50 Greatest Musical Artists

[ghostsinthemachine]

58. They are, and remain, the TITANS of American music.

every single band that is out there right now, will tell you that the Dead is the single influence on them. "Trey Anastasio (Phish)"I saw the Dead and click, the light went off".....Dave Matthews and Phish (Both of whom are far more important that most on the list), String Cheese, Widespread panic, Yonder, leftover Salmon, Lukas Nelson, Arcade Fire, My Moring Jacket, String Cheese Incident all of em....... almost every single touring band, the Dead was THE REASON they got into music.

No one, in American music, ever had that kind of effect on all of it. it is too bad they had the drug band stigma.

I have a very straight friend who is a huge singer songwriter fan and goes on the cruise for that this year, and he, after avoiding them for decades due to the stigma, has been getting into them via those incredible songs. He was on the cruise this year for singer songwriters and he was talking to Buddy Miller and he told em that he saw them fifty times. Now all of a sudden he gets the legitimacy and how far reaching their influence reaches.