“No tricks, just music, hard, lyric, joyous — pure and together, dense and warm as a dark summer country night. There’s the Dead, and then there’s everybody else.”

“It’s really far out, just too fuckin’ neat, man,” said Jerry Garcia. “I mean, we’ve only just started gettin’ into what we can do. There’s no limit… and we’re all feeling good.”

“I am, or have been, a certified Grateful Dead freak; I don’t know how many Dead concerts I’ve attended, but it has to be more than 25, which for this record addict is a record. What’s more, I never made a conscious decision to lay off.”