1.   After hearing the audition tape over the phone, Hickey instantly booked Randolph as an opening act for the North Mississippi All-Stars, the blues-boogie jam band.

2.   Its roots in the Dead are unmistakable, but Phish is a next-generation jam band.

3.   Jam bands like Phish, Blues Traveler and God Street Wine, with their hippielike following of young fans, are certainly among the contenders.

4.   Just ask Strangefolk, the jam band that was hoping to follow Phish into the national spotlight last year.

5.   Television, which reunited for a two-night stand at Irving Plaza, was the jam band of the punk era.

6.   The band is winning radio play, a rarity for this neo-hippie jam band.

7.   The presence of the jam bands on the Internet is extraordinary.

8.   There are blues-based jam bands and tightly coiled punk bands.

9.   This is really all you need to know about the band, both as a pop group and a jam band.

10.   Comparisons to early jam bands, such as Cream, are merited -- a guitar, a bass, drums and a groove.