The Grateful Dead – One From The Vault

i’m surprised these have (relatively speaking) managed to stay so cheap compared to other full shows. always been one of my favorites and one i always return to. maybe it’s because blues for allah is a borderline prog album from the dead. who knows! the music is incredible.

Sounds great! But unfortunately I got two Disc 2s :( if anyone’s got an extra disc 3 hit me up!

Kevin Gray is an absolute legend. If you're on the fence about picking this up, it's time to hop off. I can confidently recommend this release. Easily my best sounding live Dead LP. Plenty of 'they're here with me in the room' moments. Enjoy.

This thing sounds fantastic. My copy is virtually flawless which seems increasingly rare these days. Highly recommend.

Just got a recent pressing of this from Light In the Attic. It sounds great! I've had this show on cd since the 90s and have listened to it countless times but always thought it was just ok. I preferred the other 75 shows and never really got why this one was so famous and widely bootlegged since long before the official release. Listening to these lps now, as cliched as it sounds, they just sound amazing. Everyone is right there in the mix, they all sound great but Jerry's tone and Keith's rhodes are sublime. You can tell they were having a great time. A couple of flips are a bummer (Eyes of the World > King Solomon and Crazy Fingers > The Other One in particular) but that is the price you pay for vinyl. Overall, highly recommended and I'm happy I finally shelled out for the lps. Finally, I am not a fan of the trifold...I find it's a pain in the ass to get discs 2 and 3 out. I don't have a better way to do it, I just don't like this way.

This really is a beautiful looking and sounding release. The band has a ton of energy and you can really tell that they were ready to get out and start playing together again!

Uneven pressing for me. Bass and drums are way too low for much of the pressing, then, interestingly, there are portions of a few tracks where the bass is overwhelmingly loud. Both guitars and bass suffer from significant distortion at times, particularly side A. The least good sounding live Dead record in my collection, and that's a shame, because it's a great performance. Still has it's highs, and I'm glad to have it.

Sounds awesome. I’d say it’s up there with the Mars Hotel that mofi put out.

Still probably the best sounding Dead on vinyl that I own, or maybe even the best sounding rock vinyl I own. Perhaps I’m just sentimental about this recording. Sounds phenomenal. Close your eyes and you’re there! Well, maybe light some incense or something else too and go stand in line to get into your bathroom.

word of warning my copy arrived with a bunch of damage. every LP coated in scuffs and scratches, with disc 1&3 having warping issues but not quite enough to jump the needle out (seemingly caused by the packaging). considering the price point i'm pretty pissed about this. what was there sounded clean and crisp, but there were a variety of noise issues present presumably because of the surface damage. Side A is also pretty aggressively cut and will probably kick up some IGD on most setups, so if music never stopped is your #1 track maybe steer clear

mine's getting returned and i doubt I'll have another chance to get this one for a reasonable price here in the UK, and in all honesty I don't think the vinyl copy sounds any better than the FLAC soundboard or the CD release other than it's got a thicker, bassier sound. easily remedied on the digital versions with a pinch of EQ imo. it's a lovely collectors piece but I don't think I'd have been happy dropping £65 on this one even if it was totally a totally pristine copy, but i'm somewhat stingy with picking up vinyl.

also having to entirely change the LP during long jams is pretty weak. a side flip isn't so bad but having to stop and change the record every time I hear drums coming to a close kind of sucks, but I guess that's the nature of live dead on vinyl