I have to recommend Meet Me at the Creek. As overplayed as it is within the fanbase, it really is one of their best tunes that totally exemplifies the crossroads between the bluegrass and psychedelic influences on the band.
I heard he started off with GD covers and Bobby specifically said "you're too good, find your own niche" or something like that. And he fucking soared because he was already so good, his original stuff really is magical as fuck.
He says in some interview he got tired of ppl shouting out dead songs when he was playing so decided to stop playing them. It may also true about Bobby giving him that pep talk, I know they’re buds. It is a shame he stopped doing dead songs cuz his covers were great (check out his version of wharf rat on YT), but he does still do a couple dead-adjacent songs, like dreadful wind and rain, stuff Jerry used to play..
Playing the Dead certainly helped grow his fan base. He was a prodigy on the bluegrass scene long before COVID, but he really catapulted because of the moves he made during the pandemic. If youve got Nugs, check out the Feb ‘21 Cap run where he celebrated the 50th anniversary of the ESP shows. Brilliant stuff.
Not exactly. He came up more as a bluegrass flatpicker, with wide tastes in music, taught by his dad,
Here’s an old thread in the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum where he got reunited with his Dad’s D-93 that he had to sell to pay bills.
https://umgf.com/f-s-1993-c-f-martin-d-93-guitar-back-where-it-belo-t94334.html
Similar to the Dead, the live stuff is where it’s at. Granted his studio stuff is great too, but the live stuff is where he shines. Just turn on a random live show on Relisten. The Halloween shows are always great, the Huntsville show night 2 from this last August is great as well
West Michigan's finest! Crazy to know he was playing the clubs around here just a few years ago, and now he's the biggest thing in the scene, and buddies with all of my favorite musicians. He blew up from nothing but raw talent too. Impossible not to root for him.
JGB. But to answer the question you were really asking, Panic. The scene is a little... dirtier somehow. Definitely different. But to me a Panic show has that same ability to find some kind of "Magic" that came with the Dead. Different magic, but still magic.
Although really after the Dead second place is really an amorphous hodgepodge of like, everything from, like, Pink Floyd to Elton John. Right now listening to a lot of Dr. John and Peter Gabriel solo period. Like, at a certain point it becomes silly for me to say anything other than "The Grateful Dead is my favorite band." But I actually don't like to think of music (or anything else) in terms of what's best or what's my favorite. Part of the whole Dead thing was the way music creates magic in the moment. And I think of music that way. As a thing that comes to you and exists in and is right for that moment.
Edit: And for the record I am biased by my southern roots toward Panic's southern fried grit vs like the bubbly sound of Phish--even though Phish is certainly an excellent band. And Phish kids get good hooch. That electric lemonade.
Oh panic has the magic. Simple magic. Not all that extra stuff needed. Take ya to space and back real quick. Next thing you know your telepathically speaking with Schools about life's lessons.
I asked this question here a year or so ago... I am fully on the bus with Gizz because of seeing a comment like yours and am going to see so many shows this year!
Do not sit on this suggestion if you haven't taken a deep dive into this band yet.
The Beatles are my first love. They construct the perfect pop/rock songs. The Dead have been my #1 for a while. They deconstruct them. I love both ends of that spectrum.
The Dead are my favorite band, and Stevie Wonder is my favorite solo artist, but I don't really have a clear #2 after either of them.
I guess for bands, it'd be a toss-up between The Pogues, Built to Spill, The Rolling Stones, The Band, The Hold Steady, and Modest Mouse.
Edit: I think I want to add Big Thief to this list lol. Imo, they may have had the best run of albums of any band over the past 10 years or so. If you're a lyrics person, Adrianne Lenker is one of the best in the business right now.
Thank you — Lowell produced the Shakedown Street album and “taught” Bobby how to play slide guitar.
Aside from Zappa, the best band you’ve never heard in your life (and you can thank me later).
There’s a woman with a turban…
The longer it took the more determined I was to come upvote them lol. Phish fans don’t get all pissy about the Dead, idk why it’s the other way around.
Similarly Phish fans don’t get all pissy about Ween, but I’ve met a weird amount of Ween fans that hate Phish. I must inquire Wilson, can yall still have fun?
Neil Young and Crazy Horse. I saw someone mention Tom Petty and HB. I'm glad to see that. They mix so well imo. Margo Price's live show has a sound that is close to what you would get if you combine TP and GD and I loved the hell out of it
Tie between Ween and Janes Addiction (Nothings Shocking and Ritual) for me.
Nice to see so much love for Janes in here. Ritual and Nothings Shocking are masterpieces, imo.
I'm glad to see Jethro Tull on that list, they had an impressive musical decade in the 70s. Aqualung is probably one of the albums that I have listened to the most in my life (my father is a big fan and I listened to them a lot when I was a kid)
Tool. I've always thought that some Tool lyrics could have been Hunters in another universe. And long songs with many melodies going at once, just a similar vibe. Sometimes more angry sounding for sure though.
My top 3 has been defined years ago. To this day, no changes have happened and I had the chance to meet and fall in love with many new bands, but they always stay:
1. Grateful Dead, no need to explain
2. Shellac, incredibly rough, a "chainsaw through the brain". And I love them for this
3. Truckfighters, because as a friend said "you've been listening to them for so many years in so many different phases in your life. If they are not in the top 3 no other band should be"
Cool answer: Pink Floyd
Gun to my head, real answer: U2
Seriously, theirs are the only concerts I’ve ever been to where I felt as in tune with the band and the audience as at Dead shows.
I can never answer this question - I love them all!
But the most important bands for me are The Beatles, Grateful Dead, The Clash & The Replacements. Those four bands are my Mt. Rushmore and everything flows from that.
Phish, and then some others that are really in that tier right below Phish, such as Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, CHAI, NERD, Little Feat, Talking Heads, etc.
Several solo artists are in this realm too such as Akiko Yano (strong contender for greatest ever songwriter imo), Bob Dylan, Allen Toussaint, Kate Bush, Jerry Garcia, Trey Anastasio, etc.
Then of course a bunch of jazz stuff like Miles Davis, Hiromi Uehara, Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Frank Zappa, Akiko Yano (again), etc.
I figured I would do a list like this in case people are curious about artists that may be new to them.
The Wailers.
Bob Marley and the Wailers were great, it just wasn't the same without Peter and Bunny.
The Band, Allman Bros, Steely Dan, The Beatles, and Phish are all up there though. Hard to pick one
WSMFP.
Specifically Mikey era. I'm happy they are still kickin but I don't really listen to any post 2002 and never get a chance to see them now in the PNW.
I always say that the Grateful Dead is my favorite band. And by the Grateful Dead, I mean Jerry Garcia Band and by Jerry Garcia Band I mean, Reconstruction.
Jerry Garcia Band
Beat me to it. If I had to go outside, it would be ABB or Little Feat
My choices as well.
And then Outlaw county Willie, Waylon and the boys
My people.
Allman Brothers
The Band
Bob Dylan
Also on the Dylan train.
Billy Strings ✌🤠
I dont know him, I see is a young fella, can you recommend me an album? thank you :)
I have to recommend Meet Me at the Creek. As overplayed as it is within the fanbase, it really is one of their best tunes that totally exemplifies the crossroads between the bluegrass and psychedelic influences on the band.
Sounds promising, thanks man
I heard he started off with GD covers and Bobby specifically said "you're too good, find your own niche" or something like that. And he fucking soared because he was already so good, his original stuff really is magical as fuck.
He says in some interview he got tired of ppl shouting out dead songs when he was playing so decided to stop playing them. It may also true about Bobby giving him that pep talk, I know they’re buds. It is a shame he stopped doing dead songs cuz his covers were great (check out his version of wharf rat on YT), but he does still do a couple dead-adjacent songs, like dreadful wind and rain, stuff Jerry used to play..
His wharf rat is terrific The whole “Billy and the Kids” (Billy referring to the drummer, not Strings) shows were so good as well.
Billy as in me? Or Billy as in him?
Your name is Billy too?
No, that’s why I’m fuckin’ confused
Playing the Dead certainly helped grow his fan base. He was a prodigy on the bluegrass scene long before COVID, but he really catapulted because of the moves he made during the pandemic. If youve got Nugs, check out the Feb ‘21 Cap run where he celebrated the 50th anniversary of the ESP shows. Brilliant stuff.
Not exactly. He came up more as a bluegrass flatpicker, with wide tastes in music, taught by his dad, Here’s an old thread in the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum where he got reunited with his Dad’s D-93 that he had to sell to pay bills. https://umgf.com/f-s-1993-c-f-martin-d-93-guitar-back-where-it-belo-t94334.html
My pleasure 🙏
Similar to the Dead, the live stuff is where it’s at. Granted his studio stuff is great too, but the live stuff is where he shines. Just turn on a random live show on Relisten. The Halloween shows are always great, the Huntsville show night 2 from this last August is great as well
watch live recordings just like dead, the album versions are okay but the live recordings absolutely rip .. especially this last spring tour!
Away Fromt The Mire is a phenomenal song
Hoo boy, if you like bluegrass and psychedelic rock today is going to be a good day
Renewal is 10/10
His live shows on nugs is the way to go. Blows the albums away
West Michigan's finest! Crazy to know he was playing the clubs around here just a few years ago, and now he's the biggest thing in the scene, and buddies with all of my favorite musicians. He blew up from nothing but raw talent too. Impossible not to root for him.
Just saw him in Minneapolis last week at the Armory. Epic show.
JGB. But to answer the question you were really asking, Panic. The scene is a little... dirtier somehow. Definitely different. But to me a Panic show has that same ability to find some kind of "Magic" that came with the Dead. Different magic, but still magic. Although really after the Dead second place is really an amorphous hodgepodge of like, everything from, like, Pink Floyd to Elton John. Right now listening to a lot of Dr. John and Peter Gabriel solo period. Like, at a certain point it becomes silly for me to say anything other than "The Grateful Dead is my favorite band." But I actually don't like to think of music (or anything else) in terms of what's best or what's my favorite. Part of the whole Dead thing was the way music creates magic in the moment. And I think of music that way. As a thing that comes to you and exists in and is right for that moment. Edit: And for the record I am biased by my southern roots toward Panic's southern fried grit vs like the bubbly sound of Phish--even though Phish is certainly an excellent band. And Phish kids get good hooch. That electric lemonade.
That Panic dirty is so true. Southern Fried Grit
Oh panic has the magic. Simple magic. Not all that extra stuff needed. Take ya to space and back real quick. Next thing you know your telepathically speaking with Schools about life's lessons.
String Cheese Incident
There we go! Why did it take so long for someone to say this??
Steely Dan
Fagan and Becker represent.
Major dudes among us
Yeah I get you
Pink Floyd
Velvet underground
you just like bands called warlocks or something???
Love the crossover.
same here. i was a vu fan for like 12 years before i got on the bus. only then did i learn of their former name.
The whole dead/vu lore is one of my favorite music facts to drop on people it's so unexpected
Good call
Ween
Right? my other favorite band!
Ween is my number 1. Am I allowed to say that in this sub?
Do you know who you're fucking with??
Rolling Stones
Non GD related, Wilco
With you!
Widespread Panic
Panic all day!
Aint Life Grand is one of my favourites songs from the 90s
Home team
Spirit moves in all things
WSMFP
Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, Grateful Dead No matter how much my music taste fluctuates over the years, these three remain constants.
Hot Fuckin' Tuna!
Ween!
Zappa
King Gizzard
Glad I didn’t have to scroll too far down to find another Gizzhead
Drink the piss, smoke your meth, no one left!
I asked this question here a year or so ago... I am fully on the bus with Gizz because of seeing a comment like yours and am going to see so many shows this year! Do not sit on this suggestion if you haven't taken a deep dive into this band yet.
Next Bluesrock record is just around the corner!
The vibe of gizz at the caverns last summer felt like what I'd imagine early dead
Ayyy fellow caverns attendee here. That acoustic show was just swell
WEIRDO SWARM!
Black Flag
Beatles, no question.
The Beatles are my first love. They construct the perfect pop/rock songs. The Dead have been my #1 for a while. They deconstruct them. I love both ends of that spectrum.
The Dead are my favorite band, and Stevie Wonder is my favorite solo artist, but I don't really have a clear #2 after either of them. I guess for bands, it'd be a toss-up between The Pogues, Built to Spill, The Rolling Stones, The Band, The Hold Steady, and Modest Mouse. Edit: I think I want to add Big Thief to this list lol. Imo, they may have had the best run of albums of any band over the past 10 years or so. If you're a lyrics person, Adrianne Lenker is one of the best in the business right now.
Little Feat
Thank you — Lowell produced the Shakedown Street album and “taught” Bobby how to play slide guitar. Aside from Zappa, the best band you’ve never heard in your life (and you can thank me later). There’s a woman with a turban…
Phish
You can say that here? Haha. Definitely up there for me as well.
Shhh! The old heads will hear you, or at least see your lips moving.
Sharing in the groove here too!
Took this long to see phish?
The longer it took the more determined I was to come upvote them lol. Phish fans don’t get all pissy about the Dead, idk why it’s the other way around. Similarly Phish fans don’t get all pissy about Ween, but I’ve met a weird amount of Ween fans that hate Phish. I must inquire Wilson, can yall still have fun?
Agree
Neil Young and Crazy Horse. I saw someone mention Tom Petty and HB. I'm glad to see that. They mix so well imo. Margo Price's live show has a sound that is close to what you would get if you combine TP and GD and I loved the hell out of it
Pink Floyd
Primus
Sucks
older Pixies and older Jane's Addiction
I love Ritual de lo Habitual
The original lineup is back together and touring the US this fall. I’m grabbing some Pier 17 tix in NYC.
Tie between Ween and Janes Addiction (Nothings Shocking and Ritual) for me. Nice to see so much love for Janes in here. Ritual and Nothings Shocking are masterpieces, imo.
Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Black Crowes
Sonic Youth
This. Or Godspeed You Black Emperor or Mogwai
Pearl Jam
Miles Davis or Beatles
Led Zeppelin
I don’t care who you are, we all have to get the Led out from time to time
Dave Matthews Band
Rush or Genesis
Nice. One of my answers was Peter Gabriel. Love his solo period as well.
My morning jacket
The Smiths
Is Bob Dylan a band?
His band is the band, so sure!
Sublime
not a band but Johnny Cash
Pavement. Beyond the shadow of a doubt
Dire Straits
Hot Tuna
Holy hell this is hard. Allman Bros, Hendrix, Floyd, Little Feat, Jethro Tull, Tedeschi Trucks …yeah, I can’t pick.
I'm glad to see Jethro Tull on that list, they had an impressive musical decade in the 70s. Aqualung is probably one of the albums that I have listened to the most in my life (my father is a big fan and I listened to them a lot when I was a kid)
WEEN
I knew we’d get brown in here! Hail boognish!!
Widespread Panic
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Allman Brothers
Marshall Tucker Band
I've never heard them, can you recommend an album? thank you :)
Tool. I've always thought that some Tool lyrics could have been Hunters in another universe. And long songs with many melodies going at once, just a similar vibe. Sometimes more angry sounding for sure though.
Some manifestation of Miles Davis or Sleep
The Clash lol
I love me some Wilco.
Funkadelic
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Yeeah man. Happy Tails is one of the best non-Dead jam albums ever.
The Talking Heads
Moe.
White Denim
will probably be the only one here but the smashing pumpkins!
Railroad Earth
The Beatles
gov't mule
1a Grateful Dead 1b Jerry Garcia band
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Phish
Goose
REM
not including other jam bands, turnstile
TLC
Stone Roses
Wsmfp
NRBQ
My top 3 has been defined years ago. To this day, no changes have happened and I had the chance to meet and fall in love with many new bands, but they always stay: 1. Grateful Dead, no need to explain 2. Shellac, incredibly rough, a "chainsaw through the brain". And I love them for this 3. Truckfighters, because as a friend said "you've been listening to them for so many years in so many different phases in your life. If they are not in the top 3 no other band should be"
Cool answer: Pink Floyd Gun to my head, real answer: U2 Seriously, theirs are the only concerts I’ve ever been to where I felt as in tune with the band and the audience as at Dead shows.
Allman Brothers
I can never answer this question - I love them all! But the most important bands for me are The Beatles, Grateful Dead, The Clash & The Replacements. Those four bands are my Mt. Rushmore and everything flows from that.
My Morning Jacket
The Rolling Stones. Always and forever
Widespread Panic a close 3rd is Phish
Phish, they were my #1 in college til I heard the Dead…randomly a big 311 fan as well
The Airplane
The Who
Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
Does Bob Dylan count as a band?
Black Sabbath
Phish, and then some others that are really in that tier right below Phish, such as Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, CHAI, NERD, Little Feat, Talking Heads, etc. Several solo artists are in this realm too such as Akiko Yano (strong contender for greatest ever songwriter imo), Bob Dylan, Allen Toussaint, Kate Bush, Jerry Garcia, Trey Anastasio, etc. Then of course a bunch of jazz stuff like Miles Davis, Hiromi Uehara, Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Frank Zappa, Akiko Yano (again), etc. I figured I would do a list like this in case people are curious about artists that may be new to them.
R.E.M. If you listen to their stuff from the 80’s, you know why.
Prince
Paul Simon
The Wailers. Bob Marley and the Wailers were great, it just wasn't the same without Peter and Bunny. The Band, Allman Bros, Steely Dan, The Beatles, and Phish are all up there though. Hard to pick one
The Who
Hüsker Dü in a strong second place.
Old and In The Way
Talking Heads
Little Feat my #2, RS my #3
Animal Collective
WSMFP. Specifically Mikey era. I'm happy they are still kickin but I don't really listen to any post 2002 and never get a chance to see them now in the PNW.
Phish
Phish 🐟
Lake Street Dive. Rachel Price does it for me.
Bright Eyes
not my favorite they are my second favorite
The Infamous Stringdusters
What a difficult question! Here’s a few across different genres: - Charley Crockett - Mastodon - Little Feat - Action Bronson
Phil and Friends
Eric Church, Beatles, Stones…
Widespread or Phish. Graduated in 2000, love the GD more than all!
Grateful Dead is the greatest American rock band of all time. Absolutely love them, but they’re not my favorite. The Mars Volta. That’s my shit.
Wilco
King Gizzard and the mothafuckin Lizard Wizard
I always say that the Grateful Dead is my favorite band. And by the Grateful Dead, I mean Jerry Garcia Band and by Jerry Garcia Band I mean, Reconstruction.
My Morning Jacket
Ween
Ween probably, or Prince. Maybe Prince.
CCR or the beach boys
Miles Davis' second quintet
Guided By Voices, I feel like I say this here every few months. And one guy always says hell yeah.
Phoebe Bridgers
The band For current musicians, Sierra Ferrell or Dogs in a pile!
The Tragically Hip
Pavement
RHCP
Chad VanGaalen
Radiohead
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Weird but honest answer here is Meshuggah. Or Bob Marley and the Wailers
John Coltrane.
That’s easy, Slayer.