Re: [bomp] Re: the dead

[<blairb@xxxxxxx>]

> on 30/9/04 20:45, bomp-digest at owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com wrote:
>
>> but i just fucking hate the grateful dead. ALL grateful dead
> i was well into my thirties when i first heard the dead. i'd put it off 
> 'cos
> i reckoned i knew what they would sound like, and i'd hate it. and d'you
> know what? they were just what i'd expected -- aimless, blues-based jams,
> with absolutely NO TUNES. and yep, i hated them. stinking, hairy, hippy
> shite. why are they so popular? my hypothesis: most people are boring and
> mediocre, so they like their music that way, too.

I don't hate the Dead.  I just don't particularly like them.  I did enjoy a 
few of the tracks from that '65 Dead thing that Stevo posted the link to, 
but a couple others were pretty boring.

I kept an open mind about them in college and checked them out a month after 
I graduated.  Extremely boring.

I disagree about them not having songs, though.  They have them... It's just 
that in concert they tend to jam on them forever, so it seems like they 
don't. 

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