Grateful Dead

Very good perspective. I appreciate your very true response. Its hard to voice some frustration with this, without sounding like a prick.

I am glad you found the bus. My sentiments are based on frustration with the way this has gone down. The thing that has always set the Dead apart was the way the heads were rewarded with live music. Hence the mail order, and family feel to getting the fans in the shows. The high prices of stadium shows were going on long before the grateful dead played big venues, and will continue after. The thing that set them apart was what we all grew to love. That being said, now that you are on board, there are 30+ years of amazing music out there for your listening pleasure. I am blown away daily from this music, and feel so blessed to be able to listen to Jerry and boys everyday.

Hi - I agree that yes, they have been playing since 95 in one name or another. But, let's all keep it in perspective. They have all been playing in one name or another since almost the beginning. After my concert intro to the dead in 72 (which makes me a late comer), I have been fortunate enough to see Legion of Mary, Bobby's Kingfish, JGB, MH band, RatDog, Phil & Friends, etc - as well as the GD - countless times. I do not see this as resurrecting anything. It feels like a gift from them to us, a closure. To us who have stood in line all night (WAY before internet) waiting for ticketmaster to open to get tix; who mailed in our tix requests; who read RS review of Live Dead and can never forget Put on the Dead and Spread; who had almost as much fun in the hours before a show in the parking lot as when the doors actually opened. It's a community. I feel your pain, and yes part of me grieves that I may loose out on seeing my mail order ticket request denied, after my entire teenage and adult life being dead related (fixated?) since the 60's, while some recent add on who just discovered our universe last yr gets lucky by clicking at the precise moment and gets in. But - those folks have the same love of the music, the vibes, as we do, so we need to swallow it and embrace them. My wife gave me a dead SYF wheel cover for my FJ Cruiser for christmas, and I was stunned when a neighbor's teenage kid came up to me last week and said it was cool, and that he loves the dead. But for timing, that could have been me. It's a crap shoot, and I agree it would suck to loose out due to fucking statistics, being one millisecond off on a click. But, like I said, it's a community. I'll take whatever fate hands me in this situation. And, I must respectfully disagree - it WILL be a grateful dead show. And, I hope my wife and I are fortunate enough to be there.