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[QUOTE="8893, post: 2728493, member: 93"]
Still wrong man.  Really, really wrong.  I know hundreds of Deadheads and your assumptions would be wrong for the vast majority of them.

Going just by the examples you cite, which are pretty pedestrian even by your standards, not only do I and most I know own albums from all of them, but Bowie and Costello would be icons for sure.  I've seen both live several times and have actually met Costello.  Cooper is a caricature to me for the most part, but what kid didn't love "School's Out"?

I don't have any issue at all with people who don't get the Dead.  I expect that most don't.  Just as we can't help our musical DNA, we can't help the way that our brains are wired.  Some are wired more conservative and some are wired more liberal, and it surprises me none the way that it breaks down here.

The issue I have is when people who don't get it make pejorative assumptions about those who do.

Which brings me back to what I said many posts ago on this subject: good music is whatever moves [I]you[/I].  Isn't that what it's supposed to do?  If it moves someone else but doesn't move you, why does that bother you, such that you need to cast aspersions on it and the people who like it?

That is something I will simply never, ever get.
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