Grateful Dead

First of all , I am captivated by the the pleading , bitching, worrisome, enlightened,wise,& even angry people on this thread. I tune in every 3 or 4 days to catch up on the fun. I think the shows might be less entertaining than this thread(just kidding) but really ENTERTAINMENT is why we are here & entertainers are very well paid( at least the successful ones).The Grateful Dead are entertainers(who paid their dues as someone has mentioned), as one of the best, you must expect high cost, & it's up to each & everyone of us,to decide if it's worth it & how much are you willing to spend to be entertained by the line-up they are presenting to you.Take it or leave it ,your choice. You think it's worth $500 or $5000 to be there,it's your choice. I think anyone whose life was effected by the boys , would want to "take that ride one more time" I know,I would, but I didn't make any commitment to be there,if I find myself there, so be it. One good thing is with all this hype I been dusting of the live shows & been reliving the great times I had, because of The Dead( I even subscribed to Dave's pick's for the 1st time). The bottom line is they are the entertainers & it's their trip-show & if they only play 3 shows,& that's how they want to go out,more power to them!!! They should make a mighty $ on it & remember all of you bitching about this mail order, you're lucky you have the dead family making it available to you,cause they were the pioneers behind mail order tix,as well as so many other things in the music business; traveling circus, bringing their own PA on the road, top of the line sound & lights. So you all could be out their in the freezing cold ( February)waiting in line for a chance to get a tix from ticketmaster alongside of the scalpers ( who if you don't pay their outrageous prices,they'll lose $ on the deal). Everything is up to you, choose what makes you happy ,what you feels it's worth. How's that commercial go? Something's are just Priceless ! Peace , love & happiness have no monetary value.

Surely you jest; I know, don't call me Shirley.. Hey Sir Unkle, we don't know what's up, and we can only speculate. I agree that it is gonna be tough getting tickets thru Ticketmaster. I'll go that route if my mailbox is the repository of an early letter from GDTS. Before that we have the VIP and Travel packages...yes, they will be expensive, but if it is a choice between the mortgage or tickets, I'll choose tickets....for the mortgage comes around every month, and the GD and family, well...although they use to come around monthly or so. it's been a couple decades since I was part of that scene. I agree, there will be rich young ones there..that's okay, and space is noise, but it's "our" noise...and it gives us a chance to educate the young-uns,especially if they have "...rings on their fingers and bells on their toes..." Peace and best wishes to you...and I hope you score those golden tickets one way or another. G

if you check the ticket sites, GDTS got some nice seats reserved for their share of the ticket allotment, the rest went to ticket master stubhub etc..., you will have one more chance to get a ticket at face on the 28th of this month, good luck to all who go this way, but I see most of these tickets bought up by scalpers and the cost will make it prohibitive to make the show. With the reselling of these tickets for such a price, only the rich and elite will be there, plastic hippie wantabe's that will say during "Space" "what are they doing? sounds like a bunch of noise to me"