Dick's / Dave's picks

I have a bunch of Dicks Picks but they get lost in my collection of audience recordings and soundboards that I've acquired over the years. It bothers me that the Dick's Picks releases do not include full shows. I prefer listening to full shows because they give you a better glimpse into what the atmosphere and energy was like. Most of the DPs are good quality soundwise so that is a plus but I'll take a good audience recording any day...love to hear and feel the vibe of the venue. You can really see the shape of the venue on some of the better recordings.

ifmywormsdidglow (tee-hee) I totally get that. The vibe of the crowd, which city, what decade, these things are definitely compromised.
 

excellent points! ifmywordsdidglow & goofyfoot.

Happy Listening!

After over 45 years of listening to live Dead recordings, I'm not in the whole show camp at all (and actually haven't been for a long time!).  There are whole shows I listen to, of course, but probably less than half the time even if I have the whole show available.

JMO of course

There are some people doing some very nice stuff with matrixing aka adding crowd noises back in to great sounding soundboards.