What was the former name of The Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead band's first show was at Magoo's Pizza located at 639 Santa Cruz Avenue in suburban Menlo Park, on May 5, 1965. They continued playing bar shows as the Warlocks, but quickly changed its name after finding out that the Velvet Underground had put out a record under the same name. The first show under the name Grateful Dead was in San Jose on December 4, 1965, at one of Ken Kesey's Acid Tests. Earlier demo tapes have survived, but the first of over 2,000 concerts known to have been recorded by the band's fans was a show at the Fillmore
The Very Best of Grateful Dead project assistant Album - "Billboard" The Very Best of Grateful Dead The Very Best of Grateful Dead is a single-CD compilation album chronicling all the years of the San Francisco psychedelic band the Grateful Dead. It is the first release to document every label the band recorded on: Warner Bros. Records, Grateful Dead Records/United Artists Records and Arista Records. It was released on September 16, 2003. A songbook under the same name was released alongside this album which provides lyrics and musical tablature. On AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said, ""The Very Best of Grateful Dead" marks the first attempt to