"According to the TourPro definition:
SSDD, Throwing Stones, Althea, Deal, Superfly, etc. are NOT huge jam songs. They aren't "little tunes", but aren't HUGE jams either. Like, say Stella Blue or Eyes Of The World, they are longer songs with a structured jam in them that generally stays withing the confines of the changes.
I will say there are some songs that kinda fit in between because they tend to jam over a single chord but, they generally stay pretty tied in to the groove of the song and generally do not reach psychedelic heights of any serious magnitude. Shakedown Street is an example as is Crazy Fingers, Here Comes Sunshine, and others. I can even give you the benifit of the doubt and say these are Quasi-Huge Jam songs.
There are only a dozen or so "HUGE JAMS". These are when they opened the "Tripping Doors".
These include Bird Song, Cassidy, Estimated Prophet, Dark Star, Slipknot!, Supplication, the F Part of Terrapin Station, Jam after Terrapin Station ('90), Music Never Stopped, Playing In The Band, occasionally Not Fade Away (only the sickest versions apply), and sick, long segues between songs like Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain or Lost Sailor >Saint Of Circumstance.
So, what I am saying is I would like for there to be at least one HUGE jam in the first set."
-MT (as written Tuesday, The Ides of March, 2005 and sent via electronic mail at 7:07 p.m. EST)