The Grateful Dead will forever be associated with San Francisco, the epicenter of the ’60s hippie movement in which the band did indeed play a prominent role during its less-than-two-year stay at 710 Ashbury St.

But the first official Grateful Dead show was actually performed some 65 miles south of Haight Ashbury in San Jose on Dec. 4, 1965. It’s a relatively little-known fact, which isn’t all that surprising given the amount of times that this legendary psychedelic rock group — which was actually born in the Palo Alto/Menlo Park area — has been marketed as a “San Francisco band.”

That could change on Dec. 4 when City of San Jose officials plan to finally unveil a plaque at City Hall — 60 years after that historic first Grateful Dead concert took place — celebrating the connection betwee

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