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  • Oroboros
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    Heynow-Instead of a review, here are my opinions and random thoughts after roadtripping back from that Denver Dead show. Although I loved hearing Crazy Fingers and several of the acoustic set (MAMU, Weight,etc), yet I left not feeling quite satisfied. The Dead had me going in, but it is like going to a restaurant that you love and they don't have the dish you want and the 'special' that get substituted, just does not hit the spot. IMO, the Dead saved the 'beef' for the coastal shows (apology to you vegetarians), no real song that was a 'jam vehicle' ala Other One or Eyes (which I desired) to link and pull the whole show around it. More disparate songs that were loosely "grouped' together. It was weird to me that the segues in the first half sounded more smoothly executed than those in the second half. I have seen this before (speaking as a former 'disgruntled' midwestern deadhead who didn't get to see the show that I wanted to see) and knowing that 'my show' would then be played down the line. But actually I am not disgruntled anymore and I do truly appreciate the show that I was lucky enough to witness. More review, Phil is the Maestro there. Bobby is the eccentric whimsical who struggles at times, (NOT with his exquisite shimmering rhythm chops..er... but what about those mutton chops! ;o}), Warren was great both on vocals (Easy Wind & China Doll!) and his lead & slide guitar work, he is such a talent and needs to propel the boys along with him. Mickey and Billy were simply tremendous and amazingly, I wish there would have been more drums that night (on Billy's birthday no less) at least King Solomon's Marbles gave them a chance to stretch the drumming a bit. Chimenti is very versatile but he has potential to be more of a force with the band. There were times when his keys could have hammered the boys ahead, to shake them a bit, like some of the keyboardists of old. At times I wondered if they all could hear each other as well, to cue off of, hint another tune, etc. I did hear many 'teases' and wondered several times if the band did as well. That said, these guys rock! They just need a little more playing time to weave it together. On balance, their vocals sounded improved from show I heard on the radio on 5/2. I would like to hear Warren sing more esp. the Garcia/Hunter tunes, as Warren does nail the phrasing of those tunes much better than Bobby does AND he can remember the words (which helps ;o}). It seemed like the Dead were playing and playing well however their pace or ability to accelerate like with the GD or even the prior versions of the Dead that I have seen, were just not the same. At this point anyway. Denver was just not the 'mind-meld' that I was hoping for, or maybe it was just the song selection for me. Maybe it is I just wanted to be able to hear a Jack Straw, or Wheel or Eyes of the World or Brown Eyed Women or a fine 1/2 Step. I am old school, you know. However, I recall "one man gathers what another man spills" and consequently the coastal shows will be classics. Maybe when I give Denver another listen and get these pesky synapses to refire, I may think differently and reevaluate. That said, I learned long ago, to not attend too much to what I didn't hear. I am so happy I went and glad for what I did hear. The boys do look energized. Billy was grinning ear to ear and nodding enthusiastically to Phil and Bobby at the conclusion of their acoustic take of Me & My Uncle. That was a treat seeing them like that and reminded me of 'the old daze'. I am spoiled rotten by the wonderful shows that I was lucky enough to attend, and often I am an incurable critic/cynic, so I do have to give myself a reality check (or my wife or friends will.) This band will only get better and I wish I was able to take in a couple more shows from this tour to witness it happening. BUT I am so excited that Heads who have not seen the Grateful Dead or other versions of the Dead, will have this tour to see & be the dance. At the end Bobby pointed out to the audience and said "It was you that got us back together." If I win the lottery, I will head out to the show at the Gorge. Without any doubt. The Dead will be hitting their stride. I just wish they were meeting me at 10KLF! The Truth is realized in an instant, the act is practiced step by step.
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    MICKEY HART ONE ON ONE
    CBS2 AND KCAL9 HAD SOME EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THE DEAD IN LA.WE GOT A CHANCE TO SPEND A FEW MINUTES WITH MICKEY HART. HE WAS VERY COOL... AND WILLING TO TALK ABOUT WHATEVER. THE RAW INTERVIEW AND CLIP FROM THE SHOW CAN BE SEEN HERE: http://cbs2.com/entertainment/Grateful.Dead.Forum.2.1006907.html
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    patiently waiting your 'review' of that show and any photos you have to share... also, not sure if it is 'cricket' to mention it here,but really glad you got to see that other thing yesterday, too!! I seen your above post, that it was only about 20 minutes before I sent you the email and private message. Glad it worked out! timing is everything!! peace my brother, cc
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    And all I can say is I wish I was able to head west and see/hear more. You all are in for a treat out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Truth is realized in an instant, the act is practiced step by step.
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    Pancakes ?
    Have they been serving Pancakes at any of the shows ? I could catch the end of the tour if they have Pancakes ! Gotto have Pancakes !
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    Man Im Jealous:)
    Last nights show had to of been BANGIN:) Viola must have been sweet to go into it 3 times:) And don't get me started on the 2nd set:) WOW..........Opener...Shakedon st.....Scarlet/Fire....Wow Peace- Moye
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    Peekin at last nights show.....
    WOW..........Wrote a letter....Mailed it in the air......I think our friend JackstrawfromCo had a grooooovin time last night:)Peace- Moye
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    Happy Mothers Day to all you Hippy Moms out there!! Hope you have a nice day. :-)
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    JACKSTRAWFROMCO...........
    :) Have a great show tonight my friend:) Lots and lots of beautiful, energetic, positive vibes for tonight and tomarrows shows for you my friend!!!! And lots of great vibes for everyone else thats catchin the rest of the shows!!!!NOTHIN LEFT TO DO BUT SMILE:) SMILE:) SMILE:) Peace- Moye
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    You all are are grate .. hugs to you both .. Even though my butt was draggin today I haven't stopped smiling!! We're off to CA tomorrow. "Dont you drink hard liquor just a cup of cold coffee .. gonna get up in the mornin' and go" I'll report back on Monday. Peace and love to all!! "Escaping through the lily fields, I came across an empty space. It rainbow then exploded, left a bus stop in its place. The bus come by and I got on, thats when it all began. It was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land"
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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.