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On October 15, 2002, Jambay gave permission to Marco Walsh for shows to be hosted at the Archive:
My name is Todd Kushnir. I was the live sound engineer and archivist for
Jambay from '92 to '96 when they broke up. I, along with our friend Chris,
are digitizing more than 200 shows from that time period. We would love to
see them available at the Archive so that music lovers can learn about this
band for years to come. Thanks Marco, for heading this up and getting the
ball rolling! Thanks Diana for letting us stash these tunes at the Archive.
Hopefully some people will enjoy them!
Policy Notes:
Unofficial website: http://www.mikesugarmusic.com/Jambay.html
Jambay is a now defunct West Coast-based jamband. They were quite popular, touring consistently around the country from the late '80s through 1997 or so. Featuring Mike Sugar on bass, Shelley Doty and Chris Haugen on guitars, and Matt Butler on drums, Jambay delivered a complex sound drawing from many diverse musical styles. Jambay was much loved, and is much missed by fans of the '90s jam scene. Contemporaries of bands like Phish, Widespread Panic, and Blues Traveler, Jambay had the talent and material (but sadly not the good fortune) to "make it big". After nine years of living in the same van, the band dissolved, moving on to other musical projects.
Jambay also frequently played acoustic sets under the name "The Lazy Porch Dogs". (Many shows were double billed, with the Porch Dogs opening for Jambay.)
An extensive archive of Jambay recordings was made by Todd Kushner, their sound man. Over 300 shows are archived on DAT, all high quality soundboard matrix recordings.
Recently we've begun transferring the best of the Jambay archives to SHN and CD-R. Each week a crew gets together (often with one or more of the band members), selects a show, and we do the transfer. We are building an extensive collection of highest quality Jambay SHNs.
Jambay always had a taping policy that encouraged fan taping. Archives of older "bands that allow taping" lists confirm that they always allowed both audience and soundboard taping. It is the desire of the band members and the band's archivist that Jambay recordings continue to circulate freely.
We wish to make the best of the Jambay archives available via the eTree collection at archive.org, and to encourage other Jambay fans to upload their recordings to this collection.
Please contact marco@condorito.com regarding next steps so we may begin to upload these SHNs.
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