1967 – The Grateful Dead and Big Brother & the Holding Company Posted on 1:06 pm by Stu Sweatman 1967 – The Grateful Dead and Big Brother & the Holding Company perform at the New Year’s Wail/Whale in San Francisco. Hell’s Angels hosts the bash to thank Haight-Ashbury hippies for bailing Angel Chocolate George from jail. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet