The Grateful Dead played the Family Dog on the Great Highway with Albert Collins and Ballet Afro-Haiti, the night after the light artists' strike had struck the same booking.

Albert Collins, second-billed, was the Texas guitarist known as the Iceman for the cold tone he got from a Telecaster tuned to an open minor chord and played with his fingers — a genuinely singular technique that nobody successfully copied. Ballet Afro-Haiti, third, is the kind of booking only the Family Dog made: a dance company on a rock bill, at a ballroom on Ocean Beach, in the middle of a labour dispute.