Question about Grateful Dead.

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i love Donna's voice with the Dead! i read or heard somewhere that the monitor feedback was sometime set up to where she could not hear her voice on stage. in my early Dead days i used to wonder how come Jerry got to sing the lead on most of the songs (lol!) whereas he did not seem to have the best voice. And they all had their bad sound days and sometimes it sounded as if they couldnt carry a tune at all and didnt give a damn. But listening to Bobby sing (songs be didnt write) I believe he is the off-key culprit. i love Bob's voice, though, and also Phil's. sure i learned to love Jerry's voice too, but not really til he started to grow on me, and also i started to hear the Jerry Garcia Band.

i am mystified anyone doesnt adore the Grateful Dead. they make me sing, although its not something i would torture anyone with hearing, some of their songs give me goosebumps, and often make me cry. perhaps having seen them live and having heard and tried to play their music and having it associated with younger periods of my life, sometimes I go through periods where i don't want to hear the Dead, in their many versions and combinations, bc i dont want to feel things deeply and i dont want to cry, and some songs it is near impossible to not sing along to and i just dont want to go there. other times, it’s all I listen to. there's so much variety to what they do. did. do. (Donna's music after the dead is pretty cool, too! although her voice is different.)

like i heard perfectly described (somewhere?) -- there is the Grateful Dead and then there's everybody else.

if you dont love them yet, just listen some more (LOL!) I do not love *all* their songs, but then the great instrumentals can also be hidden in the songs i dont like... depends on the day, the hour of the version of the song...