Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

[Bobo Adobo]

Im not trying to get you to like the Phish or the Dead more than the Beatles. Im not even trying to get you to like them at all. I don't get why you bring them up anyway. Do you just do it to piss me off?

Most Jam acts I like **(WSP, Dead, Medeski Martin and Wood, Gov't Mule, Jazz Mandolin Project, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Sam Bush, Keller Williams, The Radiators, to name a few)** are well capable writing well "crafted" songs,and have done so quite often.

I think that the craft of song-writing and musicianship go hand in hand. Besides, you can't compose music if you have no knowledge of it. The more you know about music theory, your more able to come up with better and original songs. I think that good soloists add more energy to songs, and help bring about more emotion and direction to the melody.