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Top 10:
1/27/11 - 77:15
10/19/06 - 74:30
9/26/15 - 71:00
2/11/10 - 71:15
11/2/11 - 70:00
4/9/09 - 69:00
10/21/11 - 68:15
7/2/16 - 67:30
6/5/08 - 67:15
10/30/13 - 65:30
4/21/17 - 65:30
Others:
4/3/08 - 64:15
8/9/15: 64:00
11/4/06 - 63:30
10/23/08 - 62:45
6/2/17 - 62:45
4/9/06 - 62:30
10/16/13 - 62:15
10/9/08 - 62:00
6/7/07 - 61:30
10/18/07 - 60:45
2/21/07 - 60:45
11/3/10 - 60:30
2/17/12 - 60:15
4/3/09 - 59:30
2/13/15 - 59:30
1/20/12 - 59:00
7/11/09 - 58:00
11/10/06 - 57:30
9/14/12 - 57:15
2/7/08 - 56:45
7/5/07 - 56:00
7/1/11 - 55:15
2/10/06 - 54:45
7/19/07 - 54:30
3/16/06 - 54:15
6/14/07 - 54:00
5/23/08 - 53:45
11/2/06 - 53:30
6/11/04 - 53:15
@cshoreās notes from the first post:
If youāre helping me count a show, please round your findings to the nearest 15 second interval, and look at the guidelines for what is improv.
Due to unforeseen levels of boredom, Iāve been counting out UM shows in terms of total length of improv. Looking for the shows with the absolute most jamming. Iām surprised to see this hasnāt been done before.
Iāve just started and Iām only going through shows that have a reasonable chance of being in the top percentage of improv. If anyone wants to help me with this, feel free!
Feel free to give me more shows to do, but keep in mind Iām looking for only shows that will get reasonably close. If it looks to be under 50 minutes of improv I wonāt bother, and if itās 2 sets then probably closer to 60.
Some things that Iām including and not including as improv:
-Improv sets and UMBowl S2s will not count. It basically goes without saying that those shows will have among the most improv. Fancy reprises will also count, until the theme of Fancy is played again.
-Fancy intro jams count as improv, until Jake plays the A Major chord
-All teases and cover jams are included unless they are clearly within the confines of the āsongā they are played in.
-Repeat stews are included, unless they are named and tracked separately by the time of that show taking place. So, 6/11/06 Haunt would count as improv but Yoga Pants/White Pickle after its UMBowl debut would not.
-Jake solos between Snucka Pt II and III will not count as improv
-Implied hand signal jams in Mulcheās (before the main jam slot) will not count as improv.
-Any intro to a song that is not usually present/repeated that lasts for over a minute will count as improv. For example, 1/27/11 2nd Self has a 2 minute intro that I am counting. -Should I include ādrums?ā Iām leaning toward yes, because if a jam has a minute of drums sandwiched into a jam on both sides I would definitely include it.
