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Fact #117035

When:

Short story:

The Grateful Dead play at Winterland Arena. San Francisco, California, USA.

Full article:

David Gans (journalist/author in audience) : There were several identifiable scraps in the smoking crater of my mind after that first show (March 5, 1972). I later figured out that they were "Greatest Story Ever Told," "Bertha," and "Black-Throated Wind." Plus they played "Good Lovin'," and although I was as far away from the stage as you could be (in the last row of the high part of the balcony of Winterland), I got at least an inkling of what Pigpen was capable of. Unfortunately, that was the only time I saw him.
Source : http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.aspx?StoryID=6914