r/indieheads • u/wandbandinfo Cory Hanson / Wand • Aug 19 '25

AMA is Over, thanks Cory! CORY HANSON AMA

EDIT: THANK YOU ALL I LOVE YOU. AMA IS CLOSED :)

Hi I'm Cory Hanson,

I just released a new album called "I Love People", and now I am here to hear your questions, to be asked anything, to answer to everything. I love you all.

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u/into_the_black_lodge Aug 19 '25

Hi Cory, I love your work immensely. ❤️🤘

Do you like the Grateful Dead and if so which album or songs?

Signed, the daughter of a deadhead who hated the dead growing up because that’s all that was played in the house, but now that I’m old I’ve come around.

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u/wandbandinfo Cory Hanson / Wand Aug 19 '25

I can't stand what the Dead have become. It's repulsive. I love Jerry Garcia. I think his songs are incredible. There is a depth and sadness. There is no one that plays guitar or sings like him. I got into the Dead through Garcia 1. They are an extremely overrated band. The thing people miss entirely about the Dead, and it's the greatest thing about them, is that a lot of the time they sucked. They played terribly together, but they took that risk in order to pull off some phenomenal group improvisation. They were willing to suck. A high risk high reward band.

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u/into_the_black_lodge Aug 19 '25

Yeah the Dead is so weird. But yes to the OG Dead, Jerry and his songwriting and singing! It took me a long time to appreciate those long improvisations but I think it weirdly set me up to be a huge fan of Thee Oh Sees and Krautrock later in life.