I lived in an 8-person collective house in upstate NY. There were 4 punk and four deadheads. Da punx, myself included, were forming a band so we started doing punk-style Grateful Dead covers just to annoy our housemates. Understand that in Ithaca NY in the late '80s, Grateful Dead covers played live EVERY NIGHT OF THE WEEK. It would have just been a joke, but then a touring band asked us to put on a show so we put ourselves on the bill. The rest was history. A very, very, very minor bit of history, but still history.