Many people are saying the Jerry Garcia Band is better than the Grateful Dead. More and more people are saying this, and JGB has been getting attention and has been doing very well.
My question is: How can the Grateful Dead be the Greatest American Rock band if they aren’t even the best American Rock Band with Jerry Garcia?
Nobody makes a similar argument about TAB v. phish.
Therefore, once again, I am correct: Phish is the Greatest American Rock band.
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@mrcompletely I think it will. Absolutely. The Grateful Dead were an entity, an enterprise, an institution. Phish’s magic is uniquely contained within four specific people.
It’s not about the songs for me, at all. If it is about the songs, you may as well throw revenue into the mix, and then we have to talk about Aerosmith or some other bullshit. It’s about the capability of the band behind them. Phish can do anything. The Grateful Dead are like, 9 different bands.
@maxellxlii90 I think that's what makes them greater and more interesting. Don't get me wrong I do think Phish will rise in the critical estimation, maybe starting soon, maybe after they're done, but I do think the reassessment and acceptance of them as one of the great bands is coming.
I don't understand or agree with your logic about songs at all. In the end there's just the song 😁
@maxellxlii90 to get away from hot takes for a minute I do think there's a more interesting view in which Phish is the synthesis or completion of a lot of the things the Dead started - that is, that they form a continuity between them, a sort of baton handoff, or a torch, if you will
Picking one over the other will always come down to whichever one each person imprinted on most deeply due to personal experience.
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