Grateful Dead

Nice commentary guys. I usually enjoy my Sundays....Today I'm just going to trudge off thru the snow(again) to church soon and try to find some peace while morning the death of my #3 Best Friend ever. I will miss you all...

On sale date has come and gone. CID and TM sounded like a joke but I didn't have the cash anyway since my money orders are still out there somewhere. No pink slip, no confirmation email, no money orders cashed, no responses from GDTS. Is there still hope or has the deal gone down?

The motivation behind Dead 50 is to make every last penny for he grateful dead machine . I have realized for a long time they are just a business . They have lived the good life off of poor slobs .They branded them selves wonderfully to a select dedicated group and then they got cool 'Touch' and they cashed in nicely to the point that Jerry passed with the touring schedule they had to keep up Last I checked the grateful dead broke up in 1995 . How is this a 50 year anniversary anyway?. Does that work when you get divorced . Your anniversary continues? This Fare thee well tour is for there retirement fund or trust fund for there kids . They are for a bunch of 70 year olds riding off into the sunset. These last shows are a Joke But Mark My Words they are not done with the cash grab. They will put at least one of these shows on Pay Per View to maximize there profits. That sell will be couched with the standard BS that they are doing it for all the Deadicated fans .. Fork over 50 bucks and you can watch the shows on Pay Per per view will all your friends. In God we Trust ...all others pay cash... Good Riddance

The motivation behind Dead 50 is to make every last penny off the grateful dead . I have realized for a long time they are just a business . They branded them selves wonderfully to a select dedicated group and then they got cool 'Touch' and they cashed in heavy Now you can only sell about 16,000 new cd's Daves Picks this is a nice cash infusion to push these senior citezens to retire once and for all Mark my words there is still one more big cash grab coming for these final shows. They will put at least one of these shows on Pay Per View to maximize there profits

If you want a ticket, and can put aside the raw feelings, For around 1,000k in a full view section 100,, Ticket network has a few. Maybe there is a decent way to Rationalize this if you choose to go that route. For one, that kind of money for one night can equate to money that might have been spent over a few shows, if the tours kept on keeping on. Think about your savings now in that case!!!!

I was thrilled by this last chance to see the band. (My one and only live experience with GD was their Stockholm show in 1990.) And I did everything to get tickets through the official chanels the band had set up. The Ticketmaster parody of yesterday was really humiliating. The same second as the sale started there where only the worst seat on sale (who will sit behind the stage anyway?) What does that mean? Obviously the band had decided to allocate the big bulk of tickets to the scalper market and to the 1%-ers who can afford the ”CID experience” junk. This is not in the spirit of good ol´ Grateful Dead. I am hugely disappointed. Still, life goes on ... and the Swedish Summer is not that bad after all.

still no word from GDTSTOO just would like to knw where our MO are??????T only thing i can think is i left my e-mail off the card WHICH I DID NOT please let us know where our money is.The TM and CID were a joke not very fair.

Like many of you, I still have unused tickets in my possession that were bought just before Jerry died. Never really had closure. I was hoping this could round off those ruff edges that have been there for going on 20 years. I sat and waited, with what felt like the entire world, on line for Ticket Master yesterday. Virtual line numbers counting down then up again only to go back down. At one point I was staring at where I believed I was actually going to be, side stage section ? row 200 something sets seats 16, 17 for the 3 day package. Credit card information put in, diligently checked for errors quickly, all good. Now the exciting moment came to hit the complete transaction button. I was freaking out. It's all coming true. Then the button was hit and the page kicked us out. Great system!!!! I had to get straight in and wait in the virtual line once more only to be told over and over, "error, there are no tickets to match this description". Serious fail. I was in only one more button to complete. Plus I have a ticket master account, the system would not let me auto fill all my info to speed the process up. I had to put it all in again. Thanks for letting me purge.

I've been reading lots of the posts and understand people frustrations as I am frustrated as well. Mail ordered 1/20 for 2 tix to July 4th or anything available (did not go for the most expensive tix) but I would take 2 tix to any night. No email, no pinky, no nothing so far. I tried yesterday for 30 minutes and then had to go to a family function. Does not sound like it would have mattered if I had wasted more time waiting on Ticketmasters website. I do know people who mailed in separate envelopes for each night and got more than one filled. I know that the folks at GDTSTOO were overwhelmed. I'm just wondering why some people got multiple tickets or multiple orders filled while people like me who just wanted to see one last show got nothing (I'm assuming my chances are slim to none now but who knows?)? I know that there are plenty of people out their like me. Disappointed in Vermont.

Lance ArmsrongA-Rod Sammy Sosa Mark McGuire Tiger Woods Roger Clemens And many more i can't think of this late And ladies and gentlemen the latest to join the list of "having a great career that people idolize, only to let your fans down in the end" The surviving members of The Grateful Dead.............Congratulations! If ever there was a band that had a connection to its fans. Album sales plummeted, the general public despised you, it was damned near illegal to like you. We, the fans loved you, carried you through, without US none of this was possible. Sure you have the talent, but the fame and fortune bestowed on you all was granted by your fans, not the part timers or college frat boys, but the true fans. You know us, we're the ones that were strung along this process willing to pay the $3000 package prices, the ones who await envelopes,emails,and waste hours upon hours planning logistics and so on for events, kinda like mommies on black friday, and you know we're diligent. You have now played us like pawns and treated our hard earned cash like it was hooker night on capitol hill. Very disrespectful, you would have made a shit ton just by simply letting us fight for tickets and letting it sell out the good old fashioned way, YOU know you could have kept the mass ticket outlets away. Instead you insisted on PUSHING this out of control while driving prices up at the above saids expense. If I were in your presence i would THROW MY SHOE AT YOU LIKE THAT ONE DUDE DID TO GEORGE W. BUSH SHAME ON YOU ALL

R.I.P. Jerry

It is Sunday morn and snowing in Maryland. Gotten over the disappointment of not getting tix in any of the offerings. I'm gonna put on a good attitude, wish everyone well who got their miracle and know everything happens for a reason. I have a great room in Chicago...so I am going to road trip anyway... and hang in the lot if that is all I can manage...Maybe I will pull a few tie dyes from the old stock and hang em on a stick at shakedown like back in the day. No matter where we are, we can be kicking up our heels that weekend, to the music that is in our hearts...that music lives on...even as everything else...just fades away. Hugs Brothers and Sisters...wipe your tears and let the music play.

A Stranger in the Parking Lot One day, a short time after Jerry died, a man came up to me in the parking lot @ the Great Woods concert venue in Mansfield, Massachusetts to talk to me about my T-shirt. My T-shirt had Jerry's face on it with his birth date and the death of his passing. The shirt stated, "We're Grateful!" I was GIVEN this T-shirt in the parking lot @ the RatDog show @ the Club Casino concert venue in New Hampshire as a gift. This is relevant because it was Wednesday, August 9th, 1995, that was the day that Jerry died and I drove up to New Hampshire to be with my people because I was so upset that Jerry had died. I remember thinking how strange it was that I was so overwhelmed at the death of someone that I had never met. The stranger @ Great Woods parking lot needed to speak to another member of our community the same way that I did that night when Jerry passed. The stranger in the parking lot was devastated. He was devastated because he was a little lost. Where would we ever be able to experience this phenomenon that was a Grateful Dead concert? Where would we be able to feel so comfortable amongst so many like minded people? Where could you share a safe night of music and perhaps psychedelics, if that was your pleasure? Where else would someone else apologize for spilling your drink? Where else would we see all those smiles, smiles, smiles...:) :)? The stranger in the parking lot felt this loss and I had needed to talk to someone also, especially with another DeadHead. We both talked, even acknowledged the fanaticism of the whole "scene." We were both strangers to each other, but not really. We were connected by this weird and wonderful music, but more importantly, to an idea and a concept to live in peace and acceptance. Yeah, it's pie in the sky and all that, but DeadHeads were able to go to a nice, comfortable world for short periods of time to conscientiously open ourselves up to be happy. In this crazy ass world, there was no better place to go! So, to my stranger in the parking lot> Thanks for saying hello and sharing and helping me when there was nothing cooking in this "scene" in the period right after Jerry died. Thanks to the HUNDREDS of DeadHeads that I have spoken to, danced with, smiled to and at, passed one to, passed me one, sold me a "chocolate", begged me for a beer, showed me your "blotter," sang Terrapin w/ me, sang the silocybin song next to me, but most of all for sharing something that I really can not find the right adjective to describe...I have loved the ride so far :) :).... Owen McElhinney Quincy, Ma DeadHead since 1980/ 1st show Lewiston, Maine

There will be dancin', dancin' in the streets of Chicago. Keep the peaceful vibes going - that's what it's all about. The Music Never Stopped... I wonder what would have been said 20+ years ago if the internet was available when folks didn't get their tickets then. Were they mad at the band? I wasn't! The times I didn't get tickets at the moment of sale did happen back then yet I still managed to find a miracle somewhere. Everyone seems to be mad at the band, what's up with that? They are mad at ticket prices (all ticket prices are different than 20 years ago). They are mad at Bears fans - all major venues give season ticket holders the right of first refusal, that's the way it is. I know plenty of my Brothers and Sisters that got tickets through Bears fans so they didn't ALL go to scalpers. They are mad at Ticketmaster yet how can you be more fair than Ticketmaster? They do all the shows for everyone and is the best way today to get tickets out for any concert. Just how would you have provided tickets for people for an event like this? Provide them only for "true" deadheads? How would you quantify that? Perhaps you're mad at me because I got tickets and am talking about it. Well just maybe it wasn't luck at all for me but karma. Be Kind. Be Grateful. Be the kind of DeadHead that Bobby talks about. Be the Jerry to everyone that sees you. Be the organ donor for Phil. This darkness got to give...

Its sad, but ultimately this WILL tarnish their image permanently. Something us fans know that the band might not.......... Deadheads have spent their ENTIRE grateful dead lives defending ourselves and the band from the general public the fact that we like the band.........................The general public laughs at, rolls their eyes at, dislikes/hates, passes judgement, and basically mocks the entirety of it. In the past people like me would stand up, tell those people were they can stick it............fast forward to today. The next time(which is quite often) i hear someone bashing the dead i will simply add to the end of their conversation" AND THEN THEY FUCKED US". This may seem simple and insignificant now, but trust me, in the long run, the amount of us that have been scorned will come back to bite them in the ass. This show will go on, it will be a huge success as far as numbers, and that is where it starts..........the public once again will be speaking of the dead, and those of us who where scorned, far far far more than weren't, will start to tell these people who are amazed that the dead could pull this off our stories. Once they realize what they did to their fans it will further their disgust with the band....but have nobody to stick up for them. Its kinda like the kid who is bullied at school but luckily, is protected by his older brother........now the bully is looking for a fight and big brother has moved on to high school...good luck After all, all celebrities ultimately care A LOT what the public remembers them as.... and like i said....they'll end up paying in the long run......such a shame.

One show in Golden Gate Park? Pretty please?

Put an envelope in another envelope, add an index card, go to the post office for two separate money orders,decorate an envelope, stir and wait. And wait,, And wait, and wait. Someone has my $900 and I still do not have tickets. I couldn't afford to go online because someone has my $900 and I don't have tickets. For me, the true last Dead show was at the Franklin County Airport in Vermont. Almost 90,000 people found their way to this remote location. Jerry died a month later. In spite of the enormous amount of money I have tied up in this endeavor, I have not a whit of reply. I'm glad I used registered funds, cuz this is starting to feel like mail fraud.

Don't know what I am anymore. After I got shut out yesterday on TicketScalper, I've been dealing with mixed emotions about this whole thing. Some how managed to stay Grateful after yesterday's bullish!t. Even after they changed how it's going down 50 times throughout the process. When they stopped the box office sales and outlet sales, then phone sale, I knew it was Fu¢ked!! I could go on all day cause I'm ranting, cut to the chase,I mailed out VERY early on the 20th, did everything exactly right. Want 2 tix for 3nights. Got rejected. My buddy called me this morning from the other coast and told me he got a conformation email Friday evening. He sent for 1 ticket to 3 nights but mailed out on Wednesday, the 21st at 10am. I love the boys, but they lost in on this one.. My thoughts on Shapiro just did a 360!!!! I'm out. Peace!

Seriously, so many of you are acting like this crap has never happened before. I've been shut out of concerts for years now to so many of my favorite artists. Yet, instantly there are tickets on every other secondary market site, including one owned by Ticketmaster!! The system has been so insanely corrupted and everyone turns a blind eye to the fact that the secondary market, which used to be illegal mind you, has been allowed to become so powerful that the regular fan has just about no choice but to pay their exorbitant prices if they really want to see their artist of choice. Nobody wants to regulate it, nobody wants to punish these companies for having an unfair advantage nor for price gouging the ticket buying public...it's just ignored. Do you honestly think that these four guys who have played in this band for 50 years have any clue what's it like to be home waiting in front of a computer struggling against this unfair system? None of them know what it's like, so they don't push against it so much. Give the Dead credit for even attempting a mail order system to try and give their real fans a shot. At least it's something. You want to play live music for your fans in just about any city in America, you have to use the ticket mafia, there's no choice. And it's been allowed to grow in a ridiculously unjust manner. There's no other industry to my knowledge that price gouges as much as the legal scalping industry or has such an astronomically unfair advantage. Don't blame the band. Blame the ticket scalpers and the ticket agencies and the lack of regulation that they benefit from. I've never bought a ticket from a Stub Hub type site. I've never sold one there and I never will. It's ruined the concert going experience for everyone and no one seems to want to address that fact.

20+ years ago, if there was internet, when the deadheads found out that the band skipped them and sold straight to scalpers the people would have screamed FUCK YOU!!!!!!!! the internet is the reason the band was able to gauge our interest,lure us in to this event, then spike the prices. They couldn't have accomplished this 20 yrs ago......................now that you mention it, good point, i wonder.........would they have done this to us back then if they could have? none of us would have been here in the first place if they did? I wonder

Not so, bands choose ticketmaster. Do your research, ticketmaster has direct interest in secondary markets, the band has direct interest in ticketmaster, its a vicious circle, but a circle the band CHOOSES. Don't be so naive. It used to like you say WHEN SCALPING WAS ILLEGAL, but like you said its not anymore, so do you honestly think that the bands and ticketmaster stand pat while the scalpers run rampant? really? hell no, THEY USE IT TO THERE FULL ADVANTAGE......which is fine with me..........IF THEY WOULD JUST ADMIT IT! PUSSIES

My 1st shows were back to back nights at RFK stadium in DC July of 1986 with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on the bill. Saw many shows after that in Alpine Valley and Chicago and luckily I went to the last show in 95. I still remember how tired Jerry looked when they would flash his face on the big screen as he was singing. Continue to Rest in Peace my friend and thank you for the ride! There was never an easy way to get seats for a popular show and Ticketmasterfuck has a proven track record of not delivering. I remember the shitty feeling of not getting Who tickets in 75' to see the original members for a Chicago date and I stood in line for that one. I tried to splurge for a hotel package on Friday thinking it would be easier to score some seats than the Saturday cluster. I also helped open the Westin River North in 1987 and worked there 4 years so a return to Soldier Field and my old hotel was in the cards. What a joke! Nothing available. I can't even spend more money than I want to when I want too. So I thought ok I should get at least a pair online Saturday. How could a long time fan not get a few tix to dance the night away one more time on the 4th of July in one of the greatest cities in the world which also happens to be my hometown! There must be at least 2 available or worst case scenario 1. It is a football stadium and home of Da Bears yes? Well I think I submitted my request about 11:06 after having trouble getting in promptly at 11am. The clock got down to 11 minutes 4 separate times and then jumped way back up. I am now empty handed like a lot of my friends posting here. Amazingly thousands of seats are immediately available through the resellers. Are we not better than this? I think technology has come along way since 1975 but I could be wrong. I WILL be at Soldier Field on the 4th of July and I will be dancing I guarantee you. If anyone has GA pit tickets to let go please contact me. To the Ticketcluster organization all I can say is YOU SUCK BLUE WHALE DICK!! Wave that flag, wave it wide and high Peace out*

I am one of the many with no pink slip, no email, no money orders and almost a Grand in limbo...somewhere.. What I will never understand is why were the folks at GDTSTOO so unprepared for what went down... they were by their own admission... but why? Did they NOT think there may be a HUGE response by Heads all over the world? I'm an idiot and I knew... The handling of this situation was both embarrassing, pathetic, non professional and disrespectful to fans that have supported them over the years... Even IF I had some concrete info of where I stood now on the First of March, I would feel the same way... This reminds me of a High School bake sale, not a ticket distribution of one of the greatest Bands in musical history... To make people send in Money orders, (I have done it for years) hold them, don't communicate and then open Ticketmaster sales WITHOUT either returning those money orders in time for those folks to try at the online sales, or communicating with them is un imaginable... The persons at the DEAD Organization should publicly apologize to everyone involved.. This is ALL inexcusable. All of it.... S*&T trickles down hill..... The bands members are ultimately responsible... for them to remain silent further exposes the total distancing of the Band from their fans.. SPS... The whole reason for the mail order was to prevent Scalpers from obtaining a great deal of tickets... and to allow the fans to get ahold of them... For the most part, this has failed miserably...hame on them.. This wreaks of a total money grab... At this point I just want my money back, don't even feel like going anymore... I'm done with them... maybe for good.. This will be the first thing I think of when listening to the music...

I'm hoping the band will have something to say soon. Anything at this point. We all knew it was going to be a blood bath, most of us not to this degree. Time to speak up boys. We would like hear your side. Then we can decide what we want to believe.

So many feelings this morning after over a month of patiently waiting and being hopeful, staying positive, rolling with the punches of checking the mail box, email, CID and ticketsheister nightmare- the worst by far is that I trusted it would be ok to send my MO in the mail. Still not knowing and now can't help but to worry if I will ever see that $700 again. As a preschool teacher that money was not saved without major sacrifice, like so many of you. So to Cain1974, even if it was possible to rationalize paying $1000 for one night, I would never do it because I don't want to be part of the problem. Not trying to be self-righteous but at some point people need to say no, enough, and not participate in being ripped off or it will just get worse and worse. Bands need to stand up for their fans and not participate with ticketbastard, or at the very least make the tickets accessed by credit card that you need to show at time of entry- other bands have done that why not the Dead- who cares if it takes forever to get in the show- at least you didn't get ripped off in the process. My apologies for the rant, it is therapeutic, thanks for listening. I am sure I could dig it up but feeling so deflated, if anyone has Elvis' email address please share it because for what it is worth I would like to attempt to get some info. about whether or not they are done sending emails and if I should begin the process of trying to get my money back.

Your exactly right........Their silence speaks a million words...............

elvis@gdtstoo.com Same situation here $1300 in money orders just disappeared! Probably never see it again!!!!

Go to the page to submit "YOUR STORIES OR ART WORK' and click on and read the TERMS and Conditions. Just the first sentence.Rhino Entertainment Company a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group is the only official Licensee of Grateful Dead Productions.....

Wife and I each sent in ticket requests. Both not cashed, no pink slips, no emails, no responses to multiple emails to Elvis, nothing...Chances were 1 in 10 so it seems odd that both our requests are MIA.

I actually feel sorry for Elvis's email box...

just to play, an extension cord ran into an apartment, the band on a flatbed truck, a free show, just to play. we have come a long way baby. a long, long strange trip indeed

What choice? Ticketmaster has an essential monopoly on this industry. Maybe LiveNation? Oh wait...that's TicketMaster also. Who else is going to handle such a huge demand? Which is fine...if they managed to fight against the price gouging scalper industry...which they don't and won't because it benefits them. They own their own scalping site!! How can you defend that? A few years back, they got caught during a Springsteen sale. They were claiming the show was sold out and instantly sending you to their new secondary site that was already flooded with tickets at exhorbitant prices...but the show wasn't sold out yet. They called it a computer snafu. That's a little convenient for them don't you think. Lets remember Pearl Jam fought this battle and lost. They got muscled out of venues by the ticket mafia. If you don't think that the ticket mafia exists and is THE problem, then you're missing something. Sorry, this is not the bands sole fault. The ticket buying and selling system is so screwed up, but it's the only one in place so everyone just accepts it.

For all that are in limbo and want your money back, just go to the USPO and put a stop on your money order, it might take a few weeks, but you will get your money back. GDSTOO will not be able to cash them....

For all complaining about not getting tix, where were all of you the last 15 years seeing the band in every capacity they provided, including the core four. I was at many shows where you walk by an empty ticket office with tickets for sale. Seriously the band is not in this for the money. Nor am I, thats why i have not sold my tickets to stub hub... the band did not either

And it sucks that WU will charge me to put a stop payment on each and every one

I spent a few hours yesterday like so many others trying to score on Ticketmaster. Nope. Didn't happen. I'm still waiting to hear on my MO, so there is hope. If I do get lucky and receive a confirmatory email, I'll be spending the 4th of July weekend with family in Chicago, celebrating my 21st wedding anniversary with them, and then taking my father to at least one of the shows I put in for through GDTSTOO. If no dice on Chicago, I've got plenty of memories of the many amazing shows I caught through the 80s and 90s as well as numerous P&F, Ratdog, Further, and Other Ones shows in the aftermath of the Grateful Dead (i.e., sans Jerry). At least during this GD anniversary year, I can celebrate the milestone of Phil's 75th birthday. I have tix to see him at the Capitol Theater on 3/15. Taking a good friend with me to that one.

In all the years you did mail order, when did GDTS cash your money order without sending you a ticket? Never, that's when. I don't think they'll start now. I haven't gotten an e-mail or a pink slip yet. One or the other will happen. Call me naïve if you want, but isn't having a little faith what the whole mail order bag was about in the first place? I was lucky enough to score a 3-day-behind-the-stage from TM. That makes me happy. If I DO win the GDTS lottery, I'll sell them face value. There will be other folks that will be glad to have them.

I am sure TT has a conspiracy theory for my question, but how does the band benefit from secondary market sales? Why would the band divert tickets to a place like stub hub? Tickets are sold at the stated price. The band gets their cut (if it is part of the contract). If the ticket is resold, the band gets nothing. I am sure you will tell me that they get a kickback for every ticket sold regardless of the channel. And to state a fact - stub hub is owned by Ebay. TM is not a listed partner unlike the Bears. As for the MO's, you will get your money back. They received a ton of orders and I am sure they took a break. Once the on sale dates hit, the urgency to get back to everyone was reduced. Stop crapping on the band and GDTS.

Jeffmon the question is can YOU be stopped ..............

well said my friend!

I am not complaining about the tickets but the way things were handled.. It's 2015.... If you can not communicate OFTEN about the state of the situation...when so many are both asking, and they know people are wondering, is simply inexcusable in this day and age... How long does it take to write a small paragraph explaining the situation at hand on a particular day... This should be done at the end of at LEAST every second day... And, an explanation of where millions of dollars of peoples money is...and when it will be returned... This is paramount to settling things down before they get to this point... Now that we have arrived here, send out some information... or, is that simply too much to deal with.... Heres a hint... use a computer, an internet connection and some wits.... I am sure you folks can handle that.. This is all common sense 101...

my love for the scene and the music stops me....

Are you really so naive to believe that just because a secondary outlet isn't owned by ticketmaster that deals weren't made previously to get tickets to stub hub etc.? Someone obviously gave 90% of the non bears tickets to them, there were none for sell on ticketmaster, only behind the stage and side. What you are trying to defend doesn't exist. And again, THEIR SILENCE SAYS IT ALL!!!!!

Well, buddy it sounds like you are just upset because you haven't gotten a pink slip yet...which means you may have been one of the lucky ones. I have to say this man, for your comments about where were we the last 15 years, well, we were there. Maybe not in these numbers, but we were there. Thanks for noticing. I was the guy selling cans of beer before the show...perhaps you saw me, perhaps you bought a beer, perhaps we shared one together because I had one and you didn't have the $2 I was asking but were a head in need...but then again, perhaps not. We were the ones that were saddened to see Bobby have problems, we were REALLY saddened with Bobby stopped touring for health reasons, we were also the ones who understood that they are all aging and cannot realistically keep doing this forever. What we are complaining about - are the people who are doing this solely for money. Those that are buying tickets solely to cash in. The ones that would take advantage of a community, no, family like ours knowing that this means everything to us - like it does the band. We are the ones that subscribe to Dave's Picks, listen on LMA, live and breath by Dave's Picks. So to you, I think you should rethink your comments. We are the ones that have stood by the band through thick and thin. We are the ones on Shakedown street offering rides to the next city - for whatever guys like you could pay in return, which was sometimes just friendship. Peace

THIS is the true definition of DEAD AIR... For those wondering...

GDTSTOO probably received about 80,000 envelopes. Probably more. It was an incredible effort to put together for some of us to remember the days before there was a secondary market like stub hub. I understand the frustration of not knowing the status of your mail order and trying to get tickets for the first 5 minutes that ticket master was selling them. Go stop your money orders and you will not be in limbo anymore... or keep the faith that once this is all sorted out you might get your tickets

The fact of the matter is most of us have 4 months to figure out just exactly how and where we want to spend 4th of July weekend, 2015. Just work with what you've got and have fun doing it. No more poopy talk!

properlejdi, thank you for the $2 beer, after the shows it is always the best beer ever, yes you did give me a free one as well thank you my friend.

the Band isn't making the money, ticketmaster/stubhub is, why were ticket prices a moving target? I have never heard of such a thing. Now they can resell at whatever the market will bear, and we have shown ourselves as real suckers regarding what some of are willing to pay. of course stub hub will take your money faster than the balloon boys in the lot.the band isn't doing this but they set the stage for those that are, and they could stop it (or could have when we saw where was headed) They could have bypassed ticketmaster and sold to us by mailorder, 1 head sends 1 order for one ticket, fill them THEN release to general market, judging from GDTSTOO's reaction to our numbers it would have been fine play a bigger venue, why the hangup with soldier field, because the last time they played there was it a great show? sending those of us in limbo some kind of update would be nice

We should not have to put stops on the money orders and spend more valuable time dealing with this... thats my point... a few people in a home dealing with this has caused this situation as we all know... they should of expected this... 80,000 envelopes or more... Communicate.... First order of business... I don't care WHAT business...big or small... If people are STILL in the pipeline to actually receive tickets, tell us so we don't have to put stops on money orders still in the system to be filled... duh....