Product Details

• Actors: Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Monterey Video
• VHS Release Date: October 10, 2000
• Run Time: 153 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004W5V9
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #231,381 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Keep The Effects In The VAULT!, August 20, 2000

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P. J. Voisine "PJV" (Torrington, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grateful Dead - View From the Vault (DVD)

Firstly, I'm very excited that the Dead are starting to release some of their live shows on video. I've been waiting for this for a long time and am totally psyched. From the first instant that the DVD starts you just know it's going to be great. The video quality is absolutely crystal clear and perfect - especially noticeable at the beginning of the first set under the bright and hot July, Pittsburgh sun. The boys are all decked out in their summer finest - Jerry's looking bright-eyed and bushy-faced wearing shorts where you can see his cute little sun-tanned legs! The sound kicks in wonderfully. The vocals are all strong and clear thruout. The 1st set comprises: Touch>GreatestStory, Jack-A-Roe, Minglewood, (RowJimmy, Mama>Mexicali - all 3 missing from the VHS), TomThumb, LetItGrow. Beautiful.

It's once the 2nd set starts that the alarm bells start ringing. Here we go again with that dreamy, solarized, special-effects overlay stuff that, IMHO cripples so many previous Dead video releases. These effects are not only annoying, they are cheap and amateurish and make you want to adjust your TV. I don't know what some of the earlier reviewers are talking about when they say there aren't any. Eyes of the World is utterly ruined by this and most 2nd set songs have at least some of it - especially during the 2nd-set-typical jams and lead parts. It's a real let down when you are watching a great and beautifully filmed Jerry lead get distorted into oblivion whenever it really gets going. And it simply becomes excruciating by show's end. The 2nd set comprises: Samson>Eyes>Estimated>Terrapin> Jam>Drums>Space> Miracle>WangDang>BlackPeter>ThrowingStones>Lovelite, HeavensDoor. Excellent nitetime performances. The DVD version adds 2 Louisville songs: Standing on the Moon and He's Gone.

Really great show with perfect quality definitely worthy of 5 stars. But, I'm dropping 2 stars due to the special effects. Please, GD Merchandising people - drop the effects from future shows. They just don't stand up to repeated viewings. Keep Jerry and Bobby and Micky and Phil and Billy and Brent PURE!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great show, solid video, September 7, 2000

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Andrew Mercer (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grateful Dead - View From the Vault (DVD)

This release was greatly welcomed by this household of Deadheads. We'd been hearing that the Grateful Dead's video archive would be opened much as the audio archive has been opened up, and we'd heard that this video series was going to be akin to a Dick's Picks of videos. And, man, oh, man, it is about time. But this video shows that it has been worth the wait. From the first notes, a beaming Jerry sets the tone for night with a lyrically and musically perfect Touch of Grey. The first set includes some favorites like Jack-A-Roe, a wonderful, lilting Row Jimmy, Phil's fun rendition of Dylan's Tom Thumb's Blues, and a set closing Let It grow that sees the band hitting all the marks they should be. Whew. It felt good watching. The second set, however, is where the fireworks are: two hour journey through old and new GD, with nary a break in action for the duration. Sampson and Delilah smokes, but it is the Eyes of the World that explodes. The second jam in the song saw a house full of dropped jaws. The rest of the set is VERY solid, with Estimated Prophet, Wang Dand Doodle, and Black Peter being real standouts. And the "filler", from a show two nights previous...Wow! The two Jerry songs in a row (beautiful renditions of Standing on the Moon and He's Gone) and the jam that follows are out of this world. Real icing on the cake. Nearly four hours of music, and all we could say is "when does the next one arrive..." Keep these coming; they are the next best thing to being there.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars effects have to be included, January 27, 2001

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jacob valverde (Austin Tx.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grateful Dead - View From the Vault (DVD)

Let me start off by saying that from 88-95 I attended over 170 Dead shows,so I saw the good,the bad and the the UGLY. This tour,Summer 90 was VERY good,the band [I don't use the term boys]was tight and hitting on all cylinders. I think the reason that all the effects are in it,is because the video is shot from the direct feed at the show. Which means whatever they where showing on the big screen at the show ends up on the video,so i don't think they had any control over that. On to the show,the first set is packed with energy,and is VERY good. The second set had me wondering what happened to Jerry, he only plays one song,post drums/space,it goes drums/space>Miracle>Wang Dang Doodle>Black Peter>Throwing Stones>LoveLight. But the Knockin on Heavens Door makes up for it. The picture and sound are great,I let my friend who's not a Dead Head borrow it,and he LOVES it. I think it's very good,BUT,if they were going to use a show that they taped from Summer tour 90,and they taped all 10 shows that I attended on that tour,they could have used Foxborro 7-14 90,or Buffalo 7-16-90,or the first night of Deer Creek,witch was the best show of the whole tour. I think the Dead should hire a new person to make these selections for them,as I have often been left scratching my head at the slections of Dicks Picks cd's they have put out. I hope I don't end up doing the same with the DVD and VHS selections. Jacob V.