Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

So much of Grateful Dead's music is "you had to be there at the time" type stuff, as OccultHawk mentioned recently in another thread. I always thought Jerry Garcia's voice was pretty weak and the notorious devotion of Deadheads certainly earns the band a mention in this thread.

Having said that though, everything fell into place for Grateful Dead on American Beauty, which is a great album imo. In a similar way, out of all his hours of guitar playing, JG got it just right on one occassion at least:-