Just a couple blocks up the hill from the intersection of Haight and Ashbury, “the Grateful Dead House” is where much of the band lived as psychedelic rock took off in the mid-to-late 1960s. From around late 1966 to early 1968, Dead guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, as well as their keyboardist Pigpen, lived here with managers Rock Scully and Danny Rifkin, along with some friends and associates. In October 1967, all except Garcia were busted for marijuana possession, Garcia and girlfriend Mountain Girl getting warned in time to avoid arrest as they returned home from shopping. The Dead sometimes played free concerts in the late ‘60s in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle three blocks down the hill.
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