Yeah, Gene Ween likes the Grateful Dead, but I can't speak for Dean, I can't recall him mentioning them. Neither of them like Frank Zappa, but he is still one of my favorite musicians ever. I don't really care either way. Trust me, I put forth a valid effort to like Phish and all that jamband shit and i just cannot stand it. Thats not to say I hate *all* jambands. Parliament Funkadelic is very much a jamband and I think they're fantastic. Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, i loved. I've caught the tail-end of two Galactic sets at a couple of festivals and I thought they sounded good. Anyways, I'm just saying I hate shit like Phish, The String Cheese Incident (the worst), Widespread Panic, etc.
There can still be hype outside of a fucking mass media praise. All it takes is a few of you wooks to start following a band and more will latch on and start following. voila, hype.
and yeah, right, the chances of Bonnaroo not being successful were like
so incredibly high 