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[Grassy Knoll]

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[HassleCat]

1. Kinda funny.

The Grateful Dead would be the last to resent the Beatles their success. By the way, the Grateful Dead were the most successful touring band in rock & roll. More people saw them in concert than any other group.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. My Point Exactly

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. I had a friend who made a living following them around and selling LSD at their concerts.

[stonecutter357]

26. tell your friend thanks for the LSD...

[brooklynite]

3. And just like the Grateful Dead, Sanders' supporters would go to multiple rallies...

...to hear the same speech.

[Fumesucker]

5. The Dead was a jam band, you never really heard the same tune twice

Here they are doing a Beatles tune.

[Grassy Knoll]

8. Awesome

[Lochloosa]

9. I've been to over 30 shows. Never heard the same thing twice in the same way.

Some people never give it a rest.

[Grassy Knoll]

10. "give it a rest" In A Post About The Grateful Dead??

Absolutely Priceless.

[Lochloosa]

12. Got me there

[Warren DeMontague]

17. you know abso-fucking-lutely zip diddly shit of what you speak, here, jack.

That's the kindest way I can characterize your musical assessment, here.

[randr]

33. Oh ye of little knowledge

One of the many attractions to a Dead show was the diversity of music. They rarely played the same song the same way. Each show had its own personality and hardly a bad one in the bunch.
If there ever was a band that represented the best of America it was the Dead.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. The Dead's first record came out in 1967. The Beatles last sold a ticket to a live show in 1966.

Very inapt comparison.

[Grassy Knoll]

7. You're Proving My Point..

..Also "Inapt" is not a word.

[bananas]

14. is too!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inapt

Simple Definition of inapt
: not appropriate or suitable : not apt
Source: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary

Full Definition of inapt
: not apt:
a : not suitable - an inapt analogy
b : inept

Examples of inapt in a sentence
an inapt but well-meaning attempt to inject some humor into the proceedings
a recruit who was utterly inapt for most soldierly duties, so he spent most of his time playing in the army band

First Known Use of inapt
circa 1670

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inapt

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/inapt

[Lochloosa]

6. Both changed music in there own way.

Both for the good.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Agreed.

The Dead did a few good Beatles covers.

They did Dylan more justice, though, IMHO.

[thucythucy]

34. The Garcia version of "Tangled Up in Blue"

is awesome.

[lunamagica]

11. Bernieheads

[Juicy_Bellows]

13. FYI Psych not Sike.

[tralala]

15. Bernie Sanders = Simon & Garfunkel

[Warren DeMontague]

16. Put me down for silly comparison. ("Stupid" seems rude)

They were totally different entities. Kesey took the bus, and members of what would become the Dead's family, to see the Beatles at the Cow Palace in '65 or so. Jerry Garcia said he learned a lot there, about the interaction of crowd and band.

Specifically, how not to do it. Unless you wanted to be confronted with 20,000 egos all charging the stage and screaming, in kesey's words, "me!" "me!" "me!"

The Dead weren't pursuing "success" in conventional terms, because anyone who has been to the top of the zen mountaintop knows just how transitory and empty those things (indeed, all things) truly are.

And yet they still managed to be extremely successful. And by all accounts, in one form or another those gents have had a great fucking time for up to 50+ years in some of their cases, with a lot of other people having a great fucking time with them.

Also bringing untold amounts of joy to many, many people.


If that's not success, I don't know what is.

[Sunlei]

19. Plenty of room for BOTH in my world.

00:00 - Day Tripper - Grateful Dead (06-25-85) 3:26
03:26 - Come Together - Dead (07-07-03) 6:47
10:13 - Eleanor Rigby (Jam) - Jerry Garcia Band (02-12-80) 3:44
13:57 - Tomorrow Never Knows - Grateful Dead (11/29/94) 4:04
18:01 - Blackbird - Ratdog (11-09-99) 2:34
20:35 - Get Back - Phil Lesh Quintet (10-16-00) 6:14
26:49 - Why Don't We Do It In The Road - GD (04-07-85) 3:13
30:02 - Hey Jude - Grateful Dead (03-22-90) 8:55
38:57 - Strawberry Fields Forever - Phil Lesh Q (02-08-02) 8:22
47:19 - Rain - Grateful Dead (10-09-94) 4:40
51:59 - Revolution - Grateful Dead (07-02-85) 4:41
56:40 - She Said She Said - Dead (07-07-03) 7:00
1:03:40 - Dear Prudence - Reconstruction (07-08-79) 11:43
1:15:23 - It's All Too Much - Grateful Dead (03-26-95) 6:00
1:21:23 - I Want To Tell You - Jerry Garcia Band (03-08-87) 7:07
1:28:30 - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds GD (03-17-95) 7:47
1:36:17 - I Am The Walrus -Phil Lesh Quintet (09-01-02) 7:03
1:43:20 - While My Guitar Gently W.. - Phil Lesh Q (11-30-01) 7:34

[madokie]

22. Thank you

I always liked the Dead from day one but didn't come on board with the beetles until the Abby Road album.

I have to admit that I did warm up to the Beatles and went on to buy all their albums once I heard Abby Road.

[Sunlei]

23. you're welcome. youtube is still playing here at work, it's a long good compilation of GD-Beatles

[madokie]

24. I'm listening to your link on Utube now

and its awesome too.

Have a great day

[B Calm]

20. Come on moderators, this OP belongs in the lounge!

[Warren DeMontague]

21. A more apt comparison would be The Carpenters to the Butthole Surfers.

A lot of people love and hate both, for very different reasons.

[Fumesucker]

30. I think they did a mashup of that on Glee...

[BobbyDrake]

27. But the huge Grateful Dead crowd was the same one you'd see at every show so the size was misleading

[LWolf]

28. Poor analogy.

A better analogy would be either the Grateful Dead OR the Beatles vs Ted Nugent.

[argyl]

29. You're absolutely right. It is a stupid comparison.

[saynotoplutocrats]

31. Excellent Post!

Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand

[Hissyspit]

32. Yeah, maybe not stupid, but pretty worthless.

[TransitJohn]

35. Popular music from 50 years ago

just as relevant as Trump v. Clinton to solving the problems of the country today.

[Miles Archer]

36. Maybe perhaps.

Maybe next time. Genius is a process, not an event. Keep reaching for the stars.