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yeah but the GD following wasn't primarily about the quality of music. It was about hoodwinking and entraining a generation into thinking they were part of a grassroots subculture that would bring cosmic change when in fact it was social engineering applied to pitting generations against each other, and putting an ethos and happy face to being self absorbed and numbed from reality (i.e. socially useless). No mystery why Dead is in their name.
I don't know what this post is about but, for the record, I listened to Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention. (Saw them live, once.) Also Captain Beefheart, King Crimson, Savoy Brown, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, The Eagles, Carly Simon, The Bee Gees, 10cc, Black Sabbath, Cream, Blind Faith, Dr Hook, Fleetwood Mac, Free, Elton fucking John (before he "came out"), Pretenders, Queen, Santana and ... too many to remember.
Do I get any brownie points?
You're an idiot. Thriller is the top grossing album ever (still). To say MJ didn't have the following the GD has shows your brain was fried, bro. Good luck.
I see you're new to Q. We will all be surprised about MJ. Just because the same unemployed people follow a band around is meaningless. If you have to be on drugs for the nusic to make sense, it's not good music. Fact. >50% of any given GD/Phish audience members are high as kites. You laugh about Mozart. While ignoring that 75% of what GD/Phish (and every other musician ) "does comes directly from Mozart. MJ has performed in 35 countries. GD in 12. It's laughable. I could spend hours getting into the theory behind how every song is lame and trivial at best. Let's agree to disagree.