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The Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (Warner Bros. WS1830)

Dave Marsh, Creem, 15 March 1970

THIS ALBUM is the first indication that the Dead are finally ready to make the move long expected of them, a breakthrough in the grey room from the nearly neanderthal rock patterns of the past into weird fusion of LSD and nookie orientated space music.

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