A listener doesn't have to think the Grateful Dead is "a band beyond description / Like Jehovah's favorite choir" (to quote "The Music Never Stopped") to find the group fascinating and culturally relevant.
As long as Dead chieftain Jerry Garcia was alive, I would have placed the Dead on my short list of bands everyone interested in rock should try to see at least once — for the sheer theater of a Dead concert with its enraptured dancing fans, if not the actual music.
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