a week, for six weeks, at the In Room in Belmont as the Warlocks, but quickly changed the band's name after finding out that a different band known as the Warlocks had put out a record under that name. (The Velvet Underground also had to change its name from the Warlocks.)

The name "Grateful Dead" was chosen from a dictionary. According to Lesh, Garcia "picked up an old Britannica