I Fucking Hate the Grateful Dead and Phish

[skra75]

More than words or feeling can describe. I swear I want to stab myself in the ear to stop the pain when I hear the "drums in space" jam-band kinda blech blech . barf.

[cookiepuss]

sorry to hear that buddy. I enjoy most stuff by the dead. I went to phish concert once...it was fun but I wasn't batshit crazy about them.

[DIGI]

I never understood the appeal of either, but for who they are, the talent they possess(ed), and what they accomplished/achieved, fuck man, you gotta give them some props. I'm definitely a bigger phish fan and I only own 1 burnt bootleg from Japan by them, so that should tell you something. I do dig Oysterhead alot, though.

[HEIRESS]

"Mmmbop" - phish

"Casey Jones" - grateful dead

thats. about. it.

[Otis Driftwood]

Seems ignorance is bliss 'cause I don't know either. Prolly heard the Dead on the radio, but I couldn't name a song by them.

[YoungRemy]

American Beauty is a fine album

[abcdefz]

I gave the Dead a try every now and then and couldn't get it.

All I know about Phish is that I had a roommate who used to annoy the hell out of me by cranking up their music on the stereo way fucking loud, open all the doors to the house, then... go mow the lawn.

Yes, a gasoline-powered mower.

No, you can't hear music when you mow the lawn like that. But your long-suffering roommates can.

So all I remember is volume, and not a note of music. I should give them a fair shake someday.

[QueenAdrock]

I know a lot of people who feel the same way towards those two specific bands. Annnyways, I'm "meh" towards them. There's a few songs I like from theirs, but overall the whole genre can bother me. Especially when you're dragged to a jam band concert, those are the worst because I don't abuse drugs. It's just a two-hour long song, they just transition from song to song using filler, and I hate that. There's no pauses, no "Hey, how's everyone feeling tonight?", no communication with the audience at all. It's WEIRD. It's just "Hey, here we are, we'll play nonstop for 2 hours while you're baked out of your mind, enjoy." and then they leave when they're done. Not my thing.

[cookiepuss]

who said we're abusing drugs? just using em, mmmmmmmkkkkkkkaaaayyyy.

[Tompz]

i've listened extensively to the grateful dead for the past two years and they've become one of my absolute favorite acts, there's a lot to it than spaced out extensive jams for sure

last week i downloaded "billy breathes" by phish and kinda liked it

hmmm..

[cookiepuss]

Skra just hates hippies. that's what this is all about.

he don't want your patchouli stank around him.

[DIGI]

"Hippy Smell", by Ween

Got th' hippy smell
She lives in Atlanta, Georg-ay
Ahh yeah I said
Hippy smell, only I can't tell
Patcholi oil, sixties hell
You're not real, and you're not surreal
Can't you tell, hippy smell

Can't you tell...
She's got the hippy smell, ladies and gentleman
It smelled of patcholi oil on the brain
She's got the Grateful Dead posters hanging up in the house everywhere
She smokes the clove cigarettes
She says, "I wish I lived in the sixties
Because those were really neat times"
Well, I have a thing for ya, you know you wouldn't wanna be alive
In the sixties 'cause there was a lotta shit happenin'
And ya probably woulda, ya know,
Your hippy little ass probably woulda gotten killed or something
Goddamn shitface

[hpdrifter]

I'm with skra on this. I hate jam band music. My roommate in college was a total hippie and loved the Grateful Dead. I think that's why I dislike them so.

[Bob]

i don't think i've ever really heard phish, but i hate the people who like them

grateful dead are ok i guess. i like "me and my uncle"

[cookiepuss]

I don't really like it when people compare the Dead to Phish or vice versa. yeah they are both jam bands but I think they are quite different. And I find the dead more palitable than phish.


Say what you will but NONE of you can deny that both these bands have begotten us some mighty tasty ice cream flavors from Ben & Jerry's.(y)

[jabumbo]

i dig this sort of stuff usually, but i can't do it all the time like most of those crazy fans seem to do it.


i will say though, i really don't like dave matthews at all. he sucks

[monkey]

"Casey Jones" - grateful dead.

that song is just.. perfect.

i am a little bit of a grateful dead fan, not much of a phish fan though. i have enjoyed other jam bands though. i like the mellow. :)

[cosmo105]

the phrase "jam band" sends shivers down my spine and bile up my esophagus

[ET]

Their fans are worse.

[Jadge Fucking 1]

who needs either of those old timers when you've got THE NEW B-BOYS ALBUM!!

[abcdefz]

the phrase "jam band" sends shivers down my spine and bile up my esophagus



Jelly Group?

[BangkokB]

you read it hear 1st: Phish are so bad that they get you motivated to mow your lawn and so pissed off that you'll deliberately wake up your roommate(s)

I can tolerate some Dead songs, Friend of the Devil comes to mind, but not marathon jams. For some people it's like a religion

Allman Brothers are marathon jam band that don't know when to say enough is enough

[abcdefz]

"Whipping Post" should be four days long, though :(


It needs to breathe.

[DIGI]

HEY.....WHOAAHHHHHH!!!!!! Don't be draggin' The Allman Bros into this conversation!!!

[Randetica]

Seems ignorance is bliss 'cause I don't know either. Prolly heard the Dead on the radio, but I couldn't name a song by them.

yeah same here but i hate them anyway

[kll]

I gave the Dead a try every now and then and couldn't get it.

All I know about Phish is that I had a roommate who used to annoy the hell out of me by cranking up their music on the stereo way fucking loud, open all the doors to the house, then... go mow the lawn.

Yes, a gasoline-powered mower.

No, you can't hear music when you mow the lawn like that. But your long-suffering roommates can.

So all I remember is volume, and not a note of music. I should give them a fair shake someday.


when i mow the lawn i hear 'skills to pay the bills' in my mind.



anyways, i was very much into the dead and phish (before phish was popular and they were still playing colleges and dave matthews was opening for them WAY before they were huge) and it was a great time in my life. funny that i was obsessed w/ CYH at the same time. weird, but true.

[Yeti]

Shakedown Street is funky.

[befsquire]

i can't stand either one of them. but, i did go to a grateful dead concert, ONCE, just so i could say i'd experienced it. i'm fairly certain i ended up with a contact high. and there was no fucking way i was buying a grilled cheese sandwich from any of those smelly people.

[yeahwho]

I wouldn't know a Phish song, they've opened a few shows I've been to, I didn't even attempt to sit through a song, I got things to do like walk as far away from the stage as possible.

Oddly enough I find the Grateful Dead to be fine, in a subversive sort of way. All that LSD that followed them from show to show is legendary.

The clarity of the American Beauty and Workingmans' Dead Albums is really outstanding........... for a couple of Folk albums.

[Alli]

Ugh It all sounds the same to me I don't get it but to each their own. However I just can't stand the dirty ass people! I just worked the Widespread Panic shows at Red Rocks and GOOD LORD would it kill these folks to bathe? Once a month? Hell even once a year might help. Also how are you gonna walk around the bathroom with NO SHOES??!! There is shit and piss on those floors! Not gonna hate on the music but I will hate on those dirty fans.

[HEIRESS]

The black crows are the new age dead. I went to their concert awhile ago and almost fell asleep during their 15 minute version of "soul singing"

I dont mind the dead's performances in "festival express" though

at all.

[abcdefz]

I love the Black Crows, however, I dislike any band just jamming for prolonged periods of time.




....it's funny that it can work just fine in jazz, but not so well in rock. I don't think that's a jazz-bias, but maybe it is. Maybe rock ears just can't hear rock that way very well.

But anyway, not too many rock bands can do the jam band thing well, period, and even if they can, it gets tiring pretty fast.