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Grateful dead space album12/16/2023 ![]() But rock (and roots music) played as if it was jazz. And it clicks: Jerry starts soloing, Phil starts zooming, Bob starts chicka-chicking, whichever soon-to-be-dead keyboard player they had was tinkling and the double drummers were thumping.Īnd off you went, on some musical adventure! Sometimes it really sucked, but it was usually listenable. They’re almost always good.īut then you listen to a live album. Their songs are pleasant, melodic, harmonious, well-played and varied. ![]() The Grateful Dead have a way of working their way into your mind and your musical sphere. After all, who doesn’t need 17,000 variations of “Sugaree”? Then all the studio albums… right now, as I type, I’m plotting how to afford the next massive multi-concert box set they’re sure to release soon. It started out small: just a single live album, “Live/Dead.” Then some MP3’s. ![]() It’s been so long since I reviewed anything that my fans are likely unaware that I went and did something incredibly stupid and ill-advised: I became a Grateful Dead fan. What a way to reintroduce myself to the reviewing world! Indeed, what a long strange trip… And not only a Grateful Dead album: but one that has no recognizable songs and is, instead, edited together as one long continuous suite of keyboard noise, bass thumps, drum paradiddles and guitar scrapes. Especially as this is, indeed, my first review after a two-year break.Īnd, of course, I decide to review the Grateful Dead for some reason. It’s a petty and banal way to start a review and I won’t stand for own laziness. You know what? I’m not going to throw down that hoary old quote like it’s some beatific mantra that distills the essence of life into seven simple words.
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