Our look into the Jamband Graveyard wraps up this afternoon with a double-shot. Today, we’re going to feature a couple of bands whose names were routinely seen on bills at The Wetlands - and for all I know played there on the same night. First up is the highly underrated Albany, NY act the Ominous Seapods. Along with moe., GSW and Yolk they were at the forefront of the Upstate New York jam scene in the early to mid ’90s. Sure, they had a song called Bong Hits & Porn, but don’t let that distract you from the fact that these guys could flat melt some faces with their playing.

The classic Seapods line up with guitarists Max Verna and Dana Monteith were a force to be reckoned with, check out this live version of Cary’s Suite set to a photo montage of the band…

More Seapods:

• 1995-02-11 - Phi Delt House - Dartmouth College (from LMA)
• 1998-06-20 - Crete Memorial Park - Plattsburgh, NY (from LMA)

Our final band of the week added some much needed sexiness into the male dominated scene, mostly in part to the fact that they the had a woman lead singer. Fronted by Jen Durkin, Deep Banana Blackout played a blend of classic funk, soul and groove that turned their shows into monster dance parties. Let’s head back to the year 1999 for this version of Pakaloa Blues from the Gathering Of Vibes, that also features Michael Ray…

More DBB:

• Live @ Berkfest 2000
• Live @ Trip & Emily’s Wedding Festival - 2000-06-03 - Terra Alta, WV

Hope you guys enjoyed taking a trip in the way back machine with us this week. So, who do you guys miss that are no longer among the touring?

Previously On HT’s Jamband Graveyard Week: GSW, The Samples, LoS

Well, I need to make a major correction in regards to the You Enjoy Myself Cover Wars. It appeared that The Benevento/Russo duo (w/ Mike Gordon) had it in the bag, and I declared them the winner in a move reminiscent of Dewey Defeats Truman. I’ve sent ScottyB down to The Duo headquarters to forcibly remove the CW trophy from their mantle and have it delivered to Tim Palmieri, the real (err, current?) winner of the YEM Cover Wars.

What I really like about writing this once a week is how fast some of these blogs can show up in Google Search, very often you’ll find this column on the first page of some Google Search terms. People are discovering it everyday and for that reason, voting never closes.

So that was two weeks ago, last week we had the Making Flippy Floppy Edition, and Umphrey’s McGee currently has over 75% of the voting, so we’ll call that one for UM…but as we’ve seen, voting is never final.

Moving on, I’ve selected The Who as the artist for this week’s cover wars and we are taking a look at perhaps the most well-known song off the Rock Opera Tommy, Pinball Wizard. The playlist below has got five renditions of the tune about our beloved deaf, dumb and blind pinball champion. If you are only getting 30-second clips of the songs, you must first register or login to Imeem.

Read on for the tale of the tape on this week’s competitors…