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Always hated Tribute bands it's just an excuse to play your fav bands music who you dreamed of becoming. So transparent using technicalities to make what you are doing appear more legit and more yours. First thing you discover when starting your own band is it's fun and easy to play your fav bands songs cause it's laid out for you. It's hard boring sometimes and straight up tiring to try and write your own music. Easier to just play and practice the songs you can hear and emulate. So Corny and lame to expect money for it though and try to sugar coat it as a "tribute" like you actually chose to be skilled in playing someone else's songs. Naw the reality is it's all your shitty band could muster and you wanna play live shows without grinding through making your own tunes. Imagine a "titanic" tribute movie where I pretend to be leo and act 80 percent as good with 50 percent the production value of the real thing.
I mean, I get where you're coming from, but JRAD is light years better than the Grateful Dead ever was, so it seems like you're wrong.
First of all, thanks for the Ween shout out. So many "Dead to the core" kids want to love JRAD and shit on Ween without understanding the connection.
I loved the Dead right up until I heard JGB, and then I forgot all about them. Well, not forgot, but you understand.
The Dead were trash well before 95. That band died with Brent, and he was all that revived them in the first place. Then they died again when Brent passed, because that's what truly killed Jerry, and everyone knows it. My point is that JRAD is the only act out who's made Dead tunes worth listening to since Jerry passed. I've seen hundreds of Dead cover bands across the country, and JRAD is the only group who's gotten me truly excited to hear Dead tunes. They're a tribute band who plays originals better than the band that wrote them.
I get where you're coming from, but what about All Along the Watchtower? I'm not even a big Hendrix fan, but he took that song far beyond what Dylan could have ever dreamed.
EDIT: And for the record, most of the Dead stopped intentionally playing spun before they ever got big. I'd wager that members of JRAD have intentionally played higher than the Dead knowing the audience they were drawing, but that's pure speculation. Fuck, Oteil has intentionally played higher with Dead Horse and Slow, so surely Marco, Dave, and Russo have (or so I'd guess)
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