Jerry Garcia=God

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Grateful Dead were the most successful mediocre band in the world. I can't believe people still think they're good in this day and age.
American Beauty was the only good album they ever made.
 
fuck you

and the Dead are the best band of all time, i am never upset listening to them, the dead fucking rule
 
What killed me was seeing this girl with a cherry garcia shirt in the lodge. I said something about the dead or jerry, i don't remember, and the girl had no clue what I was talking about. I was like your shit, cherry garcia, named after jerrry garcia from the grateful dead? Nothing. Sad day for mankind
 
Sorry for judging someone based on their ability to produce music in an environment where they should be able to perfect their sound. It doesn't really say much about a band that has inferior records, but somehow are a superior live band. It doesn't make sense. That's like saying "I hate the Grateful Dead, but only the music they choose to represent themselves with."
Fucking stupid. I'll admit they're pleasant, but in no way a great band. They're not Great, they're just decent, and they don't Suck, they're just not very good. Pleasant mediocrity.
 
whoa... phil lesh does not suck. at atll. i know this is about jerry and theres like thre types of dead fans... jerry heads,,, bob fans and the rare but eluseive phil lesh fans.... no hate to the pigpen fans its just yeah its pigpen and shit. but phil is smart and taletned musican.. he has to play down to the rest of the band. and jerry style is one of the few that you can tell its him.

and one time in 78 or 79 bill walton got on stage and played with the band.. CLAIM>> for gingers and blazers alike!
 
wow. you are a fucking idiot. live is the only way a band should be judged. anybody can buy studio quality mics and a program and doctor up their track whatever way they want it as long as they can work the program, however not everybody can make a crowd move right there on the spot. you gotta be on your shit to be a good live band, and the dead was the best period.
plus playing in a studio is boring as shit anyway, id much rather jam and get people groovin than trying to make a "perfect track" all damn day. jammin never gets old and each jam has its own character making it dope to listen to/play a song multiple times.
AND there's no money in studio music anymore since everybody downloads now anyways...that shit's just advertising for the live show which in my opinion is much better anyway.
 
their earlier poppy shit was gay but once they started making real shit after being introduced to pot and LSD they made some undeniably groundbreaking material.
 
So much of this. People who judge bands based on their studio albums are straight up ignorant to the power of live music.
 
so true. id rather listen to live dead than studio... i kinda think there studio work sucks actually
 
Well, you could take some initiative and go look at my profile, because I have a bunch listed there.

Just because I don't like the Beatles, doesn't mean you have to question all my music interests.
 
Lol. Calling the Dead the best LIVE band period is to be completely ignorant of all musical talent going on around them, and simultaneously being a fanboy, and a douche. I see how you can argue that in this day and age, studio work is useless because of the high level of production it takes to make a song, and how it's made so easily today. But let's talk about back then - in the early 70's and late 60's - and how what you said is made COMPLTELY IRRELEVANT to the conversation simply by the time frame. The Grateful Dead could not provide a commercial product, nor any groundbreaking material. They never experimented, and the rarely, if ever changed their style or progressed in the entirety of their career. You may enjoy jamming, but saying their live shows were the best denies Hendrix (far superior), The Who (far, far superior), Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Cream etc. from that debate. And truthfully, every one of those artists mentioned above were miles ahead of the Grateful Dead in terms of musical ability and live show playability. Frankly, to put the Dead on a scale, I'd say they were more on par with Jefferson Airplane musically than anyone else. The only difference is that the Dead miraculously managed to cultivate the largest and most dedicated fanboy audience ever seen. This does not make them good.
Now, I'm not trying to say that the Dead don't deserve some of their credit. But they definitely don't deserve all of it, or even most of it. If you've ever heard them sober, you know what I'm talking about.

 
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