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Are the Grateful Dead the greatest American Rock Band of All Time? 2017-02-24 02:23:42 Post No. 71217922
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Are the Grateful Dead the greatest American Rock Band of All Time?
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>Played over 2,300 shows over their 30 year career
>Traversed nearly every single popular musical style ranging from Bluegrass and Jazz to Psychedelia, Pop, and Disco
>Extensive material available for free due to the circulation of their performances
>Songwriting (Garcia/Hunter) that rivals -- if not better than -- Lennon/McCartney
>Highly skilled musicians, extended jams, and shows that would go on for more than 3 hours testing their musicianship on a daily basis
>Made massive technological innovations in music (the "Wall of Sound")
No band has ever achieved a fraction of what the Dead did across their 30-year history as a band.
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>>71217922
All that and they still made supbar wankfests
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>Made massive technological innovations in music (the "Wall of Sound")
That was Phil Spector who did that
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>>71217922
>Songwriting (Garcia/Hunter) that rivals -- if not better than -- Lennon/McCartney
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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In The Dark [Arista, 1987]
They were a great live band once, probably still are on the right night, and despite the hooks and do-or-die production, this still isn't Journey or Starship. But only on "Throwing Stones", about 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 ever since the '60s. B
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>>71218127
FUCK OFF WITH THE ROBERT CHRISTGAU MEME, HE WON'T REPLACE SCARUFFI
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>>71217969
>wankfests
lmfao, congrats on being the dumbest person on /mu/. I can understand the "wankfest" complaint when it comes to virtuoso guitarists like Satriani, Malmsteen, and Gilbert; but Garcia was no "virtuoso", and it shows. He made a lot of mistakes; but his melodic lines are unrivaled.
https://youtu.be/PKtrz_fvmoc?t=1m24s
https://youtu.be/7RY7NZ6YjzY?t=2m26s
https://youtu.be/buMQ2ADuh6Q?t=7m55s
https://youtu.be/nnMs3v6oGY0?t=2m15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuAes0sTYaQ
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>>71218149
*yawns*
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>>71218177
>replies less than a minute later
lmfao
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When did they do disco?
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>>71218384
When they re-arranged Dancing In The Streets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVRPW3RAQXY
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One of greatest live bands of all time. Shame their studio stuff is mostly shit which is all normies care about.
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>>71218569
>hasn't listened to American Beauty or Workingman's Dead
shame
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>>71219826
I WALKED BOB DYLAN OUT ON STAGE
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