Editing Live/Dead (section)

==Reception and legacy==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |first=Lindsay |last=Planer |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-dead-mw0000197509 |title=Live/Dead |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 25, 2018}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev3Score = A+<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=July 10, 1969|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg6.php|title=Consumer Guide (6)|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|access-date=May 23, 2020}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|edition=5th|isbn=978-0857125958|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
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The album was met with very positive reviews, with ''[[Village Voice]]'' critic [[Robert Christgau]] writing that it "contains the finest rock improvisation ever recorded"<ref name="Christgau"/> and ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's [[Lenny Kaye]] saying it foreshadows "where rock is likely to be in about five years".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Kaye |author-link=Lenny Kaye |first=Lenny |date=7 February 1970 |title=Records |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/live-dead-19700207 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=51 |pages=44 |location=San Francisco |publisher=Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. |access-date=21 May 2017 }}</ref> In his ballot for ''[[Jazz & Pop]]'' magazine's 1970 critics poll, Christgau ranked ''Live/Dead'' as the third best [[popular music]] album.<ref name="JP">{{cite magazine|last=Christgau|first=Robert|year=1970|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/jpballot-70.php|title=Jazz & Pop Ballot 1970|magazine=[[Jazz & Pop]]|access-date=May 23, 2020|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|As Christgau explains in the article, "eligible albums were those issued between October 1, 1969 and October 31, 1970."<ref name="JP"/>}}

In retrospect, [[AllMusic]] notes that "few recordings have ever represented the essence of an artist in performance as faithfully as ''Live/Dead''",<ref name="AllMusic"/> while Grateful Dead scholar Blair Jackson regards it as the best [[psychedelic rock]] album of the 1960s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Grateful Dead Gear|last=Jackson|first=Blair|year=2006|page=79|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=9780879308933}}</ref> Engineer and author Michael Hageloh claims that with the album, the Dead "spontaneously create[d] the form now known as '[[jam rock]]{{'"}} and became "legends with a generation-spanning cult following".<ref>{{cite book|chapter=An Annoying Musical Interlude|title=Live from Cupertino|last=Hageloh|first=Michael|year=2019|isbn=9781642931716|publisher=Post Hill Press}}</ref> Drummer [[Bill Kreutzmann]] comments "It was our first live release and it remains one of our best-loved albums. Its appeal was that it took great 'you-had-to-be-there' live versions of songs like 'Dark Star' and 'The Eleven' and put them right in people’s living rooms."<ref name="Deal7">{{cite book |last=Kreutzmann |first=Bill |date=2015 |title=Deal |publisher=St. Martin's Press, New York. Chapter 7 |isbn=978-1-250-03380-2}}</ref>

In 2003, the album was ranked number 244 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time]],<ref>[https://archive.today/20120910114454/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/live-dead-grateful-dead-19691231 500 Greatest Albums: Live/Dead] at rollingstone.com</ref> and 247 in a 2012 revised list.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/grateful-dead-live-dead-2-169831/| year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date= September 16, 2019}}</ref> It was voted number 242 in the third edition of [[Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]'' (2000).<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|author=Colin Larkin|author-link=Colin Larkin|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2006|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=111}}</ref>