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

Jun 11, 2007, 18:57

ron wrote:

the dead wouldn't even make my top 100, but that's cool if'n u lioke'm...

I don't see it as being about taste so much -

I think the Dead, who I do listen to but are probably not one of my all-time favorites tho they are perfect in certain moods, might represent American-ness, for good or ill, better than any other group.

This is behavioral as well as musical.

Their space-cowboy approach to capitalism, to roots music, to whatever else, has the pioneer spirit and also the inevitable reaping of the consequences thereof and then the continuing in the face of oblivion...

Their acknowledgement of their (united states of) Americaness is implicit in songs like "US Blues" which also makes them a contender... The endless party aesthetic seems to me like an American form tho I could be wrong about that

I dig my country - tho I don't dig the people who run it at all - and while I love the Velvet Underground (for example) they don't in any major way sum up American-ness to me... Not that my own music does it, either, and not that anyone's should!

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