Quoted: Ehhhh I respect them and all. But their songs are way too bland for me.
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The Dead are NOT an album band.
The thing with the Dead is in the almost 300 live shows I've seen I've walked out of more than a few and thought to myself "who did I just see, that wasn't the same band I saw last night, they just sucked out loud" and on the very next night you walk out with tears in your eye because of how magical the music was.
More often than not it was magic, but some people have only seen them live on one of their off nights.
When a totally off the cuff set list of completely inprovisational songs is played by a band that is having an off night it tends to be bad, but when the band is together and grooving, playing off each other, supporting each other, giving each other a sounding board..............
You just had to be there.