But, I will also often go out of my way to see them.

When I can’t see them, I wait patiently for shows to get posted. Often I catch up on their setlists. 

These are the bands “in my collection.” Be assured, I see and enjoy seeing dozens of other bands, but these bands… these are my bands.

If you haven’t already, FIND YOUR BAND and start your collection. (Or bands. I started with one.)

Unlike happy meal toys, you can’t collect ’em all. (In fact, my current collection can be hard to manage.) Social media helps but must be used with caution because FOMO is a heartless siren.

Finally, my collection makes it easy for me to answer that age old question, “If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have thirty-four jam bands with you, which ones would they be?

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Mihali (Twiddle, one day)

Hayley Jane & the Band

St. Paul and the Broken Bones

Marcus King Band

Ripe 

Cool Cool Cool

Wood Brothers

Midnight North

Lettuce

Big Something

Lake Street Dive

Southern Avenue

Pigeons playing Ping Pong

Govt Mule / Warren Haynes

Kitchen Dwellers

Slightly Stooped

The Dip

Taz

Eggy 

Dogs in a Pile

Oh He Dead

One Time Weekend

Goose

Karina Rykman

Melt

Sammy Rae & The Friends

Umphrees Mcgee 

Widespread Panic

Cory Wong 

Andy Frasco and the UN

Keller Williams

Lespecial

Sister Spartow and the Dirty Birds

Little Stranger

Kendall Street Company

Dark Star Orchestra

Umphreys Mcgee

I feel a poster idea coming on. Who’s up for designing a Mirage Fest fantasy poster?