Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not what it's cracked up to be

I agree with Joshua Polak's review below - this is not a 5 star DP, in my opinion. What you get here are slow, low engergy renditions of a lot of the stuff that would come out on "American Beauty" and "Workingman's Dead", counterbalanced with normal, nothing special renditions of their standard late 60's stuff. Interesting solely for the historical reasons that the band was, in some ways, in transition - from the acid-soaked garage band of the late 60's to the more country-based sounds of the Hunter/Garcia duo that would come to typify the Dead for most of their working life. Other than that, this is a yawner. And if you want to hear something that'll make you literally cringe...give the Dire Wolf on disc 1 a listen. There's proof that they really did rehearse things in front of a live audience that they had barely ever played before. Just awful, painful stuff. For completists that want to have everything, even the leftovers.