Take your point John to a certain extent, but didnt a certain Jazz lifestyle also screw up a few lives? Or was Garcia the only musician to take junk?Have no Jass musicians shot smack? and didnt a fair few sad sacks play follow their leader?
I have no reason to apologise to anyone about my taste in music , and if you read my earliest responses in this thread you will see how my original hopes about the Dead were dashed when they didnt live up to my (sic) expectations about what a radical band could acheive in the real world, yeah capitalism recuperated even this most radical gesture, and what am I left with? In my opinion,great, great music from 69 and 72!
I post here about the Dead because I think that here are several posters whose opinions about music, both Jass and other is refreashingly undogmatic and certainly non sycophantic and who have opened my ears to plenty the last couple of years, and one thread also takes me back to my first love, and such is the nature of first love that it is often coloured by nostalgia... if you dont like them, fine and dandy,
Im off to clear the drive of snow....and then I am going to listen to the latest Cheikh Lo album, thats not jazz either.