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  • Moye
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    It would be interesting if they toured together. MAYBEY IN A PERFECT WORLD. The parking lot would be off the hook, or it could be a complete disaster. LONG LIVE THE REMAINING MUSICIANS!!!!
  • teamearth
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    Only looking at ticket prices-- How can you not compare the Dead and The Phish. Both are doing a return to glory tour, both have deep roots in the community and both are what pretty much drive the community these days. Who else is bigger or was bigger then the Phish or the Dead?? So for one band who is all accounted for to charge 49.50 and the other who is missing a key element and has thus been replaced by Borin' Warren of all people (WTF!!!???!!!) to charge 75 it just seems as though someone screwed up big time. oops, there goes the boat, I messed up.
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    Peace!And a big HUG for awest27!
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    Everyone stfu already, jeeze, everyone's here b/c they love the GOGD w/ Jerry and also love and appreciate the boys sans Jerry. Tickets are a tad exorbitantly high and that's an issue this first time back. Maybe they'll come around again and heed some of what they are hearing and come down a bit but it is what it is and we all will have to adjust accordingly. Of and did I say stfu in advance? And that I love the Grateful Dead? Oh, OK, yes I do. Thanks. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -enjoyin' the ride -There'll never be another Jerry
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    about this notion of "respectable Deadhead"?!?!? :-)
  • Drumhead
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    awest27 - forgive me if I didn't see 500+ shows. I held a job through the past 30 years and it only allowed me to see 69 Grateful Dead shows - I justed didn't feel the need to justify myself to you.
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    Awest27 says: Didn't have to pay for most. Most respectable deadheads didn't. Didn't you ever hear of passes? Guess the passes thing didnt work out huh? Burnt some bridges with that "Cooler then thou" attitude. While you search for some passes I'll be IN the show jammin to the tunes. P.S. Most respectable DeadHeads don't mind supporting their band.
  • Mornduvt
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    So... It's been 14 years since my last Dead show - I saw Mickey once a few years ago, and that was cool, but have spent more time being a parent and struggling to get by than being a DeadHead and getting down over the years. So I got pairs of "well, at least I'm in the show" tix for Fri in Albany and Sun in Worcester. Just physically didn't have the bread to get the good seats. so I am in the nose bleeds in Albany and side stage in Worcester. Yeah the price is too high for any band, let alone a "Dead" band without Jerry and who are pushing 70... but reading the hate and anger here I am a little horrified. Geez folks - these guys let us take their music and trade it for free for over three decades. Think about the money they lost doing that. Seriously... how many people here own a (purchased) copy of Built to Last or Go to Heaven? How many have at least several hundred hours of FREE bootlegs? I still have my Maxells and I still listen to them... When we were all on tour with these guys playing concerts is not how you made money in the music business folks - it is what you did to market your record sales, but we - the whole circus - did things differently, and they fed our fever with constant touring. Think about all the time they spent on the road - they "gave all they had to give, - how much WE'LL never know". There are other factors to consider too... I was at the Albany shows the last time the Grateful Dead played there and it was a mess. An embarrassing mess. I am sure the city of Albany is getting chunk of the pot, and I bet police will be out in force and security will be tight. Another thing to consider is that this is not a single band right now, and the band that will be playing has several different members that each have their own agents, etc. - Blaming the price on Bob is just incredibly outrageously unfair. I remember when ticket prices hit the 30.00 mark I was stunned, but I paid them and I went, and danced and sang, and soothed my soul. That 30 bucks was a greater percentage of my income at the time than even the 100 would be for me now, but perspectives change and so my wife and mother-in-law pitched in to buy tix for two shows for me as a birthday present. They got two tix for each night so I can bring my 15 year old son who has always wished he could have seen them. So I got Miracled - sort of - and it is just sinking in, that feeling I haven't felt in so long - I am going to see the DEAD I couldn't sleep last night...I remember thinking 14 years ago that I would give everything I owned and a couple fingers to see them one more time. Cheap at any price.
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    awest27 I'm just a Chump, a Loser and I'm sooo jealous... of you! That's too kind! Oh and you're the hardcore 500+ shows, most respectible Deadhead! Good for you! It's too bad that whatever peaceful community there was and still is is lost on your spiteful meanderings. Whatever bus you got on wasn't the same one I got on!
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    I never thought the day would come when people that live outside the mainstream would be mocked by followers of this band. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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The band says Happy New Year with an announcement of almost twenty shows in April and May.  More details to come!

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tj crowley $100 ???????? WHAT???????
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Anyone know if camping in going to be allowed? Looks like closest campground is in New Jersey. Is it more likely people are going to stay in hotels close by?
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THIRD EYE ENTERTAINMENT presents QUADLIBET for TENDER FEET THE 40th ANNIVERSARY of the Grateful Dead at Fillmore West March 2, 1969 The Zen Tricksters with special guest TOM CONSTANTEN (Grateful Dead) and Joe Chirco will perform the entire show forty years to the day on March 2, 2009 at Mexicali Live 1409 Queen Anne Road Teaneck, NJ 07666 Show Date: MARCH 2, 2009 Tickets: $13.50 ADV $20.00 DOS Online ticketing: www.mexicalilive.com Venue phone 1-201-833-0011 Doors: 7:00pm Show: 8:00pm Show end: 11:55pm Band website: www.zentricksters.com Promoter website: www.myspace.com/thirdeyeentprod Promoter email: thirdeyeent@optimum.net THE SHOW Set ONE 1. Dark Star 2. St. Stephen 3. The Eleven 4. Turn On Your Love Light SET TWO 1. Doin' That Rag 2. That’s It For The Other One 3. Death Don't Have No Mercy 4. Morning Dew SET THREE 1. Alligator 2. Drums 3. Jam 4. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) 5. Feedback 6. We Bid You Goodnight
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tj crowley and affordable too!!!! think the boys out priced themselves from a lot of folk
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This is great. Last time we saw the dead was the waive the flag tour which was great. also caught the obama beneifit in PA. After the last dead tour we followed The Bobb Dylan Show for a cpl of years but sure am stoked to be going down the road feeling bad. We are going to make it to four shows on this tour for a whopping total of $1500 in ticket for me and my girl. But well worth it. See you in Albany, Buffalo and the two night in Philly. Peace, Joe and Emily P.S. we miss u- Doozer, Shawny, Shannon, Brigit..........Not Fade Away
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It might be the devilIt might be the Lord It might be Ticketmaster But you're gonna have to serve somebody (Serrrve Sombodddy)
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A person on the RatDog blog recieved his mail order tickets on Sat and has a link to ebay site where he's selling them for face value. There's a pic of the envelope with post mark and the tickets. I would say the tickets should be arriving soon.
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Hey - I've been out of the loop for several years, so pardon me if this is a stupid question, or if it has been covered already... Does Candice still do the lighting design, and/or will she be involved with this tour?
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I got one of my tickets today ,philly 5/1 I hope 5/2 is coming soon.I'll have to check,but it looks like a grate seat. PEACE Tina
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can someone please tell me the dead is gonna hit bonnaroo
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We got half of our order of six (6) tickets for the Spectrum shows today. For Fri 5/2, we got three seats in Section 105 Row 2, and for Sat 5/2 (where demand exceeded supply by 50%), we got Section 213 Row 2. No complaints on either night. We'll be ~22 rows from the stage the first night, and just off the floor midway back from the stage the second night. The last lil' miracle that my group needs is for GDTS to match up our two separate orders (both envelopes were brightly decorated with the same drawings) so that all six of us are sitting (ahem, I mean dancing) in the same spot. Gotta love GDTS! I'll gladly live with a few weeks of uncertainty for great seats and none of the hassle that the on-line 'heads went through during the pre-sale. Philadelphia, here we come! 81 days to go!!
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I just read an interview with Bob Weir in Relix, and he indicated that a summer tour in '09 is unlikely, but it's under consideration for '10. So it appears that Bonnaroo ain't in the cards this summer.
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I'm waiting on some Shoreline tix from GDTS. Regarding the Dead this summer, I would think at least Ratdog would do a summer tour yeah? "When the smoke has cleared, she said, that's what she said to me. You're gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy"
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I lent out my Relix magazine to a friend so I can't double-check right now, but if memory serves, Weir's comments in the interview implied that it's unlikely that the Dead will tour this summer BECAUSE of commitments that the various members' bands have already made, which could mean some combination of Ratdog, P&F, Mickey and/or Bill. I haven't checked the Ratdog site recently, but hopefully they'll be on the road at part of the summer. Personally, I'm hoping for the 10,000 Lakes Festival in MN (since I live here now). Phil, Mickey and DSO all made it last year, so it's Bob's turn this time...
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The Dead Tour Spring 2009 update:The last of Spectrum orders will go out this week. Next out the door is Madison Square Garden. The remaining shows will go out in the next three to six weeks. We will keep you up-to-date as we go along.
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We got our mail order tix for Philly andgot some sweet seats too!!! Level 1 sec 201 friday night and FLOOR seats sec 104 for Saturday night..... I love my friend for mail ordering for me!!! Yipeeee! Peace
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Glad to hear this, that the old tried and true way of doing things still works just the same! At least it lets me know that not all things in this world our beyond FUBAR! Can't wait to be spinning, spinning, free with you all! 84 dayz!____________________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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out there received a refund from GDTS for MSG yet? "Let there be songs to fill the air."
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Just checking...I know they said it might be up to two weeks before the show that we see our tix but I"m just curious to see if anyone who ordered online has started receiving them yet. Thanks in advance!!!~Tam
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I also know what they said...I'd still feel better if I had them in my pocket.
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I know that I've done at least one other presale with this same outfit, got the tickets within a week. So this delay does make me antsy...
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No kidding I sure wish they wouldn't wait until the last second. More and more it is obvious that GDTS is the way to go. If they sell out THEN get online. "No they never stopped rockin, goin round and round, reelin and rockin, what a crazy sound No, they never stopped rockin, til the moon went down"
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Tam and other online orderers - I got tix for both nights at Worcester and the Hartford show during the presale and have not gotten those tix yet, but I got one for Albany too once they went on sale to the public and that showed up about a week after placing the order. Have to wait on those presale tix though, but I'll be happy to have them in hand. Can't wait!
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I'll probably get mine last since I'm on the tail end of the tour. Oh well...keep me posted if any of you receive your pre sale tix...just so I know that they're starting to send em out.~Tam
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head over to the Channel 666 topic, where this is being discussed.
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Don't know if you saw this....sugarmegged to me this afternoon. Here's some good news and it's about time. Let's see how far it gets: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090209/ticketmas ter_090209/20090209?hub=TopStories Suit alleges Ticketmaster broke anti-scalping law Updated Mon. Feb. 9 2009 1:30 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff A $500-million class action lawsuit has been launched against Ticketmaster and related groups, claiming the ticket seller conspired to "scalp" its own tickets. The suit alleges that Ticketmaster has diverted tickets to concerts and other popular events away from its own regular website, Ticketmaster.ca, over to its ticket-brokering website TicketsNow.com. TicketsNow allows people who have tickets to exchange, trade or sell tickets at marked- up prices. Lawyers from Sutts, Strosberg in Windsor, Ont., and Branch McMaster in Vancouver say they're representing a client who allegedly paid more than $530 for two concert tickets from TicketsNow that would have cost about $130 if they had been available from Ticketmaster. The client had attempted to buy the tickets through Ticketmaster's regular website and was directed him to the higher-priced tickets on the TicketsNow website. The firms say other event-goers have been overcharged in the same way when they bought tickets from Ticketmaster.ca or TicketsNow.com since February 2007. They allege the defendants violated Ontario's "anti-scalping" laws, contending that the practice of selling tickets in the secondary market for amounts that exceed their face price violates the legislation. The law firms claim Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc., Ticketmaster Canada Ltd., TNOW Entertainment Group, Inc., and Premium Inventory, INC. owe $500 million in damages to those who were overcharged. The firms allege that Ticketmaster deliberately limits the number of tickets that are sold at face price and then diverts tickets to TicketsNow, where they can be sold for amounts that exceed their face value. "Customers have voiced concerns over the fact that tickets for the most popular events can ostensibly sell out in minutes, only to become immediately available in the secondary market at much higher prices," said Luciana Brasil of Branch McMaster, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff. "The mere fact that Ticketmaster has a financial interest in both retail and premium ticket sales leads to an obvious question about the process by which those tickets are sold to members of the public and how it works," said Jay Strosberg of Sutts Strosberg LLP, another of the lawyers representing the plaintiff. Ticketmaster has said in response to prior complaints that the company's ticket-selling system is fair and doesn't violate the law. The class action aims to represent all persons who bought tickets for an event in Ontario from Ticketmaster or through TicketsNow.com from and after February 9, 2007. More information on the suit can be found at www.ticketmasterclassaction.com. Earlier this month, Bruce Springsteen expressed anger with Ticketmaster's selling practices. He said he has heard from fans who wanted to see him play at New Jersey's Meadowlands that they received an error message on their computer screen that shut them out of the main Ticketmaster website. The potential ticket-buyers then saw an ad for Ticketmaster subsidiary TicketsNow offering tickets for hundreds of dollars more than face value. Springsteen said on his website that he and the E Street Band are "furious." "We perceive this as a pure conflict of interest," the band said. The band said it had received assurances from Ticketmaster that it will stop redirecting Springsteen fans to TicketsNow. ____________________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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I received my tickets for both Spectrum shows, today!Floor seats both nights! Thank you Dead! Thank you GDTS TOO! The only reason I'm not jumping for joy is to write this post. I can't jump and type. Also, this is my first post on the dead.net forums... Hello friends! See you at the show! "Please don't be sad if it was a straight line you had We wouldn't have known you all these years"
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let's move this over to the Channel 666 topic (where, it emerges, TM and Live Nation are now trying to make the case that hey, no antitrust problems here if they merge...) and add it to the already bubbling brew. And leave this to the tour per se. Thanks!
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Sounds like a plan...Sweet, didn't know where to post it. Don't have time to even write this!____________________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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Don't ever doubt the boyz didn't know that ALL the Deadheads would not be all over anyone who trys to Stagger Lee our azzes!____________________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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Still waiting on my tickets to both shows and I'm starting to get worried because I've heard of other people getting their tickets already to the same shows. Anyone else waiting on their Philly tickets still?
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I am pretty sure no one has received their pre-sale tickets yet (musictoday). I guess mail order tickets are starting to arrive but not those. I have a bad feeling musictoday is going to make us wait until the last minute! "When the smoke has cleared, she said, that's what she said to me. You're gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy"
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I orginally only had the budget for two shows so I did mail order for Denver and Shoreline. I haven't gotten those tixs yet. I came up with some extra scratch just before the general on sale. So I got a ticket for the Forum through Ticketbastard which I received in less than a week - looks like I will be sitting with Jerry for that show ;-} lol! I would like to catch up with anyone interested in getting together at the Forum send me a PM if you want...... Peaceful Journey to you all - Saint Stephen with a rose. In and out of the garden he goes. Country garland in the wind and the rain. Wherever he goes the people all complain.... Shine On! Saint Stephen
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But I don't think it will be logistically possible. I will be at the Pepsi Center and Shoreline though! "Goes to show, You don't ever know, Watch each card you play, Play it slow."
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i will be attending forum and shoreline + a few frinds from the mountains of Co are coming into town for both. i live about 5 miles from forum and we may be driving up to shoreline.
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i have been a head since 1986 and my friends from CO since before that, so di not let the 1/15/09 joint date fool you.
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Going to Wilkes Barre alone, need someone to twirl with.... who's going so I can meet up? Also doing both Philly shows and MSG : ) Ami
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I joined this site late in the game myself. No matter, we're all here now! Better late than never! "Once I knew a preacher, preached the Bible through and through. He went down to Deep Elem, now his preaching days are through"
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I'll be at both PA shows with some friends -- five from MN and one from SC -- all of us "bus riders" since the 70s. Our tickets are kinda all over (we're split between 105 & 213 the first night, and 213 & 216 the second). While none of us have been to a show at the Spectrum before (we picked it 'cause it's a two-night run...gotta see at least two shows since we're traveling), other 'heads we know have and assure us that the parking lot scene will be great (perhaps even a bit emotional for the locals, as the arena is to be demolished later this year), so we're all looking forward to engaging in the pre- and post-show "community". I imagine threads will get started by tour site before long, allowing for some rendezvous arrangements.
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Ticketmaster is putting tickets on sale for "The Dead" camping and parking on 2/20 for 5/17. Is there gonna be a show there? Trying to figure out what shows to go to.
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bartmc - Your post got me excited. Can't spend 20 + hrs. to get to a show now (closest one), but will spend 3 to get to the Gorge. Looked around and didn't see any mention of this yet. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake