re: Is there a more disappointing first listen than the Grateful Dead?

GD music is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you might get!

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Thing about the Dead, you can go your whole life hating them, but then out of the blue, a moment in one of their songs will click and the whole thing will make sense... it's the musical equivalent of seeing indecipherable scribblings on a pyramid wall, then one day you walk in the room and suddenly can read it all with fluency

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This. I started listening to the Dead at the start of "2 weeks to flatten the curve in 2020" at the age 60. It incredible live music.

How could anyone listen to this and not want to hear more of Jerry's "noodling" or Robert Hunter lyrics?

Jack Straw Live 08/271972

and THEN realize that 50 years later on 09/27/21 that the song is still being played just differently for the 1000th time

Dead and Co Jack Straw...Earlier this year

07/24/87

09/19/90