There could be entire books devoted to the ways in which the Dead differed from the other bands of the same era and genre. In this early example of 1968 from Eagle’s Auditorium on January 22nd, we find the band fully defined (and Mickey had only joined the band as drummer number two a scant few months earlier). Maybe we aren’t meant to see exactly how it happened?ġ968 comes along and the band has clearly evolved into a psychedelic rock band like no other. In an interesting analogy, it could be said that history has formed 1967 into a mystery not unlike a caterpillar’s metamorphosis into a butterfly. While those glimpses are all on the same frequency, they actually end up sounding like very different radio stations altogether. We have so little of the music from 1967 that the little glimpses we get are like spending an hour trying to tune in a radio dial to our favorite station and only hearing it for fractions of a second, a mere handful of times. The Grateful Dead were evolving at light speed.
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