The bill also included Jefferson Airplane, the Great Society, John Handy Quintet, the Mystery Trend and the Gentlemen's Band. The benefit was turning into a genuine happening.
In between those dates, the Warlocks had agreed to perform a benefit concert for the San Francisco Mime Troupe. "My little attempt at having a straight life was really a fiction." The second Acid Test was held on Dec. "The whole world just went kablooey," guitarist Jerry Garcia said, recalling his first experiences with the drug in the band bio, A Long Strange Trip. The event proved to be, perhaps, the most profound building block of the band's early days. Ken Kesey held what was to become known as the first "Acid Test" in November 1965, with the Warlocks in tow. As things began to cement, they would become fixtures on the San Francisco music scene, not only for their music, but for their lifestyle. Formed in early 1965, the band set out playing a mixture of folk, blues, and rock and roll, all melted down into their own unique vision. It was a short, strange trip from the earliest days of the Warlocks before taking the name that the world would know them by, the Grateful Dead.
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