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The Grateful Dead: America's greatest ever band?
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Dog 3000
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Re: The Grateful Dead: America's greatest ever band?
Jun 09, 2007, 16:27
I am not anti-Dead and will give them more credit than most I suspect. But they're not really a "rock" band -- though I suppose you didn't put "rock" in the header!

So I could think of lots of better "rock bands"! Start with The Stooges. Half credit to the Jimi Hendrix Experience (which was 2/3 British but all the ideas came from the American 1/3.)

In the non-rock category I think there's lots of American bands that were better than the Dead (at least three of Miles Davis' groups for instance.)

I do think that the historically the "huge popular groups" tend to be British though, whereas the really important American groups tend to flame out quickly or have "more influence than popularity" (exhibit A: The Velvet Underground. Compare to Beatles, Zep, Stones, Floyd etc. . . . )

On an unrelated topic, it has recently occurred to me that Steve Miller is the American Eric Clapton. Discuss!
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