Fact #88674
When:
Short story:
Grateful Dead release their debut single, Don't Ease Me In/Stealin', on Scorpio Records, in the USA.
Full article:
Jerry Garcia (leader, Grateful Dead] : Luckily, our first record was not a huge success. It did OK, hit a little bit, and gave us national exposure. So now we got to play in New York and other places, but that we weren't immediately successful helped us in a huge way. It gave us a chance to be slow and deliberate about our own development. It kept us interested. Hell, we had to keep on working, which is really what we wanted to do anyway. We would have loved it if our first record went gold, but since it didn't, no major loss.
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