Many people are saying the Jerry Garcia Band is better than the Grateful Dead. More and more people are saying this, and JGB has been getting attention and has been doing very well.
My question is: How can the Grateful Dead be the Greatest American Rock band if they aren’t even the best American Rock Band with Jerry Garcia?
Nobody makes a similar argument about TAB v. phish.
Therefore, once again, I am correct: Phish is the Greatest American Rock band.
@mrcompletely I think it will. Absolutely. The Grateful Dead were an entity, an enterprise, an institution. Phish’s magic is uniquely contained within four specific people.
It’s not about the songs for me, at all. If it is about the songs, you may as well throw revenue into the mix, and then we have to talk about Aerosmith or some other bullshit. It’s about the capability of the band behind them. Phish can do anything. The Grateful Dead are like, 9 different bands.
@mrcompletely I think in the long run, Jerry and Hunter will be keepers of the Great American Songbook, alongside Dylan. But in terms of a “band” as a specific unit, and what a “band” sets out to do when they form, and what Phish has accomplished… if you are a new American rock band, how could you want anything less than what Phish accomplished?
Unfortunately, the consistent loss of band members hurts the GD here. All four members Phish still being alive after 40 years gives them an advantage.
Loved S1 last night but S2 was pretty up and down. And overall last night just doesn’t have the firepower of N1
Visuals
N2
<big gap>
N1
Ranking the visuals from the couch is akin to ranking restaurant dishes from Instagram photos. Still, seemed like they used the Sphere better last night than N1. Given that these are planned shows, N1 wasn’t a learning experience. So assume N3 will be better than N2 and N4 > N3.
@mrcompletely@chopaganda personally hard for me to not want the show that had YEM, WTU?, and Harry Hood, but ultimately I want the jams and N1 had 5 solid ones.
@Nolasox@mrcompletely@chopaganda Agree. that jam in My Friend My Friend was great. If they had really connected in weekapaug and skipped blaze on it would’ve been a home run set. (and if Trey didn’t miss that big run in Fluff)
There is something to the fact that a musical highlight (Tweezer) can be a visual lowlight.
@mrcompletely@chris@Nolasox@chopaganda I honestly think they wanted to see if the Phans could handle it, or if it would be a massive psychedelic freak out. Training wheels… it was still incredible in person. Just a fraction of what they were capable of.
@mrcompletely@Nolasox@aburtch I think there is probably some amount of jealousy, but I’m not sure you have to tear down Yasmin’s talent. I think she rightly gets credit as an innovator on the acoustic guitar.
@mrcompletely@chopaganda@aburtch@Nolasox The line “park your Lexus” specifically is just one example of glorifying wealth and status that creates a disconnect from what I turn to music for.
@mrcompletely@Nolasox@aburtch Is she responding to backlash from this? Is there published backlash to Yasmin’s piece? Have really only seen it discussed here. Didn’t know she wasn’t handling response well.
@mrcompletely@aburtch@Nolasox I meant Yasmin’s response. You had indicated that she “can’t take a few spicy shots”, but I’m not aware of any indication she can’t take the heat for her criticism of Bey.