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The Grateful Dead: America's greatest ever band?
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Edited Jun 11, 2007, 07:06
Re: The Grateful Dead: America's greatest ever band?
Jun 11, 2007, 07:05
Doors vs Dead. Interesting one. Have to think about that. Doors I reckon. Just.

I've tended to avoid the Dead's studio albums completely apart from Blues For Allah and Wake of the Flood and concentrated on the live ones instead of which I have about 40 hours of boots and offical releases. That 40 hours boils down to about 10 hours of killer highlights. Which is I think a fair representation of their strike rate on stage.

As for the legacy thing they have made such a big deal about marketing cd sets of entire shows rather than true highlights that every purchase comes with at least one disc of horrible blues / country rock. It's the singing that is really the problem though (unlike say Little Feat) they can't fonk, grind or boogie for love nor money.

What would be ideal for me would be Garcia playing with the Black Crowes which is a fair indication of where my tastes for American rock are at outside of Detroit, Boston and New York.
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