Grateful Dead

Can't wait for the Chicago show. Any word on how much tix are going to run? It would be nice if there was another show around the chicago area.

And I can feel the excitement in the air!!!!

I see that the Gwinnett Arena has an open date on April 10th. Note to the booking agent....BOOK IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's just take a breath and wait. When have the boys left us hangin? In the old days we had to go to the post office, get a stamp and money order (or 2 if there was lawn seating and you wanted to be sure to get a ticket), decorate and envelope and mail it off. That was some painful waiting. The digital age has ruined us all for the greater appreciation received when something takes time. Savor these moments of anxiety and expectation. What else could get a bunch of hippies this on edge but Dead tix?

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It looks like Albany only has Minor league hockey, so maybe there will not be to many season ticket holders grabbing them.

nd Snark, thankx for that explanation about how those scalper sites get some tix. educational. peace.

forum members of dead . net who have the highest post count will get the best seats and first choice of tix. ( -; yuk yuk yuk. peace.

To all of you who have never looked into the way that basketball/hockey arena concert tickets get scalped, here is the process: SEASON TICKET HOLDERS (usually only the FULL season tickets, not the partial season packages) in SOME seating areas have, as a sales incentive, the right to purchase their same seats (and/or, in some cases, preferred location floor seats) for virtually all concerts and special events on a "right of first refusal" basis. That means that anyone with season seats can simply notify the arena (within a short window of opportunity) that they wish to exercise their concert ticket option, pay the list price for the tickets (plus the standard "service fee" to cover the cost of shooting an 8" x 1-1/2" piece of thin cardboard out of a printer slot) using their on-file credit card information, and the tickets are mailed to them automatically. Since many of these season ticket holders have little or no interest in live music, they choose to exercise this option and then to resell their tickets to a scalper at a substantial profit, essentially allowing them to use concert tickets to either 100% finance their box seats or even to turn a profit. These individuals work closely with ticket brokers and pre-guarantee their seats to them, well in advance of the ticket sales date (and since they can pre-notify the arena box office and pre-authorize the ticket payment through their on-file credit card number, those seats are seldom available through general public ticket sales. Fortunately, a good number of the venues (including--fortunately for me--the Forum in Inglewood, CA) either are non-sports venues, are venues that do not offer this particular benefit, or are facilities (like the Forum) that no longer host major league professional sports teams. I remember, back in the '80s when we lived in Long Beach, CA, we gave serious thought to buying L. A. Kings season seats at the Forum for exactly this reason (of course, now the Kings, Lakers, and Clippers all play their home games 20 miles away in downtown L. A. at the Staples Center--and if THAT place offers this benefit, I can't imagine that ANY good concert tickets make their way to the general public at face value, what with having to satisfy season ticket holders for THREE teams...).

Hey, now. I think it's cool that we've got the presale info we've got and not any more. Imagine if a password was already known. Talk about ticket shut-out. As it is, I'm amazed at how many non-heads are asking me about the tour announcement--just that much info made about every surviving US paper and flew around cyberspace. I remember once when I wanted String Cheese tickets and wasn't a member of their online site. I didn't get the needed password and had to wait on tix. That was the last time I didn't sign up and sit tight. It's all good. Talk about exciting!