[sadie]

"jam" bands don't suck necessarily. some suck. some suck really fucking bad. i saw the dead many times, though, and i wouldn't place them in that category.

yah, they didn't speak much to the audience (one of my good friends has always criticized them for this), but they communicated shitloads, amongst themselves and with the hippie freaks rocking to their varying levels of insanity.

my ex used to play what i dubbed "the headache tapes" continuously. and though those bootlegs gave me teh migraine at times, i sometimes felt like a detective listening to their subtle clues foreshadowing the next song.

i'm glad i got the chance to experience them is all.