Sorry I can't get into this or any other jam band for that matter. However, I did listen to this in its entirety a while back. The music meanders for a bit and then a few minutes into it Jerry Garcia decides to sing. It continues in this fashion for the rest of the album. This is signaled out as one of their best albums but still. The Dead were fans of Coltrane and admitted his influence (so did the Byrds but Eight Miles High is a classic song) but couldn't really absorb the aspects of jazz fusion in the way that say, Hendrix did. Basically you get a series of unfocused jams that wear you out. You kind of forget where the song goes and eventually the band remembers to return to the theme. The scary thing was how influential the Dead and this album were. If you're a deadhead, I doubt you will be swayed by this review but if you're not buy any 70's Miles album or Jimi Hendrix official concert albums and see that Live/Dead can't live up to its musical contemporaries.