NOT THE SAME WITHOUT BRENT
The Grateful Dead were never the same when the great Brent Mydland passed away. The band never were in sinc especially when Vince and at times Bruce Hornsby joined the band. They were still a good band at that time to go see and party up at the same time, but musically speaking BRENT along with a good Garcia made the show. Anything thing from the early eighties up until Brents death is worth watching or of course listening too. sorry.

Latter-day smoker
Wow. Don't believe the bad early-'90s hype. This is a smoking show -- great performance, somewhat typical (for the period) setlist cooked to perfection.

P.S. The Hornsby Haters need to check themselves before they wreck themselves...it's obvious from the smiles on the faces of Jerry, Hart, et al that Bruuuuce gave their live playing a playful kick in the proverbial pants.

OK for late Dead, which isn't saying much
Someone who either loves any Dead from any period, or was introduced to the Dead towards the end, may like this show. It's no worse than many during the last years, and better than some. Hey, I went to 'em, and would go again. But there's just no comparison to shows from earlier years, and I find it painful. There's little in the way of inspiring, laugh-out-loud, head-shaking jamming here; mostly second and third-tier material with brief noodling. My favorite moments on this DVD are from the "filler" show, when Garcia takes over in Foolish Heart--his solo is great by any standard, and I play it over and over. But having to skip through most of the disk to listen to one two-minute solo is sad.

Out of sync
I second the comment of the reviewer that said that the video and sound are out of sync. I've loved this show on tape/CD for many years, and was looking forward to seeing the DVD, but watching the misaligned version of Stella Blue was very disappointing. I have stuck the DVD on the shelf, and am going back to my CDs.

Great show, only OK production
This is a great DVD, and a lot of the reviews here really point out all that is great with this show. So, what's not (beside the special effects stuff)? Two things. One, frequently through the DVD the soundtrack and the video are significantly out of sync. This is really a disappointment on a vocal closeup or watching the fingerwork on a solo. Second, a produced 5.1 mix would have been very nice. Yes, I know there was originally only 2 channels, but you can produce some very good effect in post-production. At least put two (or three) audio versions on the disk and let people pick. The way my (and many I would guess) home theater is set up, the two little left and right satellites are there for movie directional fill, and really don't do the soundtrack justice when in two channel mode. Yeah, yeah, I know - I need to go buy those towers instead ;)