Re: U2 are crap

["Donald McElheny" <brett44@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>As for the Grateful Dead....i dont knock people who like them but 
>when they
>break away from the "structure" which must be quite often.....it 
>sounds
like
>incoherent gibberish....have to be zonked on 3 hits of blotter acid 
>to
>appreciate it...but i tried listening to them tripping and they were 
>as
>unsatisfying then as when i heard them straight, maybe even more so! 
>lol

Everybody has their own opinions, and I can understand this one.  I 
never
liked the Dead until a few years ago when I started collecting their 
shows.
In my opinion the Grateful Dead were one of the best, if not they 
best live
band ever.  We're talking about a band that never played the same 
setlist
twice-that's why people followed them on tour, a band that really 
jammed,
and that could entertain a crowd like no other.  They could rock 
hard, throw
in "El Paso" or "Mama Tried" and then free-form jazz style.  It's 
difficult
to describe their style, luckily we have all these pristine soundboard
copies to try.

Please realize that I am a HUGE Zeppelin fan and have been for years, 
but
it's like comparing apples to oranges...Zeppelin blew the Dead away 
in the
studio, but in my opinion the Dead were the better live band.  
Besides it's
impossible to compare Zep to the Dead to U2 to GnR, etc.

Brett

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