What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

Career-Spanning retrospective 5-disc box set, released in 1999.

This was my E-Bay purchase a couple of weeks ago. Mint condition, £40.

Covers the band's development, from their first studio demos, right through to a song from their last ever gig. Mostly live material, with a clutch of early demos, and some late-period rehearsal recordings. The booklet states that the compilers were specifically interested in the band interplay, which means that there are loads of live jams included, which is as it should be with the Grateful Dead.

I have loads of live Dead already, but the majority of their live sets concentrate on specific gigs, so this is a good alternative to those.

Brilliant box set. I've just put another bid on for a new, sealed Dead box set !!


AllMusic 4+/5 stars.