Dead Heads.

That name probably makes you either cringe, chuckle, or shake your head.

Boomers – now with graying hair and growing girths – are the most likely to chuckle. What Boomer doesn't recall the hype and hypnotism of that apparently indefatigable '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s rock band, the Grateful Dead? No band came to stand for a whole generation's growing pains like the Grateful Dead.

Boosters – the parents of the Boomers – are most likely, and with good reason, to cringe. They remember heated arguments with teenagers over the wild music and wilder lifestyle the Dead promoted. More than a few of the white hairs on Booster moms and dads can probably be attributed to worrying about the influence the Dead, and bands like it, were having on their children.

Busters and Millennium Kid…