Best Grateful Dead recording?

Jerry's first solo album is my personal favorite for sonics and music.

Any recording from 1971-4, in my opinion and many others the absolute peak for the band. Many of these are available as Dick's Pick's as stated above. A personal favorite of mine is the recent release of a run of shows documenting the closing of the Fillmore East in 1971. It is a four disc set and the sound and music are both spectacular. Generally speaking you are lucky, there is so much good music out there, once you start exploring you may never stop!

Jond:

Thanks for the information on the Fillmore East release. That sounds like a "must have", along with The Closing of Winterland.

Tom.

Can't say its the best but I like "Reckoning" recorded live at the Warfield Theater, San Francisco Sept. and Oct. 1980.

1. Dick's Picks Vol. 1
2. DP's Vol. 13
3. So Many Roads-Box Set
4. Workingman's Dead
5. DP's-Harpur College-Sorry, I forget the Vol. #

It's impossible to limit this list to 5, especially with the Dick's Picks series. The vast majority of DP's I have yet to hear, so I've got a lot of discovering to do myself.
Have fun and be prepared to hear some incredible music!