Pink Floyd

Dead concerts were like a 3hr sound check and for those who excuse them when they were often "off" pros get paid to always be "on" thats what seperates them from common men. Color me unimpressed but half the crowd is so stoned (and simple) they dont know what is going on anyway. They only worry about somebody hogging the bowl or whippet balloon.

How'd we get from Floyd to Dead? And I don't mean that literally. :-)

"I've had the Pink Floyd library in hi-rez for decades. It's called vinyl."

Too funny, and spot-on accurate!

You can all say what you want and feel what you want about Floyd. But I heard a concert (The Delicate Sound of Thunder tour) they did back in the late 80's that had the clearest and most powerful outdoor system I've heard to this day. It was at Ohio State Stadium "the Shoe" and it rated at the top for mei in sound, production, performance, bass, clarity, everything.. It was everything you'd ever want to hear at an outdoor concert. So impressive...The atmoshphere was electric .. not boring at all. I'll always remember the excitement of hearing such an awesome show.

Dead concerts were like a 3hr sound check

This is a remarkable overstatement. I caught around 35 or so shows in the 80s-90s (not many, by the standards!): While there certainly was unevenness, shows ranged from well put together professional efforts to "Wow!" with only a couple of clunkers (all with an excellent sound system).

To each their own -- I don't listen to Dead much anymore -- but I suspect anyone who equates then with a bar band either hasn't seen much of the Dead, much of bar bands, or not much of either.

Interesting question, how the Dead wandered into a Floyd thread.

John