Nearly 15 years after Jerry Garcia's death, the Dead lives. The Grateful Dead haven't played together since the '80s, but their vaults have archived enough shows to keep Deadheads happy into the afterlife. Dead concerts could be a hit-or-miss affair, depending on your tolerance for noodling. Still, even a hardened jam band cynic would find difficult to resist this three-CD/one-DVD set. The Dead were flying high on a career revival, and the attention was doing them good. Concert staples like "Box of Rain" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" sound as fresh as a Haight Ashbury Sunday afternoon. You may want to get a beer during "Space," but wasn't that always how you remembered it?

WATCH Grateful Dead play "Let It Grow."

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