Improvisation is what made the Dead so great.. Their live shows is what made them great...
The fact that Jerry shot a lot of dope is what made them so great...
I adhere to my reasons....
Drugs are what made this band great.... The fact that they were all heavy users as well as a great majority of their audiences...
Sure, they were talented... But you can't come up with improvisation the way they did without being at least a little wasted
off something.. Being a musician, I can tell you that I'm much more creative while under the influence than I am when sober...
Of course, my playing is more accurate when I'm sober.. But I can come up with some pretty cool stuff after a few glasses of wine..
These guys were doing more than just a few glasses of wine....
I'm not really a Dead fan/follower.. I know their history, I know their music..
But I absolutely hate jam-rock.. It would've been great if all there was
was the Dead.. But then bands like Phish came into play and whole new
weak-arsed genre of music for trustafarians (hippies with trust funds)
was born...Giving it's tribute to the Dead... Hippies are bad enough..
Hippies with trust funds means we'll have a few hundred thousand
Al Gores running around , if they're not already..
Down with Jam-Rock...........