In early 1967, the Grateful Dead were finally seeing a form of success. The San Francisco underground scene at the Fillmore and Avalon Ballrooms was increasingly hip and popular, and the Dead had recorded and would soon release their first album on Warner Brothers. For all those indications of success, however, the band had hardly played outside the Bay Area and were scrambling for any paying booking that they could find. While shows at the Fillmore, Avalon and a few other places in 1967 are well documented, many more events are only known from the faintest traces of evidence. In many cases, it has been hard to determine whether some "known" shows from 1967 even took place.

One such show was the Grateful Dead's booking at the San Francisco branch of the famed Whisky A-Go-Go, for six nights from March 10-16, 1967. Like many bookings at the SF Whisky, the band was scheduled to play from Friday (Mar 10) through Thursday (Mar 16), skipping Monday night (Mar 13). The SF Whisky is so obscure, that sources such as Deadlists used to list the dates at the far more famous West Hollywood Whisky-A-Go-Go. However, I am the only person to research the SF Whisky and identified for certain that the band had been booked there. On my initial foray into this arcane subject, I came to the conclusion that the Dead were not likely to have played the club, since it was in its final days.