Additional Counterpoint
At the end of the original Henley version of “The Boys of Summer,” there is a somewhat cryptic lyric regarding a “Dead-Head sticker on a Cadillac.” I didn’t get this immediately, but some research yielded an explanation: essentially a disestablishmentarian (whoo!) symbol on an item typifying the establishment, indicating a breakdown of the original ideals of the movement.
Well, the somewhat cool thing (or stupid, I guess, if you’re a purist) is that the Ataris’ remake changed the lyrics to “Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.” I’m lame, so I hadn’t heard much about Black Flag aside from the name (in fact, I’m lame enough that I thought they were saying “Black-Black” at first)… but Black Flag was a late-70’s punk band, more in line with the Ataris’ vision, so I thought that was a cool update, since the Grateful Dead wouldn’t have a lot of relevance to more recent emo-ish music.