I would not recommend this CD for anyone who is not a dyed-in-the-wool "dead head". Based on the stellar recommendations below, I purchased it (having owned a number of Dead LPs in the past). I found the long rambling jams to lack focus. It seemed as if the players had fallen asleep and that their instruments played on without them. Then at some point, the band wakes up and decides, "Oh yeah, we better change key and while we're at it, let's try to improvise another song to death".If you want a Grateful Dead CD that is live but with a different edge, try Reckoning, where the music is played accoustically (Unplugged before that existed) and this tempers their tendency to try iprovising every possible combination of musical theme in each song, as they did on this CD.In summary, Great band, good songs, long unfocused jams that don't seem to go or get anywhere.