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Re: The Grateful Dead: America's greatest ever band?

Jun 09, 2007, 11:04

When they go off into inner space they are out on their own as rock improvisers. You can hear in their jams where Duane Allman would have gone had he lived long enough to work in more of the Coltrane influences and ditch the more formal blues.

When they play straight songs, or worse still Chuck Berry type material, they sound third rate at best - no rock dynamics, gutless singing etc.

They could have been America's Can and gone straight to the top of the pile. As it is their legacy is kinda sullied by the sheer volume of bad party music they put out.

I highly recommend Disc 2 of the Dead Movie Soundtrack and almost any Estimated Prophet > Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain suite from a 1977 show.

As for America's Greatest Band? I think Television get that for Marquee Moon. Doesn't matter what they did after. Iconic from top to toe.

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