Grateful Dead

A friend of mine who attended the July 4th show in Chicago with me is currently on life support in ICU. The doctors beleive he contracted whatever it is that has made him sick in Chicago. So if you or someone you know was in Chicago and has become extremely ill I would recommend getting to a medical facility. Unfortunately I do not know what he has contracted but if I find out I will pass it along.

Is it just me, or did Santa Clara have a way better set of posters than the Chicago run? I suppose its just my taste, but for me the Cali posters are preferable. The artists seemed to have embraced the old SF rock poster motifs with naked women in fields of flowers, stylized borders and writing etc. The Chicago posters were more pop art to me and in the vein of the modern era/style. To each there own I suppose but I wish there was more variety between the two. By the way - they really need to do some second runs. The secondary market is getting silly - deja vu!

I didnt really come into contact with the crew members I never saw at the show.. Im guessing that was the official shirt for Crew members? Most of Soldier Field security were wearing red tie dies for all 3 nights,, I think some even had red White and Blue for the 4th,, I remember saying to one security guard in front of the main Shakedown area near the Garcia tent,, they got hooked up with the uniforms :) The shirt i really wanted was the Staff Shirts from the Field Museum,, they were not taking any bribes Lol... There was so much Dead merch in Chicago it was awesome !! Maybe I should have tried to bribe them after there shift was over on Sunday or Monday morning,, a few of them said they needed the shirt for work ,, haha that was early Friday morning before most of the circus rolled in