Dead Head or Dan Fan: Who’s the Bigger Asshole?
9 min readAug 17, 2022
On the spectrum of Grateful Dead to Steely Dan, wherein does your rock music pretentiousness lie?
Do you believe your music has blessed you with spiritual enlightenment, bestowed upon you the responsibility of subverting capitalism and sticking it to the man? Or has your music granted you the distinction of intellectual superiority, as one cannot even begin to appreciate your music without understanding the genius of its melodic idiosyncrasies, rhythmic underpinnings, and harmonic…