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Originally Posted by kelchlsm
Its impossible to list a favorite band ahead of others.....proceeds to list favorite bands
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But not more than the Beatles, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Big Head Todd, Dream Theater, Yes, Zappa, or the Police.
They are merely another handful of my favorites...none really above others...they reside on the plateau of my favorite musics. Many genres, many artists, many records, many songs. Coltrane may be my favorite musician, but he's not who I listen to most, nowhere near in the last couple of decades. It's my hundreds of hours of listening to him play and improvise...looking at how he composes and arranges. I'm not sure any musician on any other instrument or in any other genre has ever been as good as Coltrane. The human is actually my "favorite" instrument...nothing is more nuanced or unique (yet oddly more limiting in most cases). So, given a choice (which I have all the time), I'm more likely to listen to a band with vocals. The Avetts became one of bands to join the fray about a decade ago, while Isbell got there within the last couple of years. I have no top five, 10, or whatever and if I complied one it would be of that day...that moment.
But it's one of many areas where I don't see eye to eye w/ a lot of DMB fans, especially on ants. Listening to music or seeing shows isn't a sport or a contest. I don't care about stats. Because of my listening habits and jumping around to different stuff all of the time, I can't/won't dedicate my time listening to many/most/every available live versions of DMB tunes to determine the "best". We do listen to live DMB, but the preference is that it's in that moment. There's a few official live releases (from RCA), live trax, and DMBlives that we spin, but it's mostly the studio albums for us. Same goes for most bands.
I'm fine with not being in the norm and wasn't saying having those few go to bands/artists isn't to larger norm, it just wasn't in my circles growing up and especially when I was studying music. It's actually my music appreciation that got in the way of playing, writing, and performing. There are many aspects of life where I gladly fall outside of norm, which is fine.
I'm just sharing my views and experience as an obsessive music fan. It seems like it might be bothering some folks. I was thinking it would be more of discussion, but I get it.
Cheers all.