We're at number 9. Click here for number 10. The Grateful Dead are known as one of the all-time great live bands, but when I saw them in 1995 for the first time (a few months before Jerry Garcia left the building) they were running out of gas. Still, weak Dead is better than no Dead at all. Bertha is shown below. This one's from 1978, a period that many Deadheads regard as their finest. This one's got a nice riff, I'll say that. Many of them did.