The same Independence Day, the Grateful Dead played the first of two nights at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago, with the Buddy Miles Express and the Sir Douglas Quintet -- a song-oriented, country-flavored set in their Workingman's-era transition, and the first known performance of "Let Me In." A Chicago Tribune reviewer, seventeen years old, found them "excellent" if "nothing out of the ordinary." The night before, in Colorado Springs, the band had been thrown out of a Ramada Inn after Pigpen roughed up a cigarette machine.