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Old 08-04-2016, 10:28 AM   #11801 (permalink)
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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.

I can break it down to one song: Ripple.
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Old 08-04-2016, 10:30 AM   #11802 (permalink)
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Still sounds like standard blues rock to me.
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Old 08-04-2016, 03:04 PM   #11803 (permalink)
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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.

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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.
<Repeats his unpopular opinion that they're progressive rock>
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Old 08-04-2016, 03:15 PM   #11804 (permalink)
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<Repeats his unpopular opinion that they're progressive rock>
I disagree. I've always heard that Grateful Dead fall under the country rock / blues category. I've not listened to them myself, but I know people who are huge fans of theirs and they even say it's bluesy country rock. Nothing prog about them.
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Old 08-04-2016, 03:31 PM   #11805 (permalink)
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<Repeats his unpopular opinion that they're progressive rock>
BS. The Dead wouldn't have known progressive if it bit them in their ass. They were a boiling pot of Americana music. Pop, folk, country, white blues, Jerry's leads hinted at Jazz, Gospel, and Bluegrass all mixed up with a ton of drugs which made them sound cool to lots of folks.

Their following is a cult no better than Scientology or Jim Jones.
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Old 08-04-2016, 03:36 PM   #11806 (permalink)
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I consider Terrapin Station a prog record. And it's great.
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Old 08-04-2016, 03:38 PM   #11807 (permalink)
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Old 08-04-2016, 03:40 PM   #11808 (permalink)
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I disagree. I've always heard that Grateful Dead fall under the country rock / blues category. I've not listened to them myself, but I know people who are huge fans of theirs and they even say it's bluesy country rock. Nothing prog about them.
that's why you should listen to things for yourself before saying what they sound like
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Hmm, what's this in my pocket?

*epic guitar solo blasts into my face*

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Old 08-04-2016, 03:41 PM   #11809 (permalink)
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that's why you should listen to things for yourself before saying what they sound like
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Old 08-04-2016, 03:43 PM   #11810 (permalink)
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I consider Terrapin Station a prog record.
Estimated Prophet to a degree. But the rest is just the same ole same ole.
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