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Phish vs My Morning Jacket (1 Viewer)
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pantherclub
Footballguy
seriously? Its not even close, not even the same ball park, not even the same sport
tommyboy
Footballguy
Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
I can think of several jam bands that I would put way ahead of My Morning Jacket
tommyboy
Footballguy
Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
They both prefer Phish...HTH
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
Only one is just killing it live.
Phish is the greatest live band in the history of Rock and Roll. Sure an argument can be made for the Who, the Stones, and Bruce, but none of them have anything even resembling the improvisational chops of Phish. The Grateful Dead did, but Phish surpassed them in quality. The evidence was presented at 12/31/99, 10/31/14 and throughout 2015.
tommyboy
Footballguy
I would agree they are the best musicians, the best technicians. I wouldn't agree they are the best live act. I also wouldnt' agree they are the best improv, there are many groups over the years that can lay claim to that title. Between the two above, Phish is definitely the more musically gifted.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Don't know much about MMJ but they could be playing Rebecca Black's "Friday" via flutaphones stuck up their butts and they would still sound 10000% better than Phish.
Meatwad Reloaded
Footballguy
I feel that I can be pretty impartial here. MMJ will probably win the poll because they are technically more accessible to the average person as they get a little radio play here and there while Phish gets none. Anyone whose main musical genre is jambands will laugh at that and say Phish, hands down. I have nothing invested in the jam scene and actually enjoy all genres of music (I mostly listen to a mix of indie rock and 70s soft hits) to a certain degree and I really like both bands. That being said, Phish is so much further ahead of MMJ it is not even funny. To even have a poll on this is sort of laughable. MMJ is a great rock band that meanders into jam band territory. They have a medium size catalog of songs and they tend to mix up their sets a little bit. I have seen them a couple times and they are pretty great live.
Phish, on the other hand, is an amazing live band. Amazing, not just pretty great. Their catalog of songs is probably 5 times bigger than MMJ, so any show they play is completely different. MMJ cannot touch that type of variety. As for the actual songs, MMJ has some true classics, but I prefer Phish's strongest songs over the best of MMJ. As such, when people are forced to put their money where their mouth is, you see that Phish routinely plays multiple nights of 25 - 35 K crowds while MMJ plays multiple nights of 1 - 2 K crowds.
Even if the two bands were equals, which they most certainly are not, the OP asked us to compare them as jam bands. One of the most pleasurable aspects of seeing a jam band concert is hearing random cover songs played during shows. In terms of covers, the two bands do not compare at all. Quite frankly, MMJ cannot even beat The Zach Brown Band in terms of variety of cover songs, because they do not really play many covers at all!!! WTF? Does the OP even listen to jambands? How can you be a jamband if you do not play any cover songs? I saw a Phish show a couple years ago where in the first set they opened with Bob Marley's 'Soul Shakedown Party' and later in the set busted out a full rocking version of Edgar Winter's 'Frankenstein'. MMJ would probably ##### their pants if anyone asked them to bust out two covers in the same set, let alone show. In the second set, they opened with 'Crosseyed and Painless' (Talking Heads), which any music fan would recognize as a great song and then washed it down with Zeppelin's 'No Quarter'. This all happened in one night. I am sure MMJ has played cover songs, but they do not play them with regularity as Phish does, and Phish has a breadth of covers from which they draw that is truly mind boggling.
This is not even a contest. Phish destroys MMJ in every way.
Phish, on the other hand, is an amazing live band. Amazing, not just pretty great. Their catalog of songs is probably 5 times bigger than MMJ, so any show they play is completely different. MMJ cannot touch that type of variety. As for the actual songs, MMJ has some true classics, but I prefer Phish's strongest songs over the best of MMJ. As such, when people are forced to put their money where their mouth is, you see that Phish routinely plays multiple nights of 25 - 35 K crowds while MMJ plays multiple nights of 1 - 2 K crowds.
Even if the two bands were equals, which they most certainly are not, the OP asked us to compare them as jam bands. One of the most pleasurable aspects of seeing a jam band concert is hearing random cover songs played during shows. In terms of covers, the two bands do not compare at all. Quite frankly, MMJ cannot even beat The Zach Brown Band in terms of variety of cover songs, because they do not really play many covers at all!!! WTF? Does the OP even listen to jambands? How can you be a jamband if you do not play any cover songs? I saw a Phish show a couple years ago where in the first set they opened with Bob Marley's 'Soul Shakedown Party' and later in the set busted out a full rocking version of Edgar Winter's 'Frankenstein'. MMJ would probably ##### their pants if anyone asked them to bust out two covers in the same set, let alone show. In the second set, they opened with 'Crosseyed and Painless' (Talking Heads), which any music fan would recognize as a great song and then washed it down with Zeppelin's 'No Quarter'. This all happened in one night. I am sure MMJ has played cover songs, but they do not play them with regularity as Phish does, and Phish has a breadth of covers from which they draw that is truly mind boggling.
This is not even a contest. Phish destroys MMJ in every way.
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Jefferson the Caregiver
Rebel Without A Pause
Phish, not close IMO but Phish is one of my favorite bands.
I think MMJ is talented and listenable but that's as far as I would go on that one.
I think MMJ is talented and listenable but that's as far as I would go on that one.
tommyboy
Footballguy
after further review, i've changed my vote to Phish
mainly due to this:
skip to 33.55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzCHGE9Yxpk
but the whole 49 mins is awesome
also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCHssFYL0y4
mainly due to this:
skip to 33.55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzCHGE9Yxpk
but the whole 49 mins is awesome
also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCHssFYL0y4
NutterButter
Footballguy
First link was just awesome. Most of their jams are awesome but that one was up there.
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
apples and non-jam band oranges comparison imo
Bobcat10
Footballguy
Never thought I'd see this poll. Both in my top 3 of all time. Those 3 are miles ahead of anything else in my world.
They have some similarities, but the differences make them hard to compare overall. I think of MMJ more as as a "fringe" jam band, barely. Music lovers that have never seen them live really should though. Same goes for Phish I guess, just seems to me you either know you like them or don't by now. Some people have never heard of MMJ.
They have some similarities, but the differences make them hard to compare overall. I think of MMJ more as as a "fringe" jam band, barely. Music lovers that have never seen them live really should though. Same goes for Phish I guess, just seems to me you either know you like them or don't by now. Some people have never heard of MMJ.
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