The Grateful Dead Didn’t Leave 710 Ashbury—They Were Pushed Out
A police raid, 100,000 uninvited arrivals, and a drug scene turned dangerous — the real reasons the Grateful Dead left 710 Ashbury Street in 1968.
A police raid, 100,000 uninvited arrivals, and a drug scene turned dangerous — the real reasons the Grateful Dead left 710 Ashbury Street in 1968.
The Grateful Dead’s oldest live recording has been attributed to January 8, 1966 at the Fillmore Acid Test for decades. Frame-by-frame forensic analysis proves most of it came from Los Angeles — and the Merry Pranksters who assembled it never cared about the difference.
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