Says Thompson: " Exile on Main St. is my blueprint."

Can't the Roots take some tight, 50 minute set as their blueprint? Just once?

If they're really committed to the 'jam session' concept, then this can work. As I see it, the Roots need to go one of two ways. Either tighten their sound to its essence, and make that short, sweet, rootsmatic album we know they have in them, or go the way of the last 3 minutes of break you off plus the seed 2.0, and start spacing out and letting their musical concepts develop, while letting their spontenaity show and not recording, mixing, editing, for three year's time. they would have to be fully committed to an exile on main street concept to embrace the latter. no half assin'.