There's 100 jam bands? 😛

1. The Grateful Dead
2. Phish
3. The Allman Brothers Band
4. Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
5. Dave Matthews Band
6. Widespread Panic
7. moe.
8. The Disco Biscuits
9. Primus
10. The String Cheese Incident
11. Umphrey's Mcgee
12. Blues Traveler/John Popper
13. Les Claypool (& His Fancy Band/Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
14. The Black Crowes
15. Keller Williams (Incident)
16. Galactic
17. Gov't Mule
18. Yonder Mountain String Band
19. Sound Tribe Sector 9
20. Jerry Garcia Band
21. Oysterhead
22. Little Feat
23. New Riders of the Purple Sage
24. Medeski, Martin & Wood
25. The Derek Trucks Band
26. Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers
27. Jack Johnson
28. Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
29. G. Love & Special Sauce
30. Tea Leaf Green
31. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
32. Bob Weir & Ratdog
33. Phil Lesh & Friends
34. Victor Wooten
35. My Morning Jacket
36. Robert Randolph & The Family Band
37. Ween
38. Trey Anastasio (Band/70 Volt Parade/GRAB)
39. Benevento-Russo Duo (& Mike Gordon)
40. Dickey Betts & Great Southern
41. Rusted Root
42. Guster
43. Ben Folds Five
44. Perpetual Groove
45. Steve Kimock Band
46. John Butler Trio
47. The North Mississippi Allstars
48. Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains
49. Hot Tuna
50. Man or Astroman?
51. The Drive-by Truckers
52. O.A.R.
53. Los Lonely Boys
54. Mike Gordon/Ramble Dove/Leo Kottke
55. Paul Butterfield Blues Band
56. Railroad Earth
57. Acoustic Syndicate
58. The Big Wu
59. Blind Melon
60. Dispatch
61. Animal Liberation Orchestra
62. Bernie Worrell and the WOO Warriors
63. Garaj Mahal
64. Pat McGee Band
65. Matisyahu
66. The New Deal
67. Wishbone Ash
68. Particle
69. Leftover Salmon
70. Aquarium Rescue Unit
71. Lotus
72. New Monsoon
73. Alfred Howard & The K23 Orchestra
74. Hot Buttered Rum String Band
75. John Popper / John Popper Project feat. DJ Logic
76. Fat Freddy's Drop
77. The Bad Plus
78. God Street Wine
79. Quicksilver Messenger Service
80. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
81. Addison Groove Project
82. Nickel Creek
83. The Word
84. The Samples
85. Robert Walter's 20th Congress
86. The Spin Doctors
87. Old Crow Medicine Show
88. RAQ
89. Signal Path
90. The Breakfast
91. MOFRO
92. Flowmotion
93. Donna The Buffalo
94. Moonshine Still
95. Assembly of Dust
96. Beanland
97. Tri Point Paradox
98. Zilla
99. Conspirator
100. Strangefolk

Now, I love me some Primus and would pay money to watch Les Claypool jam by himself for two hours. But, how in the world is Primus a jam band?

The Spin Doctors? Matisyahu? G. Love & Special Sauce?

Butterfield Blues Band as low as 55? That is a travesty.

1. The Grateful Dead

When did they add the "The"?

[Edited on 12/10/2014 by Boglo]

 

Hmmm...not too many British representatives.

What about those Welsh wizards, Man?

"Jam Band" is such a generic term. So many of the 100 greatest don't even jam in their songs. They are just guilty by association.

A lot of great bands on that list. Only complaint is that Oysterhead is on that list. Love Trey, Les and Copeland with there own projects but together it just didn't work.

"Jam Band" is such a generic term. So many of the 100 greatest don't even jam in their songs. They are just guilty by association.

generic term " JAMBANDS " ...

I'm just glad that the Black Crowes are listed high and the CRB aren't even on the list. I hope Chris sees this and maybe an aha moment occurs. The CRB will never be 1/10th as good as the Crowes. I like Neil Casal but Chris has become the antithesis of what he has portrayed himself to be. He is a tinsel town phony all Hollywood out and sh*t.

some bands on there that imo don't jam all that much.

psyched to see Bela Fleck in the 4 spot

Bobby higher than Phil?
Travesty

No Traffic One of the first jam bands I think .Nice to see Antibalas on there my son plays with them.

^^^
cool.
they're very good

This list is hysterical! So, like, there's about 11 jam bands and then just permutations of them for the rest to make up 100! Spin Doctors were a great jam band when they started out, so I can totally see them on the list, but Ween? I've seen them a dozen times and nary a Jam bander in sight! And I saw Primus open for The Pixies and Jane's Addiction, but again, no "jam band". And don't get me started on Matisyahu! Would have liked to have seen Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons or Big Head Todd on the list, but it was definitely good for a laugh!!

just the fact that "Quicksilver Messenger service" is not in the top 10 is a joke as is this list.... not only that but they missed the Mother of all Jam bands Cream!!!!!! they jamed more than anyone for their time 30 min songs and they do not even make the list Like I said JOKE!

maybe i missed them but cream should be on the list and in the top 5

maybe i missed them but cream should be on the list and in the top 5

good call. no cream

also maybe i missed it but is blues traveler missing? i see some john popper side stuff mentioned but don't see blues traveler

Matt, they lumped Blues Traveler in with Popper's other projects. They did this several places in the list.

However, they still managed to find 3 spots in the Top 25 for Primus, Oysterhead, and Les Claypool's Other Projects. We get it, you like Les, but that is just gratuitous. Oysterhead only played, what, 5 shows in their whole "career" as a band? That deserves it's own spot? I think not, sir.

I think they got the Top 3 right, but Butterfield Blues Band at 55 and Aquarium Rescue Unit at 70 were the ones that got me riled up. One of the inventors of the genre, and the best of the HORDE bands, they both deserve to be much higher.

That list is old..... from 2007. I'm sure things have changed since then.

The Smuckers Brothers.