Grateful Dead - Althea - 1981-03-14 - Hartford, CT (Live - AUD - Best Ever)
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- I told Althea, I was feeling lost
Lacking in some direction
Althea told me upon scrutiny
That my back might need protection
I told Althea that treachery
Was tearing me limb from limb
Althea told me, now cool down boy
Settle back easy, Jim
You may be Saturday's child all grown
Moving with a pinch of grace
You may be a clown in the burial ground
Or just another pretty face
You may be the fate of Ophelia
Sleeping and perchance to dream
Honest to the point of recklessness
Self-centered to the extreme
Nobody messing with you but you
Your friends are getting most concerned
Loose with the truth, maybe it's your fire
Baby I hope you don't get burned
When the smoke has cleared, she said
That's what she said to me
You're gonna want a bed to lay your head
And a little sympathy
There are things you can replace
And others you cannot
The time has come to weigh those things
This space is getting hot
You know this space is getting hot
I told Althea, I was a roving sign
I was born to be a bachelor
Althea told me, okay that's fine
You know now I'm trying to catch her
Can't talk to you without talking to me
We're guilty of the same old things
Thinking a lot about less and less
And forgetting the love we bring
I was at this show. We were spoiled back then in Connecticut. On the same tour within an hour drive you could see the Dead in Hartford, Springfield, Bridgeport, New Haven, or Worcester to name a few. Great times. Fantastic that the music still endures.
I was too young for this but I grew up in ct going to Hartford Meadows
I wish I could post pictures I have the ticket stubs from this show and many many many more
Never played Bridgeport, but yeah, they'd play New Haven, Hartford and Springfield or Worcester. It was before they figured out they could play 3 nights in Hartford and we'd all come to them.
@@johnshanley4407 I guess I was mistaken about Bridgeport. But certainly we could see a lot of shows in New England back then within the same tours, which was awesome!
Damnnnn; sounds like a pretty fuggn good time. Would’ve loved to have seen them out in Boston ‘76 (The Road Trips vol. x num. x one, with “comes a time” - best version of that tune I’d ever heard) too. Must’ve been a helluva time my man; I’m out in Haverhill, MA - would love for Jerry to just pop outta the thin air and start playing a show in the sky for this world right now lol. 🌎🌍🌏⚡️💀⚡️🌏🌍🌎
my neighbors got to listen to this all day.. lucky bastards!
lol
Was born in 72 so I was kinda late but thanks to the good Lord in enough time to get the chance to experience this special special band. I like Althea alot because she was probably one hell of a cool chick you know? I believe really unique and special music tells us a story.. and it's almost like we all knew Althea too you know? I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I will never say that keeping the music and genuinely joyfully good feeling still sorta alive, actually live... and John Mayer is one hell of a talented dude no question, and it's really cool this song turned him on. But man I'm so sorry for the very Earth itself losing this bunch of weird wonderful sometimes ridiculous kinda, group of dudes that hung out together and played whatever they felt like at the moment. That's to me, THEE secret to the Grateful Dead. They were having as much fun as the audience lots of shows and that's why none of us wanted to go back home after experiencing them for the first time. What makes them in my opinion once again, THEE BEST LIVE ROCK BAND EVER, was the genuine love affair between us and them and the unmistakable, impossible for anyone to duplicate I don't care how talented they might be, was the pure raw unmistakable and obvious from the first notes of the first song they decided to open it with like literally when they are plugged in and tuned up and ready to give us some more pure honest genuine JOY of a Dead show. Man I ain't the only one by a lot but nothing I have ever taken drank smoked or slept with has ever made me feel better than a Dead show. There's music... good music... good live music I've enjoyed from other groups of course... but it's a distant second place, because then there's the Grateful Dead. Man I get it why some people were turned off by the name of the group, and the skeletons, and probably all the smiling joyful silly hippies there that didn't even have to get into the actual concert and were there feeling it again and again and again and again. I told my wife the other day that it's ridiculous looking at it from the outside and it really didn't matter if you managed to get a great Owsely dose, or were stone cold sober, you and the band and everyone else was high on the pure genuine joy of a Grateful Dead show. My only regret is that I was born about 10 years too late. But then again, it's not enough unless you were blessed to see every single show. And then that wouldn't be enough!! Wow that's a lot of typing for a old burntout Deadhead hippie like me but that's pretty much the only way I can attempt to tell someone about it. Yeah everybody is high!! On pure unmistakable genuine freaking joy. I honestly love the Grateful Dead and miss it like a lost family member. But omgosh the memories!! Sorry for being such a profound get to the point dude here but actually not sorry about anything else besides I, like so many others, didn't get a Ripple. Thanks for letting me ramble and I should probably shut up before I cry.... but it's not because of sadness I'm smiling too!! I'm gonna damn well keep truckin on until I can't and then I'll figure out how to get some cool shows when I get to the other side. Maybe even hangout with them if I can 👍✌️😎👋💯
Ain't Nobody Messin w you, but You!
Thinking alot about less and less, and forgetting the love we bring.
BY FAR BEST ALTHEA EVER!
l was liucky,,l lived in connecticut for this show,,,and what a show it was,,Jerry and the boys at their best
This is great audio. The Dead were the original You Tube, graciously allowing their music to be shared freely. How many of us have some of our greatest memories at a Dead show? Now we get to hear those shows on a boot or now on YT.
I was listening to a dead show from 72 where bobby actually told a taper to back up about 20 rows if he wants a good recording most bands would throw them out and confiscate their equipment
Jonathan Socha That is very cool.
There is an interview where Bobby acknowledges that a lot of people counted on them touring as a way for those people to feed their kids. He also answered why they allowed bootlegging. His answer was very satisfying. Paraphrasing, but he said something like a lot of people, and I don't know why have had some very fond moments of joy at our shows. After the music is played it is in the ether so who are we to say it doesn't belong to whoever wants it? Are you going to try and see them this summer? Just three shows is what I've heard.
I would say 81 is when the aud tapes got spectacular. Almost better than the boards. I love my 70s tapes. The give you a real feel of the live show. 8-6-71. This is kleen. Smoking.
Good lord, the solos on this one are just absolutely perfect.
Jerry at his best,,
I love the beginning. Very quiet start, no one hears it. Second go around, people start to pick up on it. Third go around band kicks in, place goes friggin' nuts.
Sound quality is superb. Great lows.
This is my absolute favorite recording of any song the GD has. Mad feels~
Darwin Kemp such a goody... my fav is Eyes of the World englishtown raceway park NJ 77
Check out Nassau collesium 1980
When a song gets you it's magic
This version is my new favorite holy shit
Grate season for killer Aud recordings. Grateful to all the tapers.
I live by the music
those who really get it always do haha. cheers.
this song just makes me happy -- Jerry's singing voice and then singing guitar with the band jammin' power recharging it again and again - so goddamn good!
One of the best live versions
THE best, ever :)
81 was the greatest year for the dead. 82 came in second. insane shit, all around. straight ahead, balls to the wall, greatness. jer's on the verge of his hair on ness, but not totally lost like late 83 or 84. his voice is still there - starting to fade in late 82. 81 is the shiiiiiit. turn it up to 81.
Could be my favorite Dead song...but with so many choices....
I can still hear myself yelling after "You know this space is getting hot. "
So fine.......words are wasted......
oh so beautiful
you know this space is getting hot
So many good ringtones in here. Let it ring, and roll away the dew
Althea is always a crowd pleaser. The music never stopped..
THE. GREATFULL DEAD. ALWAYS GREAT NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I HEAR THE MUSIC IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE MUSIC. LONG LIVE THE DEAD
This space is getting hot
I love Althea from the early 80's. Superb version.
i imagined that this was in my head in '79' but didn't confirm hear this until '80'.
My favorite G.D. tune and a 1/2.
This is a badass recording. I can see the shape of the ballroom from Jerry's first lead notes bleeding down the walls. Nothing beats a great Aud. Thanks for turning me onto this one.
It was actually a hideous hockey arena, but the sound there was prety good.
Awesome recording !!! At this point , this was probably Jerry's favorite new song .
I was at this one too. It was a pleasure to have been there. North East Spring and The Dead!
Damn. You weren't kidding. That was a smoking Althea. Thanks!
great version of a great tune and a great photo-we come from a culture where guns are not evil-quite the contrary-if things get rough
i read somewhere (can't remember) that Jerry especially loved Althea. You can just tell
Sean Sklenar I may be wrong, but I always thought this song was about Mountain Girl
"i was born to be a bachelor. althea told me "ok, that's fine." now i'm trying to catch her."
such an awesome line. never considered that it might be about MG. interesting to think about, thanks for sharing.
Mike Mccoy Good call. The words, or course, are Hunter's, but I'm sure he had that situation in mind. Quite a strange push-pull situation that JG and MG had, and the lyrics to this song surely capture it.
+Sean Sklenar I remember reading or hearing the same thing.... that this was Jerry's favorite.
+badself
this song is about Jerry's drug addiction and Althea is his protagonist...ain't nobody messing with you but you
your friends are getting most concerned
Great lyrics from Hunter -- just superb
On this day I was born in Michigan City Indiana. 😩
Funny how "the best" version of a Dead song is so relative.I have heard really bad versions that people think are the bestand vice versa. They hit us all in different ways.
Not the best Dead show I ever saw, but all I could talk about for days was ALTHEA!
Jerry’s guitar here ❤️. Mayer’s playing is superb, too. Trey brought an overall good feeling to it. Each incarnation had its good qualities. Can you tell I went on an “Althea” binge?
Yes - but no one you mentioned will ever top jer
@@JGraf1992 No one. ☮️
PERFECT TITLE FOR THIS VIDEO ABSOLUTELY #1
Boston Garden... October 1st, 1994... Saturday night. My last Dead show... and it was one for the ages!
You're lucky. I was WAY too young at that point. 13 to be exact. I feel like I missed out on greatness.
I only saw the Grateful Dead twice... at the Worcester Centrum in the late 80's. and again in Boston Garden in '94... and it would seem that that show is legendary..... so I was blessed.
Jerry and the Boys encouraged " bootlegging." All of their concerts had sections set aside for audio artists eager to catch a moment. Look up " Dick's Picks."
I was there too. My last show as well. What a night.
Cool! I went there with no ticket..... I wandered around in front of the Garden, saying. "I need a miracle, folks!" BTW- I found a good tie- die t-shirt from that tour on the internet...... and found another in a leather/ biker shop in upstate NY last week!
This picture would've made such a great album cover.
It looks a bit like Australia! Anyone know if the Dead came to Oz? That's where I'm from...
it's on the back cover of the original "anthem of the sun" album. don't know if it's on the reprints.
take a look at the back cover of "anthem..." again.
m)
ohhhhh....was i wrong? I don't have the vinyl. There's a big tree in the picture, isn't there?
yep, a big oak tree i think. i'm not an arborist but it has the look of an oak.
although i know the pic above has eucalytus trees. hence the australian inquiry :)
could be california as well. lots still here.
As fans of these cats it’s not strange to go into a 2 month Morning Dew binge/ study/ reflection. Or you just feeling Warf Rat slightly stronger for a spell
My spider web laced focus or favorite song that melts all dna all the time has been ALTHEA for a spell and a half. This one right here: 3/14/81 is an emasculate recoding and a sweet cut to see why it’s one of my jams!
Enjoy
I dig it’s lyrics as much as any effort by them Dead and Jerry’s solos hit you 3 or 4 times , when on fire, it most definitely lands a few lightning bolts into the soul where they remind what u have one
Fav lyrics. Ain’t nobody messin with you but you
More.:
You may be Saturday's child, all grown
Moving with a pinch of grace
You may be a clown in the burial ground
Or just another pretty face
More
There are things you can replace
And others you cannot
The time has come to weigh those things
This space is gettin' hot
You know, this space is gettin' hot
Last choice lyrics:
Can't talk to you without talking to me
We're guilty of the same old things
Thinking a lot about less and less
And forgetting the love we bring
Just wanted I needed tonight. Gerry touches me...makes me happy.
My granddaughter was named after this song. Love it.
PLEASE READ PLEASE READ PLEASE READ PLEASE READ!!!!!!!I’ve known of the Grateful Dead since my teens. I’ve heard a good bit of their music but I just now have had a spiritual awakening. I’ve watched the Long Strange Trip Doc. I’ve watched several interviews with Jerry Garcia and a couple where Bob Weir and maybe Phil Lesh. I love the documentary because they interview all the band members and managers and even roadies. I also love reading these posts put up by the dead heads. You people are really lucky to have been able to go to concerts. I wish I would have known what I know now in my teens and early twenties before Jerry died. I’ve watched some of the more recent concerts with Trey from Phish and John Mayer. It’s good but in my humble maybe not worthy opinion it’s just not close. I hesitate to even state my opinion here because I realize that most of the people on this feed are long time Grateful Dead fans. I love reading all of your stories of being at concerts. I feel more and more of a connection. I’m living my Grateful Dead trip vicariously through you all. I know I’m late to the party but please let me stay. I’ll just relax and mind my own business. I’m just happy to be here. I’m so thankful for ole 77 and people who post these live performances. I know I’ll never be a member or have a story to tell but I’m just happy
Just listen to at least one whole show every day. If able to find bootleg shows “tapers shows “ on cassette tape some have lots of noise but damn you’ll get a fell of being out in the audience so the show continuity and all the nuances makes it special that it really is.
Something that’s not there on CD or the dick pics, there’s the moment in it all that’s captured on the bootlegs audience noise and stadium
🥺 I got to my Lucky 13 shows before Jerry died and it wasn't enough #NFA
I love this one❤❤❤
You are loved
Listening to the dead staying loaded is the way jamming along.I use to be a angry violent hateful man.Found the dead now i am different.
Wonderful song.
Honest to the point of recklessness..lol that's so me. Amazing version here. My personal favorite is from 9.3.80...beautiful.
Great version (sometimes my fav), I even remember being there when I hear it. Super nice audio; thanks!
Thanks for sharin' Lisa. Brings back FOND memories.
I love that scene in The Arrival where it turns out the heptapods love The Dead. Because of course they do.
Whoa!
Song is good to here! So many yrs ago. Uh?
great sounding AUD
Awwwww...So lovely and such a blessing for you X infinity.
WOW! Thanks!
This is great. Love it. Thanks
Ain’t nobody messin with you but you
The Nassau stadium 1980 is the best version
I'd love to meet an Althea
Nice to meet ya!
Beautiful show
How the %$#@ do 18 people give this a "thumbs down"? Those are 18 people whose paths I hope neither you, nor I, may ever cross.
it was a great show!!!!
So lucky!
Dom C Me too. I was WAY too young at that point. 13 to be exact. I feel like I missed out on greatness. At least I got to see The Dead and Furthur. Never got to see Gerry. I wish the adults around me were cool enough to get me on the scene at a younger age. Oh well, I can appreciated this music now, and forever. You can BET my 2 year old son will be in the know
Thank you! Great version.
"Loose in the groove in the burying ground, or just another pretty face." - Ed Gein on tour 81-84
I miss this guy
Sweet
A whole new Level of WoW Man!
wow what a beauty
I like the guns and knives. oh, the tune is kickin too
What exactly does one have to do with the other?
Hot Hot Hot!!
I came here because my name is Althea 😂
Omg, same! 😂
I came for some pancakes! But it was pi day and my only miracle show (except my friend did get me a comp ticket to one show in the 1990s).
God bless you. Such a beautiful name
Your parents must be pretty hip
Do you have a perchance to dream? You'll need one.
sick, CT love!!!!
This tune was Hunter's call out to Jerry's increasing bad habits-no doubt-although he denied it-its all there in the words
Wasn't Hunter going down that road too at some point?
Putting words in anyone elses mouth is pretty stupid, and hunters especially. Get fucked my boi.
That's one of the coolest pictures ever-They loved guns-
culls33 Did they love guns? This is an early picture-- kids playing around. There's a difference between recognizing the gun culture and singing about it, and actually liking it. I don't believe that the Dead were celebratory of violence.
culls33 Actually if you read Blair Jackson's GARCIA: AN AMERICAN LIFE he mentions jerrys love for guns and he collected them. He just never talked about it much. Blair was a close friend.
Jean Ely also in the army he was a master shootist
dominic romani culls33 Actually if you read Blair Jackson's GARCIA: AN AMERICAN LIFE he mentions jerrys love for guns and he collected them. He just never talked about it much. Blair was a close friend.
Jean Ely culls33 Actually if you read Blair Jackson's GARCIA: AN AMERICAN LIFE he mentions jerrys love for guns and he collected them. He just never talked about it much. Blair was a close friend.
Honest to the point of recklessness. Self centered to the extreme. ❤🥰😎
People that know 😊
Althea was 2 years old in 81
crying again
efn RIGHTEOUS version man. a top 20 possibly
thinking about less and less and forgetting the love we bring
+Ana Ruiz Bacon about it
this tune hath turned my fiance into a Deadhead. opening interlude will be spliced into the bride's song when she graces the aisle. sssshhhhhhhhh, don't tell her
So watching the new Amazon documentary and Sen. Al Franken says that May 1980 Nassau Coliseum Althea contains the greatest of all Althea solos. It is awesome but makes me wonder how much debate there is on this, and which other Althea's share the pantheon. How many have you heard and which are the best?
I take this debate seriously and I contend the best is 3-28-81.
4and20blackbirds 3/28/81 rockpalast is #1 althea out there I've heard so far. And I've heard as many versions I could find. Alot! Love this one in a different way, I like the way the guitar tone was recorded and seems louder than the rest of the instruments on the track when jerry's soloing, love the screaming guitar on this althea
I just found the website headyversion.com that lists Head voted best versions ever. I'm going through them now. This one is smokin' and ever so soulful.
1. 3/28/81 - Rockplast is the definitive version of this song
2. Alpine 7/19/89 is a close 2nd
3. This version - 3/14/81 a close 3rd
I guess the best 2 versions were played 2 weeks apart in 81
The versions from the1980 shows at Nassau collesium are actually way better sonically. There's a little to much compression in thus particular recording. Check it out and compare. I got a lot of joy doing it.
😊
check out 12/1/79 Stanley theater
Been working on covering this jam
my beautiful big bro! This one is for your Ryan Stuart. I LOVE YOU. RH! RH! RH!
jerry always played guitar like the devil dancing in the rain,
i call his style trippiling
He does a lot of things. Thats definitely one of them. Another one that springs to mind is when he starts folding taffy. 72's a good year for that
Oh Jesus... This is a killer Althea
the lead guitarist has quite the chops
love j
I always think of "The Walrus and the Carpenter" ......"the time has come "
Walrus with a beard and a guitar on the beach
Far below the mountains of the moon 😀
Try 10/14/83 Althea on for size. I'd like to find a taper version like I had. Much better than Dicks Picks with the live sound and crowd involvement.
Best Althea 12 1 79!!!!
tnxalot
I love audience tapes - never understood why those fuckin soundboard tapes became popular
This was Jerry's version of Pigpen singing "Hard to Handle." Slinky s#^t!
Hartford - Nothing like cutting thru macys to get the band
Jay and the americans