For me it was The Grateful Dead - I spent most of my life sneering at them because all I ever heard were lousy bootleg tapes. On top of that, the folks who my age that were into them were the stoners whose judgements on anything weren't exactly trustworthy.

I was born in 1964.. so picture me as a teenager in the late 70s trying to grasp The Dead when my only exposure to them were bootleg cassettes blared by troubled kids who were either drunk or stoned or both. It didn't help matters any that the Studio Albums The Dead put out were hardly representative of their style.

I went on Poo-pooing them until I met my Husband in 1994. He had spent some time following them around and he just didn't understand how I, a Folkie, couldn't grasp what was good about The Dead. I finally took a listen to some of the more inspired songs and something clicked in my head.

Now I'm a little sorry I didn't take a closer listen sooner.