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Pigeons Playing Ping Pong is an American funk jam band from Baltimore, Maryland. The band has garnered a following as a result of their consistent touring, playing as many as two hundred shows a year. In a 2017 interview, Greg Ormont (vocals/guitar) said, "We met in college at the University of Maryland and the dorm project turned into the real thing. We've been playing for over 8 years. We've been touring the country for 4–5 years and just having a blast spreading our high energy psychedelic funk and good vibes. We like to bring the party and show people a diverse time that is positive and fun and everyone leaves a happier person.”
Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Ocean flows, Lightning, Poseidon
Jam bands seem very masturbatory. The people involved seem to be very talented, but I don't think anyone needed an extended vamp on the Ghostbusters theme song, among other things.
3/10. It's not that it's really bad or anything, but I don't really need to hear hour-plus jam band albums before I die. And the Wikipedia article called these guys a funk jam band, but they just didn't feel that funky to me, a bit sterile even. I'm sure it'd be fun live. Having a Ghostbusters cover is fun for the first 5 minutes or so.
As a guitar player, I really despise this kind of jam music. Technically uninteresting, gratuitous noodling on the fretboard is a bit like masturbation –fun for you but nobody else really wants to hear or see it. I imagine that if I was on a suitable amount of drugs this would be interesting, but as it stands sober this commits the cardinal sin of media by being boring as hell. 10+ minute jams with little to no dynamic contrast, key changes, melodic progression – it’s just flat and sterile, a block of music ready-made and packaged for you with no lumps or bumps to cut your teeth on. Really telling that A) there’s no crowd noise, probably because they were asleep or sitting politely in their walkers, and B) the best moments are when the band lifts melodies from people who know how to actually write catchy, enjoyable songs.