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Psychedelic rock band described as a uniquely American phenomenon that reflected the freedom Americans claim to value through their unconventional touring lifestyle.

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"She is one of my favorite people. She was there for me during my most traumatic life experiences. I'm 27 and as I squeeze her hand during her final moments I play her some of our favorite Grateful Dead and Lana songs."
My grandmother is dying tonight · u/girlsoupp · ↑409 · 2024-05-25
"I know the Grateful Dead are polarizing but they're a perfect example of something that couldn't exist anywhere else. They made their living touring the US as a weird psychadelic rock band. There's something about their willingness to fuck up songs, try unconventional new songs, and live on a perpet"
Things you actually like about America · u/NeilPunhandlerHarris · ↑405 · 2022-02-10
"I read a thread about the Grateful Dead posted here a few years ago and one of the commenters kept saying "everything" was German. Modern music, Star Wars, The Beatles? They said the Grateful Dead was America's way of dealing with psychic wounds from WW2"
There's something about Germany that feels rotten and evil · u/Marlowes_Cat · ↑385 · 2025-07-13
"The main drag was littered with fleece vest boutiques and art galleries selling boomer-coded pieces of jumbo landscape photographs and pop art collages with bands like the Grateful Dead."
Ski culture is exhausting · u/Ok_Imagination_366 · ↑362 · 2025-03-16
"Get a job at amazon and smoke shitty weed with grateful dead loving millennials, never wear a mask, and laugh at all the thin blue lines you see."
If you want to escape wokeness move to Indiana · u/pereubu420 · ↑309 · 2021-11-11
"I am a massive fan of the Grateful Dead, one of the most widely loathed bands ever, but the haters have never affected my enjoyment of them one goddamn bit. Nobody has to 'let me enjoy' the Dead, I just enjoy them and I will continue putting them on in the car until someone makes me turn it off, and"
"in no particular order 1) grateful dead 2) the eagles 3) stone temple pilots"
post your top 3 worst bands of all time · 1gloomy · ↑94 · 2022-03-22
"Who here is a deadhead or deadhead-adjacent? My parents were when I was growing up, so I will always find their music and fanbase sweet and nostalgic even if the culture is a bit corny."
Grateful Dead · u/[deleted] · ↑47 · 2020-12-04
"If they ain't talkin about Grateful Dead once then chuck 'em to the curb"
"Even though I find their music extremely overrated, the Grateful Dead have some amazing iconography. Who else has really good iconography?"
What bands have the coolest iconography and album covers? · u/anonymous_redditor91 · ↑44 · 2022-08-16
"Some fine moments here, especially the bit about how childhood fascination with stars gets pushed asides in adulthood, ASK's bizarre fear of the Grateful Dead, and SK's off-hand list of ASK's primary-school errors."
Sam Kriss skewers "Postcolonial Astrology" by Alice Sparkly Kat · u/FatimaMansioned · ↑36 · 2021-09-19
"Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, designing some of their best-known posters and album covers including Aoxomoxoa."
Rick Griffin, Zap Comix Issue #4 · u/Waste-Public1899 · ↑30 · 2025-01-17
"Jam band names always go so hard like "Grateful Dead," "Widespread Panic" with promos like "are you ready for a COSMIC JOURNEY INTO ANOTHER DIMENSION OF YOUR MIND?" and you listen to their music and it's like: "doo doo doo doo sugar mama doo doo doo doo sun on the mountain doo doo doo doo doo doo do"
"If they ain't talkin about Grateful Dead once then chuck 'em to the curb"
"Even though I find their music extremely overrated, the Grateful Dead have some amazing iconography."
What bands have the coolest iconography and album covers? · u/anonymous_redditor91 · ↑44 · 2022-08-16
"ASK's bizarre fear of the Grateful Dead"
Sam Kriss skewers "Postcolonial Astrology" by Alice Sparkly Kat · u/FatimaMansioned · ↑36 · 2021-09-19
"Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, designing some of their best-known posters and album covers including Aoxomoxoa."
Rick Griffin, Zap Comix Issue #4 · u/Waste-Public1899 · ↑30 · 2025-01-17
"Not in a wook, Grateful Dead/Phish way"
Does Ween fascinate anyone else? · u/TheSexEnjoyer1812 · ↑25 · 2023-11-26
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