The two 1960s bands Lou Reed couldn’t stand: “The most untalented bores”Lou Reed was a famously hard man to please. You can go through a list of his insult history and find some of the greatest bands of all time in there. Of course, he understood that because he was a key member of the New York scene. But luckily for us, it wasn’t just Blighty that found itself in the crosshairs of Lou Reed’s criticism. Grateful Dead managed to get their own back on Reed when the two bands shared the bill in the late ‘60s in Chicago.