Live at Roseland is a 2001 live album by the band
RatDog, featuring former
Grateful Dead guitarist and singer
Bob Weir. In contrast to studio album Evening Moods, this release contains mostly songs from the Grateful Dead song book. It was recorded at the
Roseland Theater in
Portland, Oregon, on April 25 and 26, 2001.
The song "Ashes and Glass" contains an instrumental excerpt of Grateful Dead's well-known jam classic "
Dark Star".
In a review for
AllMusic, William Ruhlmann wrote: "RatDog comes off as a Grateful Dead clone band with the Dead's surviving co-lead vocalist at the helm... In addition to the repertoire, there is the overall musical style of the band, which, despite the presence of a saxophone, has a very Dead-like feel. Add it up, and this is music Deadheads will welcome."[1]
Author
Dean Budnick stated that, despite the presence of some "agreeable interpretations" of Dead material, "the release fails to deliver on the band's full resources."[2]