[afterthefact]

Originally Posted by batreleaser

i like when improv becomes a song. starting off by just jamming, and then realizing something sounds really good, and creating a song out of that sound. thats what my brother and i do. but i dont know, its hard to say, some musicians are better at jamming, some are better at writing songs. it depends a lot on the music being played. like the ramones obviosuly, a great band, probably did not groove out to find their songs, but just wrote them down. and then theres like teenage jesus and the jerks, another great band, who probably did a ton of jamming and experimenting before a song was found. so maybe for more far out bands its better to improv, and for more simple bands its better to write? yes? no?

I agree, but I'm asking more what you like to do...