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Posted on 6/24/12 at 8:43 pm to Marciano1
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quote: just don't find them terribly interesting. This is how I feel as well. I watch their shows/listen to their music and my first reaction is "meh, I'll listen to something else"
My sentiments exactly. I can appreciate what they mean to a lot of people but do not care for them except whatever is on "Skeletons in the Closet" album.
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:01 pm to VOR
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But that's a stretch.
Who else gathered the fanatic following that the dead did?
They are the measuring stick for every single Jam Band that has came along since.
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:02 pm to VOR
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quote: But NO band has left a bigger legacy than the dead. Huh? I'll give them their due, for sure. But that's a stretch.
Um, no its not. Between their influence in the sf hippie lsd scene and then what is now the jamband scene, the dead have left their footprint everywhere in society.
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:07 pm to CottonWasKing
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Who else gathered the fanatic following that the dead did?
Springsteen has a fanatic following...
I'll give The Dead their due, but a lot of that following has a lot to do with stuff other than music... it's a drug culture...
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:12 pm to TFTC
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Springsteen has a fanatic following...
A following full of people who have been to hundreds upon hundreds of his shows? People who virtually lived on the road, who made their money on the road with him?
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I'll give The Dead their due, but a lot of that following has a lot to do with stuff other than music... it's a drug culture...
You can find drugs anywhere there was only one place every night that the dead were playing.
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:22 pm to CottonWasKing
Most people have jobs and don't want to make a living selling drugs, trinkets or other crafts on the road ...or panhandling. I don't think someone's fans have to follow them around the country to prove anything, there is a law of diminishing returns
Whatever you say, but I know many that followed the dead and it was more so for the whole experience than the music in and of itself, to say otherwise is disingenuous or naive...
They are one of the few that have that kind of "following" and the other bands have something very similar in common
Whatever you say, but I know many that followed the dead and it was more so for the whole experience than the music in and of itself, to say otherwise is disingenuous or naive...
They are one of the few that have that kind of "following" and the other bands have something very similar in common
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:23 pm to TFTC
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Posted by TFTC quote: Who else gathered the fanatic following that the dead did? Springsteen has a fanatic following... I'll give The Dead their due, but a lot of that following has a lot to do with stuff other than music... it's a drug culture...
Springsteen has no where near the following the dead had.
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:26 pm to TFTC
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Most people have jobs and don't want to make a living selling drugs, trinkets or other crafts on the road ...or panhandling. I don't think someone's fans have to follow them around the country to prove anything, there is a law of diminishing returns
I'm not saying it is a noble pursuit I'm just stating the facts.
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Whatever you say, but I know many that followed the dead and it was more so for the whole experience than the music in and of itself, to say otherwise is disingenuous or naive...
Sure it was the whole experience the brotherhood and camraderie was a big part of Dead shows.. However I will admit that I can't speak too much on the subject as I was too young when Jerry died to ever have the privelege to see them.
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They are one of the few that have that kind of "following" and the other bands have something very similar in common
What is your knock on the drugs that everyone of your favorite artists use and/or used as well?
This post was edited on 6/24/12 at 9:27 pm
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:28 pm to rutiger
so, the same people following the dead around constitute some huge fan base?
I think you underestimate Springsteens fan base... and I wasnt even suggesting its the biggest, but as fanatic...
I know he has sold around 160 million records world wide, I'd be curious to know what the Dead sold (maybe more?)
I think you underestimate Springsteens fan base... and I wasnt even suggesting its the biggest, but as fanatic...
I know he has sold around 160 million records world wide, I'd be curious to know what the Dead sold (maybe more?)
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:29 pm to TFTC
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I'd be curious to know what the Dead sold (maybe more?)
Probably not seeing as how their culture revolves around the taping and trading of shows.
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:31 pm to CottonWasKing
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What is your knock on the drugs that everyone of your favorite artists use and/or used as well?
I actually let and let live... Ive done my share in the day... but It was never part of any musical movement I followed... I was just pointing out how it has a lot to do with their following, or maybe it was just all the fans ive ever met...
I dont argue that they are a phenomenon of sorts and I respect their longevity and dedication to the music...
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:33 pm to CottonWasKing
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Probably not seeing as how their culture revolves around the taping and trading of shows.
Thats what I would think, but its another barometer to judge world wide following... i think the gap is a lot smaller, in either way, than ru suggests...
This post was edited on 6/24/12 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:35 pm to TFTC
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... I was just pointing out how it has a lot to do with their following,
Of course the drugs followed them they originated from Haight-Ashbury. They were smack arse in the middle of the LSD hippie scene.
But as I said before the drugs could be found anywhere at anytime but the Dead were only one place any given night.
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:37 pm to TFTC
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Thats what I would think, but its another barometer to judge world wide following... i think the gap is a lot smaller, in either way, than ru suggests...
All I've got to say on that subject is that Bruce Springsteen wasn't the face of an entire counter culture, not to mention THE most important counter culture in the history of this country.
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:38 pm to CottonWasKing
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But as I said before the drugs could be found anywhere at anytime but the Dead were only one place any given night.
Perhaps, I focused too much on the drugs in my rambling... Id say the "event" as a whole... I fail to believe its all about the music...
Anyway, too bad you never got a chance to see them... out of curiosity, how old are you?
This post was edited on 6/24/12 at 9:40 pm
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:40 pm to TFTC
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Id say the "event" as a whole
and I would agree
However it is the music who brought all these people together that created that wonderful circus they called a Dead show.
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:41 pm to TFTC
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out of curiosity, how old are you?
22
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:51 pm to CottonWasKing
Damn, reading your posts I would have guessed around 30 or older...
This post was edited on 6/24/12 at 9:52 pm
Posted on 6/24/12 at 9:52 pm to TFTC
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I like American Beauty/Working Man's Dead era... other than that and the odd song here and there, never really cared for them.
I find them pretty meh....Never got into them. I think their fans overrate em, their haters underestimate them. Their fans will rate them extremely high though
Like some of their stuff, just not my type of music. Gotta give them high marks for their fanatical base though.
This post was edited on 6/24/12 at 10:01 pm
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