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    joennn24
    9 years 8 months ago
    Mix
    Listened to KFOG replay and the mix had Trey so out front I couldn't hear the rest of the band. Could just be the radio replay, but I wanna hear Phil, Bobby and the rest of the band. Can't wait to see it at the movie theater on Friday (and maybe Saturday and Sunday)
  • goverlid
    9 years 8 months ago
    Write on, Bros. Stephen & Eric!
    Thanks for my morning eye-opener!!
  • Eric Abrahamson
    9 years 8 months ago
    Fare Thee Well Grateful Dead, Pt. 2
    Watch 'em knock 'em dead in Chicago. I must've gone to at least 100 shows. The first one was in 1966 in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle, or the Furthur Fesival at San Francisco State College, whichever was first. I actually felt like Phil was addressing me personally when he made his speech at the end and thanked everyone for coming out, because I tried to get tickets to as many Phil Lesh and Friends at Terrapin Crossroads shows as I could. He came up to me there and let me say, "Hi," which rock stars don't have to do. However I couldn't afford to follow Bobby around like I used to, and he always lets me know, which is flattering that he invited me. He sang a song about losing money, which is true. He sang some other songs which might have been directed at me, and I instinctively responded by singing along. Then, at the beginning of the last song, "Fare Thee Well, My Honey", "Brokedown Palace", I thought he was like, he wanted me to sing along, so I did, and then he ended it abruptly, got in line with their arms on their shoulders, did their bow, and it was over, but I'm planning to see the live stream of all 3 Chicago shows at Terrapin Crossroads. When I went to UCI in 1987, my dad gave me $100,000/year, an apartment in grad student housing, a car, and a bunch of credit cards on his account. They tracked me into the Information and Computer Science major. Then he came down and took some of the credit cards back, and my sister took all 6 of my Irvine Meadows Grateful Dead tickets. Like William Burroughs wrote, "When did they ever give anything that they didn't take back if they could, and they always could!" and he went to Harvard. I went out and bought 6 more, at the inflated price of $50, for $300, and canceled the aftershow party at my apartmnent I'd posted on the Well. Because of losing the credit cards, I got a bad grade and had to go to CSUB. Laurie Senit moved in, and life was pretty good. We lived across from the campus in an apartment complex with 4 swimming pools and 4 jacuzzis, the 2nd best in town. My parents bought me a brand-new Toyota Tercel. Then my mom said, "We're going to send the two of you to Hawaii. Pick out a hotel from this brochure." I picked the Big Island because I'd been to Maui, and the Kona Hilton because the Dead liked Hiltons. In nearby Paradise Cove the scuba boat captain claimed he was on a first-name basis with Jerry. When Jerry died the Rolling Stone article said his house was in Kona, which I didn't know, and gave the name of his dive shop. I called information and the dive shop, they said it was across the street from the Kona Hilton, and Jerry probably did used to go scuba diving at Paradise Cove. They were showing videos of him scuba diving tonight. That's why I wanted to do it, but I had to do it straight, not being a rock star. I proposed to Laurie on the beach in Kona. We stopped at my parents' house in San Francisco on our way home. My dad, James Abrahamson, had 3 restaurants, Pam Pam East on Geary and Taylor, Rosebud's English Pub next door, and Biff's Coffee Shop on 28th and Broadway in Oakland, and he sold institutional furniture, commission contract sales, for Thonet and American Chair Co., and later Serta Mattress, in the Merchandise Mart on 10th and Market. My mother, Lucille Abrahamson, was elected to the San Francisco School Board twice, two years as President, worked in Mayor Dianne Feinstein's Office of Childcare, and was appointed S.F. Human Rights Commissioner by Mayor Frank Jordan, the former Police Chief. I told them we were engaged and my Dad said, "Don't marry her, I can't afford it. We sold the restaurants to Mama's, they went bankrupt, didn't pay, we went to court, the judge fined me $160,000, and they wanted me to declare bankruptcy." My little brother said later it was his half-partner, Bill Munro, the manager's fault. He abused the help, especially the head cook, who really ran the place, the union went on strike, won so many benefits they had to go out of business and sell it. Munro had cooked the books, the judge saw it, and hence the fine. My dad said it was because I had spent too much money on Grateful Dead concerts, but I don't think that was correct, although I may have spent too much money. They wanted me to go to this psychiatrist in Bakersfield, Dr. Perelli-Minetti, who was a nice man. He said the Grateful Dead was OK. He was always telling me expensive restaurants to which to take Laurie, like where he took his wife, and encouraged me to spend lots of money on her, buy expensive dresses, jewelry, etc, so I thought it was OK. He gave me Risperdal when it first came out, in 1994. We didn't really go to that many Grateful Dead concerts. My dad didn't like the Grateful Dead and Bill Graham for other reasons. When I first got back from the New Mexico Hog Farm after Woodstock, I tried to turn him on, he thought about it for a minute and decided no, he was afraid to get busted, he was too square to get on the bus. Later he said that Bill Graham had applied to join their Jewish men's club, the Concordia-Argonaut, on Van Ness and Geary, and that he was going to vote against him. Not only was he a hippie, and made his money that way, but he was an orphan, an immigrant, and a Holocaust survivor. What it really was is that Graham was more successful than him in the role of Jewish businessman. My brother moved to Mill Valley, said he saw Graham's house and was impressed. Graham made more money than all of them, and he started as a hippie, and that filled squares like my dad with jealousy, anger, envy, and rage. My dad said, "I wish the Grateful Dead were dead," in his outrageous way. When Bill Graham's helicopter crashed on the way home from the Concord Pavilion and they had his funeral in my dad's temple, Temple Emanu-el, my dad said, "I hope it didn't hurt the helicopter!" He even hated them during the Haight-Ashbury and helped the City Fathers drive them out of town. My family was spending a lot of money at first, and I thought they were encouraging me to emulate them. When he first gave me the $100,000/year, the credit cards on his account, and sent me to UCI, my dad was acting like he could afford for me to buy anything I saw that I wanted. Then he told not to buy anything over $200, and I complied. They were all spending lots of money. He had 2 new BMW"s and a new Mercedes-Benz. He and my mom went on a temple tour of Eastern Europe and stayed in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, she said it was a five-star hotel. My sister went to Yale after me, in Art, then got a Masters in Art Education at Stanford, an Ed.D. at Harvard, a J.D. at Cal, got a job in the White House as Assistant Chief-of-Staff to Vice-President H.W. Bush in the Ronald Reagan White House and then Founding Chairman of the Barbara Bush Campaign For Family Literacy (me at UCI) in the President H.W. Bush White House. There's a photo of her and Vice-President H.W. Bush having an audience with Pope John Paul in Sweden, and she is shaking hands with the Pope. That dress must have cost something, not to mention the travel. In her closet I saw hundreds of French gowns, and more shoes than Imelda Marcos. She met this guy from the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., a USC Professor of International Relations, Jonathan Aronson. He went to Harvard and Stanford in Political Science, and his father was a rich St. Louis banker. They bought a mansion in Bel-Air near the Reagans', put in an Italian marble bathtub, baby grand piano, swimming pool, his self-portrait in the living room, pirates' table, Persian rug, and he drove a Jaguar S3. He said, "We're going to Paris for 2 weeks," "I'm going to Thailand to speak," and they had their son's Bar Mitzvah in Bali, so they didn't hold back on the spending. They took the whole family, including me, to the Club Med in Ixtapa, but they went bankrupt because I spent too much money on Grateful Dead concerts! My brother spent $2000 of my dad's money for a Rolex watch to keep up with the other Oshos and flew back and forth to India every few weeks for years. They flew me there, to Europe twice, and to Hawaii twice. I guess my dad was having problems, and he asked me to spend less money, but he didn't really communicate that I should spend less money because he was having financial problems. I was spending too much money on Laurie. So I ignored him. So he took away some credit cards, and I kept spending at the same level. I couldn't comprehend that commission contract sales is an up-and-down business. Then two new credit cards, each with a $5000 limit, came in the mail. I should have sent them back, but I couldn't resist the temptation. Soon I realized that I couldn't let my dad find out about them, because he would take them away, too. I set out to get revenge on him for taking away my credit cards by charging even *more* money. The first thing I did was take Laurie to the most expensive restaurant in Los Angeles, Spago's, $140 for salmon for two. Then the 2nd most expensive, Palms in West Hollywood. Then dresses, jewelry, and when we went to Hawaii we did the same thing with the recreation. Maybe *that's* what drove my dad into near-bankruptcy, not the Grateful Dead concerts. We really didn't go to that many. I just spent a lot of money on her. She just liked to go to movies, comedy clubs, country-western dance halls, miniature golf, roller skating, she was always thinking of something. They cut my allowance from $100,000/year to $40,000/year, my sister and brother-in-law, Joan and Jonathan, became "trustees of your trust fund", keep the Blue Cross PPO. They took away all 12 of my credit cards and defaulted on them, leaving me in debt to the credit card companies for $15,000, with bad credit to this day, since 1993. They raised it up to $60,000 and I moved to New Mexico, near the Castagnas who used to live at the Hog Farm. Alberto asked me to call my mother, father, sister, and brother-in-law and ask each of them for $10,000 for a liver transplant for his Hepatitis C because his job as Director of Taos County Ambulances, working his way up from paramedic and EMT, didn't have good insurance. They said no. Maybe that's what set 'em off. They asked me to go to a psychiatrist, who dismissed me. Then Laurie wanted me to come back to Los Angeles and move in to her apartment. They wanted me to find another psychiatrist. I found psychedelic therapist Dr. Robert Newport online at the Island Group in Santa Cruz, referred by Bruce Eisner, but my sister fought with him and he lost his license for prescribing medications, including Risperdal, without seeing the patients. I called him and he said, "Did your sister let up on you yet? I'm not a psychiatrist any more, I'm a painter." So they took me to Dr. Lisa Fine, who also gave me Risperdal, which gave me diabetes. Laurie got it too, from Seroquel. They found the diabetes when a cardiolgist wanted to do an emergency heart surgery,an angiogram and an angioplasty. My brother drove my sister-in-law's Ford Escort to L.A. from Sedona. They said they were going to give it to me. He showed it to me and said, "This is your car." They said they were going to give it to me after the surgeries, but they changed their mind and never did. My car had totally broken down at a job interview in Irvine just a few days before my appointment with the cardiologist, who decided I was going to have emergency heart surgery. When I recovered I stopped by at some friends from the Cubensis shows and they talked me into starting going to shows again, to the Phil Lesh and Friends show and the Ratdog show at the Wiltern, and the Ratdog show at the House of Blues. I'd told Richie on the phone I'd stopped going to shows when Jerry died and he'd said, "I did too." They had a picture of them with the 4 original members in an airport on the way to a concert called The Dead. After that, this psychologist Eric Asa-Dorian from the Life Adjustment Team, probably a drug rehab, they said her mother called, shows up in our living room, posing as a Deadhead, except with more, better tickets than me. Then they got me to go to LAT and I never knew it was a drug rehab, it was disguised as marriage counseling or something. In the end they took the $60,000/year except for meds, medical bills, Anthem Blue Cross PPO, SSI, and put me in Brentwood Manor board-and-care home for two years, I think illegally, before I had learned how to treat the diabetes, so it had developed another complication besides the heart disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetic neuropathy, or diabetic nerve pain, or "burning feet". When they moved me out of Laurie's apartment 12 years ago with the Comcast that was the last time they let me have cable, except for a brief period. No police, no arrest, no charges, no hearing, no trial, no sentence, no jail, no prison, no due process. No evidence or proof that *I* ever did anything wrong, as far as I'm concerned, frames and smears I've never heard, let alone allowed to answer. I said I'd sue all of them for $2 billion for attempted murder, elder financial abuse, false imprisonment, psychiatric torture, medical malpractice, emotional anguish, pain and suffering, and my attorney, Bruce Margolin, who'd been Timothy Leary's attorney (I went to a fundraiser they had at Timothy Leary's house in Beverly Hills when he was running for State Senator), said, "Where'd you get the $2 billion?" so $200 million is more in the range, I think. I had to get a job selling Sprint phones B2B to small businesses in the South, work my way out of there and get some financial aid from Cal State East Bay. I'd been a junior Computer Science major at Cal State Northridge when I was living with Laurie before the surgeries. And Tina Kimmel, a Cal Ph.D. in Social Work I met at the New Mexico Hog Farm after Woodstock got my sister to give me a $68,000 annuity that my dad left me, so that was pretty good, so I got to go to Monterey and Camp Winnarainbow, and they're paying for a lot of things now. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I'm still a senior Computer Science major and pre-law. Afterwards Alberto died, I called Richie from the board-and-care, he called my sister, I called him back, and he had terminal liver cancer. Alberto flew out and carved his tombstone, and he picked out wood for Tinker to make his coffin, but my sister wouldn't give me $100 to visit him at Camp Winnarainbow before he died. Steve had died of hep C. Then Hunter Thompson committed suicide. When I was going to the LAT psychiatrist to whom they forced me to go, I emailed Cap'n Skypilot to post something I could show him on his office computer, and he wrote a story about a man whose parents he said were responsible for the death of Ken Kesey and the assassination of JFK. When I got up here Vince Welnick committed suicide. I ran into Lou Todd, then he got sick and died, and then Tinker, who I once saw drive the Furthur bus. Charlene said her landlady wouldn't rent her house anymore, she moved in with her daughter; her other daughter got accused of murder, and she didn't do it. Laurie's elementary schoolteacher friend's apartment caught on fire and they blamed her. My Deadhead lawyer friend said his SUV caught on fire. I can't figure out the reason for all this. I would be interested if anybody, especially with legal knowhow, had any helpful advice. I'm thinking of appealing to my Yale classmates, to see if any of them are big-time lawyers yet, and I don't think any Democratic politicians have seen it, since most of them don't have email addresses. They were telling people I was dying, but the doctors said my numbers were good, so you can't die from controlled diabetes, maybe it was just wish-fulfillment. And Jerry famously died of a diabetic heart attack in a drug rehab, maybe someone got ideas. While I was in Brentwood the lawyer sent me a copy of the trust instrument where my parents had initialed that when my mom dies, the inheritance, which it originally says was divided into thirds between me, my brother, and sister, they rubbed me out and divided it in half between my brother and sister. She'll get my mom's house worth about $2 million, and she has a $4.3 million house in Bel-Air, and a house in Telluride, and my dad bought my brother a house in Sedona. I was living in Laurie's apartment. My brother will get my dad's commercial property in Oakland, a tire and party store. And there's some money they'll divide in half. Eric Abrahamson Yale University Class of '71 Pierson College
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Grateful Dead Original Members Add Two Dates To Final Concerts

April 10, 2015

The original members of Grateful Dead have announced two additional shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on June 27th and 28th, as part of their “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead” run. Along with the three shows at Chicago's Soldier Field on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, the run will mark the original members' last-ever performances toget

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You'd think they'd have some kinda tracking... But their website just has: "For all Money Order questions, research, status and all other items related to Money order, Please Call Western Union Money Order -- 1-800-999-9660." Good luck (sincerely) with tickets & everything, Dingbat1477!
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I start my car this morning in subzero temps and my radio is playing "The Music Never Stopped" from Chicago in 1981 - the year I got on the bus. I figured "This MUST be a sign!!" Open my PO box and....NO PINK SLIP:-) It's amazing how happy one can be in the middle of the post-office!
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The wife & I each sent an order for 1 night each (and yes a true dead head) for the 4th & 5th from Honolulu. I figure any one who gets on this website loves licorice. Wife got the reject (white not pink) on the 10th postmarked San Francisco on the 6th. Nothing yet on mine. I gotta give the people that got rejects already posting positive vibes a lot of credit & hope they all get some tix. Lucky enough to see shows starting in '81 @ Manor Downs, the last shows @ Berkeley, Frost, & Kaiser & a bunch of others. I feel like I can't miss this one & hope to see every one there.
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I'm from Atlanta and have not received a pink slip as of today. Just wondering if you guys had any thoughts as to whether you think its looking fair, good, or great the chances of getting tickets if we haven't received the pink slip. Last week I remember reading on this site that folks felt like if we could made it until today, the odds would be looking great. The suspense is amazing, but another week will be somewhat stressful.
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not for sure imailed like everyone else on 20th not for sure when my envelop arrived in cal if it even made it!!!! some got there on 21st and if ur mailing from like Hawaii who knows plus how long does it take pinky or white to travel back hear-say is if we make through this week lookin good but u got to realize could b in mail I wont relax till I get my miracle e-mail
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I received the white letter from CA stating that I did not make the cut. I mailed from Virginia on time but was not optimistic after learning of the huge response to mail order. I'm thinking of trying on-line 28 Feb. But, to be honest, the way the process to date has been managed seems to be a bit amateurish. I know that sounds like sour grapes but I have a pit in my stomach that at the end of the day, people are going to get burned for some serious cash. Good luck.
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Not a fiasco at all, this is going the same way all Grateful Dead ticket sales have always gone. You have to remember that the TM sales was always the primary sale, just like 90% of all events these days. GDTS was always a courtesy service in an effort to get some tickets in the hands of Kind people and keep those same tickets out of the hands of profiteers. They (and by extension the ill-conceived online pre-sale) only had maybe 1/3 of the tickets just like always. Hopefully they go a little more by opening up the floor. No sense getting pissed off at the band, promoters or GDTS they are only trying to do a good thing. Perhaps in hindsight they should’ve just republished the 93 mail order instructions this time around, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./gdead/faq/tickets.html or at least included the Paragraph: “GDTS mail orders are processed on a first come, first served basis by the date your order was POSTMARKED. However, if there are more postmarked orders for the first mail order date than tickets, GDTS will collect all those ticket orders and employ a random selection process for filling orders. The key here is to get your mail order postmarked on the first day of mail order for the show you want. For example, if the mail order date is December 28, go to your post office and have a postal employee hand postmark your order on that day. Remember: it's illegal for the post office to postmark any date other than the current day” It might have helped clarify some things. Good luck on Saturday friends, (I need some too.) Hope to see you there.
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So I sent in request for all 3 shows at all price levels. 9 money orders. Checked the phone number KC posted (thanks!!) and only 1 did not match their records. So does this mean they are doing partial orders? Or are they still cashing them. Dont give up if yours match their records!!
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Has anyone gone to the USPS site and entered in their money order serial number and seen that their money order has been cashed.. The post office said the only way was to file a tracking request in the office and that it would take one week to get back the results.
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the website doesn't seem to work. I confirmed this when my returned MOs were excahanged for a new one which I deposited. The phone number did confirm conform with expectations on not having information about my cashed orders (its supposed to say that). My friends MOs appear to have been cashed by this parallel.
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This seems highly unlikely. I hope there is NO truth to this.
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Down to the wire!!! All kinds of wondering and not much knowing. If the plan was to return money before the 26th there is probably not enough time to send to all locations, so the mailing of rejection letters must have stopped by now...but they could still be on the way. Will the email be sent out last minute Thursday? They need to have a prize for the bubble boy...last reject letter sent!!!
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Down to the wire!!! All kinds of wondering and not much knowing. If the plan was to return money before the 26th there is probably not enough time to send to all locations, so the mailing of rejection letters must have stopped by now...but they could still be on the way. Will the email be sent out last minute Thursday? They need to have a prize for the bubble boy...last reject letter sent!!!
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Well, the race is on and here comes Pride up the backstretchHeartaches (pinky) are going to the in side
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I know we have all been anxiously checking our mail every day hoping to avoid the dreaded “Pink Slip”, but unless I am wrong, even if we don’t receive a “Pink Slip” by the 28th we still might not be getting tickets. Isn’t the more important piece of information going to be the E-mail that the lucky few will receive?I only bring this up since the Ticketmaster date is quickly approaching and I don’t want to be stuck in limbo with the mail order. I can only assume that regardless of the “Pink Slip”, unless I receive a E-mail by the 28th I will eventually be getting a Pink Slip? I just have to know my strategy for Saturday and I am far from clear on what I will be doing. Help!
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Supposedly, everyone who did mail order should either get a pinky or an e-mail by Thursday night this week. However, slow mail, backlogs at GDTS, or some other reason may prevent some of that from happening. Just gotta see what happens this week. Should be a pretty exciting week. Good luck to everyone.
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My friends and I were all going to go for four $212.50 tickets for all three nights. Hopefully one of us would get lucky and we all could go. A couple of us live in the Chicago area so we didn't need a room and figured GA would be the hot ticket so we went for the more expensive tickets. We were right about the demand for GA but I am worried that adding more GA at the expense of the higher priced tix is really going to hurt our chances. Add to the mix that two of us decided the Mail Order was too much trouble and we only have two requests. So far neither of us has gotten a rejection. I am wondering if anybody has gotten a pink slip for the $212.50 tix?
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Lots of those price ranges have been rejected. Pretty much all price ranges have been rejected. You figure, about 50,000 rejected envelopes. The whole spectrum has been rejected. Just gotta wait and see and hope. I think it's fair to say we've over analyzed this a bit, don't ya think?? Just a little??
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Still nothing. I live in Idaho. postmarked the 20th. Very little decortaion on my envelope as I can't draw. "We will survive" on the back. Went for two high dollar tickets each night. No rejection yet. We know several people in our small town that have received rejections. Another person who went for two GA each night hasn't received a rejection yet. It feels good, but mail is sometimes slow to arrive here. I also have a friend in MD who went for two cheap reserved seats each night, and as of Saturday he hadn't received a rejection. Also, one friend in North Carolina has yet to receive a rejection. I'm not sure what seats he tried to get. As they stated, everyone who postmarked the first day has the same chance as everyone else. Rumors of time of postmark, whether you decorated, whether you've been mail ordering since 82 or the first time... we all have the same chance which I think is the fairest. Just because I've seen the GD over 100 times, doesn't mean I'm more important than a 20 year old who has never seen a show. Good luck to all of us still in the hunt, and good luck to everyone trying for tickets this weekend. Stay positive.
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do we know of anyone who has gotten mail order tickets yet?
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Hey folks, I just got my rejection letter in Central Illinois on Saturday Feb 21, postmarked in Stinson Beach on the 17th. So many roads...mail order was just one of them. I'll get there. Best of luck to all of you good people still in the running!
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I'm freakin out! I need to open my Christmas PresentS!!!!
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I got a PO phone number from a friend last week , that many of us called, to find out the status of our MO's. He was lucky enough to have found a person who shared with him all 3 of his MO's had been cashed. So, i called and they indicated i would have to go to the PO and pay $6 to track each MO and would not give me the info otherwise (hopefully my friend wasnt being messed with)...so, i paid the $6 to track at least one...did this on friday 19th in the afternoon and info was available through PO, MO tracking on web 48 hrs later...today, I popped in the MO serial code and it indicated that MO was awaiting a refund?? Not sure how they would know about a refund??, so i called the PO money order tracking number and got through to an actual warm body. She plugged in the serial number and she stated that it had not been cashed, as of yet! I have not received a "pink slip" yet either. Nothing left to do,but smile smile smile...and cross my fingers!!
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Has anyone seen anything about an email to announce lottery winners? I saw where someone heard from someone at CID they were told by GDTS that would happen but nothing more. They have had 5 weeks to print tickets, lot of manhours to copy 10,000+ email addresses when all they have to do is drop them in the mail they have the tickets
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We’ve been submerged in a sea of mail and are coming up for a breath of air to give you an update on where we stand right now. We are 75% of the way processing all of the orders, working 24/7 to get your money orders back to you. There were many, many times more order requests than anyone imagined, thousands and thousands with beautiful art. We are trying to let as many folks as possible know their status before the onsale date. Emails will go out to the winners starting in the next two days. Your chances of receiving tickets from us are 1 in 10, so if you have not received a winner’s email from us by the on-sale date, you may want to consider on line ticket sales to increase your chances.Tickets will be mailed out in June. Please do not email us at this time as we will not be able to answer your inquiry. Okay, we are taking a deep breath and going back under. The crew of GDTS TOO 2.23.15 “Some days the gales are howling Some days the sea is still as glass” John Barlow
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We’ve been submerged in a sea of mail and are coming up for a breath of air to give you an update on where we stand right now. We are 75% of the way processing all of the orders, working 24/7 to get your money orders back to you. There were many, many times more order requests than anyone imagined, thousands and thousands with beautiful art. We are trying to let as many folks as possible know their status before the onsale date. Emails will go out to the winners starting in the next two days. Your chances of receiving tickets from us are 1 in 10, so if you have not received a winner’s email from us by the on-sale date, you may want to consider on line ticket sales to increase your chances. Tickets will be mailed out in June. Please do not email us at this time as we will not be able to answer your inquiry. Okay, we are taking a deep breath and going back under. The crew of GDTS TOO 2.23.15 “Some days the gales are howling
 Some days the sea is still as glass” John Barlow __._,_.___
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bollocks. Happy Happington sez: may the four winds blow you safely to Chicago this summer.
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listen to Nirvana Bleach can you feel my love buzz? about a band...
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Received just now (although I did check my money orders today, this isn't the warm fuzzy I was looking for!) We’ve been submerged in a sea of mail and are coming up for a breath of air to give you an update on where we stand right now. We are 75% of the way processing all of the orders, working 24/7 to get your money orders back to you. There were many, many times more order requests than anyone imagined, thousands and thousands with beautiful art. We are trying to let as many folks as possible know their status before the onsale date. Emails will go out to the winners starting in the next two days. Your chances of receiving tickets from us are 1 in 10, so if you have not received a winner’s email from us by the on-sale date, you may want to consider on line ticket sales to increase your chances. Tickets will be mailed out in June. Please do not email us at this time as we will not be able to answer your inquiry.
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Tedd: Requested 2 - $212.50 tickets per show for all three shows. Postmarked on time and all done correctly. All Money Orders returned early last week. I'm in SoCal. Good luck to you!
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thought sure tix would be in mail this week too, maybe it was a dream i dreamed long ago
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I would not be too much worried about getting tickets even if you didn't get them via mail-order. I thing most of the tickets will be sold by Ticketmaster so there will be lots of them available. I would be surprised if more than 10% of all tickets were sold by GDSTOO.
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i have looked all over GDTSTOO website and i cannot find where the notice that has been posted on here from there is, i have looked everywhere i can think of for it, has anyone else looked to see if they can find it? if so please tell me where, not sayig it is bs i just can't find it
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There's a lot of anguish right now as folks are getting rejections on their mail order requests for the Grateful Dead's 50th anniversary shows in Chicago. Soon to be followed, we hope, with a lot of joy as luckier folks get their tix. Whether you're in need of tickets or suddenly find yourself with extras, keep in mind these handy threads: Tix Wanted and Tix Offered
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tenn2maine, you're not a dummy, they sent an email update, you can sign up on their page for updates. You can also see the update on their facebook page. There is a small business and public page, look at the small business page. Hopefully, many will hear good news today and tomorrow! Going to be hard to not look at my phone at work today. Peace everyone
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easy link: http://www.gdtstoo.com/GDTSTOOupdate.htmlhats off to gdtstoo ... considering the onslaught of unexpected requests ... to let everyone know via email before ticketmaster sales is ... well ... very user friendly. for those who 'noses are out of joint' for some some silly reason ... how too bad. this is about celebrating 50 years of great music and fun ... and there are all sorts of great ways to do it ... with jerry smiling down upon the 'tribe ... 'w/ or w/o tickets.
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Roger that comment! Well put aldenmi...this is about celebrating 50 years, and promises to be a great big ol' family reunion. As in any reunion, there are folks who can't make it, a bit of squabbling about the seating arrangements, perhaps a discussion about the music choice, and maybe a bit too much to eat or drink... And can you believe what Aunt Mabel wore? Scandalous!
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Has anyone from Michigan received a rejection letter yet?
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This whole thing just keeps getting worse. So the GD Bulletin comes out yesterday with more ways for deadheads to part with their money for BS we ( at least me) don't want. Tickets to Giants games, Coffee mugs, books and so on. I like baseball, coffee and reading but dear God what does all that have to do with the music???????my best hope was for maybe 15 to 20 shows around the country spread out over the year. I know the boys are getting old, so am I. This is just pathetic from a musical point of view. The whole scene has turned into a marketing company ever since GD Productions has been turned over to corporate managers. I don't begrude the boys their money lord knows they earned it but in my opinion they are not providing what their customers want....THE MUSIC. Just see the mailorder.....(((((((((((!)))))))))))
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thanks for the link
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no bad news but not as good a feeling about it as i was yesterday, pinkies haven't left the station yet
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The-11, you're right about those corporate managers:

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Not looking good. Looks like if we don't get an award e-mail this week, then our pinky is coming at some point in the next few weeks or so. I was hoping they processed most everything by now, meaning that if no pinky came this week, we were good to go. Obviously not the case. bummer.