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    yes, you can't start topics
    this has been this way from the beginning (back in the mists of time, six weeks ago...), and is likely to continue unless some fundamental software limitations disappear. There is wild variation from one system to another on this issue: DNC, for example, doesn't let you start topics, whereas Ratdog.net does. For the time being at least, this is the way things work here. That said, if there's something you want started, feel free to post about it or send izzie or me a message; we're usually fairly responsive about it. Thanks!
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    How's everyone's experience with the new on-line store's "service"? I got my first delivery from the new look on-line store this morning. Australia Post must have been up early! I was pleasantly suprised that USPS delivery to Australia had only taken 3 weeks. I was pissed off that the actual postage cost shown on the box was just USD 13.00 yet the store had seen fit to charge me USD 45.00! So, it cost another $32 for someone to pull the CDs off a shelf, put them in the box, tape it up AND STILL GET IT F***ING WRONG! I open the box up expecting to find 4 CDs and a Dick's Dex. What do I get: Just 3 CDs! No "Three From the Vault"! No "Dick's Dex"! So, I've had to ring them from the other side of the world (yet again) to try and sort it out. The girl apologised, blamed "a Fowl up in the shipping department" (What! They employ chickens in shipping?) and promised to send it out to me with a Dick's Dex as soon as possible. From her bored tone, I can only surmise that this is a regular occurence. I then sent them a polite email explaining the problem and voicing my concerns yet again. But, these guys have never responded to any of my emails in the past, so I won't hold my breath. In short, I'm not a happy wannabe deadhead today!
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    we hope it does. It's pretty high on a lot of wish lists.
  • izzie
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    Chat room...
    Has been the subject of several discussions with the Admin folks. It could happen.
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    How 'bout a chat room for folks to visit? Sure would be nice to be able to chat live-
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    Darrin67, I don't think it's a case of Canadian fans being punished. There was some weirdness with the Store and out-of-the-States postage, and I'm thinking you're seeing an artifact of that. I'll send your concern up to our Store folks, and hopefully you'll hear back soon. If not, please let me know by PM or email at deadnetmods@gmail.com thanks much for you patience, and I'm really sorry it's so frustrating!
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    postage to canada
    What is up with the postage to canada? on wednesday (june 27) i went to order a cd and it said my postage would be $15 dollars to send me the cd...i emailed about it and was told to wait a few days as the postage rate was being adjusted...i went back today saturday (june 30) and saw the postage only went down to $11. how is this justified? i order from many websites from the U.S much smaller than dead.net and am usually only charged around $2.25 for postage per cd.....why is the dead so high? why are canadian fans being punished...our dollars are almost even right now....and as for speed another website i ordered from in arizona had my cd's to me in a week....so whats up dead.net are your rates ever gonna come down to reality? i'm very disappointed right now...as i wanted to place an order for three from the vault to get the extra book but will not be ripped off on postage...sorry.
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    buh bye!
    Teeyah won't be bothering us anymore. ciao, bella!
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    "Teeyah"
    ...shall we go, you and I while we can... Yeah, I got that,too! Gotta remember, "had to learn the hard way to let her pass by"....mucho suspicious!
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    BTW, If you Google "Teeyah
    BTW, If you Google "Teeyah Bonke" you might be amused to find that "she" also has a profile on something called militarylovelinks.com.
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Merry Christmas Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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I wonder if one reason why there has been some squabbling a bit in some of the forums is the basic issue of never knowing a person's tone of voice or emotions or facial expressions in the post. sure, the Tibet issue and the whole idea of organized religion etc etc are HOT topics, but I wonder if a simple solution, or a simple way to make things better (more clear) would be possible... what I suggest is the availability of little icon emotions, or little smile faces, that we have available, easily available, please; that people can add to their posts to kind of 'set the mood' know what I mean? I use these: ( -: or ( -; like yahoo mail or something has tons of cool little dudes to put in email. that said, I never figured out how to use them, just my neice who is only a small fry dude, knows how and she includes them. ) -; peace.
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and I don't know the current status. In my experience, people are just about evenly divided in the emoticon-fan and emoticon-phobe camps, but they do seem to come up with new and complex varieties. I stick with the ascii ones like your examples myself, but some software converts them automatically.
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feel like the ant in that Disney movie...did deadnet become the eharmony of music? Keep on rockin in the free world
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Sending out waves of good vibes and volumes of appreciation to Jonathon and marye and all those those behind the green curtain. Thank you for all your efforts. You can feel the magic everywhere, and without your efforts during the past few weeks this would not be happening. Take a minute and pat yourselves on the back and know many of us out here very much appreciate and love what you do for us.peace,love and thank you,pk
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The search function seems really broken. Searching on a simple keyword (e.g. pitch) yields a bunch of hits. Each hit shows an excerpt of the post that contains the keyword. So far so good. Now, if I click on the link to view the entire post that contained the keyword match I'm simply taken to the thread that contained the post instead of being taken to the actual post. The link doesn't even take me to the *page* within the thread that contains the post. A given thread may have a dozen pages with a hundred posts in total. I guess I have to slog through each page of the thread using the search function in my browser to try and find the actual post that your search engine showed me an excerpt of. Am I missing something or is the search function as useless as it appears to be?
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I'm wondering about a show in Canada , think it will happen ???i would come down to the states , but they won't let me :(
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the on-line pre sale process was not user friendly. i got kicked off several times and when i was finally granted access i paid 96.00 per ticket. i'm glad the band was able to contain costs in this time of econom ic downturn
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I started exactly at 12 to purchase tickets for 4/25 at the Garden.After about an hour I gave up. Now there are a ton of tickets on StubHub. How did they get in? It really pisses me off that I didn't get tickets and the people who did a-are not going and b-are making a profit selling their tix. Anyone else feeling that?
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keep trying it didn't work well for me yesterday but tried again today and got a couple.
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I was hoping to catch a show of the Dead coming to Philly, but looks like it is already sold out and the tickets were 100 bucks each. Are they worth it, YES. Is this Dead acting historically, NO. I remember getting a special invite as a Daedhead to see the group for a nite at the Tower Theater. This was 1976, no internet, a letter, mailed my check and got 2 third row seats for me and my wife for one of the best nights of music that I remember.. Warren Haynes is no Jerry, I like him, I would go see them, but can't afford it in this years economy."You the one thing I need is a left handed monkey wrench" Jim John 3:16
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Wouldn't be great if Robert Hunter sat in a few shows on the spring tour and sang days between!! R I P Jerry (you are missed)
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Why does the GD stress the Jerry Garcia Family LLC is (mainly his daughters)? Who cares? Is Deborah despised that much? Or am I assuming too much? I don't know her and I don't care. If what is said about her behavior after Jerry's death is true it says she has problems but WE ALL do. There is no way of knowing nothing unless we were there. Think, would you want to be under so much public pressure, your every move is scrutinized. What happened to forgiveness? Please remove "mainly Jerry's daughters". Its insulting to us and WHOMEVER the band is protecting. I think the band's behavior's becoming eractic. Roger
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This whole thing tries to please too many people. Oy! Its taken me two days of half trys to post my message! Roger
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sorry you don't like the way things are here, but you'll note that pretty quickly after that topic was posted, one of your fellow Heads took it upon himself to post the legal documents about the exact makeup of the LLC, so what is too much information for some folks is not nearly enough for others. We try to muddle along and coexist anyway.
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I'll ask Jonathan!
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There was a time I would write the GD anything to any email address I could find and someone would respond. I once asked why Brent was cropped out of band photos and got a response. What's that whirling sound? Its Jerry spinning in his grave. This new system is soooo impersonal, I hope there are riots this tour. Roger
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HEYYYYYY! Here's something to cheer ya up archive.org Check out the 4/12 and 4/14 shows. Hope you'll feel less grumpy!
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Type in The Dead live 4/12/09 (Search) and whirl!
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It being family in the first place, your in or your out. Being on tour, I'm darn sure every band member got over the hump somehow. Traveling , picking the tunes , etc. it just isn't a perfect world. Robert HUNTER , WHERE R U? Mickey and Phil patched things up? The Dead were all about breaking rules , if not doing the best that they do ; not one show is identical from another one. Love the Band for that reason.(separates the men from the boys) Counting down the days till Phili, so see ya there Robert Hunter. God , Allah, or whoever wears the pants in the universe , just make it happen. And like the man said; Days Inbetween. Lol. Kottonmouthjeff
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Robert Hunter has been writing tunes with Bob Dylan. Lots of them on the Dylan release coming out this month. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Marye: You'll need to guide me better. Where do I find the doc's re: the LLC? I'm curious, why do they insist on "mainly Jerry's daughters". And I defended Dborah, if her real name is Deborah, who knows what if anything about her is true? And please note, Wednesday I received part of my GD store order, so what is it, cancelled or shipped? Oy vay! I did let the pressures of my life spill over and for that apologize. Franky baby.
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lethedoom This week's Grateful Dead Hour is not included on the friont page 'The Latest' list and it is necessary to navigate through four pages to listen to it. Whoever is syncing your site is out of order or sleeping in. http://www.dead.net/front_page --> http://www.dead.net/features --> http://www.dead.net/features/gdhour --> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-807
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thank you, we're on it. fr8nk, sorry for the late response. I'm sorry, I don't know a thing about the LLC but I'd guess it's all public record at this point, and if you are still having trouble with your order lemme know.
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So i'm thumbing through some old CD covers and came across American Beauty. Man, theres some strange things goin on on the front cover. I can see the word REALITY in the word BEAUTY. I heard something about holding it upside down infront of the mirror and reading it??? Gonna check that out. Just another message from the grateful dead:)Forever Grateful, Forever Dead, Peace- Moye
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if ya hold mars hotel upside down and look at the mirror image it says "ugly rumors"....but at this point i believe that's pretty much common knowledge among deadheads.
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Ill have to check that out man, I seriously never knew that bout mars hotel. (I feel like a dum dum) LOL Seriously tho, look at the cover of american beauty....I can see the word REALITY plain as day in the word BEAUTY. Weirdorama..... Peace- Moye
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I get the impression that everything here is canned and pre-created. Everywhere I look there does not appear to be an area to post. This lives up to my impression of the whole Dead organization as being the closest thing to Hippie Nazis. Hell, your web site doesn't even accurately tell the members of the band.. and some of those pictures are so old it is pathetic. This whole forum is a total mess - perhaps you designed it to be confusing so your pre-made canned phony comments could stay in the locked forum and people who saw the shows and thought they stunk aren't able to speak the truth. Face it - this band should not exist - Jerry died and 50% of the creativity died with it.. the other 25% is Bob Weir and the other 25% was PigPen. Your overpriced tickets in huge crap venues like the Forum in LA show that you don't care about the fans, as much as you try to portray the cool hippie aesthetic. We know your true colors. I bet your T-shirts are manufactured in China. This tour will be a flop, I predict.
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Godwin's Law strikes again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law give mentous a prize: a free ticket to the LA Forum and a Tour -Shirt! Seriously though, I am not sure the concept of the 'Live' show reviews is working too well either. But folk have posted some interesting, critical and sometimes negative reviews of the shows. And if they were there, are happy, high and want to tell everyone, why shouldn't they?
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mebbe my posts make little to no sense but they are all mine, pal....nuffin' canned. ain't no-one paid me to write anything. isn't it odd you would predict a flop when the tour is half over? when folks have been saying how much they have enjoyed themselves? how wonderful it has been to see old friends and family? apparently something has been a monumental disappointment to you, to the extant that it has caused you to be delusional........'t's ok, man....have a cookie and relax...YOU don't have to be pleased with the music, the rest of us will try to be....
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with the big black dot where the steely should be ? I scrole over it and little black dots appear on the screen and the screen go`s dark ?
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Yeah, Man! What's with the dot Bob? What's with the dot? (I think it's a speaker) which means......MUSIC? a New Release?....a....***eyes dart around fervently***....DVD!?!!!!?! "In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul."
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appearing in a pattern oddly reminiscent of the Wall of Sound. Hmmm. Perhaps something 73-74ish is in the upcoming release chute? Worse things could happen... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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guys...perhaps it was never really there in the first place and we were all in a state of group mind? Who REALLY knows? Right? "In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul."
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I think Pid's right. I can see the pop-up wall of sound in the packaging already!
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time for that Freedom Hall '74 show to come out and play? The Truth is realized in an instant, the act is practiced step by step.
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when's it comin?tonight? in minutes? "In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul."
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... one of my top ten shows (I don't know what the others are right now, but this one's always in there). Surely, the words six-eighteen-seventy-four hold a special place in all Dead hearts - hopefully, a great cal Senor Oroboros!!! " Beat It On Down My Old Kentucky Home "
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pop up packaging... we don't need no stinkin' pop up packaging. badgers? (-; yuk yuk yuk... peace.
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wall was gone, then back on the main page after I logged off. simple example of stoners trying to mind fuck other stoners... we WANT DVDs, not no pop up packaging. well, at the very least, I want DVDs. peace.
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Ya s'pose there IS any extant, unreleased video from the Wall Of Sound era? That would be pretty clutch! And to paraphrase Jesse Colin Young, I believe our Badger bathes often, therefore he don't smell... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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i've seen stoners pop-up (as soon as some one fires up)....but i have never seen any pop-up badgers. the speakers are still there tho. just place the cursor on the one where the stealie was....no badgers tho.....
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This is picky, but the entry for Big Boss Man mentions that Bob sang Big Boss Man in the '80s. But it doesn't mention that Jerry also sang it. He did a great job on it in the New Years Eve show of 12/31/81. PigPen would have approved. http://www.dead.net/song/big-boss-man
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I remember that version! Gotta get that tape out...