Sixty years ago today, on December 4, 1965, the Warlocks debuted as the Grateful Dead at the first public Acid Test in San ...

It almost didn’t happen. That night, Ken Kesey and his friends the Merry Pranksters held an event called the Acid Test Graduation, which was originally supposed to feature the Dead. As the band who ...

Mayor Matt Mahan and San Jose Rocks Invite the Community to Historic Plaque Unveiling at City Hall on December 4 ...

Photo: Herb Greene The Grateful Dead have claimed a new title. Today, 60 years after the band performed their first gig, a San Jose Acid Test, under the ...

The tribute highlights the band's South Bay roots, predating their rise in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene.

Recorded actuality of the activities of Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, and Grateful Dead on an acid trip in San Francisco in 1967.|THE ACID TEST / produced by Laurie Garrett. In 1967 members of the ...

The Chambers Project in Grass Valley, CA unveils the most comprehensive Grateful Dead art exhibition ever assembled for 60th anniversary.

The legendary band’s first gig under that name was at an “acid test” held at a downtown San Jose home on Dec. 4, 1965.

The band performed their first concert on 4 December 1965. In 1981, their leader Jerry Garcia talked to the BBC about how they became superstars but "never sold out".

Sixty years later, San Jose officials will unveil a plaque celebrating the connection with the most famous jam band of all ...

In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the journalist broke free of his contrarian clichés to illuminate the origins of 1960s counterculture. Ad Policy Jerry Garcia and Rock Scully, of the Grateful Dead, ...

The Grateful Dead has set a Guinness World Record for the most Top 40 albums in Billboard history, reaching 66 entries with ...