Grateful Dead was born 50 years ago in ... San Jose?

The legendary band forever associated with San Francisco had already been gigging in the South Bay and Peninsula as The Warlocks until it discovered that name was taken. On Dec. 4, 1965, the group played at an 'Acid Test,' in an old Victorian house where San Jose City Hall now sits, for the first time as the Grateful Dead.

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