I like the Cure so does my girl. I can assure you we are not gay.
RE: Grateful Dead covers and covers in general.
The Dead did many many covers, so did Phish. All of the great bands do them because like us the guys in the band are fans of music. I really like the covers because it sort of gives you a glimpse in to the musical palate of the band. I may be way off base but hearing the band interwaeve between original tunes and classic tunes is awesome. Example would be the killer Memory of liz reed -> coma -> liz reed. I think the band is in a place now that they put the "sound" on any of the songs they play. I think they do make the tunes their own, it isn\'t like they are trying to sound like Jerry or Trey. The phish covers are tougher because a knock on the band in the early days was that they sounded just like phish etc.
We all know the original material and I have to say that there a very few tunes if any that I dont like. sure there some I have heard more than others. I have seen the band do shakedown a few times and it is always fun because it is a good tune. Would I want to see them do a Warf Rat or something like that sure but because the pace and style is nothing like the Breakfast normally do. When they got really bluesy at the last show I was at. It is things like that I remember, or simply put the The Breakfast translations of the originals and covers is why I go to the shows.
