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It sounded like the Dead?

D. G. Luttrell | Colorado | 04/01/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Even during my years as a music critic for PlainSpeak magazine, I never

did a review for a Dead album. Too many irrational rabid fans I guess,

I mean I have seen them from Philly to Santa Fe, I did a tour following

them in a western sweep, but maybe too much of a sacred cow? This is one

of those CD's that seemed to get better the farther you got away from the

issue date of 1974. Maybe like fine French champagne, or maybe it was

the band I was doing sound and lights for at the time, Crossfire, who

never rose above the college, outdoor concert arena, played some of

the cuts from this album, and I kinda started to like them, crave them

is more like it, that I bought the CD, I had owned the album at one time,

but because it did not give me what I wanted from the Dead at the time it

went by the wayside. It is like a post card from the Dead saying high

there, even though we are in an experimental phase of long space jams

at the moment, we still love you. Or now it seems like that to me now.

This is after a wildly Gonzo, mispent, well extended youth. But this

CD is a Dead CD, and it is not a rehash, or a compilation of former work,

no matter what win, loose, or draw this is a Grateful Dead CD, accept

no substitutes."

NO COMPLAINTS FROM ME !!!!!

Steven E. Dowell | 08/27/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I REALLY CAN'T SEE THE BAD REVIEWS THAT THESE CD'S GET. I SAT DOWN TO WHAT I THOUGHT WOULD BE A COUPLE OF GOOD RENDITIONS BUT LITTLE DID I EXPECT WHAT I GOT !! I'M NOT ONE TO WRITE LONG REVIEWS, BUT I'II JUST SAY THIS IS A FIVE STAR CD TO ME. FINE RENDITIONS OF GREAT SONGS !! THE SOUND OF THESE CD'S ARE REALLY GOOD ALSO. IF YOU DO BUY THIS AND ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS I DO, THEN WRITE A FIVE STAR REVIEW AND LET'S GET THE RATINGS HIGHER ON THIS GREAT COLLECTION FROM THE FINEST GROUP I EVER HEARD!! THANKS"