• Hartford Civic Center - May 10, 1980
    last "Comes A Time": 02-09-79 [71]

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  • Minglewood
    Peggy-O
    Mexicali
    El Paso
    Althea
    Passenger
    Far From Me
    Sailor> Saint
    Deal

    China Cat
    I Know You Rider
    Stranger
    Comes A Time
    Estimated
    He's Gone
    Uncle John
    Drumz
    NFA
    Sugar Magnolia

    Alabama
    Saturday Night

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    JesterJSNWMF
    5 years 6 months ago
    What was it about Hartford?
    I now live in CT and can't for the life of me understand why the Dead seemed to play some epic shows there. I put this one up there, with the rambling, 'what will they play next' second set, which included the finest 'Comes A Time' I have ever heard live or recorded. Only trouble was Hartford drew drunk people and the recordings include some idiots lighting M-80's in the arena. Powerful, good stuff from a time when it seemed the band was reformulating stuff with Brent firmly affixed at the keyboards. Years later I missed St. Stephen here at Hartford (83), when I gave away my tix to a friend, feeling fully satisfied from the night before's performance. I had been tracking Stephen since the big Red Rock's tease earlier in the summer. Ooooops!
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    Starless
    8 years 10 months ago
    First Show... and many more to come....
    I was a college kid at UConn, just a freshman, studying Pharmacy!I can't remember how or why I had a ticket to this show?!, I was more of a Allman Bros., Marshall Tucker fan at the time. I picked up a hitchhiker (which was commonplace at the time) as he looked like he was headed for the show. He dosed me with mescaline which was a very kind deed! I had no expectations, or pre-conceived notions... Go To Heaven had just been released and I liked the songs. The scene was very strange as I recall, and my head was in a place it had never been (first trip as well!) I loved every minute of the show and was totally struck by Garcia who was the opposite of a rock star... a hefty man in a black shirt, a scruffy beard, who didn't interact with the crowd... well not verbally. But his guitar was sweet and kind! The next morning I had a BioChem final at UConn... which was a total joke... I was still in trip mode, and the test questions just didn't make sense!! I did make it through pharmacy school, passed my boards and all is good! I saw Garcia about 50 more times along the way. I will be at Dear Jerry at Merriweather in two weeks... almost 35 years later to the date!
  • kuu
    10 years 10 months ago
    Spring of 1980
    seeing some shows prior to this one during the spring of 80 I had missed uncle johns. as the second set went on I thought I would have to wait again but.....this show is one my favorites
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last "Comes A Time": 02-09-79 [71]
setlist
Minglewood
Peggy-O
Mexicali
El Paso
Althea
Passenger
Far From Me
Sailor> Saint
Deal

China Cat
I Know You Rider
Stranger
Comes A Time
Estimated
He's Gone
Uncle John
Drumz
NFA
Sugar Magnolia

Alabama
Saturday Night
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Hartford Aud recording is one of best of over 2000 cd's collected so far. 2nd set flows from song to song and Jerry is "on"!!
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In Nov. 79, Diane, my wife and I move to Ct. This was our first show after arriving. I felt this was a really decent show. I still very much enjoy listening to this one on CD. Luckly there are some decent AUD copies of this show. Didn't think to much about the fireworks some were setting off until the rocket during "Comes A Time". That was awesome. At a show I would attend later in life, Bob asks folks to vote if they want fireworks set off in the arena. There was a resounding NO. About the only thing I didn't care for were the early Brent tunes. His contributions would get much better over time. Everything I've learned is from The Grateful Dead and Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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comes a time,,,, when a blind man takes your hand says dont you see???first show or was it 3/14/80 new haven,,, all just melts into a dream,,, tgfor the archive and speeding arrow,, peace to all,,all to peace
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Drove down from UMass………….I recall partying in a parking lot before the show…..eating spaghetti…..everyone having a great time, Love and Peace and all that. ………….from what I can remember the show was pretty good........details????.....not sure. …………..after the show our van wouldn't start…….needed a jump……..couldn’t get one person to help us out. One guy said he would do it for ten bucks……..my friend told him to screw………so he did. What ever happened to “Peace, Love and Understanding”???? Eventually we wound up back at “The Zoo”……………..not sure how though.
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I was 14 and a half. My Mom died in a car accident in September of 1979. In May a 16 year old friend of mine with a car, bought me tickets to the show as he knew I was a huge dead head. We were all set. We had grown a huge crop of "weed" in the woods near his house. We obviously didn't know what we were doing, as we almost got lung cancer going through about 4 pounds of it without feeling a thing. Luckily I experienced the culture of the shows very quickly as some strangers helped to make it my first "mind blowing" experience. Great memories ~
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a SCORCHER. Check out that Sugar Mag, only icing on a big cake though. I think this was a perfect 2nd set. I came right outside after the encore, and I stopped at a curb in time to see Jerry come by in an Econoline (middle seat to himself), sweaty, enjoying a smoke, and wearing a big grin. This was a high point in post-retirement Dead. 15,000 people went home beaming, trust me.
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My first show and first time with psychedelics involved. Wow. Peggy O solo took me so fully into a whole new world of possibilities. and that second set with He's gone Comes and Uncle Johns. That fucking guy throwing firecrackers was insane and quite troubling. but what a show! changed my life.
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Went to this one with my beautiful wife. We were still just college kids, early in love. I think she was taken aback by my enthusiasm for Jerry's "born to be a bachelor" line in Althea, but it was all good. The tease of China Cat to start the 2nd set was a crowd pleaser. Great show.Great lady.
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seeing some shows prior to this one during the spring of 80 I had missed uncle johns. as the second set went on I thought I would have to wait again but.....this show is one my favorites
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I was a college kid at UConn, just a freshman, studying Pharmacy!I can't remember how or why I had a ticket to this show?!, I was more of a Allman Bros., Marshall Tucker fan at the time. I picked up a hitchhiker (which was commonplace at the time) as he looked like he was headed for the show. He dosed me with mescaline which was a very kind deed! I had no expectations, or pre-conceived notions... Go To Heaven had just been released and I liked the songs. The scene was very strange as I recall, and my head was in a place it had never been (first trip as well!) I loved every minute of the show and was totally struck by Garcia who was the opposite of a rock star... a hefty man in a black shirt, a scruffy beard, who didn't interact with the crowd... well not verbally. But his guitar was sweet and kind! The next morning I had a BioChem final at UConn... which was a total joke... I was still in trip mode, and the test questions just didn't make sense!! I did make it through pharmacy school, passed my boards and all is good! I saw Garcia about 50 more times along the way. I will be at Dear Jerry at Merriweather in two weeks... almost 35 years later to the date!
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I now live in CT and can't for the life of me understand why the Dead seemed to play some epic shows there. I put this one up there, with the rambling, 'what will they play next' second set, which included the finest 'Comes A Time' I have ever heard live or recorded. Only trouble was Hartford drew drunk people and the recordings include some idiots lighting M-80's in the arena. Powerful, good stuff from a time when it seemed the band was reformulating stuff with Brent firmly affixed at the keyboards. Years later I missed St. Stephen here at Hartford (83), when I gave away my tix to a friend, feeling fully satisfied from the night before's performance. I had been tracking Stephen since the big Red Rock's tease earlier in the summer. Ooooops!