Does Sup Forums like the Grateful Dead?
Does Sup Forums like the Grateful Dead?
Jayden Thomas
Jaxson Long
Yeah why not
Jackson Morales
no, I would be obliged to listen to hours and hours of poor quality live recordings
Ayden Bennett
Hell no
John Cruz
I liked anthem of the sun and american beauty but I don't really feel like listening to all their live stuff
Cooper Butler
>listening to dadrock
>listening to music from before the late 80s at all
Jeremiah Scott
yes
Matthew Flores
>implying everything from past the late 80's hasn't already become dadrock
Benjamin Evans
What's your fav jam?
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Grayson Ortiz
Radiohead and Neutral Milk hotel is literally dadrock
Jaxson Baker
Well I really don't listen to much rock. More of a hiphop, EDM, indie, and pop guy.
Cooper Lee
artists such as?
(also if you don't like rock why even post in this thread, of course you wouldn't like them)
Levi Ward
Jason Morales
They had their moments...they were not as great the Deadheads would have you believe but they certainly deserve credit for creating their own unique sound, culture and following...
They lead the way in live audio and their PA systems were ground breaking at time...their allowing and fostering of taping was ahead of its time...
but for me a little goes a long way...after about a sets worth I fall asleep.
The Allman Brothers Band were far superior musicians and took the jam as a means to an end...not the end.
Juan Davis
Yeah, Live/Dead is one of my favourite live albums. Their jams are on point, are more jazzy and flow much more smoothly than Phish - but I still prefer Phish
Robert Lewis
t. stereotypical P4k Millenial nu male
Luis Morales
Not a surprise that Jerry Garcia went so early given the awful diet, drugs, chain-smoking, and being on the road 300 days of the year.
It's also slightly funny that their one Top 40 hit came in the late 80s, long after their creative/cultural heyday.
Austin Gomez
Have you listened to their other live recordings of '69 shows?
Nathaniel Davis
Yes
I had to take a mandatory university writing course at my college. We had to read contemporary essays and then apply the techniques of those authors on our own writing, but we could write about anything. So I wrote 4 essays about the Grateful Dead's musical project.
Great band. If you like them, check out Twiddle for a more modern jam band that's coming up in the scene
James Parker
Yeah a few of them, but jam bands always take up way too much space on my iPod so the only dead I regularly listen to is Live/Dead, Europe 72 and some random 70s show I downloaded from archive.org
Bentley Lee
Angel Russell
American Beauty is great. Don't really care for their other stuff.
Ian Fisher
American Beauty is pretty much their only good studio LP
Henry Foster
In the Dark [Arista, 1987]
They once were a great live band, probably still are on the right night, and despite the hooks and do-or-die production, this still isn't Journey or Starship. But of all these songs, only "Throwing Stones", reflecting one middle aged man's fear of love, do they disprove the young naysayers and old fools who've dismissed them as symbols of hippie complacency since the late '60s. One problem with the cosmic is that it doesn't last forever. C+
Camden Martin
reviewing the Dead's records is pointless. they didn't really give a shit about their albums after the first few years.
Owen Cook
China/Rider a best
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my father is in that crowd somewhere
Jason Rivera
he died because he was a heroin addict
Xavier Williams
The Grateful Dead, considered by many as "the" greatest rock band of all times, were a monument of San Francisco's hippy civilization, and, in general, a monument of the psychedelic civilization of the 1960s. Their greatest invention was the lengthy, free-form, group jam, the rock equivalent of jazz improvisation. Unlike jazz, in which the jam channelled the angst of the Afro-american people, Grateful Dead's jam was the soundtrack for LSD "trips". But soon it came to represent an entire ideology of evasion from the Establishment, of artistic freedom, of alternative lifestyle. Contrary to their image of junkies and misfits, the Grateful Dead were one of the most erudite groups of all times, aware of the atonal compositions of the European avantgarde as well of the modal improvisation of free-jazz as well as the rhythms of other cultures. They managed to transform guitar feedback and odd meters into the rock equivalent of chamber instruments. The infinite ascending and descending scales of Jerry Garcia are among the most titanic enterprises ever attempted by rock music.
Jeremiah Brooks
they're incredibly boring tbqh
Benjamin Diaz
Jerry was like 45-46 here but he looks like he's pushing 70.
Charles Nguyen
don't do lots of drugs or eat lots of junk food
Justin Smith
>Frank Zappa
>laughs at drug users and expressly forbids his bandmates from using them
>chain smokes and eats a garbage diet consisting of cheeseburgers, canned chili, and hot dogs
>dies at 53 of cancer
Matthew Adams
Really makes one ponder
Tyler Barnes
The version of Turn On Your Love Light from Live Dead is pretty great.
Wyatt Wood
Ever read that interview from the early 80s where Jerry completely demolishes Jim Morrison?
Brody Price
yeah it is, check out this one
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