The Grateful Dead

Lets be frienRAB. :love:

I don't love the Dead, their endless jams can test even my patience, but yes, I really f*cking admire them. Great musicians all around. The Pigpen era stuff is great.

If you think their usual psychedelic stuff is boring though, at least check out American Beauty, it's a really gorgeous country album, no jamming, and it has some of their more well known songs.
 
I agree 100% completely.
I have moments where I get the bug to listen to them and it's a craving that bgs to be satisfied.
As far as their country side goes nothing beats Reckoning.
Ill see if I can root out a link somewhere.
 
I like the dead through the 60's and 70's but after that they kinda got weird sounding with all the extra added sounRAB and synthesizers. Dont believe me? Well then listen to their last two studio albums.
 
I dig 'em. GD are a bit too folksy for me, kinda past my time I guess. I'm a Phishhead. Do have quite a few Dead shows, lately my favorite show has been 12-28-79.
 
I'll bite ... I'm that dude that actually likes the studio albums, even ... but a good live set (or 3) when I'm in the right mood is a day well wasted ... and certain of their songwriting (Garcia-Hunter) is brilliant
 
well, I'm a fan of studio recordings in general ... I love live music, but it doesn't always come across well in a recording ... there's kinRAB of guitar tones in particular that you can't get any other way ... whether it's The Velvet Underground's studio take of "Sweet Jane" with all it's beautiful stilted clunkiness, or (more relevantly) "Stella Blue" (for clarity of delineated groove) or "U.S. Blues" (for vocal and guitar tones) or "Terrapin Station" (for unnatural closeness of perspective) or side one of Anthem Of The Sun (cos it's insane) ... I'm not a fan of badly applied studio technique, just that there's sonic things that happen naturally there if you let them that can't happen in other places

By no means would I disagree that the Grateful Dead brought the 300 pound gorilla to the live idiom, and at their best could take you places you couldn't get to any other way (whether one wants to go to those places is one's own prerogative)
 
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