This is from GQ magazine recently

1. They sell out arenas in two minutes, and you can't name any of their last five albums.
2. Their voluminous collection of live recordings, allowing fans to bicker over which version of "Brain of J" was better -- Ljubljana 6/19/00 or Sacramento 10/30/00.
3. Sound great in a Volvo S60.
4. Odd NBA connections. Dead had Bill Walton as a superfan; PJ briefly called themselves Mookie Blaylock and named their first album Ten, after Blaylock's number.
5. Love to cover Bob Dylan.
6. Played with Neil Young.
7. Quirky side projects -- Jerry Garcia had New Riders of the Purple Sage, and Bob Weir has Ratdog; PJ's Mike McCready has the Rockfords, Stone Gossard has Brad, and Jeff Ament has Three Fish.
8. A lot better than Phish.
9. Generally bad hair.
10. Two words: shorts onstage.

Was Brain of J played at those shows?

Hell If I know, but considering that was a little before PJ's new album - I think most people could name Vitalogy.

Humorous, but PJ dominates Grateful Dead and yes, they are both better than Phish.

Yea the Phish one was my favorite. I used to work with this huge Phish fan & we'd always argue who was better between PJ & Phish, so that brought a to me

anyone find it odd that for the past 3 years or so (especially over on that "other" board that ya'll love so much, and half were banned from) ... that the boards have really been beating the whole "PJ is like the GD" and "Pearl Jam Fans are like GD Fans" "PJ is to Grunge what GD were to Psychedelic Rock" thing TO DEATH ...

and suddenly within a month of the release of this new album,
no less than FOUR magazines\publications have run with a story about PJ as either being the new GD, being like the GD, having fans like the GD, or their shows being equivilant to a GD show.

I just think it's odd that fans started saying this around '03 alot,
and now the media is running with it hardcore.

Ok, maybe i shouldn't think it odd.

Well It's hard for me to see how PJ are the new Grateful Dead, when Pearl Jam are my all-time favorite band & I've never liked the GD.

This looks like it took all of 7 seconds to write.

They forgot one though.

** Both frontmen have beautiful beards.

Shouldn't this be something like:

1. Smelly fans
2. Amount of weed smoked at shows
3. .....


Whatever, I just don't get or support the GD comparisons.

Pearl Jam's worst selling album has probably sold about as much as GD's best selling...

I think PJ is much more like Zep or the Who than Grateful Dead, only fanbases are similar in obsession & concerts.

i'm not really a dead fan at all. they have some good songs, i think alot of it sounds the same though. i can respect their career and i think its cool pearl jam is compared to them.

on a side note, phish fucking sucks.

if you can drink out of two bottles at the same time without spilling you can have any kind of hair youd want

this should be made into a poster

should have been the cover of the new album

[quote="GiventoFly14"]

Alright Eddie... We know you love Jim Morrison & all.. But cmon now...

all the things i was going to say

the only dead song i've heard is casey jones, decent and catchy but nothing that great

eddie vedder buttsex?

uh, blue note.
try ANYTHING off of American Beauty,
if you like darker stuff try anything off of Aoxomaxoa ...

other than that, you got Athems of the Sun for "Born Crosseyed" and then you'd have to hop and pick around off of other albums to find quality studio work, imho ... the dead started to suck on record after the begining of the 70s.

Wheres this picture from?