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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Nice try, but I've actually listened to a ton of the Dead.  Not only have I had a large number of friends and roommates over the years who were fans, but just last year I got into a similar conversation to this one with a deadhead on another forum who wound up giving me five or six hours of their best live performances to listen to. I took my time and gave all of it an honest, open-minded listen and found 99% of it to sound like long, boring country-ish music. The only song I have ever heard by them that sounds even remotely spacey or psychedelic is "Darkstar", and even that is kind of meh. |
To each his own, but I think Live Dead is fantastic and certainly psychedelic. Though to be honest I actually prefer their country stuff, American Beauty is a flawless album, great record. Just country songs, and none of the jamming that they're known for.
My advice for those wanting to check out The Dead would be to ignore any albums they've done after Pigpen died.