@nichobert said:

Nothing wacky about it, that two chord solo section in 555 is begging to be jammed out. Begging.

Up until 97 nobody felt like Bag, Tube, Gumbo, Halleys or Timber had anything particularly wrong with it if it didn't have a jam. Then they did it, and it makes perfect sense

well, sort of....

your point about balancing competing interests is spot on -

the other:

some of us did....

timber gets the absolute hell played out of it in 95 (binghamton) in romones-like arena rock never before repeated.... and there is a SICK halley's in that set ta boot.... there are a couple other surprising timber's in 95 as well....

but yeah, i won't get overly pedantic. the other songs you mention were right place, right time.... those big bags are no accident; they lend themselves well to the funk 'experiment.' the other tunes.... obviously they fit as well. so does llama. so could wilson.

common misconception about roses, too.

aside from dust, which has become dead-esque, many of today's jams feel tacked on as opposed to 'evolving' from within a song.

more than anything, i am looking for the next tune to evolve. a couple of the year's debuts are (duh) contenders. i'd be psyched if it's your FIVES - more so since you called it so early.

but something surprising would be welcome.

or even a really, really nice feugo.