AudioSceptic
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Just spotted this thread. I go out for a walk every day and usually listen to a podcast, and when I run out I choose some music. This week I happened to play Live/Dead. Wow! It took me back to when I first heard it over 50 years ago. It still blows me away. Nobody else has ever done what they did. Someone said at the time it was rock played as if it was jazz, and that still seems right. The sequence of St. Stephen > The Eleven > Turn On My Lovelight is still one of the best things I've ever heard.They are not hard rock nor heavy metal. They are an amalgamation of American music. Rock is essentially correct, but...
played with a jazz sensibility. They could take a theme, blast off into improvisation land and return to the theme. Think John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" as their model.