Also, people are more informed through the internet. List members, of course, aren't content just to sit at home and soak up the jams via their tape decks and CD players. Like many of the nomadic obsessives who have helped fuel the jam band phenomenon, most list members spend hundreds of dollars a year on concert tickets and are fixtures at local concert venues whenever a decent jam band is in town - which, in recent years, has been pretty often. Some list members, however, aren't so sanguine about the jam band craze. Many, like Reilly Brennan, prefer to keep their critical distance, saving their rapt attention for only a select few among the noodling masses.
Nobody ever complains about overcrowding when it comes to ridiculously hot women.
If jam bands were like women, there would be three or four that you'd give your right testicle to sleep with and about 1,000 that even a freshly disavowed priest wouldn't chase.