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Chula Vista · 08-04-2016, 01:21 AM

Grateful Dead is 1000% the most overrated band of all time. Bunch of burned out stoners that would ramble on for hours live and somehow the smelly hippy people thought it was awesome.

I've tried at least two dozen times to get "it" and failed.

**Frownland** · 08-04-2016, 01:32 AM

I can enjoy Grayfolded because it's so dense, but I highly agree.

Justthefacts · 08-04-2016, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

**** you, you piece of ****. The word "anymore" implies that they were ever anything more than garbage. I hope you drown in a river while trying to save your cat which also drowns before you do so you get to watch.

That's what's actually considered a death grip.

grindy · 08-04-2016, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Grateful Dead is 1000% the most overrated band of all time. Bunch of burned out stoners that would ramble on for hours live and somehow the smelly hippy people thought it was awesome.

I've tried at least two dozen times to get "it" and failed.

Yep.
**** those hippies.

**Janszoon** · 08-04-2016, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Grateful Dead is 1000% the most overrated band of all time. Bunch of burned out stoners that would ramble on for hours live and somehow the smelly hippy people thought it was awesome.

I've tried at least two dozen times to get "it" and failed.

I agree. All it is is just really long, boring country and blues. The funny thing is now all the people I run into who like them are the kind of people who would've thrown rocks at hippies back in the day.

OccultHawk · 08-04-2016, 05:51 AM

The Dead are really about song writing and melody. They're also more importantly a studio band not a live band. Or were, I mean. Both their fans and critics generally misunderstand them.

If you don't like Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, to each his own, but those records are in no way directionless endless blues jams.

They've always hung their hats on good songs.

duga · 08-04-2016, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

The Dead are really about song writing and melody. They're also more importantly a studio band not a live band. Or were, I mean. Both their fans and critics generally misunderstand them.

If you don't like Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, to each his own, but those records are in no way directionless endless blues jams.

They've always hung their hats on good songs.

I agree with this...I love a bunch of their studio albums, but I could never quite enjoy them live. I know they made the jam band style popular, but they really weren't good enough technically to compare to the jam band greats that came after them.

Key · 08-04-2016, 09:30 AM

I could never get into Grateful Dead. Not because I didn't want to, but because their discog is so vast that I don't know where to start.

**Frownland** · 08-04-2016, 09:33 AM

Their studio work is just plain ole country rock from where I'm sitting.

sweetSmoke · 08-04-2016, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Their studio work is just plain ole country rock from where I'm sitting.

Give this a spin, absolutely no blues or roots influence here, despite the title,
instead - hippie space music. My favorite, miles above any other GD record. (btw I think American Rose is pretty boring too)

08-04-2016, 01:21 AM	#11791 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Grateful Dead is 1000% the most overrated band of all time. Bunch of burned out stoners that would ramble on for hours live and somehow the smelly hippy people thought it was awesome. I've tried at least two dozen times to get "it" and failed. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

08-04-2016, 01:32 AM	#11792 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I can enjoy Grayfolded because it's so dense, but I highly agree. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

08-04-2016, 09:33 AM	#11799 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Their studio work is just plain ole country rock from where I'm sitting. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

08-04-2016, 05:51 AM	#11796 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	The Dead are really about song writing and melody. They're also more importantly a studio band not a live band. Or were, I mean. Both their fans and critics generally misunderstand them. If you don't like Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, to each his own, but those records are in no way directionless endless blues jams. They've always hung their hats on good songs.

08-04-2016, 09:30 AM	#11798 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	I could never get into Grateful Dead. Not because I didn't want to, but because their discog is so vast that I don't know where to start.