{"id":1922,"date":"2009-01-10T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-09T23:12:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T23:12:48","slug":"jamuary-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jamuary-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMuary, Day 2: “I don’t mind jamming, as long as it’s planned out”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the wisest things my compadre and bandmate, Townsman Andyr<\/strong>, 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<\/em>, 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<\/strong> and his guitar army.<\/p>\n

Following is a really<\/em> long, heavy jam, although not a hippie\/blues\/jazz-based jam. Some might question whether it’s really a “jam,”<\/a> because Branca’s, like, a dictatorial composer\/conductor<\/em>, 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<\/strong>, and he’s got rockin’ bedhead. This may get filed under Classical<\/code>, but it’s got a rock ‘n roll heart. Play loud!<\/em><\/strong>
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Not your hippie uncle’s rockin’ jam<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Glenn Branca, :Indeterminate Activity of Resultant Masses”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Check back with us in a half hour, when you’ve survived the onslaught of maximum heaviosity.<\/p>\n

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