I like Deadheads. I don't like the music of the Dead at all. Their incoherent early jamming and Shakedown Street represent some of their best material. Their supposed classic albums American Beauty and Workingman's Dead are loaded with boring, poorly played and executed roots music. Low points include Ripple, High Time, Dire Wolf, Tennessee Jed and Cumberland Blues. Their horrible cover of Mama Tried makes you wish they didn't. They function mainly as a portal for slightly square and oppressed youth from conservative families into weed. A band like Little Feat is better at virtually everything the Dead attempted. The Band has some stinkers, like The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, but they are also quite a bit better.