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This might be one of the weirdest comparisons I've heard in a long time, and from someone at NPR a little hard to believe. Blaspheme for most Dead fans that no doubt has Jerry Garcia rolling over in his grave...
"It's going to be sort of a big classic Trump rally, like the ones that he held toward the end of his campaign where he filled arenas all over the country. And there will be tailgating, because Trump rallies are in some ways like going to see the Grateful Dead. You get to hear the songs you want to hear. And he always plays the greatest hits, if you will."
Like the Grateful Dead were about playing their greatest hits. Though her political insights are generally far better nuanced, no doubt she has never been to a Dead concert and doesn't understand that comparing Trump to Grateful Dead concerts is something like comparing...
Well don't get me started!
Well.....myself and friends WOULD travel as far as 2 hours from home to go to a Trump rally about the same distance as a concert. But more like a country concert or a Christian concert, more about God and country.
That said, Jerry Garcia was a damn fine musician. He could play with any group. I found him playing roots and blue grass. How can any body compare them to Trump?
Well if you consider the Grateful Dead "too commercial," maybe there's a comparison to Trump that fits, but really? First time I've ever heard of this band that probably performed live more than any other as "too commercial." Usually "counter-culture" is more what comes to mind with most people who know anything about the Grateful Dead going back to the beginning.
My husband and I both have full time jobs. We also own a business together. Beside those two things plus family commitments and other things going on in our lives, we don't really have time to attend any political rally.
Look, we loved Obama. It is my opinion that Obama is one of the greatest presidents this country ever had. And yet not once did we attend his rallies.
I loved Hillary. I still hold the opinion that she would have made a great president. Never attended her rallies, though.
Don't know how Trump supporters could have the time to attend his rallies like that.
Are you effin kidding me? He uses despicable wording at his rallies to stoke hatred of certain targets of rally-goers ire. He told a crowd to "knock the crap out of them" and he'd pay for an attendee's legal bills. His campaigns are so low in class that parent's had to keep their kids away from the evening news (!!!!). Plus, any school (especially elementary and high schools) with half-way decent discipline would have given in-school suspension if a student did or said anything Trump did.
I suppose it might be classy by state pen standards, but not by the standards of any environment remotely qualifying for polite company or one we want to raise our kids in. If I ever start using definitions and criteria of class that you're apparently using, I hope my nephews and nieces would have the good sense to refuse to have anything to do with me or at least call me out on my behavior.
The 1963 March on Washington was huge, and seemed quite well-behaved.
You beat me to it. When I read the sentence you quoted in the post you were replying to above, the bolded was the first thing I thought about.
His first stringed instrument as a child was the banjo. He played in several blue grass bands. In an interview I once read, he credited part of his unique style of guitar playing to his earlier banjo playing. He was a great mandolin player too. He continued playing blue grass until the day he died. He did a lot of amazing stuff with a mandolin player named David Grisman.
Not to mention without a middle finger since age five...
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