deadheads: Best sounding Dicks Picks....top 5

I've also found the board mixes available from Ratdog and Phil and Friends to be very good. Phil and Friends Chicago show summer of 06 with Joan Osborne is one of the best.

Terrapin on Super Disc is to DIE 4!!!!

I'm not all that impressed with Dozin's performance.

Don't have them all but for sheer enjoyment I like 5/2/70. This was a tape a upgrade many times over the last 25 years. Exceptional show.

Also Don't have'em in front of me. I Recently picked up the Dead Live in Hamburg(?)Germany '72, not certain if it's a DP or not. Both the recording and performance is quite good!From the Europe '72 Tour. Also check out both One and Two 'From the Vault'-even though not a DP, IMHO must haves. There is a DP live in Oaklahoma from 78(?) or early 80's, don't recall the #, but it has a picture of a wheat field on it which I like. I'm also not that crazy about the Dozin'. Another good live one is a 4 cd set on Arista "Ladies & Gentleman, The Greatful Dead" from the Filmore. Hope this helps.

"Hundred Jahr Halle" is an Arista lable commercial release. Great recordings from the epic trip to Europe in '72. I believe the Oaklahoma show you refer to is from the Zoo Amphitheater, 1980 or '81. I have the tapes but not the DP.
I guess I am partial to Dozin' as I was at that 3 night run. While the music is not that inspired (Save for the China Cat IMHO), it's well recorded, and a nice snapshot of that period.

there have been some amazing sounding copies of the famous '77 barton hall show circulating. That show easily blows away most of the dicks picks I've heard in both sound quality and performance. I also have a really amazing matrix (soundboard and audience recording mix) of the 11-4-77 Colgate University that I consider one of the best sounding live recordings I've ever heard.

Of the DP that I have DP 3, 5, and 25 all sound pretty good.