Yet there was a time when this marvelous blues singer, who also played harmonica and keyboards, was practically the face of the franchise.ġ2. Remembering Pigpen: Some of the newer fans might not be familiar with McKernan, who died at age 27 in 1973. Busted: The band’s Haight-Ashbury pad was the scene of a high-profile drug bust in late 1967, which drew the above-the-masthead, front-page, all-caps headline, “ROCK BAND BUSTED,” in the San Francisco Chronicle.ġ1. We’ll let you Google the address, if you must.ġ0. Summer of Love: The Dead were the most famous residents of Haight-Ashbury, living just a few doors up from that intersection. Acid rock: One of the important things to come out of those Acid Tests for the Grateful Dead was a partnership with famed LSD manufacturer Owsley Stanley, who’d go on to finance, produce, record and do pioneering sound work for the band.ĩ. Passing the Test: That inaugural outing came during one of author Ken Kesey’s first “Acid Tests.” The Grateful Dead basically became the house band for Kesey’s LSD-inspired get-togethers, which are so amazingly described in Tom Wolfe’s 1968 book, “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”Ĩ. 4, 1965, at a house near the San Jose Civic Auditorium, where the Rolling Stones were playing that same eveningħ. 1: The newly named Grateful Dead performed its first gig on Dec. New name: Garcia stumbled across a perfect band name - Grateful Dead - while thumbing through a folklore dictionary.Ħ. Grateful Dead: 50 things you need to know about the iconic band – The Mercury News Close Menuĥ.
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