Agreat showing of these guys power and energy as improvisational musicians with a connection so deep and profound that it has captured the excitement and aatention to persons that end up with a fanatical and not too well understood by the average guynot a member of that segment labeled as Deadheads and fully enthused if we are worthy of being called a fan of what the Grateful Dead gave us seemingly without tiring for 30 years of more than we should have ever asked and sadly demanded of their time and given as we now see to the detriment of the forces that gave Jerry Garcia his power as a human with extraordinary ways of perceiving whatever caught his always interesting and right on take on what was going down that I wish that somebody would put together a highlight reel of him speaking on anything and everything his take on would be arefreshing and DEADon with a logic nobody could refute or deny" as being truly the real going on there and a tool for us to learn from as well as be entertained by his way of wording things that was funny by itself without the truthful get your facts right before you talk that shit to me style of speech that hippies and Deadheads take as the philosophical reasons for whatever he explained in terms nobody could claim not to get the jist or truthfulness of his words such as Where does it say in the scriptures that a person cant get high or raise their consciousness?"...That gets thrown at us who partake of these taboo in the religious zealots desire to control what we do for fear we will become aware and enlightened and they somehow less than honest with what they preach as the right way of living and trying to be a good person worthy of e everlasting dwelling in his kingdom greater than anything we are supposed to be capable of dreaming or thinking as the greatest in our minds and then you get away from that and listen intuit and feel your own way and suddenly you see they don't have a one way deal like they claim but you can do it and be downright ungodly in their narrow and holy book description of how to attain that spotin his luxuryplace of reward for all worthy of his reward for living and loving and treating everyone with good will and not judging others based off behaviors we don't like or approve or even see the reasons for being and doing whatever it is they do that we don't do because we aint down with that way but don't call anyone a name that they don't appreciate being called as aputdown of their activities and style of living that though diferent from our ways are just as valid and righteous as any other that hurts nobody and even puts love into the concept that even organized and ancient religions disparage and talk about badly and with no love for those who live by these what an enlightened person sees as righteous and wholesome for whoever practices these ways of getting along with those that also walk this land that we aren't chummy or even friendly towardsthat enlightened person knows that those people are just as doing it right and earning Gods respect love favor and a place with him when their life as whoever they are is over and they are only a memory for those still alive and with no doubt about where that unconventional thinking and wacky way of living well and with a righteous dignitythat leaves only the deluded by whatever they were taught to believe as children thinking that soul is lost to eternal torture as a punishment for a well led and right life that we"d all be proud to have lived and if given a choice would take that life and feel good and deserving of Gods abode of riches that we all want if its there for us to be had from just living and loving and keeping ones heart free from hate and predjudicial and judgementalthoughts undeserved by anyone who did it as well and with the proper spirit that religions are based on and accepted by those who have an open mind and a heart that understands people are just that people who have ups downs as well a good days bad ones and everything in between that make a body a human with the freedom to choose what is the right way for themselves and avoiding the ways they comprehend are just plain against human decency and the spirit of every religion I have come across that is really about being the best people we can manage to be as we live out our days that are getting fewereven as we are counting up and getting to experience life with all the freshness and newness of the world and what makes it all work and who we are doing it forbefore we get our minds and personas taken hostage and fed untruths in school and the church we attend with our family every Sunday or day of observance for that religion we are slaves to only because our parents or somebody we look to for how to live and get through with a clear mind and soul unstained by the many pitfalls available to keep us honest in our desires of what makes it worth living it out that way if only for the cxcitement and fun had from living any way other than that which we are taught is the only path to Gods house after you have finished your life in the way set forth in that holy book you were brought to accept and look to for guidance from any problem you are faced with in your journey thrugh this weird and strangely lovely and beautiful world we just got lucky enough to be born into and not from some choice of where we want to live our lives but only lucky we are born into tjis world of spiritual differences equally strange from but more alike than those who practice these ways with every fiber of their existence and just a worthy of attaining the romises made by Gods real and imagined and I count myself fortunate to have my time of life overlao with all those great and free thinking and knowing theywere just as right in their ways as those who are Sinted and revered as prsns who lived so right and did it so well that they re held in front of us as examples of living that we should all try to aspire to and emulate as a path that is a sure fire way to heaven and all its happiness...AsI was saying I count myself fortunate that when I was a growing youngster looking for how to be a person Id like to be like because they were on the right path yeah Im so damn happy that the hippy and beatnik populace that was before the hippies came to prominence with their ideas on society that scared the shit out of those do gooders of the establishment that they made up propaganda so outrageous its funny anybody ever took it as serious thought but as truths that were evident to anybody with a brain closed to open thinking and a believer in whatever government said was true and these governments were so freaked out by these peace loving hippies that they crafted laws designed to reign in their freedoms and the activities that they enjoyed as the right ways of going about enlightening oneself and seeing the bullshit they espoused so freely and with full knowledge of the untruthfulness of their laws and the propaganda that was put out in support of their untruthful and persecution of the lifestyle they held as right for themselves to live by even though they feared the governments reprisal and possible jail time unequal to the offense of which they were brought out and tried as enemies of the American way and how n American citizen should be doing which is just as those authoritarian and paranoid squares laid down as the way of living and accepted everywhere except at Grateful Dead shows or wherever a pure and honestly yet differently done style was in practice at like anywhere a hippy had an idea or thought he wanted to express and make everyone who herd his crazy take on whatever was beingput out was just as righteous and worthy of enshrinement amongst those vaunted and much held up Saints of right and proper path directly to Gods house after you complete a life of temptation with little faltering or falling as a victim of temptations that are a no no of establishment pillars of the community and every Deadhead who happens to know something of the spirit and nature of that brought about for the world to take a piece of or live the same lifestyle...Everyone who knows their message and spirit and the pure energy that they brought out and made a way of living life and having a great time in our despicable and unholy existence that makes me laugh when I have to face these people and their preconceived notions on what makes a dude a fine upstanding man worthy of whatever power he could weasel out of his ways so acceptable and loved by those squares that he started persecuting persons for belief and chemical infractions harmless to society as a whole but an essential part of living and seeing the world we inhabit truly and exactly the way it is and not what those squares and their funny as hell fears tell us it works with a wink and a nod to those that think the same nonsense that makes me smile whenever they play that or those cards on me and my ways strange to them that are out of touch with the realities of life we all come to accept as the price of living that make me smile and laugh about their fears with no valid basis but wholly believed as being so real as to be an issue that should have us all prtrified of hippies and their philosophy and nature of existence that makes a person with some thought of being enlightened just what the hell makes a bunch of stoned and smiling dirty hippies so damn frightening and a threat worthy of al that is made up in lies to counter the effect they have had on America and the culture as we live it with their side to offset and give a different more honest approach to living well and with impeccable and unquestionblerighteousness in their way of getting through all the bullshit laid down as teaps for anyone with a mind and an open one free to hear truth and know it and discern the crap that comes with a life on this conflicted and mixed up world that this recording is but a brief time of communal and harmonic joining of those great musicans who felt their way through the music rather than choreographed and planned every note like most artists do and see as the only way of communicating ones reality of life on the planet Earth that we are so lucky to have a tpe of that time experienced by those fortunate enough to be in attendance and feeling the energy of their Grteful Dead spirit and pure love of life that is somewhat but not fully encapsulated with this less than perfect but I will take it everytime I have the ability to listen copy of just awe and soul moving music that is Im not certain because I don't know any Gods or anyone close to their way of dealing and wht they find worthy of their attention but Id be willing to say that everything these guys played together is worthy of being listened to and enjoyed by the Gods themselves if they were interested and how could they not be they created the beings that play this stuff so differently and wth the spirit they laid down in their DNAthat yeah the Gods created the spirit essence and entities that made us proud we are worthy of being labeled sometimes disparagingly as DEADHEADS...And I bever felt so proud to be called any other name than my nickname of Flaco5150 For Sure!!!

I've viewed this show differently at different listenings, and I think some EQing (viz. raising the bass & lowering the treble) is necessary to fully enjoy it. You should also be ready for surprises in volume level--especially if you turn up the quiet parts like I do--because the show is recorded very wide in terms of volume. One sad feature is the relative lack of Garcia's guitar in the mix; Bobby is prominent, and playing excellently though. In all, a good show with genius moments.