Not only is this a good way to not die, it also just makes your own driving experience less stressful and more enjoyable. Getting angry about some rando you’ll never know personally is a self-own.

That’s a great point, they basically invented the modern method of making money playing music decades before internet file sharing forced it on everyone else. Let people hear recorded stuff for little to no cost, and make money on the concerts themselves.

True, and then there’s that cover photo. Goddamn that was bad. Feathered hair lookin-ass dudes in, like, white bathrobes.

Yeah this is the main issue, you’re right. Outside of American Beauty there isn’t a whole lot of easy listening in their catalog. And yeah I’m not saying everyone needs to be a Deadhead, but there is something there for pretty much everyone if they take the time to learn about the band. I think a lot of the people who…

Much of the truly great Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond for example - is not played on the radio. Anyway, why are we using that as a marker of quality, didn’t you just get done complaining about all the Butt Rock they constantly play on classic rock radio?

I know some people hated his voice for some reason. I thought his vocal harmonies and his keyboard playing were awesome though. IMO ‘89-’90 was their last truly great stretch and Brent was a big reason they sounded so good.

As opposed to all those other bands where all of the fans show up stone-cold sober?

You don’t really like the Dead precisely because the only songs you know are Truckin’ and Touch of Grey. They were not a radio format-friendly outfit.

Yeah along with everyone else at first I was like......seriously, John Mayer? Then I listened to some of the D&C stuff and I was like......seriously, John Mayer!! That iteration keeps getting better too, I was bummed I couldn’t make any of their shows this summer.

You absolutely do not need drugs to enjoy the Dead. So by your criteria they did not suck ass.

Most of that lackluster live stuff was in the ‘90s after Brent Mydland died, and Jerry was making his final, fatal descent into heroin addiction. They played thousands of shows over 25 years so yeah there is a wide range of quality. But the good live stuff is absolutely sublime. May 8 1977 at Cornell was put in the…

Damn man, I understand trashing on Zappa even though I think he was great - but the Grateful Dead? I don’t get that. If you “hate” the Dead I’m pretty sure you just haven’t listened to them.

“it seems like The Cheesecake Factory, Chili’s, and other chains are trying to outdo each other to make them worse”

I will grant you that every time Sale takes the mound I become convinced they are cellar-dwellers.

Winter Toronto is pretty freaking dope too.

They’re one game out of the second wild card spot and about to start a series with Tampa so....yeah.

I’ve only seen this stuff in cases in the stores around me. I might take a flyer on a 4-pack if I could find one, but I don’t want to buy a whole case of something I probably won’t like anyway.

Can confirm, pho is breakfast (and lunch, and dinner) in Vietnam.

Still nothing compared to the number of false advertising complaints they get regarding St. Louis-style “pizza.”

I wonder if there would be some way for the suits to engineer a desired outcome from their survey.