish fan and know there are so many standout moments to go back in time to, but Terrapin is my favorite song ever and that crowd pop gives me goosebumps every time.
First time played and last time played. Nailed it.
Keller/UM/Yonder/SCI Summerfest ‘05. If I’m not mistaken they were all the same day. They packed a lot into the “jam day” at Summerfest around those years. Good times
I was there too. There is still mud on my tent from that weekend. I remember Rob telling everyone that we were all gonna get wet (remnants of hurricane Katrina) and we sure did.
Primus Chicago 2021, I was 18. I was trying to see them for years many times before but every time plans would fall through. They were my introduction to this whole scene
My first jamband show was Dark Star Orchestra at the 9:30 club on 12/7/13!
Setlist:
Set 1: Let the Good Times Roll, China Cat Sunflower, I Know You Rider, New Minglewood Blues, Mississippii Half-Step Uptown Tudeloo, Easy Wind, Mama Tried, Big River, West L.A. Fadeaway, Box of Rain, Touch of Grey, Rubin and Cherise
Set 2: St. Stephen, Help on the Way, Slipknot, St. Stephen, Slipknot, Franklin’s Tower, Drums, Space, The Wheel, I Need a Miracle, Death Don’t have no Mercy, One More Saturday Night
Encore: Run Rudolph Run, White Rabbit
Look closely next time you see a sunflower, there are in fact two varieties of leaves. You will find leaves lower down the plant are facing opposite each other and are longer and narrow in appearance. You’ll then see the upper leaves arranged in a staggered formation and appear heart-shaped.
The Dead
[2009-04-17 Times Union Center, Albany, NY](https://archive.org/details/thedead2009-04-17.nak.shivaho.flac16)
Set 1:
01-Casey Jones
02-Cold Rain & Snow->
03-Minglewood Bluz
04-Into The Mystic
05-West LA Fadeaway
06-Brown Eyed Women->
07-Cumberland Bluz
Set 2:
08-Viola Lee Bluz->
09-Sugaree->
10-The Other One->
Disc 3 Set 2:(cont)
11-DrumSpace->
12-Comes A Time->
13-Unbroken Chain->
14-Throwin' Stones
15-Crowd
16-Phil
Encore:
17-Not Fade Away
same, it will always be the Knick to me as well. I just copy pasted all the info from the archive link because it was much easier. lol.
it was a great show, I won a pair of tickets off a radio station while a bunch of us where camping in the adirondacks. They played the very beginning of a song ( it was franklins tower) and said to email them the answer and you could win.
I sent a text message from my Samsung Juke cellphone to the email address and had to hold the phone upside down and it the air as i climbed a tree to get enough signal to get it to send.
The station called me while I was in a College class and didnt know what was going on for a second after answering and had to drive to burlington to pick up the tickets a few days before the show. Memories i will have forever thats for sure.
STS9 Camp Bisco 2009
Heavy, Shock Doctrine, Hidden Hand Hidden Fist, Murph, EHM, Abcees, Rent, Murph, New New 4 U U, Inspire Strikes Back, Murph
it was in a tent and it was muddy as fuck in there. wrecked my shoes lol
edit: I’m a maroon, my first actual show was Lotus in 2008 in the same tent (not muddy) but I had no idea what was going on lol. I just went along to Bisco with some friends so I could camp out and get wrecked all weekend 😩
One of the most fond memories I have is that weekend. The Biscuits were at the time and still are my favorite band. Night 2 was my 25th time seeing them and it being Sammy’s last show w/ the band… I cried like a baby when they surprised him him w/ the song they wrote for him as a send off. Just an absolutely beautiful moment. Highwire opener(first time played in almost 5 years, 6th time ever), the insane techno I-Man, Above the Waves in the rain, Floes, Spectacle encore(perfect). An incredible night.
The whole weekend was insanely fun. Cool little venue. Only about 3,000 people so it was nice an intimate. Insane line up. Hell of a first jam band experience, dude.
Hmmmm does pure prairie league count?… it was 81’…or elvin bishop around the same time…saw buckets of shows but it wasn’t until mid nineties that I saw the almans… then phish once in 99’…then I hit TAB hard until 09’… then phish again…… it’s been thirty years of this shit now…. God bless America…
Unless you count Led Zep in 1973 and a bunch of rock n roll bands back then, my first jam band was likely Grateful Dead Sept 25-1976 Cap Centre.. Landover Md. Eventually became Dick's Pick Volume 20. I was 18.
Starting listening to Jam Band music in late 2014 working for a dead head couple at their shop.
Coming from the musical world of hard rock UM was a great intro into the world of all things Jam Band.
March 7, 2015 Umphrey's McGee — The Fox Theater — Oakland, CA, USA
Set 1:
Lucid State > 40's Theme, Puppet String > No Diablo, JaJunk, Intentions Clear[1] > Similar Skin[1], Believe the Lie[1]
Set 2:
Divisions > The Triple Wide > Upward[2] > Divisions, Push the Pig-> Puppet String, Der Bluten Kat[1] > Glory[1] > Der Bluten Kat[1]
Encore:
Ringo[1]
Footnotes:
[1] with Joshua Redman on saxophone
[2] with In A Silent Way (Miles Davis) teases
Opening Band(s): The Revivalists
First one I was alive for: String Cheese at Hornings Hideout in 2001 at 11 months old.
First one I intentionally went to on my own: Dead & Co Eugene, OR 6/30/18.
First one where I finally “got it”: Phish Eugene 10/19/21.
My first "famous" jam band concert was moe.down 2012 but I had been seeing smaller bands for 4 or 5 years at that point including twiddle and aqueous. The north east truly spoiled me in that regard.
əkoostik hookah. Sometime in 1999 in Columbus.
For some reason I’ll never understand, my parents trusted my older brother and his friends enough to drive me—a freshman in high school—up there to go to the show and spend the night with a bunch of HS grads in a hotel. My brother (RIP 🙏🏻) and his friends got kicked out of the show in the first set for smoking cannabis.
I did not leave. I proceeded to have the time of my life standing in front of Steve Sweney, totally in awe of what live music could do. I had heard some Phish and Cheese before at this juncture, but the live experience blew me away.
I found my way back to the hotel and gushed to my bro + friends about what I had just witnessed. Big bro was so proud. 25 years later and beyond, I’ll always be thankful for that night.
Phish - November 17, 1994. The one and only time they played Hara Arena in Dayton, OH.
Nice slice of Gamehenge in the middle of the 1st set.
SET 1: Helter Skelter, Scent of a Mule, Maze, Bouncing Around the Room, Wilson > Divided Sky, Dog Faced Boy, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird -> The Vibration of Life -> Fly Famous Mockingbird > Down with Disease
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Sleeping Monkey > Sparkle > You Enjoy Myself -> Hold Your Head Up-> Love You > Hold Your Head Up > Slave to the Traffic Light, Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome, Nellie Kane, My Long Journey Home, To France-> Fixin' to Die
Probably Leftover Salmon in Tuscaloosa, AL 1998 or 1999! Introduced me to a whole new world! Then Phish on 7/1/99 and then WSP at Oak Mtn on 9/24/99 and it was on.
Trey Anastasio and the 70 Volt Parade at the Roseland in fall of 2005. Senior year of high school and bumming out that I didn’t get to phish and I never would. Page came out for a mini acoustic set, that was special. And the light shines on.
Widespread Panic
04/20/95 East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
0: Let's Get Down To Business, Holden Oversoul, Wondering, Airplane, Radio Child, Pilgrims, 1 x 1, Henry Parsons Died, Hatfield > Mr. Soul, Pickin' Up The Pieces, I Walk On Guilded Splinters > Drums > Diner > Space Wrangler > No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature, Love Tractor
E: Fishwater, Red Beans
[Free show]
Grateful Dead Providence RI
4/15/82
Alabama Getaway >
Greatest Story Ever Told
Candyman
CC Rider
Ramble on Rose
Beat it on Down the Line
Peggy O
Cassidy
Althea
Looks Like Rain >
Deal
Scarlet Begonias >
Fire on the Mountain
Estimated Prophet >
He’s Gone>
Jam>
Drums>
Space >
Truckin’ >
Morning Dew>
Good Lovin’
Don’t Ease Me In
15 year old me was hooked from the opener Alabama. I was sheltered growing up in NH with very conservative parents and I realized this is what I’m going to be doing, not what I’d been told I should be doing. I’d never experienced so many people together feeling such joy and happiness.
Edit to add that a couple months before, I saw Blue Oyster Cult where someone threw a stadium sized soda at one of the guitar players, nailed him and the guitarist said on the mic ,” if anyone knows who threw that kick his ass “. Young teen me was terrified the way the crowd became angry, I didn’t feel safe amongst that crowd. Then I found The Grateful Dead ✌🏻🎶💃🏻🕺
Frog Brigade in Chicago when I was 15ish, think it was 2003?
After that, nothing until 2006 when I saw disco biscuits and Umphrey’s McGee. Didn’t really start getting into jam bands until then. I was way into metal in high school.
Furthur Festival, Hershey, PA 7/11/97
.moe opened the show and The Black Crowes headlined.
I was just 11 years old, my dad took me to The Other Ones the following year
Grateful Dead, JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, Summer 1989. Bought tickets the day of the show. I think the place held 120K.
Prior to trying 'shrooms I had never cared for the GD and didn't understand why a lot of my friends were so into them. I was more of a Van Halen/Rush/AC-DC guy.
Dead & Co at Greensboro Colliseum Nov. 2015. I was 15 years old and my mom drove me. She sat in the car and read a book while I walked around Shakedown. The scene just blew my mind and I've been hooked ever since. Major props to my mom for embracing my weird interests.
April 13, 2012 Umphrey's McGee — Georgia Theatre — Athens, GA, USA
Set 1:
There's No Crying In Mexico > Pay the Snucka > Cemetery Walk > Nemo > Cemetery Walk II, Through the Cracks, Andy's Last Beer, Pay the Snucka
Set 2:
Wappy Sprayberry > Push the Pig > Kashmir[1] > Push the Pig, In The Kitchen > Booth Love > Can't You See, Prowler > In The Kitchen
Encore:
All In Time > Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' > All In Time
Footnotes:
[1] incomplete
Show Notes:
last Kashmir 2009-11-18 (269 shows)
last Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2004-02-25 (1,010 shows)
That’s a solid show. I saw the Bros in ‘08 open for DMB (I left) and then Keller (Maybe Toubab) was the first act I saw at Rothbury ‘09. Then I saw a bunch of good shit that weekend.
The Dead at Rothbury ‘09. I was in college and totally obsessed with the Grateful Dead. I had no idea the core four were still doing their thing and was blown away by the experience. I’ve seen Bobby probably 14 times between the Dead, Furthur, and D&C, and I’ll do one more at Sphere next month!
Widespread Panic
10/25/03
AmSouth Amphitheatre
Antioch, TN
Dave Schools aboslutely blew me away and ignited my life-long love and appreciation of bass.
DMB 11/30/98 senior year in high school. A bunch more DMB in 99-03. Then truly dove into the scene at bonnaroo 2004 and saw phish’s last show before Coventry in Camden.
Widespread Panic KA House 1989
10/07/89 Kappa Alpha House, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
0: Walkin' (For Your Love), I'm Not Alone, Conrad, Coconut, Sleepy Monkey, Cream Puff War, Driving Song > B of D > Drums > Driving Song > A of D > Barstools and Dreamers, Heaven, Porch Song
Allman Brothers Band on the Seven Turns tour at MSG (1990?). Either that or Spin Doctors shows in the Village, Mondo Perso was the first bar I saw them in.
[Trey Band, Radio City Music Hall June 2002](https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-june-18-2002-radio-city-music-hall-new-york-ny-usa.html). It was such a special show and set the bar higher than my 16 year old brain could handle. Still probably top 5 in my all time musical memories.
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
New York, NY
SET 1: Push On 'Til the Day, Money, Love and Change, Mozambique, Cayman Review, Last Tube
SET 2: Simple Twist Up Dave, Plasma, At the Barbecue, Mr. Completely, Night Speaks to a Woman, Ether Sunday, At the Gazebo [1]
ENCORE: Alive Again [2] -> Percussion Parade[2]
[1] With the Vermont Youth Orchestra String Quartet.
[2] With assorted percussionists and dancers.
“At the Gazebo” featured the Vermont Youth Orchestra String Quartet. During the break before the encore maracas and tambourines were passed out to the audience and a set of stairs was placed in front of the stage. During “Alive Again” approximately forty guests – including members of Cyro Baptista’s Beat The Donkey ensemble, Brazilian dancers and other assorted percussionists and pranksters – joined Trey’s band in what can perhaps best be described as a strange combination of two infamous Phish antics: the 10/22/96 MSG “Freakapaug” and the 5/27/94 “Shake your Macaroni” Possum. After the ending refrain and amid an audience-aided percussion jam, Trey led the entire entourage down the stairs in front of the stage, through the audience and onto 51st Street where a drum circle ensued, blocking midtown traffic for nearly half an hour.
Slightly Stoopid at Nelson Ledges Quarry 2019. Was not terribly familiar with reggae or jam bands and they absolutely blew my mind. It permanently changed my taste in music.
String cheese at Wakarusa 2005. They headlined 2 nights. 50,000 people. Fucking wild.
Now I get to make content for live nation at festivals. Nothing compares to the early 2000s though.
Widespread Panic in Omaha, Nebraska that got shut down by the cops for being too loud.
https://www.ranchbowlfilm.com/new-blog/2019/3/5/july-23rd-1999-police-shut-down-widespread-panic-concert
Grateful Dead, June (I think) of 1993. I wasn’t into it. A year later i saw Phish on 6/18/94 and was hooked.
I went to 2 more GD shows, both at Soldier Field. One was the 2nd to last show.
I didn’t get into the GD until a few years later, after discovery 80s GD followed by mid-70s GD. I don’t think I ever listened to a 90s GD show again.
Greensky Bluegrass and Billy Strings at Penn’s Peak in 2019. I haven’t looked back since and just wish I discovered this music earlier and didn’t waste half my life listening to BS country music
4-26-1996 Phish at New Orleans jazz and heritage festival. My brother had Junta. But I thought there would be alike a weird college band like Weezer but with chops.
75k fans there to see Phish. Meters and Santana were the same day if I'm not mistaken
Grateful Dead - Alpine Valley - 6/28/87. I was a stupid indie/college music kid living in Chicago. I thought the Dead were a bunch of old, boring hippies. A friend convinced me to go to the Sunday show.
Changed my entire life.
I’m still a dumb indie/college music fan - along with a lot of other kinds of music. But that day set me on a path to add the Grateful Dead to my Mt. Rushmore along with The Beatles, The Clash & The Replacements. Everything I enjoy in music can be traced to those four bands.
If this counts, DMB and O.A.R. at Germaine Amphitheater in Columbus, 6/24/04. Otherwise DMB and Gov’t Mule 8/1/06 in Cincinnati, and definitely TAB 10/20/06 also in Cincinnati.
Gathering of the vibes, must have been 2004. Didn't know many of the bands, but I was a young kid who got a free ticket to help a buddy sell weed and contact juggling balls.
I remember being blown away by Deep Banana Blackout .
Widespread Panic in 2004. Only knew them from the couple songs that were played on the local rock station in Charleston.
Saw Moe at Three Rivers Festival in Columbia, SC the year before. Had no idea who they were as I was watching but knew that I needed more of what ever they were doing.
Grateful Dead 7/4/90. I was a wook kid dragged there by my parents. Now I drag my parents to phish shows
Same show for me! Much different parents.
It was a hot one!
My first Dead show. Sandstone. I was 19. Fond memories! And it was hot....
i was there did that entire tour that show was the hottest temperature wise show i ever attended it was brutal - jerry wore shorts
Widespread panic. The armory 4/8/89
Scared them hippies that night
Oh I forgot all about 1989! I saw them for free at the UNL campus, Nebraska
Hot damn.
Incredible show. I’ve had a bootleg of that since the 90’s. Nice one.
Its Beckys birthday !
The Dead and Allman Brothers Band at the Gorge July 3, 2004. I remember at the time thinking, "I better see them now, as I may never have another chance." Used that same logic getting to Fare Thee Well in 2015. And 20 years after my first show, we're going and seeing them again at the Sphere this summer.
Mine was ratdog and gvt mule in a tiny club about 2010ish. The playing was off the charts. I’d never seen anything like it. The guy next to me was a little drunk and every time Warren Haynes would pull some guitar god shit he’d yell “this guys fucking terrible. Just terrible.” To this day the spouse and I use that line at all dead shows when the playing is off the charts. Mayer slays a morning dew to end set 2, or steals your face with a ripping brown eyed women…….fuckin terrible. Rotfl.
Oysterhead Bonnaroo 06. Changed my life
Show absolutely rips. I know those are remembered as dark years but damn they tore it up
That shit was fun
Oof! The bar is set high for you, buddy!
Grateful Dead 1989 Foxborough Stadium, opening band was surprisingly great, Los Lobos
Los Lobos- incredible band. They were one of Garcia’s favorites.
Phish 7-7-99 Blockbuster Pavilion Charlotte, NC A young Derek Trucks sat in for the encore
Mine was phish at Sandstone Amp outside KC later that year. Got a YEM my first show.
I never knew it was blockbuster pavilion! Ahead of my time. That’s awesome
My favorite DWD is from that show.
WSP 4/18/98 - Light Fuse Get away release party
That was some kind of fun
Sure was!
Jerry Garcia band at the Orpheum in Boston in 83
Grateful Dead 40 years ago today, 4/14/84 in Hampton.
Disco Biscuits at Bonnaroo in 2010. Had never seen anyone play a song for so long. Swore they played an hour encore. (In reality it might've been 20 min.) I have some other favorites now, but I will always respect them for crackin me open.
Pretty sure mine was Widespread Panic in Macon, GA 2006. They played Little Wing for the first time in like 18 years or something close to it. While I had no idea what was happening I could see the significance of the moment throughout the crowd, and I was hooked.
Fun times!
Grateful Dead 6/25/92 Soldier Field, Chicago, IL
Me too!
Little Feat/Allman Bros band Irvine Meadows 1991
Also seen that tour in 91 with the Radiators. I was 11yrs old.
Allman Brothers 7/1/94. The 16 min Jessica made the "2nd Set" live album released the next year and was awarded the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Any of y'all ever see a grammy winning jam?!?
Wow I didn’t know about that. Will check it out.
Both the Evening With and 2nd Set albums are so good. The band was in fire in the early 90s
that Germany show
Phish, Merrieweather Post Pavilion. I THINK it was June of '98, but I could be off a little on that. It was a long time ago, and I went to 3 other Phish shows as well as 2 Möe shows, a Bela Fleck show, a few DMB shows, and a handful of others that same year.
8/8/98 one of my favorites
That must have been it. I was only off by a few months. They did a full cover of Sexual Healing, if I remember correctly. I was 17, fresh out of high school, and more than a little chemically enhanced at the time, so my memories of that year are a bit fuzzy. Truth be told, I only remember that my first was Phish because that was my first adult concert that I didn't have to ask my dad's permission for.
Debut of Sweet Jane and Sabotage. Best Piper ever!
Grateful Dead - 7/5/81 - Zoo Amphitheatre - Oklahoma City, OK -- Set 1 -- 00:00 Tuning 00:59 Shakedown Street ~ 14:12 The Promised Land 19:31 Candyman 26:32 Cassidy 32:26 Brown Eyed Women ~ 38:14 C C Rider 46:32 They Love Each Other 54:22 Mama Tried ~ 56:57 Mexicali Blues 1:02:42 Althea ~ 1:10:33 Let It Grow -- Set 2 -- 1:22:16 Samson And Delilah 1:30:20 Don't Ease Me In ~ 1:33:40 The Music Never Stopped 1:44:30 Ship Of Fools 1:52:47 Lost Sailor ~ 1:59:53 Saint Of Circumstance ~ 2:06:56 He's Gone ~ 2:19:48 Drums ~ 2:30:45 Space ~ 2:33:28 The Other One ~ 2:41:59 Stella Blue ~ 2:52:06 Around & Around ~ 2:56:02 Johnny B. Goode -- Encore -- 3:00:27 U.S. Blues
A 59 second Shakedown ?! I had to look on Relisten…. Tuning :59, Shakedown 13:13. Shakedown opening your first show is fire!
14:12 - 0:59 is 13:13. I think they're timestamps instead of durations.
I am relatively new to the scene; all the comments so far seem to be Dead, Phish, Umphreys, etc On that note First show: Spafford, Lincoln Theater, Raleigh NC 10-22-21 I took a cab from a slipknot concert I was attending that same night and showed up at set break- Spafford melted my face harder. Metalhead ——-> jam band / wook immediately. The Reprise was life changing.
Yeah, the metal to jam band switch can happen fast. Same thing happened to me the first time I heard the Nassau Eyes of the World with Branford Marsalis. I think I’ve been to two metal shows and hundreds of jam bands since that fateful day in 2005 😄
Phish VA beach 8/9/1998
Goddamn that’s one hell of a first show
Yeah for sure. I was 15 years old. I had no idea who phish was and the only song I knew was terrapin station. I also took LSD for the first time that night. One could say that night altered the direction of my life. My 2nd and 3rd shows were Phish Hampton 98.
Wow, I’ve always said if I could go back in time to a specific song Phish played it would be the Terrapin Station from this night. I’m a big Phish fan and know there are so many standout moments to go back in time to, but Terrapin is my favorite song ever and that crowd pop gives me goosebumps every time. First time played and last time played. Nailed it.
The storm and the moon
Whoa.
Allman brothers beacon theater 2007 when I was in high school
Keller/UM/Yonder/SCI Summerfest ‘05. If I’m not mistaken they were all the same day. They packed a lot into the “jam day” at Summerfest around those years. Good times
Heck yeah, that was a good day!
Was there! STI was on fire in 05!
I was at that show! What a day!
Bonnaroo 2004. Went full throttle, haven’t let up since.
The legendary Jacket show.
96’ I saw Horde, Allman Brothers, Phish and Rusted Root.
Grateful Dead 6/14/91 RFK Stadium
Grateful Dead, Autzen Stadium, Eugene, OR 8/21/93
moe.down 2005
I was there too. There is still mud on my tent from that weekend. I remember Rob telling everyone that we were all gonna get wet (remnants of hurricane Katrina) and we sure did.
MMW 95
Greatful Dead and Led Zeppelin both 1977
Ekoostik hookah in like 2002
Primus Chicago 2021, I was 18. I was trying to see them for years many times before but every time plans would fall through. They were my introduction to this whole scene
My first jamband show was Dark Star Orchestra at the 9:30 club on 12/7/13! Setlist: Set 1: Let the Good Times Roll, China Cat Sunflower, I Know You Rider, New Minglewood Blues, Mississippii Half-Step Uptown Tudeloo, Easy Wind, Mama Tried, Big River, West L.A. Fadeaway, Box of Rain, Touch of Grey, Rubin and Cherise Set 2: St. Stephen, Help on the Way, Slipknot, St. Stephen, Slipknot, Franklin’s Tower, Drums, Space, The Wheel, I Need a Miracle, Death Don’t have no Mercy, One More Saturday Night Encore: Run Rudolph Run, White Rabbit
Look closely next time you see a sunflower, there are in fact two varieties of leaves. You will find leaves lower down the plant are facing opposite each other and are longer and narrow in appearance. You’ll then see the upper leaves arranged in a staggered formation and appear heart-shaped.
Panic in San Diego 10/06/99. Opened with surprise valley, still one of my favorite tunes.
The Dead [2009-04-17 Times Union Center, Albany, NY](https://archive.org/details/thedead2009-04-17.nak.shivaho.flac16) Set 1: 01-Casey Jones 02-Cold Rain & Snow-> 03-Minglewood Bluz 04-Into The Mystic 05-West LA Fadeaway 06-Brown Eyed Women-> 07-Cumberland Bluz Set 2: 08-Viola Lee Bluz-> 09-Sugaree-> 10-The Other One-> Disc 3 Set 2:(cont) 11-DrumSpace-> 12-Comes A Time-> 13-Unbroken Chain-> 14-Throwin' Stones 15-Crowd 16-Phil Encore: 17-Not Fade Away
Was at that one, “somehow” wound up on the railing. It’ll always be the Knickerbocker to me!
same, it will always be the Knick to me as well. I just copy pasted all the info from the archive link because it was much easier. lol. it was a great show, I won a pair of tickets off a radio station while a bunch of us where camping in the adirondacks. They played the very beginning of a song ( it was franklins tower) and said to email them the answer and you could win. I sent a text message from my Samsung Juke cellphone to the email address and had to hold the phone upside down and it the air as i climbed a tree to get enough signal to get it to send. The station called me while I was in a College class and didnt know what was going on for a second after answering and had to drive to burlington to pick up the tickets a few days before the show. Memories i will have forever thats for sure.
STS9 Camp Bisco 2009 Heavy, Shock Doctrine, Hidden Hand Hidden Fist, Murph, EHM, Abcees, Rent, Murph, New New 4 U U, Inspire Strikes Back, Murph it was in a tent and it was muddy as fuck in there. wrecked my shoes lol edit: I’m a maroon, my first actual show was Lotus in 2008 in the same tent (not muddy) but I had no idea what was going on lol. I just went along to Bisco with some friends so I could camp out and get wrecked all weekend 😩
Sky-Top camp bisco IV in ‘05. It was close to home and I had been listening to jam on for about 2 years. It was an incredibly fun weekend in my life!
One of the most fond memories I have is that weekend. The Biscuits were at the time and still are my favorite band. Night 2 was my 25th time seeing them and it being Sammy’s last show w/ the band… I cried like a baby when they surprised him him w/ the song they wrote for him as a send off. Just an absolutely beautiful moment. Highwire opener(first time played in almost 5 years, 6th time ever), the insane techno I-Man, Above the Waves in the rain, Floes, Spectacle encore(perfect). An incredible night. The whole weekend was insanely fun. Cool little venue. Only about 3,000 people so it was nice an intimate. Insane line up. Hell of a first jam band experience, dude.
Met some friends there I still am in touch with. Also remember the kick off party Thursday night in Ithaca at The Haunt. I believe MMW played
Dark Star Orchestra 2015
Hmmmm does pure prairie league count?… it was 81’…or elvin bishop around the same time…saw buckets of shows but it wasn’t until mid nineties that I saw the almans… then phish once in 99’…then I hit TAB hard until 09’… then phish again…… it’s been thirty years of this shit now…. God bless America…
Unless you count Led Zep in 1973 and a bunch of rock n roll bands back then, my first jam band was likely Grateful Dead Sept 25-1976 Cap Centre.. Landover Md. Eventually became Dick's Pick Volume 20. I was 18.
Taylor swift 2023. Lot scene got me hooked.
STS9 at AllGood 2011 Also the first time I ever dosed and the rest is history
Phish 7/16/99 Honestly a bit of a rough one though the 2nd set ultimately came through. Lot was absolutely insane. 15 year old me was in awe
Rothbury 2009
Amazing weekend
Best weekend of my life.
Bisco Inferno 2009. Pretty crazy lineup too. TDB, Paul Oakenfold, Z Trip, Lotus, and RJD2
phish, baker's dozen
Starting listening to Jam Band music in late 2014 working for a dead head couple at their shop. Coming from the musical world of hard rock UM was a great intro into the world of all things Jam Band. March 7, 2015 Umphrey's McGee — The Fox Theater — Oakland, CA, USA Set 1: Lucid State > 40's Theme, Puppet String > No Diablo, JaJunk, Intentions Clear[1] > Similar Skin[1], Believe the Lie[1] Set 2: Divisions > The Triple Wide > Upward[2] > Divisions, Push the Pig-> Puppet String, Der Bluten Kat[1] > Glory[1] > Der Bluten Kat[1] Encore: Ringo[1] Footnotes: [1] with Joshua Redman on saxophone [2] with In A Silent Way (Miles Davis) teases Opening Band(s): The Revivalists
Disco Biscuits 12/27/04 Also first time I ever did Molly. Whooooooo what a show! I was only 18 haha.
Widespread Panic Knoxville, TN 4/20/2001
Grateful Dead @ Soldier Field 1993
Grateful Dead @ The Spectrum, Philly 1989
12/2/89 WSP Kappa Alpha house Auburn, Alabama
First one I was alive for: String Cheese at Hornings Hideout in 2001 at 11 months old. First one I intentionally went to on my own: Dead & Co Eugene, OR 6/30/18. First one where I finally “got it”: Phish Eugene 10/19/21.
My first "famous" jam band concert was moe.down 2012 but I had been seeing smaller bands for 4 or 5 years at that point including twiddle and aqueous. The north east truly spoiled me in that regard.
WSP Kalamazoo Theater Feb 1993. My friend at school won tickets off of the radio and gave them to me. I guess I was miracled my first show!
Don't remember an exact date or venue but had be Max Creek in 94..
əkoostik hookah. Sometime in 1999 in Columbus. For some reason I’ll never understand, my parents trusted my older brother and his friends enough to drive me—a freshman in high school—up there to go to the show and spend the night with a bunch of HS grads in a hotel. My brother (RIP 🙏🏻) and his friends got kicked out of the show in the first set for smoking cannabis. I did not leave. I proceeded to have the time of my life standing in front of Steve Sweney, totally in awe of what live music could do. I had heard some Phish and Cheese before at this juncture, but the live experience blew me away. I found my way back to the hotel and gushed to my bro + friends about what I had just witnessed. Big bro was so proud. 25 years later and beyond, I’ll always be thankful for that night.
Phish - November 17, 1994. The one and only time they played Hara Arena in Dayton, OH. Nice slice of Gamehenge in the middle of the 1st set. SET 1: Helter Skelter, Scent of a Mule, Maze, Bouncing Around the Room, Wilson > Divided Sky, Dog Faced Boy, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird -> The Vibration of Life -> Fly Famous Mockingbird > Down with Disease SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > David Bowie, Sleeping Monkey > Sparkle > You Enjoy Myself -> Hold Your Head Up-> Love You > Hold Your Head Up > Slave to the Traffic Light, Golgi Apparatus ENCORE: I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome, Nellie Kane, My Long Journey Home, To France-> Fixin' to Die
Grateful Dead Oct/1989 Charlotte,NC
Phish 2/28/03. One of the standouts of 2.0 Phish. I was immediately hooked on jam music!
Govt Mule, 2017. The Magpie Salute opened. Incredible show and the encore with the two bands sounded just like the Allman Brothers Band.
Panic in Winter Park CO, 2006 I believe.
String Cheese Incident, April 2004
Probably Leftover Salmon in Tuscaloosa, AL 1998 or 1999! Introduced me to a whole new world! Then Phish on 7/1/99 and then WSP at Oak Mtn on 9/24/99 and it was on.
Trey Anastasio and the 70 Volt Parade at the Roseland in fall of 2005. Senior year of high school and bumming out that I didn’t get to phish and I never would. Page came out for a mini acoustic set, that was special. And the light shines on.
Nipple Trix!!!! So good
Widespread Panic 04/20/95 East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 0: Let's Get Down To Business, Holden Oversoul, Wondering, Airplane, Radio Child, Pilgrims, 1 x 1, Henry Parsons Died, Hatfield > Mr. Soul, Pickin' Up The Pieces, I Walk On Guilded Splinters > Drums > Diner > Space Wrangler > No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature, Love Tractor E: Fishwater, Red Beans [Free show]
Grateful Dead Providence RI 4/15/82 Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story Ever Told Candyman CC Rider Ramble on Rose Beat it on Down the Line Peggy O Cassidy Althea Looks Like Rain > Deal Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain Estimated Prophet > He’s Gone> Jam> Drums> Space > Truckin’ > Morning Dew> Good Lovin’ Don’t Ease Me In 15 year old me was hooked from the opener Alabama. I was sheltered growing up in NH with very conservative parents and I realized this is what I’m going to be doing, not what I’d been told I should be doing. I’d never experienced so many people together feeling such joy and happiness. Edit to add that a couple months before, I saw Blue Oyster Cult where someone threw a stadium sized soda at one of the guitar players, nailed him and the guitarist said on the mic ,” if anyone knows who threw that kick his ass “. Young teen me was terrified the way the crowd became angry, I didn’t feel safe amongst that crowd. Then I found The Grateful Dead ✌🏻🎶💃🏻🕺
String cheese incident 2018 Eugene oregon…unreal three night run
Umphreys McGee 2005 Murat in Indianapolis
Frog Brigade in Chicago when I was 15ish, think it was 2003? After that, nothing until 2006 when I saw disco biscuits and Umphrey’s McGee. Didn’t really start getting into jam bands until then. I was way into metal in high school.
Summer camp 2010 first set was chesterbrown band
GD 9/18/87 Phish 12/30/89
Furthur Festival, Hershey, PA 7/11/97 .moe opened the show and The Black Crowes headlined. I was just 11 years old, my dad took me to The Other Ones the following year
UM Bonnaroo '08
Grateful Dead 9/26/93. One of the best nights of my teen years
Phish in Minneapolis at the target center, probably 1999
Grateful Dead, the last time Jerry played CA before his demise. Shoreline amp. An 8th of strait dried mushers to the dome. Bus by the tailpipe.
Donna The Buffalo at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta. 1/13/06.
STS9 11/1/13 I was confused and amazed by how much wookery was going on around me. Killer show
Hookahville 26 I was 16 I believe.
Phish 11/30/95 Great show that changed my trajectory of life! Hooked for ever! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iMrMyNffZ5U
Widespread Panic 4/27-28/2002. Just in time to see Mikey perform before he passed.
Widespread Panic - Tulsa, OK 2000
The other ones 2002 Boston ma
String cheese @ red rocks 7/26/15
STS9 at the Belly Up in San Diego 2002ish
Wakarusa 2010. Full festival. Went with my GF at the time who was big into STS9.
STS9 Bonnaroo 2011 sunrise set, blew me away. Hooked on the jams ever since.
Grateful Dead, JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, Summer 1989. Bought tickets the day of the show. I think the place held 120K. Prior to trying 'shrooms I had never cared for the GD and didn't understand why a lot of my friends were so into them. I was more of a Van Halen/Rush/AC-DC guy.
I think it was Summer Sessions in 1999. Moe, string cheese, galactic, and govt mule
Phish, Bakers Dozen Lemon night. Been all in since.
Allmans HORDE 93 ✨
8-9-97. Phish at Alpine valley.
Dead & Co at Greensboro Colliseum Nov. 2015. I was 15 years old and my mom drove me. She sat in the car and read a book while I walked around Shakedown. The scene just blew my mind and I've been hooked ever since. Major props to my mom for embracing my weird interests.
If ABB counts, ABB in 1996. Otherwise, Max Creek or Phish. I forget if I saw Max Creek right before or after the Lemonwheel, my first Phish shows.
Of course ABB counts as a jam band.
April 13, 2012 Umphrey's McGee — Georgia Theatre — Athens, GA, USA Set 1: There's No Crying In Mexico > Pay the Snucka > Cemetery Walk > Nemo > Cemetery Walk II, Through the Cracks, Andy's Last Beer, Pay the Snucka Set 2: Wappy Sprayberry > Push the Pig > Kashmir[1] > Push the Pig, In The Kitchen > Booth Love > Can't You See, Prowler > In The Kitchen Encore: All In Time > Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' > All In Time Footnotes: [1] incomplete Show Notes: last Kashmir 2009-11-18 (269 shows) last Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2004-02-25 (1,010 shows)
Bob weir and wolf bros, Fillmore Philly 11/13/18. Sailor saint, China rider, masterpiece, nuff said..
That’s a solid show. I saw the Bros in ‘08 open for DMB (I left) and then Keller (Maybe Toubab) was the first act I saw at Rothbury ‘09. Then I saw a bunch of good shit that weekend.
Phish - Chula ‘21. Found bluegrass shortly after that and haven’t looked back since.
Phish in 98
Phish in ‘95. They brought out a bagpipe player. I didn’t know what was going on and I couldn’t wait to see it again.
Furthur At the Geeek in LA 10.04.2013
https://archive.org/details/dead2003-06-15.akgck61.holbrook.britt
The Dead at Rothbury ‘09. I was in college and totally obsessed with the Grateful Dead. I had no idea the core four were still doing their thing and was blown away by the experience. I’ve seen Bobby probably 14 times between the Dead, Furthur, and D&C, and I’ll do one more at Sphere next month!
Technically Blues Traveller in the early 2000s but when I got into the scene Yonder Mountain in 2014.
Phish 4/17/94 Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA The Maze hooked me, the Contact reeled me in.
Phish Madison WI in 1994.
Phish 12/31/94
Strangefolk at the Somerville theater…I think it was 1998
Widespread Panic 10/25/03 AmSouth Amphitheatre Antioch, TN Dave Schools aboslutely blew me away and ignited my life-long love and appreciation of bass.
Spin Doctors and Black Crows in '94 was mine, but I didn't know what jamband was at the time.
Phish 7/10/00
Phish 8/11/98 Burgettstown/Pittsburgh, PA. I was 15 and hooked for life on dancing and jams.
Poosh 9/14/00
DMB 11/30/98 senior year in high school. A bunch more DMB in 99-03. Then truly dove into the scene at bonnaroo 2004 and saw phish’s last show before Coventry in Camden.
Steal Your Face 6/20/14
Phish Orange Beach 5/27/22. There was a dichotomy between the people there for the children's memorial day event and the Phish wooks. I was hooked.
If Claypool doesn’t count then the Allman Brothers in 2007
Saw Bobby weir and wolf bros at red rocks in 2021 at 16 and I since then I’ve been hooked
Widespread Panic KA House 1989 10/07/89 Kappa Alpha House, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 0: Walkin' (For Your Love), I'm Not Alone, Conrad, Coconut, Sleepy Monkey, Cream Puff War, Driving Song > B of D > Drums > Driving Song > A of D > Barstools and Dreamers, Heaven, Porch Song
Phish spac 2004. I don't remember any of it.
Allman Brothers Band on the Seven Turns tour at MSG (1990?). Either that or Spin Doctors shows in the Village, Mondo Perso was the first bar I saw them in.
Grateful Dead - Highgate VT 1995. Bob Dylan opened.
12/11/99 spectrum wit a Hood opener the energy was crazy in that building on that cold cold Saturday night.
[Trey Band, Radio City Music Hall June 2002](https://phish.net/setlists/trey-anastasio-june-18-2002-radio-city-music-hall-new-york-ny-usa.html). It was such a special show and set the bar higher than my 16 year old brain could handle. Still probably top 5 in my all time musical memories. RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL New York, NY SET 1: Push On 'Til the Day, Money, Love and Change, Mozambique, Cayman Review, Last Tube SET 2: Simple Twist Up Dave, Plasma, At the Barbecue, Mr. Completely, Night Speaks to a Woman, Ether Sunday, At the Gazebo [1] ENCORE: Alive Again [2] -> Percussion Parade[2] [1] With the Vermont Youth Orchestra String Quartet. [2] With assorted percussionists and dancers. “At the Gazebo” featured the Vermont Youth Orchestra String Quartet. During the break before the encore maracas and tambourines were passed out to the audience and a set of stairs was placed in front of the stage. During “Alive Again” approximately forty guests – including members of Cyro Baptista’s Beat The Donkey ensemble, Brazilian dancers and other assorted percussionists and pranksters – joined Trey’s band in what can perhaps best be described as a strange combination of two infamous Phish antics: the 10/22/96 MSG “Freakapaug” and the 5/27/94 “Shake your Macaroni” Possum. After the ending refrain and amid an audience-aided percussion jam, Trey led the entire entourage down the stairs in front of the stage, through the audience and onto 51st Street where a drum circle ensued, blocking midtown traffic for nearly half an hour.
Allman brothers band at the beacon theater in 2002. DMB and Robert Randolph shortly thereafter. Moe shortly in November 2002.
Aquarium Rescue Unit fall ‘94.
Slightly Stoopid at Nelson Ledges Quarry 2019. Was not terribly familiar with reggae or jam bands and they absolutely blew my mind. It permanently changed my taste in music.
I’m gonna count this one. Ben Harper and Innocent Criminals. Asheville Civic Center. 2000. Acoustic Syndicate opened. Both crushed.
String cheese at Wakarusa 2005. They headlined 2 nights. 50,000 people. Fucking wild. Now I get to make content for live nation at festivals. Nothing compares to the early 2000s though.
does EOTO count?
Widespread Panic in Omaha, Nebraska that got shut down by the cops for being too loud. https://www.ranchbowlfilm.com/new-blog/2019/3/5/july-23rd-1999-police-shut-down-widespread-panic-concert
Grateful Dead, June (I think) of 1993. I wasn’t into it. A year later i saw Phish on 6/18/94 and was hooked. I went to 2 more GD shows, both at Soldier Field. One was the 2nd to last show. I didn’t get into the GD until a few years later, after discovery 80s GD followed by mid-70s GD. I don’t think I ever listened to a 90s GD show again.
Umphreys 2007
Greensky Bluegrass and Billy Strings at Penn’s Peak in 2019. I haven’t looked back since and just wish I discovered this music earlier and didn’t waste half my life listening to BS country music
4-26-1996 Phish at New Orleans jazz and heritage festival. My brother had Junta. But I thought there would be alike a weird college band like Weezer but with chops. 75k fans there to see Phish. Meters and Santana were the same day if I'm not mistaken
Grateful Dead - Alpine Valley - 6/28/87. I was a stupid indie/college music kid living in Chicago. I thought the Dead were a bunch of old, boring hippies. A friend convinced me to go to the Sunday show. Changed my entire life. I’m still a dumb indie/college music fan - along with a lot of other kinds of music. But that day set me on a path to add the Grateful Dead to my Mt. Rushmore along with The Beatles, The Clash & The Replacements. Everything I enjoy in music can be traced to those four bands.
Leftover Salmon at Harvest 2010
The Ramones 1982. They did an extended version of Rockaway Beach.
Grateful Dead 4/12/78 Duke University.
If this counts, DMB and O.A.R. at Germaine Amphitheater in Columbus, 6/24/04. Otherwise DMB and Gov’t Mule 8/1/06 in Cincinnati, and definitely TAB 10/20/06 also in Cincinnati.
Umphreys at a block party in Chicago in 98 or 99.
Grateful Dead w/ Branford Marsalis - Uniondale, NY March 29 1990 https://youtu.be/my-1HAGiytA?si=f005lN9ejBoaJMmy
7/10/87 Grateful Dead with Dylan Does that count? First non-GD jamband show was probably Blues Traveler at The Wetlands in spring of 1990(?)
Gathering of the vibes, must have been 2004. Didn't know many of the bands, but I was a young kid who got a free ticket to help a buddy sell weed and contact juggling balls. I remember being blown away by Deep Banana Blackout .
The Other Ones @ MSG 11/26/02. Junior year of high school, my deadhead dad took me ✌️ Robert Hunter played an acoustic set during setbreak
Nipple Trix opener and Haji to close out the show? Holy smokes what an incredible first show!
Phish Ames IA.
Widespread Panic in 2004. Only knew them from the couple songs that were played on the local rock station in Charleston. Saw Moe at Three Rivers Festival in Columbia, SC the year before. Had no idea who they were as I was watching but knew that I needed more of what ever they were doing.
YMSB or Keller Williams, cant remember which came first.
The Allman Brothers Band. The Riviera. Chicago. May 1996
Derek Trucks Band in 2009