Dead & Company to perform concerts at Grateful Dead’s old stomping ground of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco this summer.

At that time, LSD was legal. They did an acid test in front of the fountain. The Grateful Dead set up right in front of the steps of the Natural History Museum.” This was on Sunday, September 24 ...

the home where the author Ken Kesey hosted his first public drug-fueled Acid Test on Dec. 4, 1965. The occasion marked the Bay Area jam band’s inaugural performance under the name Grateful Dead ...

Heritage Auctions has a poster up for bid that is billed as the very first Grateful Dead concert poster because it’s for the acid test in San Jose on Dec. 4, 1965. But the address on the poster ...

The troupe’s first gig using the Grateful Dead moniker occurred on Dec. 4, 1965, at one of Ken Kesey’s famed Acid Tests in San Jose. The Grateful Dead title was officially retired in 1995 ...