"The musical power displayed throughout the disc constantly leads one to wonder why the Airplane didn't stay together through the decades like the Grateful Dead did -- this is quite simply "the stuff". Sweeping Up the Spotlight unquestionably belongs right up there with the Dead's Live/Dead, the Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Yas Out, and Jimi Hendrix' Band of Gypsies as the best live albums of the era"