Today’s Mystery Date presents you with a unique take on a classic jam. Unlike the better-known versions of this song, this one clocks in at a reasonable 6+ minutes, so you won’t, like, jam your entire afternoon away when there are so many jams in the sea. Take a listen to the track. If you know who it is, please refrain from posting. If you don’t know who it is, tell us what feel about this particular jam and how it stacks up against the classic versions you grew up, like, jammin’ along to.
Rock Town Hall, here’s your place to talk football! All I ask is that you keep it to the pro game. Any quarterbacks discussed, for instance, cannot throw a worse ball than Eli Manning – and players can’t wear midriff-showing jerseys and those lame pants that show thigh. Please make a cursory attempt to tie your thoughts on the four remaining playoff teams to music. Enjoy!


The two-chord jam, as perfected by Neil Young on his Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere album! This version of one of that album’s primo jams is from a 1970 concert at the Fillmore East. Neil can’t wait to get jammin’! I’m sure you can’t wait yourself, so hey man, don’t let me hold you back.


A bit of flight of fancy here inspired my Mod’s invitation for all Rock Town Hall’ers to meet at a bar in Philadelphia over Xmas break.
I have only been here for a couple months, but really enjoyed participating in this little online community. Everyone is very knowledgeable and articulate and yet still inquisitive about music. As a bonus, my fiance enjoys that I don’t rant as much about the different ways the Kinks are superior to The Doors when I drink Scotch.
From what I can gather, most RTH’ers are musicians. (I consider myself a singer, but I picked up the bass a few years ago when a band needed that.)
So here’s the assignment: Imagine all the members of RTH are putting on a show at a bar. What will the set list be? Who will play what? You can nominate a song, but someone else has to second it. After that we have to list who plays what on each song. It’s first come first serve on the instruments.
So, first off I nominate “Medicine Jar” by Wings. I just want to sing on this one, but if pressed into service I would play bass, too.
So have at ‘er RTH’ers. The house manager says we get 12 songs plus an encore. Two encores if we get them drinking!


I’ve been bowling twice in the last month, which is a lot for me. I usually bowl once every couple of years, usually during a kid’s birthday party. The second time I was bowling I recalled a rock ‘n bowl club and alley that I’d heard of or walked by in some city years ago. Then I recalled an even funnier combo club, Sudsy Malone’s Rock ‘n Roll Laundry & Bar, in Cincinnati. Does anyone remember that place? We once played down the street from Sudsy Malone’s. I regret never playing there. I regret never seeing a show in either a bowling alley or a laundry. Have you? Have you attended or played shows in any other weird combo clubs? I’m thinking a rock ‘n barber shop would be cool. Any other combo clubs that need to be investigated?


One of the wisest things my compadre and bandmate, Townsman Andyr, said during a rehearsal, as we discussed an instrumental passage in a new song, was “I don’t mind jamming, as long as it’s planned out.” Andyr is a man who values concise structures in his music – and he’s not prone to digging long instrumental passages let alone rockin’ jams, but I like to think that if something in his brain ever clicked and he found a way to appreciate long, rockin’ jams, he’d dig the intensely structured, heavy jams of Glenn Branca and his guitar army.
Following is a really long, heavy jam, although not a hippie/blues/jazz-based jam. Some might question whether it’s really a “jam,” because Branca’s, like, a dictatorial composer/conductor, man, but I’ve seen him conduct this stuff in person. His suit’s rumpled, he’s got 3 days of scruff, he’s gesticulating like John Cale, and he’s got rockin’ bedhead. This may get filed under Classical, but it’s got a rock ‘n roll heart. Play loud!
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