On one night, the Derek Trucks Band would jam on mellow Southern blues.

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Weller got his start as the frontman for the late-'70s new-wave punk band The Jam, which came from modest beginnings to become a force atop the British charts.

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This is a guitar hero any rock fan or jam band aficionado could adore.

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It all suggests a jam band a hipster could love, with every note so tasty and rich you need to hit the gym after a couple of listens.

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Though he grew up in a home that revered show tunes and was regularly taken to Broadway, the jam band leader had to learn the hard way that what he did in Phish didn't translate to the musical stage.

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At the same time, the New Jersey native consorts with the jam-band scene, and the songs he covers on his new album, Me Not Me, are not a part of the classic American songbook.

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Thomas, guys from Vanilla Fudge, and Three Dog Night got up on stage to jam with the house band.

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When Pearl Jam struck off on its own, it took the band's management three years of hard negotiating to cobble together an unusual coalition of retail partners.

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Starting Sunday, Sept. 20, you can buy Backspacer on the Pearl Jam Web site, on iTunes, on Xbox's Rock Band game, as a Verizon ringtone or at Target.

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