Okay, so I nearly set fire to an orphanage yesterday upon reading the National would be "curating" a Grateful Dead tribute comp, because...because...god, where can I start? The innate sophisto "we really appreciate what the Dead meant" smugness? The muso/hippie vibe given off by the whole endeavor? The fact that these schmucks will make money on something that SO DOES NOT NEED TO EXIST? Plus, Rick Griffin is dead, so who will do the sure-to-be-shitty cover?
If they had any stones at all, they would just reissue the exact same tribute record from 1991 or whenever with Jane's Addiction doing "Ripple" on it and see if any of the NPR dorx who buy this even notice. But, no - I'm sure Jane's will be back with "Ripple 2011" next to Fleet Foxes doing "Box of Rain" with a picture of Jerry next to a pyramid back in '78 on the cover.
The real injustice is that I'M not paid to bitch about this [shakes wrinkled fist at sky]...
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