The Grateful Dead
Dave DiMartino, MOJO, Summer 2007
WE ARE GETTING ahead of ourselves slightly, but we are in New York at the tail end of 1967, late December in the Village, in a club of some repute called the Electric Circus, at which the Grateful Dead are playing a two-night stand.
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