The Grateful Dead are the grandfathers of jam bands. They're the reason we have jam bands going on yearly tours. They created the live touring concert scene. The Dead might be the longest live touring band there ever was. But more than anything they created a lifestyle and a family of people that endured for decades.
just thinking the exact same thing. i've listened to this song hundreds of times, all different versions- but never the studio version. studio dead has no magic. 🥀💀🥀💀🦄🍄☝️
You should listen to a few of the live recordings of this song to hear how much they play around with a song. Wharf Rat is another one to listen to live to hear just what these boys could do.
@@daveguitarnowski4402 actually, i think the studio ones are good intros for new folks who don't know they are deadheads yet. live is better eventually. been to many many shows, and yes, ultimately, that's where it's at, fo' sho'.
I’m so glad you’re reacting to the Dead! There are hundreds of amazing songs and Althea is one of my absolute favorites. You should give Bertha, Scarlet Begonias, Alabama Getaway, US Blues. But to really experience the Dead is to listen to them live.
The dude on the left got it immediately. He didn't hear Phil until the end, but he was listening. The guy on the right wasn't hearing it. He was acting like he did, but he had preconceived notions he couldn't get past. Still a great song for a non-Desdhead hearing the band for the first time.
The boys in the band, Left to Right: Jerry Garcia-Guitar and Vocals, Brent Mydland-Keyboards and Vocals, Bill Kreutzman-Drums, Bob Weir-Guitar and Vocals, Phil Lesh-Bass and Vocals and Mickey Hart-Percussion. This version of the band existed from very late 1979 until the Fall of 1990, when Brent passed from an OD. Saw an "Althea" my first Grateful Dead show, 9/6/80 in Lewiston, Maine, and only one more, out of 50 more shows, until 1995, when Jerry Garcia passed, from a Heart Attack. More goodies from the band: "Truckin' ", "U.S. Blues", "Shakedown Street", "Terrapin Station", "Sugar Magnolia", "Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain". Only about 450 more to go. College AND NBA Hall Of Famer Bill Walton (RIP) was a HUGE Grateful Dead fan, he attended over 800 of their concerts.
Whoever requested this song deserves a Go Fund Me and I wanna be their friend.... If you play guitar this is one of the most NOT underrated but most under-appreciated guitar songs ever.
I used to go to Dead shows at RFK stadium in DC in the early 90’s to purchase certain things in the parking lot & it’s so cool to see young people enjoying their music 🤘🏻🖤
Might as well react to Feel Like a Stranger off this same album! It’s Bob Weir singing. Jerry Garcia sang Althea. Their catalog is so vast, you wont dig all of it, but if you dig deep into what you like you’ll be glad you did. You two would like their 1970 live version of Hard to Handle off of Festival Express. It’s fawnky!
Their jams particularly proved healing and meaningful, at times spiritual, aligned with mid '80's what-the-hey 'moderation' shroom trippin and microdosing+ on some very consistent single-source vitamin A blotter, during an otherwise exceptionally high-stressing period in life. Never a bad time with the Dead.
Sold out MSG six nights in a row for twenty years, provided a taping section for fans to set up recording gear, and would even provide a daisy chain off of the sound board, the Dead is all about Live shows with lots of "Jamming out" .A whole culture formed around the dead, people would tour the band going to each show and living off of the Black Market that could be found in the parking lot, known as Shakedown Street. The big thing was tape trading before the internet came around. folks would trade live tapes by mail. If your gonna check out the Dead, the best stuff is the live stuff. I saw them in 1991 at MSG Sept 19 on my birthday, I had to camp out overnight to buy tickets. The biggest LSD dealer in history was their soundman, Owsley. Jerry Garcia ( Lead Guitar-Vocals) was part of the Timothy Leary acid experiments. Also, when the Merry Pranksters were doing the Acid Test Events traveling around in the Further Bus, they were known as the Warlocks and where the house band for the Acid Test. check out the Help on the way-Slipknot-Franklin's Tower Medley!
Steely Dan Kid Charlemagne is a song about Stanley "Bear" Owsley. Dead sound man guy and chemist who pretty much synthesized all the LSD in America from 1966 to 1972.
Shakedown Street should be the next studio cut you should check out....LIVE is where it's at with these guys, but it's a gradual thing....and so it begins....
Great tune. A little story behind the lyrics. "Althea" is heroin. Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics as a way to let Jerry know that everyone knew, and they would be there for him.
someone said, "the dead aren't the best at what they do. they're the only ones who do it." keep digging. incredibly wonderful, long and strange trip you may be starting.😊😊
The reason most choose live versions, although the Dead put out quality recorded songs, is because their live versions are fire most of the time. And they are played slightly different most of the time. Over 2300 shows between 1965 - 1995. And not one show exactly the same as another. The remaining members still play to sold out and nearly sold out crowds in the US and Mexico.
This is that "eternal jam" music, it can just chew on in its road trip vibe and you (me) never get bored. You should do Unbroken Chain to get that more psychedelic vibe, while still being approachable and catchy.
I'd love to see you guys react to Alter Bridge, they're a band that not a lot of people in the US give a chance to cause most of the members are from Creed. I'd recommend Blackbird from the album of the same name, it's awesome
The best song on this album (which, sadly, a lot of Deadheads seem to HATE, and/or: outright dismiss!) is, w/o question: "Saint Of Circumstance" 🔥🔥🔥🔥 (or, the 'dyptich'/segue: "Saint Of Circumstance"/"Lost Sailor" 🤘🤘) No cap.
My advice is that you do NOT listen to live Dead until you have ten or so studio versions under your belt. There are literally hundreds to chose from. Once you get a feel for their style then dip you toes into the live pool. You have to remember that most of the people commenting on listening to the Dead live, went to a large number of live shows, myself included. That changes your perspective of the music because the scene was always part of the music.
10:30 How high are you??? LeFakers in 5. Lol. You must have meant to say Nuggets in 5. Which is the only time they've even won one since LeBr'old picked Joker last for the All-star game 3 years ago. Nuggets 13 LeFakers 1. Hmmm 🤔 ⛏️🏀🃏🏆. Y'all would just love live PHISH. 🎶🎶🎵🎶💯💃🕺🐦🔥🔥❤️🩵 Loved Y'all's reactions to all the Sabbath! Do live GD next time. Thx guys ✌️☮️🕊️
This is what should have been your 1st Dead reaction. Includes a band introduction. th-cam.com/video/KQ8b1Fptn8U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rS4iLZihi3i9whw0 Help>>Slip>>Frank Great American Music Hall 1975
I’m not so sure this was the best starting point of the Dead for you two. Aside from the laid back guitar hook, this song’s strength is in its lyrics which, if not closely followed this song misses for many people. I’d suggest “The Other One” Live at The Fillmore East from the Live album Skull and Roses.
Okay Yall gonna do some real music??? I'm hear for it. Althea is 🔥🔥🔥(~);} live versions are even better. Not Country. Psychedelic Rock is correct. Or Rock/Folk/Jazz fusion..... Enjoy fellas!!! 🎶🎶🎵🎶🔥🍿✌☮🕊
Ain't nobody messin' with you but you Your friends are getting most concerned Loose with the truth, maybe its 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
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immediately recognized Jerry having "the most aura" lol
These two jokers are hilarious. Much love.❤
The Grateful Dead are the grandfathers of jam bands. They're the reason we have jam bands going on yearly tours. They created the live touring concert scene. The Dead might be the longest live touring band there ever was. But more than anything they created a lifestyle and a family of people that endured for decades.
Genuinely my favorite song, love that damn band so much
Mine too my brother we actually had a pitbull named althea back in the day
Been listening to the dead for 30 years. Heard the song a thousand times. This might be the first time I heard the album version.
just thinking the exact same thing. i've listened to this song hundreds of times, all different versions- but never the studio version. studio dead has no magic. 🥀💀🥀💀🦄🍄☝️
I'm so used to live Dead that the studio tracks just seem so boring.
Check out Help On the Way/Slipknot/Franklins Tower live from Buffalo NY May 9 1977.
Good reaction!! But in order to "get" the Grateful Dead, you must listen to them live. I really enjoy you guys.
You should listen to a few of the live recordings of this song to hear how much they play around with a song. Wharf Rat is another one to listen to live to hear just what these boys could do.
Yeah, this is nice, but too controlled.
@@daveguitarnowski4402 actually, i think the studio ones are good intros for new folks who don't know they are deadheads yet. live is better eventually. been to many many shows, and yes, ultimately, that's where it's at, fo' sho'.
@@waltercrain2910 lol... "folks who don't know they're deadheads yet". Too true. (Speaking as a late-to-the-bus head myself.)
Damn right - if nobody else knows the answer don't let them call you stupid!
There is a MASSIVE rabbit hole you could go down reacting to the Dead.
I’m so glad you’re reacting to the Dead! There are hundreds of amazing songs and Althea is one of my absolute favorites. You should give Bertha, Scarlet Begonias, Alabama Getaway, US Blues. But to really experience the Dead is to listen to them live.
Love hearing ppl hear the Grateful Dead for the first time
Aww guys you have no idea how much this song means to me. Thanks for a great reaction!❤😊
The dude on the left got it immediately. He didn't hear Phil until the end, but he was listening. The guy on the right wasn't hearing it. He was acting like he did, but he had preconceived notions he couldn't get past. Still a great song for a non-Desdhead hearing the band for the first time.
Still going strong 60 years later! Dead & Company playing at Vegas Sphere in May!
i still miss the dead shows so much fun and an amzing community
The boys in the band, Left to Right: Jerry Garcia-Guitar and Vocals, Brent Mydland-Keyboards and Vocals, Bill Kreutzman-Drums, Bob Weir-Guitar and Vocals, Phil Lesh-Bass and Vocals and Mickey Hart-Percussion. This version of the band existed from very late 1979 until the Fall of 1990, when Brent passed from an OD. Saw an "Althea" my first Grateful Dead show, 9/6/80 in Lewiston, Maine, and only one more, out of 50 more shows, until 1995, when Jerry Garcia passed, from a Heart Attack. More goodies from the band: "Truckin' ", "U.S. Blues", "Shakedown Street", "Terrapin Station", "Sugar Magnolia", "Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain". Only about 450 more to go. College AND NBA Hall Of Famer Bill Walton (RIP) was a HUGE Grateful Dead fan, he attended over 800 of their concerts.
in the 70's and 80's and half the 90's, these guys would sell out an arena 6 nights in a row, then in another city do the same the following week.
It was for the 50 cent lsd!😅
✌️🌎❤️
I was there man. Great memories and a few lapses.😊😂❤
Seeing them live, this was one of the tunes that you never wanted to end...
Whoever requested this song deserves a Go Fund Me and I wanna be their friend.... If you play guitar this is one of the most NOT underrated but most under-appreciated guitar songs ever.
You guys found another gem, keep it up.
I used to go to Dead shows at RFK stadium in DC in the early 90’s to purchase certain things in the parking lot & it’s so cool to see young people enjoying their music 🤘🏻🖤
Might as well react to Feel Like a Stranger off this same album! It’s Bob Weir singing. Jerry Garcia sang Althea. Their catalog is so vast, you wont dig all of it, but if you dig deep into what you like you’ll be glad you did. You two would like their 1970 live version of Hard to Handle off of Festival Express. It’s fawnky!
Long live the Grateful Dead! ⚡️💀🌹
Their jams particularly proved healing and meaningful, at times spiritual, aligned with mid '80's what-the-hey 'moderation' shroom trippin and microdosing+ on some very consistent single-source vitamin A blotter, during an otherwise exceptionally high-stressing period in life. Never a bad time with the Dead.
Yoooo let's gooo! I love the dead
Sold out MSG six nights in a row for twenty years, provided a taping section for fans to set up recording gear, and would even provide a daisy chain off of the sound board, the Dead is all about Live shows with lots of "Jamming out"
.A whole culture formed around the dead, people would tour the band going to each show and living off of the Black Market that could be found in the parking lot, known as Shakedown Street.
The big thing was tape trading before the internet came around. folks would trade live tapes by mail. If your gonna check out the Dead, the best stuff is the live stuff. I saw them in 1991 at MSG Sept 19 on my birthday, I had to camp out overnight to buy tickets.
The biggest LSD dealer in history was their soundman, Owsley. Jerry Garcia ( Lead Guitar-Vocals) was part of the Timothy Leary acid experiments. Also, when the Merry Pranksters were doing the Acid Test Events traveling around in the Further Bus, they were known as the Warlocks and where the house band for the Acid Test.
check out the Help on the way-Slipknot-Franklin's Tower Medley!
The GRATEST band in history, but the Dead need to be reacted to LIVE.
Grateful Dead should be listened to live
Best band in the land, they sent it!
Steely Dan Kid Charlemagne is a song about Stanley "Bear" Owsley. Dead sound man guy and chemist who pretty much synthesized all the LSD in America from 1966 to 1972.
Shakedown Street should be the next studio cut you should check out....LIVE is where it's at with these guys, but it's a gradual thing....and so it begins....
Great tune. A little story behind the lyrics. "Althea" is heroin. Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics as a way to let Jerry know that everyone knew, and they would be there for him.
someone said, "the dead aren't the best at what they do. they're the only ones who do it." keep digging. incredibly wonderful, long and strange trip you may be starting.😊😊
It was Bill Graham.
@@JB-Deadskins ha! all hail jayden daniels! omg. that guy.
Some of the most fun ive ever had was at dead shows and the catalog is a deep deep rabbit hole to go down truckin or frien of the devil next please
The reason most choose live versions, although the Dead put out quality recorded songs, is because their live versions are fire most of the time. And they are played slightly different most of the time. Over 2300 shows between 1965 - 1995. And not one show exactly the same as another. The remaining members still play to sold out and nearly sold out crowds in the US and Mexico.
This is that "eternal jam" music, it can just chew on in its road trip vibe and you (me) never get bored. You should do Unbroken Chain to get that more psychedelic vibe, while still being approachable and catchy.
This is some good ol' sitting on the porch and smoking a doobie music, playing that creaky floorboard along with the song. If you know you know.
The golden road
More Dead please!!
This is so great
NEver heard the Dead, BUt they calling it out
"You Said.... Grateful Dead?"
Brent Kinda looks like Zach Gallifinakis
Bertha or scarlet begonias by the dead
Bless the person who paid $40.00 to skip the line . But i am here to get back to METAL or HARD ROCK reactions!
I'd love to see you guys react to Alter Bridge, they're a band that not a lot of people in the US give a chance to cause most of the members are from Creed. I'd recommend Blackbird from the album of the same name, it's awesome
You have to smoke before during and after, and tiedye apparel is mandatory 😅
The best song on this album (which, sadly, a lot of Deadheads seem to HATE, and/or: outright dismiss!) is, w/o question:
"Saint Of Circumstance"
🔥🔥🔥🔥
(or, the 'dyptich'/segue: "Saint Of Circumstance"/"Lost Sailor"
🤘🤘)
No cap.
Always choose live versions of Grateful Dead songs
You guys would like Steely Dan
Ain’t nobody messin’ with you, but you. Your friends are getting most concerned.
Ripple
Zach Galifinakis
GD is a vibe…and a culture
My advice is that you do NOT listen to live Dead until you have ten or so studio versions under your belt. There are literally hundreds to chose from. Once you get a feel for their style then dip you toes into the live pool. You have to remember that most of the people commenting on listening to the Dead live, went to a large number of live shows, myself included. That changes your perspective of the music because the scene was always part of the music.
Check out "ripple" from the GD! Appreciate yall!
10:30 How high are you??? LeFakers in 5. Lol. You must have meant to say Nuggets in 5. Which is the only time they've even won one since LeBr'old picked Joker last for the All-star game 3 years ago. Nuggets 13 LeFakers 1. Hmmm 🤔 ⛏️🏀🃏🏆.
Y'all would just love live PHISH. 🎶🎶🎵🎶💯💃🕺🐦🔥🔥❤️🩵 Loved Y'all's reactions to all the Sabbath! Do live GD next time. Thx guys ✌️☮️🕊️
Bro you just let it play…that’s literally the Grateful Dead
Country track to me
Pass me that…
Jerry died in 95'
React to No more tears by ozzy osbourbe
Who requested the studio version? That is just inexcusable
This is what should have been your 1st Dead reaction. Includes a band introduction.
th-cam.com/video/KQ8b1Fptn8U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rS4iLZihi3i9whw0
Help>>Slip>>Frank
Great American Music Hall 1975
Almost forgot... get a copy of the lyrics. Always critical for Dead reactions
can you react to pantera domination 1991 moscow live or 5 mins alone
I’m not so sure this was the best starting point of the Dead for you two. Aside from the laid back guitar hook, this song’s strength is in its lyrics which, if not closely followed this song misses for many people.
I’d suggest “The Other One” Live at The Fillmore East from the Live album Skull and Roses.
Dead is the fathers now do phish king gizz and goose
I paid $20 for a reaction like 2 weeks ago. Any chance it actually gets done?
Please listen to Cornell brown eyed women
Grateful Dead is country music for people whop like acid
Could you listen to Ted Nugent's Stranglehold?
The Grateful Dead is the best. Pick any song, there are many.Aah, maybe Truckin or US Blues.
Ooh love US Blues
@ such a fun song. I got to see it live once in Vegas.
Mistake not doing live
Sabbath?????!!!!!!
I can not hear the dead.. It's all monotone out of key off time and they stretch it out until you want to leave wherever you are early.
I don’t think they are out of key but good try anyway
Okay Yall gonna do some real music??? I'm hear for it. Althea is 🔥🔥🔥(~);} live versions are even better. Not Country. Psychedelic Rock is correct. Or Rock/Folk/Jazz fusion..... Enjoy fellas!!! 🎶🎶🎵🎶🔥🍿✌☮🕊
Live versions are just way more lit 💡 compared to this mellower studio track. Still smooth AF 😎 👌 💃🕺🎶🎶🎵🎶🔥✌☮🕊
Kinda "proto Americana", maybe.
Great song, love it, but this isn't a good song to be introduced to the Dead to. IMHO
Overrated. Aside from the cultist sheep, this is an average garage band.
Ain't nobody messin' with you but you
Your friends are getting most concerned
Loose with the truth, maybe its 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
over hyped drug music.
These boring hippies were just a CIA front. All hype.
Honest to the point of recklessness, Self-centered to the extreme
@@m.ericwatson968 we're guilty of the same offense!!!
🎵🕺💃🎶 (~);}