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I Second the motionTo second Mr. Sherwin's motion, this is an unusually fine vintage Dead release, better perhaps than the movie on which the recording is based.Those who love the band know all the songs and so many permutations. What they haven't heard is how very polished the band could be in extended performance: tight and musical and inventive and lovable.As for the engineers who produced this release, words are insufficient. There is wide dynamic range here, solid definition of all pieces and voices. As f…
To second Mr. Sherwin's motion, this is an unusually fine vintage Dead release, better perhaps than the movie on which the recording is based.Those who love the band know all the songs and so many permutations. What they haven't heard is how very polished the band could be in extended performance: tight and musical and inventive and lovable.As for the engineers who produced this release, words are insufficient. There is wide dynamic range here, solid definition of all pieces and voices. As for value, five superb discs at this price is almost ridiculous.Just as Bach taught the world counterpoint, the Dead taught rock the way of improvisation, and they teach it more effectively here than on any other concert reccording, Dick's Picks or compilation I've heard in years.A release that makes you feel glad you're alive, and that reminds you quietly and with dignity, that the world was aactually a little better once.A fabulous live release. Easily one of my top-10 live releases -- period.Buy it, or wonder what you missed.
Written by Birdman
Great performances. Horrendous reverb added in postproduction.Everybody already knows about the importance of this five-night run of Grateful Dead performances.I will not be listening to this recording very much because it has an outrageous reverb that was mixed in. Maybe it is from room mics and the person who did the mixing thought they'd better make it sound boomy like the audio from the movie. Maybe it is from actual processing during a recent remixing session for this particular compilation. I don't know. But there is a heinous predelay on the snare…
Everybody already knows about the importance of this five-night run of Grateful Dead performances.I will not be listening to this recording very much because it has an outrageous reverb that was mixed in. Maybe it is from room mics and the person who did the mixing thought they'd better make it sound boomy like the audio from the movie. Maybe it is from actual processing during a recent remixing session for this particular compilation. I don't know. But there is a heinous predelay on the snare drum that sounds like something I would expect to hear from a high school student mixing his garage band on a laptop.Anyway, the performances are great, and strikingly different from things they were doing a year prior. Anybody who wants to have a good thorough survey of the 1970s Grateful Dead should check out this movie and make a run through the recordings of these five shows, not so hard to find if you nose around the internet a bit. And the recordings that have been independently curated by fans over the years have much less reverb, again suggesting that a decision was only recently made to make this particular 5CD set sound more "live" via _TOO_MUCH_REVERB_!Performances, song selection: 5 stars. Sound: 2 stars. Thanks for reading.
Written by Helmut LandLine Sporgersi
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CD 1 : Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
format: number: title: number name artist hh:mm:ss 1U.S. Blues - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??2One More Saturday Night - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob?:??3China Cat Sunflower - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry?:??4I Know You Rider - Grateful Dead, Traditional?:??5Eyes of the World - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry?:??6China Doll - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??7Playing in the Band - Grateful Dead, Hart?:?? -
unknown format 2 : Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
format: number: title: number name artist hh:mm:ss 1Scarlet Begonias - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??2He's Gone - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??3Jam - Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead?:??4Weirdness - Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead?:??5The Other One - Grateful Dead, Kreutzmann?:??6Spanish Jam - Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead?:??7Mind Left Body Jam - Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead?:??8The Other Jam - Grateful Dead, Kreutzmann?:??9Stella Blue - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry?:??10Casey Jones - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry?:?? -
unknown format 3 : Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
format: number: title: number name artist hh:mm:ss 1Weather Report Suite - Grateful Dead, Andersen?:??2Jam - Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead?:??3Dark Star - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??4Morning Dew - Grateful Dead, Dobson?:??5Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead, Hardin?:??6Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad - Grateful Dead, Traditional?:?? -
unknown format 4 : Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
format: number: title: number name artist hh:mm:ss 1Uncle John's Band - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??2Big Railroad Blues - Grateful Dead, Lewis?:??3Tomorrow Is Forever - Grateful Dead, Parton?:??4Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead, Hunter?:??5He's Gone - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??6Caution Jam - Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead?:??7Drums - Grateful Dead, Kreutzmann?:??8Space - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??9Truckin' - Grateful Dead, Garica, Jerry?:??10Black Peter - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??11Sunshine Daydream - Grateful Dead, Hunter?:?? -
unknown format 5 : Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack
format: number: title: number name artist hh:mm:ss 1Playing in the Band - Grateful Dead, Hart?:??2Drums - Grateful Dead, Hart?:??3Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead, Hardin?:??4Drums - Grateful Dead, Hart?:??5The Other One - Grateful Dead, Kreutzmann?:??6Wharf Rat - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??7Playing in the Band - Grateful Dead, Hart?:??8Johnny B. Goode - Grateful Dead, Berry?:??9Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo - Grateful Dead, Garcia?:??10We Bid You Goodnight - Grateful Dead, Traditional?:??
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