Grateful Dead

Hippies across Northern California come together to celebrate all of life and nothing special at the Be-In in Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967. Almost all of the major SF rock bands, plus Beat poets who act as spiritual elder brothers, join in a very special afternoon's delight. The Dead record their first album, The- Grateful Dead, for Warner Bros. in January ' it's rather rushed, but a start. In June they travel east for the first time and present themselves to New York City. On their return, they take part in the mid-June Monterey Pop Festival, which introduces the psychedelic bands of SF and London to the world. In September, the band adds a new member, Mickey Hart, on percussion, and this new energy propels them into a major new level of creativity, with important new songs like 'Dark Star' and 'The Other One' added to their repertoire.