Those recordings are awesome!
And they also illustrate the dilemma. I too would love to just play that type of music all the time. I definitely come from a jamming background (and I appreciate the distinctions made above between noodling and jamming). Good jamming is a group experience, a conversation, and usually has some structure, like those songs you posted. When going to see music, that's what I want to see, too, not a bunch of songs played note for note like the group has always played them.
But then, listening to the live tracks in your recordings, you can see at the end that there is a very small crowd listening to the music. A shame because it is so good. But unless you make it big like the Grateful Dead, Phish, etc. (who come more for the scene rather than the music) you usually aren't going to get a huge crowd wanting to see this type of music at your average bar gig.
So our bands play "songs", mostly covers, some originals, because that's what people want to hear. But we try to throw jams in where we can get away with it. Here's one caught on tape; we probably got a little caught up a bit much on this one, but so long as we don't do this to every song we play, we keep getting asked back.
