The Grateful Dead Sucks - Your Favorite Band Sucks Podcast

What about the yuppie deadheads that drive silver SUVs and behave in the least countercultural ways

I was raised in CO by two dead heads. Normal people just really liked the Greatful dead and along with living in Colorado my parents were experienced in drug taking aswell. I was raised around dead heads and from my experience every thing you said was wrong. However I can appreciate you guys opinions and I was entertained non the less.

No one likes the dead cause of ther first 2 albums...

Thank you

You know what you hear people say at a Grateful Dead concert when you run out of drugs? “Man, this music sucks!“
Of course, you have to be high as a kite to even begin to remotely like that shit. I tried to get into the Grateful Dead and never understood what all the hype and hoopla was about them.

Talking grasshoppers are just kool as phuck

after 15 seconds of your crap I realized you just negative things you don't understand. That is really pathetic.

I realized it was a troll when he said "the songwriting is bad, the performances are bad, they're bad at playing their instruments"

Kids...Lou Reed vs Jerry Garcia...ha!

Nice 15k videos bro lol you really going somewhere with these shit takes

Love this podcast! You guys are smart and very funny. Your vitriol is refreshing and righteous. I hate the Grateful Dead with the heat of 10,000 supernova suns. But I have to say this: Velvet Underground/Lou Reed fans are just as ridiculous and annoying as Grateful Dead fans. Fucking dumb arse hipster junkies as opposed to fucking dumb arse hippie stoners. Also, would you mind if I got a tattoo of your logo? It's awesome and it expresses a sentiment I often feel. I saw Slayer on their Reign In Blood tour. Fucking amazing, even stone cold sober. Subscribed.

Drugs are bad. True.

The Grateful Dead were born from drugs. True.

But the Dead's music was quite phenomenal, and benefitted countless people.

Life can be very paradoxical, which is difficult for know-it-all people to understand.

They were NOT "objectively terrible musicians." They were good players.
The uniqueness was in how they fit together as a band.

Remember that music can be Art, to which one may say "I do" or I don't" like it, but only a fool attempts to authoritatively declare "this IS terrible".

Grateful Dead aren’t for everyone, but they are amazing musicians with some of the best lyrics. If you don’t like them, you don’t like them. Lol pretty simple

Grateful Dead is Shit Crap Turds Merda

holy fuckin nerd emoji

The Greatful Dead remind me of over cooked noodles...

BOOK !!

Please read the boo' WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE CANYON ' by David McGowan , it is an interesting take on the whole sixties flower power phenomenon and all the bands that jump started it...PEACE MAN !

George Carlin on hippies: "they took all: sex, drugs, and rock and roll. They stayed loaded for 30 years and had a free ride. Now they're staring down the barrel of middle age burn out. And they don't like it. So they turn self-righteous. They try to make things harder on younger people. They tell them abstain from sex. Say no to drugs. As for the rock and roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago. So they could buy pasta machines and stair masters, and soybean futures."

What did one dead head say to the other when they ran out of drugs? This music sucks, let's go home.

You may as well have called them The Walking Dead. The Greatful Ded are that one band people like Olivia Rodrigo (can you do an episode on her yet?) like to rave about to make them sound like they’re “not like other girls”, and they have “different taste”. Meanwhile mocking ppl who are ACTUALLY not like other girls (me). It’s this weird taste over taste thing that runs amok circa 2020 onwards and I am not cool with it.

I've always hated pseudo-intellectuals like you two.
Do you understand jazz? Only the highest intellects do. Any teenager can put down
people, can you uplift people. That is what the Dead can do. You are like all the
elitist intellectuals who never proved their theories.
Show me your musical credentials. I doubt you can. Prove me wrong, prove to
me you are not two punks. spoiled all your life.
Nobody likes know-it-all, know-nothing snobs.

Damn, when you guys join the Taliban?

To each their own, of course. And their music is not everyone's cup of tea, of course. But this is such a tiresome "I hate hippies" take that's been repeated for over 50 years, and you're really criticizing what your very limited idea of "hippie" means. It's also kinda funny that you're in love with the Velvet Underground bootlegs and think THAT wasn't reliant on a scene dependent on drugs (just not psychedelics.) Those shows looked an awful lot like the acid tests, just with music you prefer. I don't care about anyone criticizing the music I love, but when it feels kinda uninformed and emotional/personal it's a snooze. And your declarative statements about what would and would not have happened are hilarious. But hey, that's entertainment!!

The members of grateful Dead don't even look like they take psychedelics lol. They were never popular for a reason, only a strange cult following

You guys hit the nail on the head . Well presented. Collectivism doesn’t mean quality. The dead are open mic coffe shop at BEST . Fraud to the max and total cultural conformity . It’s mainstream counter culture . I watch vids of Tye dye hippie twirl fests and send them to my people. Everybody gets a laugh out of it . The real question is what would the dead fans be without the band ? It’s such a bummer when a person tells me they live the dead , or the chili peppers.
Conformity ,Patchouli , ticks in the dread locks and Nag Champa bombs .
Low level Runnings .

I think the dead make great music

Let me guess..
You guys support trans kids and drag shows.

Y’all have some good remarks about the Grateful Dead. I’m not a deadhead, but they’re one of the best bands of ever seen live. You can’t judge a band if you haven’t seen them live. As well you guys need to research what a hippie is you’re way off. Have fun at the next Nickelback tour.

This is spot on

I listened to the dead bc of my neighbor who was a deadhead, fucking hated it, came back to listen to them a little after I turned 21 after having a conversation with him about how much I disliked their music, and he told me to listen to st stephen off the live/dead show and I actually found it enjoyable. I was completely sober. I feel like a lot of the shows aren’t amazing but a few are pretty good.

Hippies are totally radical and peaceful, man…. Never started riots….

Fucking lightweights!

I love the Grateful Dead. 😂

This podcast sucks. The dead have a few good songs, and for most artists that is a lot. They are incredibly overrated but I guess sometimes you just had to be there.

also do Billy Strings lol. Would love to hear more modern currently controversial takes

also would love to hear your opinion on jerrys steel on "teach your children" by CSNY, or on New Riders of the Purple Sage

I told my grandpa about owsley making their acid and being the soundguy of the dead. He said something like "Genius, they got the sound and the effects!"

I like them up to about '76 (live atleast) Europe 72 is great, Cornell 76 also, and workingmans dead is the only studio album i really like, though they do some magical stuff live at times. The culture has it's ups and downs, they covered a lot of classic blues decently (nowhere near the original quality) , even as a casual psychedelic enthusist with a tattoo of "Bertha". I was born too late for the Jerry hype and too poor for the dead and company stuff (which is prolly a blessing lol).

Hunter Thompson said something like he would beat his way into a grateful dead show with a tire iron if necessary in the early 70s, and being he introduced me to john prine, herbie hancock (besides his pop shit) and others

ps the vocals are shit 90%, of the time besides the pigpen (original singer and "27 club" member.)

What's so great about using rock instruments to play elevator music? When it comes to religion in music, deadheads are the worst offenders. Anything can sound good if you're sufficiently wasted. I've never tried acid because if it makes the Grateful Dead sound good, what's the point?

God you guys are such suburbia high school pussies

Do you goofballs understand that the dead in 68 were on fire. Y'all say funny jokes but musically, you have no clue what you're talking about. Back in the day, there was no huge stupid fan base. Ever heard of the sixties? It was more than Woodstock or anything else you boring bastards are willing to conceive. Dude, do you live with mommy in Mississippi? The question is why are you talking. Thanks for your science btw 😂. Listen to Terrance McKenna or something and shut the hell up until your balls drop.

Stoners need to be called out more, it’s refreshing

The first five minutes basically describe what’s wrong with modern Iron Maiden

Wildest part of this.

Guy comments heavily on the effects of lsd mushrooms while also stating he’s never done them….

That’s like giving a review of a film you’ve never seen but being incredibly confident in your stance.

Then he goes into a rant about the iconography of the band and it’s fans for 20-25 min of a 36 min talk.

Not a single discussion about the music at all.

If I have to explain you wouldn’t understand. These guys are clowns on the side lines commenting with no life experience.

Tbh, feel very sorry for the level of ignorant judgements on display here. Embarrassing to post.

I’m not Dead fan but this of the most bigoted, intellectually ignorant and generally stupid podcasts I’ve ever heard.

All you guys did was bitch about an antiquated media cliche of what you think a hippie was and what you think they are now. You never once discussed the music except how you believe it makes them all take acid or they would enjoy it. That’s a very lazy perception.


The youngest of the Silent Generation were hippies; the the latter who were the actual leaders of the movement as well as the pioneers of rock music creating such classic artists as The Beatles. Boomers who latched became the pioneers of EDM.

The legacy of hippies continues to influence fashion and I don’t mean Grateful Dead T-shirts. From backpacks to shoes, it was all hippie influenced.

The hippie movement also encouraged acceptance of the LGBTQ community, unmarried couples living together, and acceptance of sex outside of marriage is normal, Womens’ rights, civil rights, healthy food and on and on - you can thank the hippies for that.

And the things that you cherish the most like your iPhones, you can credit a hippie. Open source software? Hippies. The Muppets. Hippies. A hippie surfer dude invented the polymerase chain reaction, for which he received a Nobel Prize. What’s that? It’s a method of duplicating DNA. The list of their accomplishments go far beyond what you think. The only reason you have a podcast is because you’re living in the shadow of what some hippie created.

Wish I could see the dislike ratio.

Deadheads are pathetic. smh…. I don’t even mind the Dead’s music, but they’re fans are so cringy, makes it easy for some to hate them.

And then there's that ONE time that acid ISN't ANY fun at all. That's the LAST time you EVER take it.