Customer Reviews

Grateful Dead - View from the Vault 1-3

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Well you love the dead or you do not. I have been into the dead only since 95' so seeing them play the songs i have heard for 10/11 years is truly spectular and mesmarizing. Sure it is not their best years but it is still awesome. Clarity, sound quality and picture quality is great, the song sets are great to boot. i live up in ontario canada and worried buying from amazon down south but no worries, way cheeper then canadian stores and faster. All in all, i have had them a month and i have gone through all 12 hours of tape in a glorius trancendental state twice in the last month. And yes i do work. get these three plus the last one since when you get all three you will crave the last one. Then you should try zeppelin how the west was won, holy john bonham!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went to these shows, all of them and I love that they made these DVDs. Its so nice to see the show again and relive some great moments of my life. The set lists are good to great and the quality of the DVDs is good.

I love the RFK DVD, it has the Dark Star that I remember so well. That was a great concert, a classic for certain. Id have made a DVD of the 1990 show, but the clips from that show are well worth it. I also love having DVDs of their underrated newer stuff that a lot of boneheads cant seem to enjoy since they are stuck in the past or prejudice against the newer stuff.

Great shows, although some of my favorite songs are missing...that is okay VFTV4 has them.

How anyone could rate this debacle above one star is beyond me. First of all, this is not the Grateful Dead that you hear playing all your favorite songs. This is a sad and withered remnant of the once great band. I love the Grateful Dead so I decided to buy this box set hoping that, although the shows are from the early 90s, that the band could still rock. Unfortunatly, I was wrong. Their playing is awful. Its sparse and sprinkled with lame synth garbage with whatever keys player they dredged up this time, it really doesn't matter who. They play such classics (hint: sarcasm) as Wang Dang Doodle, Touch of Grey (which was, incredibly, their only chart topper even though its an awful song), My Brother Esau, and sundry other lame songs. Do yourself a favor, if you love this band, don't buy this box set, its like watching a dying lion. You know how powerful it was in its heydey, but all you can see now is a sick, mottled mess. Stick with their audio stuff.