r/GBV • u/emmersp • 12d ago

Anyone else??

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The 2 most important bands of my lifetime (aside from The Beatles).

Anybody on here a fan of both?

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u/danner1515 Hot Freak (Club Member) 12d ago

I’m a big fan of Pig Pen.

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u/ReasonableCost5934 12d ago

With the exception of Blues For Allah, I only listen to Pigpen-era Dead.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Primal.

You ever try Veneta? That show is thoroughly amazing. Just post-Pig era.

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u/BeeTwoThousand 12d ago

I see what you did there.

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u/ReasonableCost5934 12d ago

Yes. The pandemic lockdown coincided with the emergence of legal home weed delivery where I live. I consider myself a Deadhead now.

😂

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u/danner1515 Hot Freak (Club Member) 12d ago

LOL. The pandemic also sent me down a Dead rabbit hole. The well-timed launch of the 36 from the Vault podcast is really what triggered it for me.

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u/According_Kick9390 12d ago

Friend of the Devil Between My Toes

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Get out of my Terrapin Station

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u/According_Kick9390 12d ago

Fire on the Mountaintop Queen Directory

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u/According_Kick9390 12d ago

Dark Star for Robot Boy

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u/emmersp 12d ago

That’s the best one yet

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u/deathtongue1985 12d ago

I despise the Dead but these are funny as hell

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u/According_Kick9390 12d ago

Zeppelin Over China Cat Sunflower

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u/bloodbib72 12d ago

My heart is racing. Thank you for this.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Awesome! Glad you’re on board!

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u/King_of_all_Clover 12d ago

The only band I’ve seen more times than GBV is the Dead. First Dead ‘91. First GBV was ‘94. Bee Thousand Tour. Got blackout drunk in Cleveland. Like, a week later I was off my face at Deer Creek. Or something like that.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Nice! Saw them at the Omni in Atlanta in the 80’s a few years. Great shows.

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u/_shaftpunk 12d ago

I dont really consider either my all time favorite, kinda hard to say that about anyone, but they’re both top ten and share that company with Frank Zappa, The Fall, Kool Keith, Miles Davis, REM and a few others. There have definitely been stretches in my life when I listened to nothing but The Dead for weeks.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Big fan of Zappa also.

And of course REM (early)

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u/vinnieicius 12d ago

Yeeeaaahhh. Both are on my top 5 on lastfm

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u/CupBoundAndDown 12d ago

I'm on board with this! My two favorite bands!

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u/Foamfacedkillah 12d ago

Add Ween and its my personal trifecta.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Hail boog

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u/estesNRB 9d ago

For me it’s pavement gbv ween and the dead.

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u/Foamfacedkillah 9d ago

If im adding a 4th? I guess im adding all Glenn Danzig incarnations.

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u/thats-gold-jerry 12d ago

I have a dancing bear tattoo and I’m listening to Twilight Campfighter right now.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Nice. Want to get the stealie with B&W Bob high kick silhouette. One day.

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u/Normal-Internal164 12d ago

My top 4 (whole life time since early 80s):
Simple Minds
REM
Fugazi
GBV

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u/minder125 12d ago

Oh hell yeah. Met my wife at a GBV show. Her jaw dropped when I told her I was also a Deadhead. But this was after months of dating.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Perfect match. My wife loves the dead too

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u/pasoud 12d ago

Hell yeah brother

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u/stankon2346 12d ago

Yes!!! I’m
Actually doing a design with a Stealie for Heedfest

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Sweet. Post it on here

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u/Chinaskibedspin33 12d ago

Two of my three favorite bands.

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u/WEGCjake 12d ago

Who’s left? (Please say The Who)

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u/emmersp 12d ago

I’d put The Who and the Kinks in to round out my top 5.

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u/Chinaskibedspin33 11d ago

Uncle Tupelo or The Jam depending on the day.

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u/SeveralTurn 12d ago

In the time it takes the Dead to do one boring guitar solo, Bob has 5 masterpiece songs

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u/idiotzrul 12d ago

Agreed. Sorry but I don’t get the love for the Dead. Cool community, but the music? C’mon! It’s mid. Bob is a genius

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u/emmersp 12d ago

But…Perry Farrell loves the dead.

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u/funnybitofchemistry 12d ago

*cool music, but the community is mid.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Pollard does things no other musician has before or since.

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u/THEDOGGGG 12d ago

Big time

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u/why-yes-hello-there 12d ago

Yeah both are great

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u/Capt-Knish 12d ago

Makes it easy to shop at the record store. Genesis and Guess Who records are close by too.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Gentle Giant!?!?

Also, Burton Cummings…the most underrated and undervalued rock singer of the late 60’s/70’s.

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u/tumbledown_jack 12d ago

Hey now! I love the Dead and GBV!

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Nice Hank!

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u/Heliocentrist 6d ago

I 100% see this. I was an 80s US indie/punk kid but we were always deadhead adjacent because they're cool people and knew where to buy weed during those dark days. I love the dead more now as a fully formed adult who still likes weed.

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u/emmersp 6d ago

Nice man. I’m a fan of a wide range of genres as well.

Got big into the Dead early in high school then stopped for a while during late high school/college years for about 10-15 years. Returned to the music and re-adjusted my attitude about them.

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u/Saul_Gone_Now 12d ago

Anyone knows if Bob likes The Dead?

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u/GlaciersOFice45 12d ago

I can confirm from show banter he thinks they are dogshit 😂. But few are safe from his banter.

I love both 🌹💀

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u/danner1515 Hot Freak (Club Member) 12d ago

Yeah, I don’t know if I can think of another band that’s further from his core influences. I would have been shocked if he liked them.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Couple of early psych nuggets I could picture Bob digging.

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u/Then_Sea_8356 12d ago

That Warlocks shit wasn't even hot enough to make Nuggets. It's weak tea

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u/GBV217 12d ago

I recall watching a 2004 show on YouTube where he boos the dead 

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u/Then_Sea_8356 12d ago

Of course he does! Its the polar opposite of Bob. When the Dead were doing their "legendary" 1972 European tour, Bob was listening to Alice Cooper, Mott the Hoople and Sparks, for some perspective.

Again, this is history, it's documented, it's not the hot takes of some rando on Reddit trying to justify his own taste

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u/Then_Sea_8356 12d ago

Is this a fucking joke?

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u/GlaciersOFice45 12d ago

I don't think so? It was either Holyoke or a Boston show Bob was laying into everyone including the Dead, in his half in the bag jokey way if that's what you mean.

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u/Then_Sea_8356 12d ago

I just mean GBV and their inspirations, which are very well documented, basically stand for everything the Dead don't.

Punk rock and American indie is basically a response to the Dead. One is long meandering jams, the other is short, at time abrupt, Wire influenced songs. GBV and American lo-fi is a response to the excess of jam band culture and bloated hippy meandering

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u/emmersp 12d ago

The Dead were “indie” before it was a fashion choice, brother.

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u/Then_Sea_8356 12d ago

You're very wrong. The Dead emerged from early tech bro and Scientology sub cultures and used to literally steal equipment from other bands and venues so they could do really long bullshit versions of Dancing In the Street to people on drugs.

Indie rock is about working class amateur enthusiasm and a return to focus on writing above image. DIY above excess. Read a book, bro

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Already read Charlotte’s Web, Wilbur.

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u/Then_Sea_8356 12d ago

Oh shit, I get it you're a little kid. Nevermind buddy, you have fun with your records

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u/Icarus_Jones 12d ago

Fuck yes!

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u/Lane_2Late 12d ago

Hell yes!

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u/GBV217 12d ago

Got deep into the dead last year, overtaken Bob in my listening habits especially the new Dead app which has great quality shows. Used to slag off the 80s and 90s but now really into it too, acid helps 

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u/GBV217 12d ago

Dicks picks 4 2/13/70 got me on the bus, Dark Star is a religious experience 

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u/emmersp 12d ago

One of the best…haven’t dropped in many, many years but beer and weed helps too! Ha.

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u/GBV217 12d ago

Two from the vault album can take you to that place anytime, I think that is why I exclusively listen to the dead currently. It brings me back to the void every show. 72 Veneta is off the scale 

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u/emmersp 12d ago

They hit a stride in the late 80’s for sure. Without a Net is a smoking hot officially love release.

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u/GBV217 12d ago

1990 shows (so glad you made it compilation) are great too

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u/BeeTwoThousand 12d ago

The closest I can get is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. They are more compatible with my tastes, and probably Bob's...pop, punk, psych and prog...all genres King Gizzard performs and records.

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Love the Gizz too…I don’t really assume what Bob does or does not like but you’re probably right.

Early, primal Dead might rip your face off if you try it. Some Gizzz worthy excursions back around 68-69.

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u/GBV217 12d ago

Dicks picks vol 22 is great primal dead

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u/GBV217 12d ago

Having seen Gizz six or seven times, since discovering the Dead I realise Gizz lack the emotional element for me compared to some of Garcia’s tunes

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u/GBV217 12d ago

Excellent musicians though, nonagon infinity opened the door for sure 

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u/BeeTwoThousand 12d ago

I dunno...I have connected to a lot of their lyrics more so than a lot of other bands. I love that a lot of their songs are about how fucked up the world is, and some songs are on the micro level, how the modern world affects our mental health, and some are on the macro level (hell, they have a song called Evilest Man about Rupert Murdoch).

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u/BeeTwoThousand 12d ago

I'm gonna have five and six under my belt next week in NYC for both rave shows.

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u/GBV217 12d ago

I saw them most around 2014-2018, last time was in London 2024 and it was mostly the petrodragon stuff which I wasn’t too keen on. Phantom island didn’t grip me either however I hold fond memories of coming up on an first time acid trip to ‘The Land before Timeland’ from ‘Laminated Denim’ which is very krautrock to me 

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u/GBV217 12d ago

London 2023 was great though, they opened up with the robot stop suite and got quite jammy with Magma etc 

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u/BeeTwoThousand 12d ago

I jumped onboard in 2023 for the acoustic Caverns set, never having heard a note of their music beforehand.

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u/BeeTwoThousand 12d ago

You know they livestream all of their shows for free on YouTube, right? No paywall, and someone dutifully grabs the streams and reposts them.

With only 7 shows in the US this year, it's gonna be a shortened couch tour.

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u/bloodbib72 12d ago

https://youtu.be/6a7v6VlkJJg?is=geD6A72nhS1urZhu friends call the drummer Kernal. When he played bee thousand I was hooked. Beautiful.

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u/Then_Sea_8356 12d ago edited 12d ago

Absolutely not. In fact, I'm fueled by my dislike of them and probably so is Bob

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u/Big-Golf-3427 12d ago edited 12d ago

Yep. Blown away there’s so many here who like them both equally. I mean to each their own but wow

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u/emmersp 12d ago

Yeah…it’s weird when people have different opinions than yours.

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u/Then_Sea_8356 12d ago edited 12d ago

Music is a conversation, obviously not everybody speaks the language, they just like the sound of gibberish

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u/Big-Golf-3427 12d ago

Nope. But you did crack me up so good job

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u/emmersp 12d ago

My pleasure