"We’re just getting used to Song Based Jamming, but the rules are changing again. In the four shows since Superball IX, two of them have featured a jam based on the style of the “Storage Jam.” It’s starting to look like that late night jam might be one of the defining moments of the band, along the lines of how playing Remain in Light started the cowfunk revolution. It’s a new style of playing, one that at least will define the end of summer 2011."

I agree completely with this outlook on the Storage Jam, which is why the article on .NET about Super Ball not holding up was so short-sighted and totally off base in reality. I asked friends who went to Denver, and who were also with me at Super Ball, and they said the shows in Denver were amazing but that the vibe in Watkins Glen was unmatched (as well as having such forward-looking improvisation like that in the Storage Jam, ASIHTOS, Simple, Golden Age, and others). I was so upset to see Super Ball dismissed so casually (turkey sandwich analogies are casual at best), and this important point you bring up has restored my faith in the goodness of the .NET masters. Thanks, and here's to many more years of pushing our conceptual limits of what this band can do.