Live Dead - The Grateful Dead in Concert (Downhill from Here,

Live Dead - The Grateful Dead in Concert (Downhill from Here, Ticket to New Year's, View from the Vault) [DVD]

Live Dead: The Grateful Dead in Concert is a great sampler of live performances from the latter third of the Grateful Dead's career. Like all Dead performances, there's a fair amount of chaff with the wheat, but among the three discs--Ticket to New Year's, View from the Vault, and Downhill from Here--fans will find many gems, as well as extra footage not available on VHS. Ticket to New Year's, taped on New Year's Eve 1987 at the Oakland Coliseum, is among the band's best filmed performances, featuring a robust "Terrapin Station," a (blessedly short) Space and Drums that segues sweetly into the stoner fave "Dark Star," and an unflinchingly bluesy "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," sung by Jerry Garcia with clear-eyed wistfulness. View from the Vault, taped July 8, 1990 (16 days before keyboardist Brent Mydland died of an overdose), in Pittsburgh, offers both great versions of Dead classics (including "Eyes of the World," "Let It Grow" and "He's Gone") and an intimate look at the dynamics that few could notice when attending a stadium show, including wonderful interplay between Garcia and Mydland. Downhill from Here, shot in the summer of 1989 at Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wisconsin, features cheesy, unnecessary video effects. It is redeemed by Garcia's blistering guitar solos during "Deal" and "China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider," a spacey pairing of "Uncle John's Band" with "Playing in the Band," and the tender ballad "Standing on the Moon." --Dave McCoy and Anne Hurley
Country USA
Manufacturer WEA/Rhino
Binding DVD
ReleaseDate 2000-10-10
UnitCount 3
Format Box set
UPCs 012233197921
EANs 0012233197921

Country	USA
Manufacturer	WEA/Rhino
Binding	DVD
ReleaseDate	2000-10-10
UnitCount	3
Format	Box set
UPCs	012233197921
EANs	0012233197921

Live Dead - The Grateful Dead in Concert (Downhill from Here, Ticket to New Year's, View from the Vault) [DVD]

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