Grateful Dead

"how do you make a money transaction with someone you do not know who does not yet have the tickets themselves. Seems like a big risk and very uncertain about the outcome (a lot moreso than sending MOs to GDTS TOO which apparently had its own risks as well)." Ticketmaster allows free transfers: http://www.ticketmaster.com/transfer So you could pay them with PayPal (which has purchase protection), and have them transfer the tickets right away (assuming that they got them via TicketMaster). You'll know that the tickets are legit and they'll know that the payment is legit.

"how do you make a money transaction with someone you do not know who does not yet have the tickets themselves. Seems like a big risk and very uncertain about the outcome (a lot moreso than sending MOs to GDTS TOO which apparently had its own risks as well)." Ticketmaster allows free transfers: http://www.ticketmaster.com/transfer So you could pay them with PayPal (which has purchase protection), and have them transfer the tickets right away (assuming that they got them via TicketMaster). You'll know that the tickets are legit and they'll know that the payment is legit.

I sent my goodies in as well on 1/20/15. Like you, I am in the same boat, the Ship of Fools. I have no E-Mail (maybe I spaced the E-Mail address?). I also have no rejection. I live in South Florida, where the climate suits my clothes. Maybe the rejection just hasn't reached me yet due to the geographic seperation from Northern Cali.Yes the suspense is killing me. There is a web site you can go to to see if your money order(s) has been cashed. mois.usps.com Keep The Faith

Dude....TM seats may be protected under PayPal but unless you buy sec 124 @ 7+ grand each for a 3 day, and who the fuck owns those 2 seats....I may take a walk over there to find out....stay home and I will text you the set list....you can buy me a beer later....the CID and GDTSTOO to my best knowledge of seat location, CID is will call, meaning you find out in July, GDTSTOO is June....everything else is side stage partial view or behind stage, monitors.....don't let that deal go down....oh no.

I have a seat (TM) but I will be standing on the moon.Still waiting for my pinky or email. checked again today with 8 friends; 3 pinkys, 5 in limbo

Could be worse... Congrats....maybe you'll see the gulf of San Francisco.....

Hey, thanks for the site to check the MO. I am also in SW Florida; no pinky- no email. I decorated my envelope, my MOs were just right....tried CID then TM and failed. No tickets - No pinky - no email.. Last week I checked my USPS MO serial #s via the phone # posted here and it said the MOs were in the system. Now when I checked again...(by the website you posted) it states "No information is available". Does anyone know what this means?? Could I still be in the running to get tickets? OMG...I will freak out!! Since TM, I'm still resisting the urge to purchase tix from a reseller....I'm in a bad spot! I have got to go to this show!!!

That site has consistently said that "No information is available" for my MO's, while the phone number says that they are int he system. The website does not work.

Yeah... (sigh)....I just checked the MOs with the telephone number..it says the info matches. MAN- it's like someone took the wind right out of my sails......bummer!!

thinkin still may have ticket on that magic bus no news on email,pinky or usps just hangin on the bumper all the way from ky

After getting all teary on my way to work this morning listening to channel 23, I changed that channel to jam on, heard one of my favorite string cheese songs and try to console myself with, well at least there is that in July at Red Rocks but still doesn't soothe the wounds...still in limbo which I realize could be a good thing so I'll just hold on a little longer... Regarding the 95 or 99$ tickets, they were MO right? When I sent mine i asked for GA Pit or the less expensive reserved which came to 95 something, after looking at the seating chart I guessed it was the reserved second or third down from the top. Not sure if that is the case but seems to make sense. MBarilla, has the cry to rally been posted on Facebook? I think you said you don't facebook...would be happy to post it but not my words...also would be happy to gather a collection to post it in newspapers around the country or maybe we could each post in a paper in our own state. As long as we stick together we, "can be the change we want to see in the world"! Love the birthday story! Reminds me of the time my husband and I didn't have tickets to get into a Red Rocks show (not the Dead) and they weren't allowing people up to the parking lots without tickets so we had to get out of our friend's car. We decided that we could put on the cloak of invisibility and just sneak on over through the shrubs and hike a very open and steep hillside. In between laughing fits and feeling like we might pass out and roll back down we managed to stay invisible and reached the top. We knew we were truly magical for not being spotted, especially since I was in bright purple. We never got into the show but had a great time listening in the rocks. Gate crashing aside, maybe we can find that cloak again.

Well, you may have lost wind, but at least you're still sailin'. I just got home and found my pink slip. Bummer. It's actually a big relief, though sad. I'm still hopeful that I'll get at least one ticket though. Good luck all.

Last email batch I heard of was #458 , anyone have a higher number they know has been received?

Just to let everyone know, i was in limbo, checked MO's and kept seeing "No information is available for serial number." I did receive my confirm email #410 on feb 27th from the dead that i will have my order, but my USPO money order has not changed status, i googled "results for USPS, how to track money order" and I believe this site only validates that it is a true money order.. I typed in other numbers ambiguously and it states they are not a valid money order. Im not sure you can use the usps money order site to see if they have been cashed. You would have to pay like $6 to find out. Cheers and Peace to all, i hope this helped in some way.. In my personal opinion there will be a lot of tickets released to mail ins as soon as they can dot the I's and Cross the T's with what they have fulfilled. In the time hoping GD Tickets releases info as they can. Here Come Sun Shine!1

I beleive "in the system" means they were sold. USPS lags 30 days in posting cashed MOs hence the "no info available".

Hi all - been lurking here without posting since the TM fustercluck, stuck in limbo, wondering about MO and the like. Was truly blessed to be offered Sunday tix from a fellow Head, so I've got no grounds to gripe and I won't (sure would like to see the whole though). I've got this happy little delusion that all of us still waiting for word are going to get some miracle SASE saying "sorry for the delay, had to do some advanced scalper filtering, all those canceled pre-sale tix are for you guys, enjoy the show". Thought I'd share a happy show memory, Hampton Coliseum 3/27/88 My first show. My sister had been on the bus for years and got me a ticket for my birthday. I hadn't seen her in about a year and honestly was more excited to see her than the band. I knew Casey Jones & Truckin', was more into metal at that time and not expecting much. I got to the show minutes before it started, couldn't find my sister and thought great, alone at a concert. Then the band came out, broke into Iko and the place blew up! This was my pre-wharf rat days and I may have been a bit distorted but when I saw everyone just start dancing like mad and the swirly colors and the energy, and wow! Instant convert. The vibe from those around me was so positive and life affirming, it was so unlike any show i'd ever seen. I was afraid to let on that I knew not to much about the Dead, but the folks next to me could tell I was a rookie and were just so friendly and welcoming. They were getting off seeing me discover what it was all about. Its the people, the music, the band, all moving to some primal bliss. That's what made me a Head from that day forward.

I got inspired with the stories…the greatest show of my life: 3/29/90. Eight of us board my buddies' gold 1985 Toyota Minivan, about 3 hours trip south to Long Island, and the excitement in the car is overwhelming. People are hysterical, all talking at once, no one able to find what they're looking for…"why isn't the ice in the cooler!?", "where's my lighter?", "who brought smokes?", "put on Filmore '71!", "who knows how to get there?", "where's the map?", "why didn't you already get gas?!"….adrenaline and anticipation is turning the minivan into a rolling ball of anxiety. So, finally, someone lit one up. Serenity, smiles and the old TDK 90s filling the air with tunes for the remainder of the drive down past NYC….. I remember the rain- heavy before showtime, or maybe it was just a cold rain that made it seem that way. Huddled in the van, with two guys out gathering the party favors, getting soaked. It wasn't the best lot scene with the downpour, but you all know what happened inside. Magic. On the way home, loaded up from the successful pre-show procurement, we approach a toll booth somewhere on the way to get back into New England. Shit. They're pulling over about every third car. Somehow, we rolled through. I remember feeling so sorry for all the heads who didn't get through that toll (and pissed at the war on drugs), but I guess eight blackjacks were the hands we were dealt that day in the gold minivan. I'll never forget that day. See you all in Chicago.

Dude, TDK 90, really? Maxell XL IIs all the way.

Basking in the afterglow of the Year of the Hare Chinese New Years shows at the SF Civic in '87, I trundled on down to the Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium to see the March shows. Seeing's how I was normally the designated driver for my bunch, it was an unusual set of circumstances that led me to drive solo to the Kaiser shows. Namely, a visit to my amiable but ailing Grandpa led me to hit the shows from a different travel vector, you see. A detour in the parking lot with some friendly folks that encouraged me to see the show in a different light led to a spatial anomaly that directly connected a Bucket/Scarlet/Fire second set opener with a post-show parking lot assembly cut short by the sketchy Oakland natives wandering the area. Being an unaccustomed driver in that particular state of mind, I was in dire need of a copilot to get me to Grandpa's house. Fortunately, as I was about ready to give up due to my directional deficiency, I saw an exit called St. Stephens Drive, and I knew immediately I was on the right path. Grandpa was sound asleep but I was hummin' tunes till dawn. I never did see St. Stephen performed by the Grateful Dead or the Dead, and when the Fare Thee Well shows were announced, I thought it would finally happen. I have since realized that St. Stephen didn't need to get me to a show, but he sure as hell got me home. That's probably what matters most.

Hornsby says about Trey from Jambase... Bruce Hornsby has only played with Anastasio once, but it left a lasting impression. "[He has a] great level of musicianship on the guitar and also his having led one of the great bands of the last 25 years, Phish. He’s certainly a prime-time player. Whenever I see Trey, he has a joyful quality about his music making, a great exuberance – I think it’s infectious. That will be a huge plus with this band," Hornsby said about Trey. Bruce also revealed he did see Phish once and had a great time. "I saw them at the Hampton Coliseum. I loved it. I was up close and thought they were just transcendent. They have a real beautiful relationship with their audience, just like the Dead."

Well here's my story then: I always discounted the dead for many years, wasn't my style, I liked Zeppelin Floyd Black Sabbath Rush etc. by the time I heard of the Grateful Dead. Then only Truckin and Casey Jones radio stuff. Didn't find it interesting at all. I was working late at a banquet on New Years '87-88 and my buddy was still up and ready to party I was getting off work and I stopped by. He was watching his taped Pay per view recording of the show at the Coliseum in Oakland, CA. I sat down and Terrapin Station came on. I watched and was quite impressed by the video. Decided to go to a show in '88 I think it was Shoreline was my first show. I was amazed. I tripped, it was very cool. I became a fan from that point on seeing about 20 shows total between '88-94 Jerry solo and GD and collecting most if not all of the studio recordings in 1 form or another - tape, vinyl whatever, and CDs. So yeah I haven't seen that many true GD shows. Saw a few later, the Dead, Phil and Friends birthday bash (phenomenal), Further a couple times, DSO a couple times (with JK). MoonAlice is really good too, original dead-style band. Their style of music is captivating and the shows were amazing, the scene was always a fun circus that whisked you in a timewarp back to the past in a very cool relaxing unstressful good time. Hard to put it into words. I am forever grateful to them for the beautiful musical magical sensory journey they gave us.

How many are still waiting for some kind of word? How long will this continue? When will we know?

I enjoy reading the stories about going to shows. I'm a little older than some of you people, my 1st show was 9-023-72. Anyway here's mine. Uptown theatre Chgo., I,m not sure of the date '81 or '82. the show was over just walked outside when I asked my wife if she had a t-shirt I bought. Left it on my seat. Left my wife and her sister outside and went back to get it. It was still there and when I grabbed it the boys walked back on stage. It's been about 20min. since the last song. I'm standing there wondering what to do, should I get my wife or just stay. I ran back outside yelling the Dead was back, getting F bombed all the way. Grabbed my wife and ran back inside just in time to hear them do Althea, couldn't have been 200 people still there. The boys didn't say a word, finished the song and walked off the stage. If I didn't leave my new t-shirt would have missed it.

Fantastic story! Very late getting on the bus...My friend, been on the bus 43 years, turned me on with "Listen to an Althea". Got into my soul! Thanks for sharing!

Ah, the pink slip is in our mailbox today. Bad news for us, worse news for the friend to whom we had promised our 3-day nosebleeds. So, we may be standing on the moon, but we're in the building, and grateful. See y'all in July! -- when in doubt, twirl.

Still keeping an eye on ticket prices from those bastards online and they are still dropping. Have come down about $100 to 500 since the weekend depending on where the seats are... As for my story (seeing as we are all sharing), I started out listening to harder stuff (being a child of the '90s) and the Dead were this silly hippy group. I should point out, I had a pension for the blues and always listened to stuff from the 30s to 60s if I could get a hold of it...Then I started buying some things from an older brother of a friend of mine who was a closeted head. I went over to his house one day and he had this whole wall of DATs...I asked what they were and he told me it was his tape trading collection of our fav. Long and short, I asked him to put his favourite on so I could here what the whole thing was about, and my god. It was something from spring 77, not sure what show, but it blew me away. Next thing you know I was getting him to make me as many copies as I could afford to get (being a poor highschool kid at the time I didn't have a DAT or a lot of money for cassettes). Been on the bus since then. Oh yeah, he was also the guy who introduced me to the mail order tickets. First show he got me tix right in front of the soundboard and tapers...the parking lot, drums/space and a head for acid made for a complete and utter no turning back convert.

Still waiting-There is a facebook support group for us in limbo, haha. Been an emotional rollercoaster

After my initial "discovery" of the dead and collecting of studio material, I started collecting live material via tape to tape copies, eventually burning CDs and downloading music to the PC. I have collected a decent arsenal of live stuff including some Dick's picks, vault releases, VHS and DVD movies etc. I had ties to the Beatles and ELO from my childhood so after discovering the dead this opened up a whole new (old) genre of music and revisiting of old classics. I got into the Moody Blues, recognized and got into the Rolling Stones ('67-74 being my fave period), then Janis, Airplane, CSN and sometimes Y, and all the psychedelic stuff (after being a metal head previously which I also still like). I frikkin' dug all of it and became a new hippie. Dead stickers all over my car, oh yeah, I loved it and still do. Only 1 sticker on the new car now though. So it wasn't just the dead I got into after finding them but all this other music I was missing. It truly opened up many doors for me musically and in my guitar playing. I feel truly blessed for the musical and spiritual enlightenment and thank my buddy for that night with Terrapin...

what's the link to the Facebook group?

For anyone looking for rooms, they, The Marriott Ohare(look for yourself) have them for the 3,4,5 of July for $169/night, hardly worth trading your tickets away for(as someone on this site keeps posting that they've booked this motel, and can be had for tickets, but they mustn't be behind stage tickets, they have to have a view, no less,HAHAHAHAH). That just lends itself to the type of banter and intellect that KLOWNS on this site post. For realists, hold out on buying tickets until late may/early june and prices will have considerably dropped, if you want to go bad enough, you'll buy at least one night and call it a day, it isn't in the cards for all to go, all 3 nights. Good luck to the Realists, KLOWNS are as annoying, and ridiculous as SCALPERS.

FOS

Is this the boys' attempt at cannibalizing some of the demand to bring down ticket prices?! http://blackbirdmusicgroup.com/dear-jerry-celebrating-the-music-of-jerr… http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grateful-dead-members-more-booke…

Hey don't be a jurk, I know I have beat that DEAD horse to a pulp... I have come to realize that no one is going to trade Marriott space for a chance at a face value ticket. I would still appreciate if someone keeps me in mind if they end up with an extra that I can purchase for a reasonable price. Is that you, TT?

Also still waiting. No info in FLA...

WOW! That might be more up my alley anyways, both are great, but like you said, with the demand..............who knows? Grisman, stu allen, if my memory is correct(i don't listen to panic) Jimmy Herring, plus the rest of the band, oh yeah and hornsby. It is a lot of acts for a one day event but it sounds intriguing.

Looks like I will have to change my avatar...(hee hee) I think I am starting to get my sense of humor back, a welcome thought for sure in these trying (to get tix) times.

Bought a ticket broker ticket for 1 "GA Pit" ticket day mail order started just to be sure I had a way to get into the party knowing full well the tickets were going to be hard to come by--Pd 600 but figured they would be way more later on secondary market. (Sorry I know the brokers are the problem here but I just needed to take action to not miss this show so I bought air and hotel same day could not count on mail order with 3 shows 3 days 1 medium size stadium and all of us wanting to be on the bus-- the numbers say it's just not possible and I'm not lucky at lotteries) This was before GA Pit was announced as mail order only, the presale cancelled, the other half of field turned from reserved into GA Field, and the on sale TM Hunger Games sale date postponed. Well, given the uncertainly of whether my Pit ticket would even exist or just be refunded like the Super Bowl Tickets people bought from brokers who had no seats I tried for 1 CID for 1 night and got it. Sect 140 front row. Stunned!!! I hope a broker has to pay a season ticket holder a fortune to make good on selling me a ticket he didn't ever have-- then I can turn around and hand that extra broker "GA Pit" or equivalent as they say ticket to someone who really wants to be there. Btw the CID tix are not supposed to be transferable since you pick up with Id and credit card and if reserved seating they did include seat # at time of ordering. Believe it if you need it if you don't just pass it on. Hopefully those of you in limbo will get good news, a miracle, or those who have all the gobbled up tix will be forced to sell more reasonably. Hope to see everyone there smiling and twirling.

thanks for the link, that is a lot of bands for a 7pm show,

Seriously, if I were dosed that clown just might send me off on a bad trip. That thing is freeking scary!

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD., Thursday, 5/14/15 @ 7;00 PM. Tickets go on sale 3/13/15 @ 10:00AM EDT. Ticket prices range from $69.50-$500.00. For more info go to, merriweatherpostpavilion.com/schedule2015

It's from the Without a net CD...(so it's authorized)

My story about it (it's in Orinda, just the other side of the tunnel from Oakland): Many years ago (as originally reported in the Golden Road, I think), one of our show buddies, a guy by the name of Jack Romanski, was a pilot of small planes, and one day he ran into engine trouble... And landed the plane on the freeway, right by St. Stephen's Drive. Everybody fine.

Everybody's 'Dancin' !Don't change that killer Rick Griffin Clown icon.

An event like this one in MD in May might be exactly what all of us needed - MORE SHOWS!!!!! They won't be GD Fare Thee Well, but maybe they will announce other unique events like this across the country... I mean, the same people are pretty much there, plus more. Help out fans that got shut out of Soldier... Give geographical access to people who live far from Soldier... Red Rocks... Oakland... Is there something happening here...???

My somewhat lame story....The first Dead song I ever heard was a snippet of China Cat – it was on a television broadcast on PBS, I think called Go Ride the Music (?) in, I think, ’69 or ’70. I couldn’t get the riff out of my head; I realized this was the same band the Rolling Stone had recently written that great ‘put on the dead and spread’ review about, so I found Live Dead at a local department store…. and of course was hooked. WD then AB came out, and, like so many others, I never looked back. Then, it was ’72, and I was in the back seat of my parent’s Chevrolet - too young to drive, father in front driving – and we were in Baltimore to pick up some clothing he was having altered. I was staring out the back window, when a large automobile went by the other direction…. back windows down, and some long hairs goofing out their window. I told my parents, wow, they looked like a couple of guys from that group I like, GD. Anyway, got to the clothing store, and my parents were talking to the salesperson, wondering why a 'bunch of hippies' were driving around town in a limo, and I reiterated that they looked like those guys in the GD…. And the salesperson – I remember his words to this day – said, well the Grateful Dead DO have a concert in town this evening. ARRGH! I went nuts… I didn’t even know they were in town, but had just actually seen them…. I begged, begged, begged my parents to let me see them. They relented, we drove to the Civic Center, I bought ONE ticket, and we waited until showtime. They dropped me off, and said they would wait until an appointed time and pick me up (we lived a good ways out of town), and it was going to have to be early because I think the next day was a ‘school day’. I walked into my first rock concert ever, not knowing what to expect. Show started , and bam! If I wasn’t a convert before, that first few minutes did it. I had no idea that this type of music, feeling, camaraderie, was even possible. I sat through the first set, and as it drew to a close, I thought the show was over – until I realized it was only intermission. The appointed pick up time was drawing close, and I was furious with the band for taking such a long break. Then they came back, and I heard a little, but pick up time had now come and gone. I walked ever so slowly toward the exit, angry at having to leave, but without any option. I walked out with my head full of that music, but that feeling of the Civic Center door closing behind me with the music wafting in the air sucked beyond belief. It was many , many years later that Dick’s Pick 23 came out, and I finally re-heard the music, as well as the rest of the show I had walked out on!

That will work...happily go see that; I think it may be safe to assume that most will play together for at least one or two songs! That may be just what the doctor ordered! A lot further for me to travel, but meh, it is what it is!

marye that is amazing! I've made 20 jumps out of perfectly good airplanes but no near death experiences for me knock on wood...well maybe it's wood. Looks like wood anyway :-)

I mean really gang - WTF are we gonna do? Fore those of us who struck-out on M.O., CID and TicketBastard, how are we ever gonna get in the building? I guess the sobering reality is that after 50 years, there's a bunch of Grateful Dead loving fans that have wheel barrows of cash and if you have the money, well, you're show-bound. http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/03/media/grateful-dead-tickets/

Scarlett Bee..so happy for you! I wasn't so lucky. Just an aside..I used CID for the Philly shows in '09. They were really great. Had their act together. I had purchased a travel package. I ended up going alone but it was easy for me to off the second ticket. No..didn't scalp. Was looking to bring my 20 yr old granddaughter with me. Have a great time!! Do a little twirling (yes, I still can) for a 69 yr old devotee from the 60s.. SF Winterland, etc. days.

So Cool! I've been getting a world class ulcer over the Chicago shows and here they're bringing this like 20 minutes from my front door. Let's keep this a huge secret so the Rat Bastard Scalpers don't get wind of it. (So if you're a rat bastard scalper forget you read any of this, this show is ours dammit.)