Akron/Family's World Domination

I cannot wait for these guys to come back West... One of the best shows i saw in '08.

A few uninteresting, insignificant but honest remarks: I have a positive bias toward bands with beards. Recently though I have not been let down with Fleet Foxes, Vetiver, Darker My Love. So I'll be checking these guys out with my fingers crossed. Next, I absolutely hate that MOJO used decided to use the word "heady" in the midst of a handful of other great adjectives. I hate the word "heady."

damn cola, that is one headie tyedye you're wearing in that pic bro. i do want to check out these cats live

Ive been waiting with great suspense for them to get back to the west as well.

thier shows and workshops at high sierra were the best things i'd seen in a long time.

I haven't posted on Jambase in a while, but had to say something about Akron Family-

They played at High Sierra and they were not musical, rather a bunch of super Go America guys who sounded real loud and annoying. I made a funny movie about their show through interviewing fans during the show..

A 3-date tour is an auspicious start to dominating the world.

I love this band and Love Is Simple is a great album. But be careful with the Phish comparisons because I read an interview where some people in the band said they did not like the music of Phish AT ALL. They made it clear to me they weren't interested in that comparison. They did willingly admit to liking the Grateful Dead. from my perspective, it seems the newer indie groups that tap into that "jam" element, are avoiding the word "jam" like the plague. They are embracing the Dead, but run far from Phish when they come up. Whatever.

stinkd, where can I find that movie. I'd love to see it. I gather that you remember when jambase used to be about MUSIC too?

Jerryil, The video is pretty funny. honestly, I only saw/heard about 3 Akron songs at High Sierra, anyway, I am retracting my post about Akron, and yes, Jambase is about music. not opinions about music, and not about music video either.. (or, maybe, it is a music site about Elvis eating banana/peanut butter sandwiches, or, maybe it's about Dave Matthew Band peeing out of their tour bus all over hikers, or, maybe it's about Johnny Dangerously the classic comedic gangster movie, or, maybe it's about hmmmmm...... :)

"super go america guys"! you are awesome

This band is the tits. Just got my tix for new year's. Let's get rowdy.

seriously one of my very favorite bands. a great way to describe their shit is, like it said up there, primal. truly primal, soulful music. i don't think these guys are trying to prove anything to anyone.

i haven't heard enough of this band, but what i have i really like....but i think the "those bands rarely gave so freely or vigorously to those who stood before them" statement about the dead and phish is baseless. i know it's an excerpt from a previous article, but that is just absurd. the dead wrote the book on forging an original sound through absolute homage to influence. phish was the evolution of that. half of each band's repetoire was music that sent them in their direction. i would even go so far as to say phish is the epitome of an homage band. as eclectic as they come. and i dont want to sound like one of those "phish is the end all, be all" kind-of-people, i just wholly disagree with that assessment. peace!

hey, have you noticed everybodys crazy?

While I can appreciate what these guys are doing, it bothers me that they are too elite in their minds to be compared to The Grateful Dead and Phish. Apparently the jamming they do is "art", while what the Grateful Dead and Phish did is "mindless noodling". There was an article in Relix that explored this wave of Indie bands that are tapping into the Jam element and embracing The Grateful Dead. The difference between true Jam fans/Deadheads and these Indie bands is that they are only picking out pieces of the music and The Dead that they like, where most of us embrace the whole experience.

No, really stinkd....I wasn't busting your balls. I meant that. I was really stoked for Akron Family going into HSMF. I had heard a few of their songs, and was telling all of my friends that we needed to check them out. I got a big crew together, and we went to their Grandstand Stage set and after three songs, when we realized that they were serious and not just completely joking, we left in utter disappointment. I really would like to see that video.

cool. send me a message to my jambase account, or whatever you'd call it, and I will need your email address or your mailing address, soon I am sending out a 8 movie DVD to many people, and High Sierra and Langerado 2008 are two movies on that DVD. I am a documentary movie maker, and yes, Akron was not wut I expected either.