This event was a Benefit for the NYC Chapter of the Hells Angels and cost just $2 to get in. The Dead were playing on the backs of Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, both having been released in that same year and Pippen was in fine form. This is an original first printing concert poster advertising the event which is not only oversized but made with the silkscreen process using Dayglo inks. Tales From the Golden Road co-host Gary Lambert attended the show and was the first show he was “miracled” at.
"The Anderson is a broken-down palace if ever there was one. It's beautiful inside but it's been closed for a while and has no power — it is pitch-dark inside. The Angels rent a huge generator and run the cables right smack down the middle of the aisle. The generator is so loud that it has to be set up outside on the street, but every time the door is opened this terrible thumpity-thump just about obliterates the band. Noxious gas fumes blow in, too (somewhat masked by billowing clouds of marijuana smoke). Sandy has gotten hold of a couple of pounds of pot, and the girls have been rolling it up for days. He proceeds to pass the whole thing out into the audience. Pigpen peers out at the crumbling baroque decor of the Anderson through the smoke and fumes and says: 'If there was ever a Sistine Chapel in hell, this is it!'" (Grateful Dead Manager Rock Scully 1996, p. 201).
An online recollection by “Montauk Harv,” reads; “Showed up with no tickets and got in line....We were lined up between wooden horses about 15 feet apart and really crammed in trying to get nearer to the ticket window. A rival gang came up on the outside and the next thing you know clubs, chains and who knows what appear and people start screaming and running, knocking me over onto the ground. I run across the street and in no time it seemed like a hundred NYC cops are everywhere....But wait, now I see a clear path to the ticket window! I run across the street to it and low and behold, a Hell's Angel is in the booth, blood coming down his face, and he sells me a ticket! I go in and The Dead are already playing. A Hell's Angel is walking around with a cigar box handing out joints. I must be in Wonderland!”