'Tt's really hard to talk about it because there's no good language to use. We're talking about the invisible. Y'know, what the hell is it? It's like talking about flying saucers. Either you've had the experience or you haven't.' The man with the Cheshire Cat grin and the grizzly beard makes a gun of his hand and mimes blowing his brains out. 'Really, there is no language...' He chuckles and mulls it over. Can he, Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist, sonic architect and Captain Trips of that most cosmic and awesome of bands, the Grateful Dead, explain why so many people attach what can only be described as a spiritual significance to his work? Voice of the gods 'Well ok...' he decides, lighting a cig. 'There is a language... the language of trance, the language of magic - y'know, where music basically comes from, which is the voice of the gods speaking. I think all these things must come into play somewhere but I lack a good enough grasp of the anthropology of it. I don't really know how to talk about it.' OK then, I will. The Grateful Dead will go down in history as America's biggest, most expansive, most intuitive, most telepathic, most surprising, most uplifting, most astonishing, most experimental, most ecstatic, most rewarding musical experience. Bar none.
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