Blech. And the "terrible music" culture as well.
“The results, from one of the largest and longest studies on the health effects of marijuana, are hazier for heavy users — those who smoke two or more joints daily for several years. The data suggest that using marijuana that often might cause a decline in lung function, but there weren’t enough heavy users among the 5,000 young adults in the study to draw firm conclusions”
“Like cigarette smokers, marijuana users can develop throat irritation and coughs, but the study didn’t focus on those. It also didn’t examine lung cancer, but other studies haven’t found any definitive link between marijuana use and cancer”
There were cigarette smokers mixed in there as well so there was no actual control which makes this invalid, by scientific standards. So this is a bullshit advocacy study like global warming.
I think in the vault (as it is called) one can likely find a recording of every show the Dead played. Doubtful that such a complete recording record exists for any other band.
For every sucky moment (and there were plenty) there were manyu other moments of great, rootsy rock.
I have made it a mission of mine, for those who say the Dead sucked, to have them listen to American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead, and Reckoning. Largely acoustic records, with none of the silly excess often heard in live shows. None of the folks I’ve tried it on have become huge fans that I know of, but universally they were shocked at the complete lack of psychedalia.
And they mostly cannot believe that Garcia was a banjo picker in a bluegrass band, who once chickened out and skipped his audition for Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys.
Phish is a different story (at least for me). Inane lyrics and completely derivative music.