On New Year’s Eve 1978 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, The Blues Brothers Show Band and Revue were opening for New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Grateful Dead when someone laced the entire band’s drinks with acid just before the set.Read more
The Grateful Dead played the final show at San Francisco’s famous Winterland Ballroom with an eight hour jam on New Year’s Eve, 1978. They had a hot breakfast buffet at dawn.Read more
Jimi Hendrix performed The Fillmore on New Year’s Day, 1969 (and, technically, 1970). He played Auld Lang Syne at midnight.Read more
