Good stuff! Big fan!

They peaked in the 1980s man. The early 1980s was the best years of their lives and they were still creating new exiting fresh music! Reckoning 1980 is the single greatest acoustic rock album ever recorded. Ever, by any band. It preceded an entire "unplugged" movement. It defines acoustic rock to this day! Althea came with Go to Heaven in the early 80s, one of the most important tunes in the entire catalog! Lost Sailor Saint of Circumstance is every bit as good as any songs Bob ever wrote! Sure, the jazzy, hazy, way stoned 1970s was cool but it also saw them breakup. It was not the peak by any means. Nor was the youthful lsd fueled freak out of the 1960s. Sure the 1990s became somber but it was still happening on some level sometimes. But, from 1980 to 1990 was the peak of the Grateful Dead and that's just facts.