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  • Artie
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    Ticket Prices
    Yes people are freaking out about the ticket prices, it is shocking but have you been to a football game, Hockey game or a Basketball game recently? That’s is what is out of control!!!! The ticket prices are in line with what other bands are charging in this day and age. The good news is you have a few options that will be cheaper that the $100 seats. Some acts are charging more for tickets just to keep the scalpers away from the good seats. I go to a ton of shows and the ticket prices usually range from $70 – $150 and up to $400 (Sting as an example) http://public.fotki.com/araslich/concerts/
  • nyctc7
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    The price of tix
    The price of tickets to big-name acts has risen steadily and spectacularly. Some top ticket prices at Madison Square Garden in 2007 and 2008 (not including any VIP tickets that may have been offered): Bob Seger, $79.00 Ozzy Osbourne, $79.75 Neil Diamond, $120.00 Rush, $129.50 Van Halen, $149.50 Barry Manilow, $150.00 Roger Waters, $174.50 Celine Dion, $189.50 Jimmy Buffet $201.50 The Police, $254.50 Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton, $254.50 Genesis, $256.50 So $100 is not out of line. I don't completely buy the story about how expensive it is to tour today. It undoubtedly is, but I believe the reason tix are so expensive is because the performers want to have a big pay day.
  • tomharp
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    the sell out is not just the price
    Sure everything costs more these days, but they have sold out to class warfare. Used to be everyone paid the same price and got a fair shot at decent seats. It's bad enuf the scalpers always manage to scoop up the best seats, but now the band is engaged in scalping themselves. VIP seats for a couple hundred dollars a piece?!? Or pay $45.00 more for "better" seats---and they don't even tell you where those seats may be. Then the online presale eliminates the "cheaper" tix altogether for most venues. WTF? My first dead ticket cost $6.50. I don't mind paying more but this is insulting and a ripoff of the fans that got them where they are thru good times and bad. At Penn State, I couldn't give extra tix away. If these shows fail to sell due to this BS it will only lessen the probability of future shows.
  • sweendog67
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    Wow, This is incredible!!! I live in Scranton Pa. I have 9 shows all within driving distance from home. The closest is Wilkes-Barre at 17 miles the furthest is Buffalo about 5hrs... Tic prices are a bit steep to make all the shows but If I were only back in my twentys minus the wife and kids I would be on the road again. I always said this is the best place to live for concerts. 125mi. from both Philly and NYC. I am Going to Wilkes-Barre and both Spectrum Shows. I will try for a MSG as well hope to see ya there!!!! Music is why I love life so much. Live music only makes it better. In music, I beleive everyone can find PEACE..... Sadly the world isn't ready..
  • tigger
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    "If you think it matters weather [sic]...
    ...you go to the shows or not your mistaken." Matters to me. I have to look in the mirror in the morning. It's their right to charge whatever they want to for tickets. It's my right to say, "thanks for the memories, but you're gutting what this used to be about." I don't want any part of it.
  • JINGLE
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    ITS GONNA HURT, BUT THE MONEY WILL BE WELL SPENT, I WOULD OF DONE ANYTHING I HAD TO BACK IN THE DAY TO GET IN,,,,ITS JUST MONEY ITS MADE TO BE SPENT,YOU CAN ALWAYS MAKE MORE,,,,STILL PLANING ON DOING ABOUT 6 NIGHTS IF I DIDNT HAVE TO WORK WOULD TRY TO DO THE WHOLE TOUR,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, YO YO GRATEFUL DEAD,,,,,,,,,,, JINGLE - FEW GOOD MEN MC - NEW YORK
  • Beadwhisperer
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    Dayum. $100 bucks.
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    Dayum. $100 bucks. Guess that's not gonna happen. Heat my house, buy groceries......or buy tickets. Sorry. I'll keep my fond memories of the Grateful Dead. It's just sad, that's all.
  • brendasinger
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    code?
    is there a code for buying tix or is my membership on here all I need?
  • Sway714
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    Nothing will stop these show from selling out....
    Don't punish yourself over the prices..... You have about as much control over that as you do over "The Bail Out" If you think it matters weather you go to the shows or not your mistaken. These shows will sell out and they wight have to add shows because of the demand. If you don't go someone else will. And it's only gonna get worse...There is no regulation. There never has been. It's 2009 not 1970..........Bill Graham is long gone.
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    guess what i just found!
    2 tix on ebay for the chicago show may 5!
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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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I'm thrilled and excited about the Gorge Concert, but had so hoped that there would be at least a two nights of music... Most folks travel from afar, set up tents, enjoy the campgorund vibe, go a day or two without a shower, share their food, beer and tokes with fellow concert attendees... so a two or three day event would have me there in a heartbeat!! It's a long way to go for a one night stand...
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Lets hope that theses bands can clear their schedule and join us on the bus. Now that would be a show to see, we all have our fav. bands to see with the boys but the Allmans and Doobies (of all kinds) would be historic.
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In case anyone noticed or cared-I have not been online in like a month, I have internet through the wii system and all of a sudden it stopped working! We could'nt figure out why-Then it turns out we needed a router to get a wireless connection(apparently we were getting internet through someone elses signal)OOPS! told you I was a rookie! Anyway-For what it's worth,I missed talking to all my fellow DEADHEADS! I bought a router and now have my very own internet connection!! Look forward to hearing from you guys-GARCIALATER-G ♪♪"Arrows of neon flashing like keys out on main street"♪♪
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RobbienCassidy! "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 see Allman Bros. are going to be at Gorge. Any chance they will be stickin around for the Chicago shows? i saw allman bros and ratdog last year in chicago and it totally ROCKED! would give anything to see them all together.
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Hey now steve-First off,sorry about your dad man, I know it's rough-I lost mine when I was 15 the day after christmas-Believe it or not it does get easier w/time.I cant believe your wifes name is also Amy and we both have twins(small world)Anyway I still havent figured out how to send a private message-sorry to respond this way. But to answer your question-Yes we are still sane(barely!)LOL-Ours are going to be 4 this April so I feel like we made it through the rough part(endless diaper changes,sleepless nights etc...)Just ALWAYS remember how blessed you guys are(Twins Rock!!!)BTW I havent given up hope yet about catching at LEAST one show this spring!! Where there's a will there's a way,right? What part of Mass are you guys from? guttago! Later-G
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Mail Order Tickets received today for MSG. Good Karma, as I was on top of pre-sale and ticketmaster sale and was shut down both times. I'll be there from Florida making 5 decades of seeing the boys live. Wish all good Karma.
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Got my Spectrum tickets. Now I just have to wait and see if I lucked out with the "cheap" MSG tickets. The Deadheads gather at the rim of the volcano to dance and sing joyful songs in honor of their fallen hero.
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For all you ohio and kentucky heads. Gonna go and get warmed up for the dead tour. Anyone else here going?
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Those who did mail order. How did it turn out? Good seats? Bad Seats?
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whoa! i'm gonna go to the gorge!!!!!!!!
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I can't wait for the Gorge show..That is my favorite venue and I have talked to some friends around the country that are thinking of coming out here to go to the show..The set up is amazing and it allows camping so you don't have to drive after the show..I may be selling my Shoreline tickets now since I won't need to pay for air fare and 3 nights hotel
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I've heard of this infamous venue. I would love to go, if I can get the time off of my two jobs, golf pro/restaurant, but as in the past....do I really care? NO, so talk me into it. How good is this going to be? Are "the boyz" really worth it (you know I'm smiling ear-to-shining-ear) to go to this show???????????____________________________________________________ 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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Althea-Road Trips Fall '79-Bobby,"We gotta ask you all to step back again, cuz' things are getting pretty, two dimensional up front." Jerry, "That Means that all you people in the back have to move back and be real helpful for us, because it's terrible what's happening down in front here. GIVE US A BREAK! And few/you peep, people in the back, could move back a bit. YOU DIG IT? Mickey/Bobby start drummin"...crowd goes crazy, and here we go ALTHEA! I told Althea.............are you excited? I'm dying with love right now!____________________________________________________ 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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Dancin and singing, the music is playin!____________________________________________________ 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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The Candyman tips his hat to.... The BIG MAN from Brook-a-leen The best new face in GD Land this year!
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can anyone help me out with how the pre-sale mail order works?? Never done it before so curious to find out the steps for doing so. Thanks a bunch!!
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Hey spanisheather,You can find complete instructions at GDTSTOO.com . There is also a full instruction page on youtube. Just search GDTS or Grateful Dead Ticket Sales and there you go. Be sure to follow instructions completely.
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Thanks glenasaurus for the info and the super speedy response!!!! Best wishes :)
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any chance of summer shows being added?
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Have two(2) seats available for May 10...(friends can't make it) and two (2)lawn tickets..available...send a message to me if anyone needs a ticket to this show.. jolanjolie...
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Spanisheather... when he says follow the instructions completly, believe it Cross all your t's and dot your i's. Nothing worse than bein rejected for having somthing wrong on the 3x5 card.(voice of experience)
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Can somebody please help me and walk me through how to send private messages on my account - I keep trying but I must be doing something wrong-VERY FRUSTRATED!!
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Robbie - Go to your Inbox. Then to write a PM, on the top of the page you click the "compose" button. You need to know the person's dead.net username to send a PM. Either that or click on a person's username in a post and it will bring you to the PM page with their username already populated in the "To" field. To respond to a PM just click on the message, then hit the "Reply" button, then it's just like email. Write your PM then hit the "Send private message" button. Hope that helps. "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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{Me jumping up and down like I just won the lottery} Going to Denver, both Shoreline shows and to the Gorge!! "All we need is music, sweet music there'll be music everywhere. There'll be laughing, singing, music swinging, dancin in the street"
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Got Gorge and second shoreline today!!!!
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Got the first Shoreline when that went up, and grabbed the Gorge this am. Seemed to go easier this time. It feels really good to be blowing the dust off the 'ol '73 VW camper again, knowing there is a show waiting at the other end!
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Got tix for Both Shorelines now, and the Gorge as well. I am a happy man today! Nothing left to do but smile smile smile.....
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IS IT APRIL YET???????????????????? JINGLE - FEW GOOD MEN MC - NEW YORK
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for four tickets at the Gorge. YAHOO! And a friend who posts here at times got 3. So we now have a group of 7 from the Spokane area and beyond who will hang together. Also at least 3 others have told me they are getting tickets ASAP. So 10 +; we are all getting lawn tickets so we can hang together. You will be able to find us by the earth vibrating below us and the sky vibrating above. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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So, as tempted as I was to go for the reserved seating for this show, especially after seeing Bill Kreutzmann the other night so close, I opted for the lawn. (first time back on lawn since 92 Deer Creek) I just had too many other friends that are going to meet out here, that I wanted to be with family for this show. Either way, I am stoked. Haven't felt this good about seeing the band back together in years, more so than even the Alpine 2002 shows.I also feel a sense of togetherness with the band this time around that they have worked out their own differences that the music should gel together much more easily. I'm thinking these shows could be the best performances in 20 years. If you can make this one, especially if you've never been out there, you should make it if you can. See you there.
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I tried to fax this morning using a free faxzero this morning at 9am pacific time and since it's a service I didn't know if it went through and had to go to work. So I get home from my split shift and bammo, they denied it after 5 times that it was busy. BUMMER!!!! Don't you hate the fact that they took off the fax program in Windows? They had this very easy to use program in every windows prior to Vista! So I'm in total high hopes and crossed fingers that I when I had my mom send it from work about 10 mins ago it will get to my brother's and sisters at GDTSTOO! I know it faxed, but I'm just hoping there are tickets left for the may 4th show at Chicago. I might be able to whip up some more cash later and order Shoreline tix, if they are not sold out by tommorow. I so hope that it wasn't too late!!!!!! I am such a fan of this band that's it's not funny. CROSSING FINGERS! Please lord! ____________________________________________________ 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 have two for the tuesday show just looking for what i paid for them.
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Got 4 nice tickets this morning for the Gorge in May!!! Can't wait, it's been a long time coming. Excitement doesn't even do it justice.
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Just got home and was able to talk the wife into letting me go to the added Chi town show. I know this isn't a big deal but it's the first time I've ever gone to more than one night. Awesome! Just goes to show - all good things come some time.
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I stand corrected--Ive been singing that song wrong for twenty+ years!!! what a trip-Thanx for the head's up-peace:-)
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Strategy was a stranger....you decide if he was wise? The story teller makes no choice, soon you decide not to hear his voice..... ____________________________________________________ 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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INSPARATION!!!!!!!!!!!!! Moving Brightyly.....Statements just seem fain't at last...some rise, some fall, to get to Terrapin!__________________________________________________ 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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TERRAPPPPIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!____________________________________________________ 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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and marmalade skies, somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly...____________________________________________________ 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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____________________________________________________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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the shit, so Miles diggent do it for us...but the Jethro did! Thank you for putting your drink in the sink!______________________________________________ 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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Which version? do you want Jimmy or Jimmy Page and Robert Plant? ____________________________________________________ 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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Thesteam@hotmail.com needs riders/ people to go to the gorge...got 3 extra lawn tickets SSSSSSSSSS :)))yeah baby!!! I live in Fort Bragg CA going north can pick ya up on the way at cost eh???? Lemme know Let the music play!!! "You know It's gonna get stranger, so let's get on with the show!"
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Darn the boyz! They have to play on the 4th of May....just kidding, cant wait to go further or to the other ones......well I guess the bonfire/concert is moved to the 3rd....Sunday? Anyhome, interested stick me a buzz! ____________________________________________________ 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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does anybody know the status of spring tour mailorder? has anyone received their tickets? does anyone else think the whole thing was run a tad poorly and the lack of communication is hindering your making proper plans? any info or thoughts would be quite helpful. thanks and have a great day.
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still waiting for any word on mine as well for MSG. Pretty ridiculous how long it has taken...missed all other opp's to get tickets because had faith in going old school. The lack of info coming from GTSTOO has been disappointing at best. Still holding out that they'll come in soon and i'll get to see the boys at MSG. Would love to hear if anyone has ANY info as to the mailorder tickets.