The GREATEST live rock album of all time?

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45. I have never dived into the depths of the Dick's Picks series

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due to limited funds but my all-time favorite live GD recording is probably One From The Vault - a 1975 show in a small venue where they introduced the material from Blues For Allah, which is one of my favorite Dead LPs. Stunning playing and the band was as tight as the proverbial duck's ass. Magnificent sound, as well. Jerry and Phil (hey, I'm a bass guitarist and the nicest thing any musician ever said to me was, on playing one of his tunes, "that's the way I imagine Phil would play it". Higher prise for a bassist there is not.) were absolutely at the peak of their immense powers.

The Europe 1972 - end of the Keith-and-Donna period is my preferred era of the Dead, though Donna could be a bit much at times.

I'd put Live Dead and Reckoning right up there with it.

ETA- a bunch of the same music from One From The Vault, circa 1976