In October1965, the Spoonful returned to the West Coast, where their image and sound proved influential in the emerging San Francisco scene, particularly in the city's Haight-Ashbury district, a center of the 1960s counterculture. The band appeared for a week at the hungry i, one of the most prominent clubs in America's folk-music scene, and on October24, they headlined a dance party at the Longshoreman's Union Hall in the city's Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood.; . Organized by the concert-production collective Family Dog Productions, the event combined rock music with light shows and psychedelic drugs, and it was among the earliest events of its kind in San Francisco; Jacobsen reflected, "That whole idea of going and listening to music and getting high started there". In attendance at the Longshoreman's show were members of the Grateful Dead, an acoustic-folk group, who were inspired by the Spoonful's performance to similarly "go electric" in their style.
In October1965, the Spoonful returned to the West Coast, where their image and sound proved influential in the emerging San Francisco scene, particularly in the city's Haight-Ashbury district, a center of the 1960s counterculture. The band appeared for a week at the hungry i, one of the most prominent clubs in America's folk-music scene, and on October24, they headlined a dance party at the Longshoreman's Union Hall in the city's Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood.; . Organized by the concert-production collective Family Dog Productions, the event combined rock music with light shows and psychedelic drugs, and it was among the earliest events of its kind in San Francisco; Jacobsen reflected, "That whole idea of going and listening to music and getting high started there". In attendance at the Longshoreman's show were members of the Grateful Dead, an acoustic-folk group, who were inspired by the Spoonful's performance to similarly "go electric" in their style.