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    joennn24
    9 years 2 months ago
    Mix
    Listened to KFOG replay and the mix had Trey so out front I couldn't hear the rest of the band. Could just be the radio replay, but I wanna hear Phil, Bobby and the rest of the band. Can't wait to see it at the movie theater on Friday (and maybe Saturday and Sunday)
  • goverlid
    9 years 2 months ago
    Write on, Bros. Stephen & Eric!
    Thanks for my morning eye-opener!!
  • Eric Abrahamson
    9 years 2 months ago
    Fare Thee Well Grateful Dead, Pt. 2
    Watch 'em knock 'em dead in Chicago. I must've gone to at least 100 shows. The first one was in 1966 in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle, or the Furthur Fesival at San Francisco State College, whichever was first. I actually felt like Phil was addressing me personally when he made his speech at the end and thanked everyone for coming out, because I tried to get tickets to as many Phil Lesh and Friends at Terrapin Crossroads shows as I could. He came up to me there and let me say, "Hi," which rock stars don't have to do. However I couldn't afford to follow Bobby around like I used to, and he always lets me know, which is flattering that he invited me. He sang a song about losing money, which is true. He sang some other songs which might have been directed at me, and I instinctively responded by singing along. Then, at the beginning of the last song, "Fare Thee Well, My Honey", "Brokedown Palace", I thought he was like, he wanted me to sing along, so I did, and then he ended it abruptly, got in line with their arms on their shoulders, did their bow, and it was over, but I'm planning to see the live stream of all 3 Chicago shows at Terrapin Crossroads. When I went to UCI in 1987, my dad gave me $100,000/year, an apartment in grad student housing, a car, and a bunch of credit cards on his account. They tracked me into the Information and Computer Science major. Then he came down and took some of the credit cards back, and my sister took all 6 of my Irvine Meadows Grateful Dead tickets. Like William Burroughs wrote, "When did they ever give anything that they didn't take back if they could, and they always could!" and he went to Harvard. I went out and bought 6 more, at the inflated price of $50, for $300, and canceled the aftershow party at my apartmnent I'd posted on the Well. Because of losing the credit cards, I got a bad grade and had to go to CSUB. Laurie Senit moved in, and life was pretty good. We lived across from the campus in an apartment complex with 4 swimming pools and 4 jacuzzis, the 2nd best in town. My parents bought me a brand-new Toyota Tercel. Then my mom said, "We're going to send the two of you to Hawaii. Pick out a hotel from this brochure." I picked the Big Island because I'd been to Maui, and the Kona Hilton because the Dead liked Hiltons. In nearby Paradise Cove the scuba boat captain claimed he was on a first-name basis with Jerry. When Jerry died the Rolling Stone article said his house was in Kona, which I didn't know, and gave the name of his dive shop. I called information and the dive shop, they said it was across the street from the Kona Hilton, and Jerry probably did used to go scuba diving at Paradise Cove. They were showing videos of him scuba diving tonight. That's why I wanted to do it, but I had to do it straight, not being a rock star. I proposed to Laurie on the beach in Kona. We stopped at my parents' house in San Francisco on our way home. My dad, James Abrahamson, had 3 restaurants, Pam Pam East on Geary and Taylor, Rosebud's English Pub next door, and Biff's Coffee Shop on 28th and Broadway in Oakland, and he sold institutional furniture, commission contract sales, for Thonet and American Chair Co., and later Serta Mattress, in the Merchandise Mart on 10th and Market. My mother, Lucille Abrahamson, was elected to the San Francisco School Board twice, two years as President, worked in Mayor Dianne Feinstein's Office of Childcare, and was appointed S.F. Human Rights Commissioner by Mayor Frank Jordan, the former Police Chief. I told them we were engaged and my Dad said, "Don't marry her, I can't afford it. We sold the restaurants to Mama's, they went bankrupt, didn't pay, we went to court, the judge fined me $160,000, and they wanted me to declare bankruptcy." My little brother said later it was his half-partner, Bill Munro, the manager's fault. He abused the help, especially the head cook, who really ran the place, the union went on strike, won so many benefits they had to go out of business and sell it. Munro had cooked the books, the judge saw it, and hence the fine. My dad said it was because I had spent too much money on Grateful Dead concerts, but I don't think that was correct, although I may have spent too much money. They wanted me to go to this psychiatrist in Bakersfield, Dr. Perelli-Minetti, who was a nice man. He said the Grateful Dead was OK. He was always telling me expensive restaurants to which to take Laurie, like where he took his wife, and encouraged me to spend lots of money on her, buy expensive dresses, jewelry, etc, so I thought it was OK. He gave me Risperdal when it first came out, in 1994. We didn't really go to that many Grateful Dead concerts. My dad didn't like the Grateful Dead and Bill Graham for other reasons. When I first got back from the New Mexico Hog Farm after Woodstock, I tried to turn him on, he thought about it for a minute and decided no, he was afraid to get busted, he was too square to get on the bus. Later he said that Bill Graham had applied to join their Jewish men's club, the Concordia-Argonaut, on Van Ness and Geary, and that he was going to vote against him. Not only was he a hippie, and made his money that way, but he was an orphan, an immigrant, and a Holocaust survivor. What it really was is that Graham was more successful than him in the role of Jewish businessman. My brother moved to Mill Valley, said he saw Graham's house and was impressed. Graham made more money than all of them, and he started as a hippie, and that filled squares like my dad with jealousy, anger, envy, and rage. My dad said, "I wish the Grateful Dead were dead," in his outrageous way. When Bill Graham's helicopter crashed on the way home from the Concord Pavilion and they had his funeral in my dad's temple, Temple Emanu-el, my dad said, "I hope it didn't hurt the helicopter!" He even hated them during the Haight-Ashbury and helped the City Fathers drive them out of town. My family was spending a lot of money at first, and I thought they were encouraging me to emulate them. When he first gave me the $100,000/year, the credit cards on his account, and sent me to UCI, my dad was acting like he could afford for me to buy anything I saw that I wanted. Then he told not to buy anything over $200, and I complied. They were all spending lots of money. He had 2 new BMW"s and a new Mercedes-Benz. He and my mom went on a temple tour of Eastern Europe and stayed in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, she said it was a five-star hotel. My sister went to Yale after me, in Art, then got a Masters in Art Education at Stanford, an Ed.D. at Harvard, a J.D. at Cal, got a job in the White House as Assistant Chief-of-Staff to Vice-President H.W. Bush in the Ronald Reagan White House and then Founding Chairman of the Barbara Bush Campaign For Family Literacy (me at UCI) in the President H.W. Bush White House. There's a photo of her and Vice-President H.W. Bush having an audience with Pope John Paul in Sweden, and she is shaking hands with the Pope. That dress must have cost something, not to mention the travel. In her closet I saw hundreds of French gowns, and more shoes than Imelda Marcos. She met this guy from the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., a USC Professor of International Relations, Jonathan Aronson. He went to Harvard and Stanford in Political Science, and his father was a rich St. Louis banker. They bought a mansion in Bel-Air near the Reagans', put in an Italian marble bathtub, baby grand piano, swimming pool, his self-portrait in the living room, pirates' table, Persian rug, and he drove a Jaguar S3. He said, "We're going to Paris for 2 weeks," "I'm going to Thailand to speak," and they had their son's Bar Mitzvah in Bali, so they didn't hold back on the spending. They took the whole family, including me, to the Club Med in Ixtapa, but they went bankrupt because I spent too much money on Grateful Dead concerts! My brother spent $2000 of my dad's money for a Rolex watch to keep up with the other Oshos and flew back and forth to India every few weeks for years. They flew me there, to Europe twice, and to Hawaii twice. I guess my dad was having problems, and he asked me to spend less money, but he didn't really communicate that I should spend less money because he was having financial problems. I was spending too much money on Laurie. So I ignored him. So he took away some credit cards, and I kept spending at the same level. I couldn't comprehend that commission contract sales is an up-and-down business. Then two new credit cards, each with a $5000 limit, came in the mail. I should have sent them back, but I couldn't resist the temptation. Soon I realized that I couldn't let my dad find out about them, because he would take them away, too. I set out to get revenge on him for taking away my credit cards by charging even *more* money. The first thing I did was take Laurie to the most expensive restaurant in Los Angeles, Spago's, $140 for salmon for two. Then the 2nd most expensive, Palms in West Hollywood. Then dresses, jewelry, and when we went to Hawaii we did the same thing with the recreation. Maybe *that's* what drove my dad into near-bankruptcy, not the Grateful Dead concerts. We really didn't go to that many. I just spent a lot of money on her. She just liked to go to movies, comedy clubs, country-western dance halls, miniature golf, roller skating, she was always thinking of something. They cut my allowance from $100,000/year to $40,000/year, my sister and brother-in-law, Joan and Jonathan, became "trustees of your trust fund", keep the Blue Cross PPO. They took away all 12 of my credit cards and defaulted on them, leaving me in debt to the credit card companies for $15,000, with bad credit to this day, since 1993. They raised it up to $60,000 and I moved to New Mexico, near the Castagnas who used to live at the Hog Farm. Alberto asked me to call my mother, father, sister, and brother-in-law and ask each of them for $10,000 for a liver transplant for his Hepatitis C because his job as Director of Taos County Ambulances, working his way up from paramedic and EMT, didn't have good insurance. They said no. Maybe that's what set 'em off. They asked me to go to a psychiatrist, who dismissed me. Then Laurie wanted me to come back to Los Angeles and move in to her apartment. They wanted me to find another psychiatrist. I found psychedelic therapist Dr. Robert Newport online at the Island Group in Santa Cruz, referred by Bruce Eisner, but my sister fought with him and he lost his license for prescribing medications, including Risperdal, without seeing the patients. I called him and he said, "Did your sister let up on you yet? I'm not a psychiatrist any more, I'm a painter." So they took me to Dr. Lisa Fine, who also gave me Risperdal, which gave me diabetes. Laurie got it too, from Seroquel. They found the diabetes when a cardiolgist wanted to do an emergency heart surgery,an angiogram and an angioplasty. My brother drove my sister-in-law's Ford Escort to L.A. from Sedona. They said they were going to give it to me. He showed it to me and said, "This is your car." They said they were going to give it to me after the surgeries, but they changed their mind and never did. My car had totally broken down at a job interview in Irvine just a few days before my appointment with the cardiologist, who decided I was going to have emergency heart surgery. When I recovered I stopped by at some friends from the Cubensis shows and they talked me into starting going to shows again, to the Phil Lesh and Friends show and the Ratdog show at the Wiltern, and the Ratdog show at the House of Blues. I'd told Richie on the phone I'd stopped going to shows when Jerry died and he'd said, "I did too." They had a picture of them with the 4 original members in an airport on the way to a concert called The Dead. After that, this psychologist Eric Asa-Dorian from the Life Adjustment Team, probably a drug rehab, they said her mother called, shows up in our living room, posing as a Deadhead, except with more, better tickets than me. Then they got me to go to LAT and I never knew it was a drug rehab, it was disguised as marriage counseling or something. In the end they took the $60,000/year except for meds, medical bills, Anthem Blue Cross PPO, SSI, and put me in Brentwood Manor board-and-care home for two years, I think illegally, before I had learned how to treat the diabetes, so it had developed another complication besides the heart disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetic neuropathy, or diabetic nerve pain, or "burning feet". When they moved me out of Laurie's apartment 12 years ago with the Comcast that was the last time they let me have cable, except for a brief period. No police, no arrest, no charges, no hearing, no trial, no sentence, no jail, no prison, no due process. No evidence or proof that *I* ever did anything wrong, as far as I'm concerned, frames and smears I've never heard, let alone allowed to answer. I said I'd sue all of them for $2 billion for attempted murder, elder financial abuse, false imprisonment, psychiatric torture, medical malpractice, emotional anguish, pain and suffering, and my attorney, Bruce Margolin, who'd been Timothy Leary's attorney (I went to a fundraiser they had at Timothy Leary's house in Beverly Hills when he was running for State Senator), said, "Where'd you get the $2 billion?" so $200 million is more in the range, I think. I had to get a job selling Sprint phones B2B to small businesses in the South, work my way out of there and get some financial aid from Cal State East Bay. I'd been a junior Computer Science major at Cal State Northridge when I was living with Laurie before the surgeries. And Tina Kimmel, a Cal Ph.D. in Social Work I met at the New Mexico Hog Farm after Woodstock got my sister to give me a $68,000 annuity that my dad left me, so that was pretty good, so I got to go to Monterey and Camp Winnarainbow, and they're paying for a lot of things now. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I'm still a senior Computer Science major and pre-law. Afterwards Alberto died, I called Richie from the board-and-care, he called my sister, I called him back, and he had terminal liver cancer. Alberto flew out and carved his tombstone, and he picked out wood for Tinker to make his coffin, but my sister wouldn't give me $100 to visit him at Camp Winnarainbow before he died. Steve had died of hep C. Then Hunter Thompson committed suicide. When I was going to the LAT psychiatrist to whom they forced me to go, I emailed Cap'n Skypilot to post something I could show him on his office computer, and he wrote a story about a man whose parents he said were responsible for the death of Ken Kesey and the assassination of JFK. When I got up here Vince Welnick committed suicide. I ran into Lou Todd, then he got sick and died, and then Tinker, who I once saw drive the Furthur bus. Charlene said her landlady wouldn't rent her house anymore, she moved in with her daughter; her other daughter got accused of murder, and she didn't do it. Laurie's elementary schoolteacher friend's apartment caught on fire and they blamed her. My Deadhead lawyer friend said his SUV caught on fire. I can't figure out the reason for all this. I would be interested if anybody, especially with legal knowhow, had any helpful advice. I'm thinking of appealing to my Yale classmates, to see if any of them are big-time lawyers yet, and I don't think any Democratic politicians have seen it, since most of them don't have email addresses. They were telling people I was dying, but the doctors said my numbers were good, so you can't die from controlled diabetes, maybe it was just wish-fulfillment. And Jerry famously died of a diabetic heart attack in a drug rehab, maybe someone got ideas. While I was in Brentwood the lawyer sent me a copy of the trust instrument where my parents had initialed that when my mom dies, the inheritance, which it originally says was divided into thirds between me, my brother, and sister, they rubbed me out and divided it in half between my brother and sister. She'll get my mom's house worth about $2 million, and she has a $4.3 million house in Bel-Air, and a house in Telluride, and my dad bought my brother a house in Sedona. I was living in Laurie's apartment. My brother will get my dad's commercial property in Oakland, a tire and party store. And there's some money they'll divide in half. Eric Abrahamson Yale University Class of '71 Pierson College
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Grateful Dead Original Members Add Two Dates To Final Concerts

April 10, 2015

The original members of Grateful Dead have announced two additional shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on June 27th and 28th, as part of their “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead” run. Along with the three shows at Chicago's Soldier Field on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, the run will mark the original members' last-ever performances toget

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Lunar Covers Moon Rocks I got wild imagination Talkin' transubstantiation Any version will do I got mass communication I'm the human corporation I ate a rock from the moon Moon in the rock, rock in the moon There's a moon in my throat You might think I'm wasting time You might laugh but not for long Hey! I'm working it out . . . (work it out)
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It is a good thing that Arnold didn't blow up the moon like he suggested he would when he was governor...he said something crazy about eliminating the tides...amongst other things...but really it was to keep scalpers prices - er - down to earth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Y4B3tU_t8
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Other fun things to do in Chicago... Lincoln Park Zoo - it's free! Garfield Park Conservatory (a seriously cool place, especially the Fern room). Any of the museums on the campus; the Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum of Natural History (my personal fav) and the Museum of Science and Industry. Also free -- Grant and Millennium Parks. Take selfies in the Bean! Walk the beautiful Lurie gardens. Splash in that weird fountain with the huge faces (unless like me, it gives you the creeps.) The Maxwell Street market. Farmer's markets all over town. If you get outside the city, the Chicago Botanic Garden is a world-class facility that should not be missed. Admission to the garden is free, but the parking fee is high. But, if you have a love of flora, it's worth every penny. Pack as many folks as you can in your bus! There is an (expensive) café, and you could easily spend an entire day. Eat (except, resist the Billie Goat Tavern, it's awful.) Chicago *LOVES* its neighborhood festivals, and there are bound to be plenty over the holiday weekend. (One area where Chicago sorely lacks nowadays are Fourth of July fireworks. We used to have an awesome Third of July display, but they cut that out a few years ago for budgetary reasons. There will still be fireworks off Navy Pier worth viewing, but a shadow of the former display, which was a tandem-show synchronized between Navy Pier and Buckingham Fountain.)
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If there is additional shows in CA., I hope the Dead find an equitable way to get tix to fans and not scalpers. Maybe another mail-in with a copy of a photo ID and a limit of four, so the tickets could be printed in your name only?...just an idea. I may be naive but I'd like to think it's about getting the music to the fans instead of making money scalping the fans.
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I think that's a great idea! I'm a loser trying to get Chicago tix 3xs over: MO, CID and TM then (sigh) tried this past Friday with Dear Jerry and sold out in 13 minutes. I can't seem to get a break. Like many, now if I go, I'll have to pay the scalpers hundreds of dollars - which isn't fair. I am a true fan, and I just can't believe I was not able to get tix the "normal way"...But if they do more shows, it would be great if there was some process to weed out the scalpers. I hope they consider something!
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Is the CityPASS worth it? I'll be traveling alone and will probably do stuff during the day for a few hours Sat and Sun before turning on each night. I really don't see myself doing the afterparty until daybreak and sleep all day unless I can hook up with old friends. Quit FB a while back and lost touch with folks, so I just might be the lone wolf geek at the museums. Geek wolfin' is what I do best. lol
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If you will really make full use of the Pass, I would say the CityPass would be worthwhile. I saw them listed for $96. We're local, so I could see going into the city for a long weekend and making REALLY good use of those passes (especially with the Art Institute as one of the options.) For the weekend of the Fourth, though, between the zoo, the parks, the lakefront and the scene, there is going to be enough free amusement for us!
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VIP presale on the second Tuesday of this week for special commemorative oxygen/nitrogen breathing mix, and additional heat for the 'Dark Side seating package' available for those born on February 31st only. Enter; "wontgetfooledagain" code after third failed attempt to purchase. All other buyers must purchase at the Marianas Trench Ticket Bastard location. Contact promoter for GPS Geo-cache co-ordinates.
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I could only get lower crater seats...there's no view, but I'm in! Bought them off this guy named Branson who said that he also offered VIP flights to and from the shows... Wait, I am making fun of people who actually have some form of tickets to the shows in Chicago - albeit bad seats, but they ARE still better than me...damn I suck. A pox on the scalpers...that way I might score tix to Chicago and my comments will be worth while...
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Hey now rgergelis - Sept '77 Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ my first Dead show too dude. NERPS, MTB and the Dead - I remember we parked 9 miles from the place and were jumping on car hoods to get us there. You never forget your first....
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Been thinking about it, but knowing that hotel rooms are brutal to come by and not having any tix, it is hard to justify...still thinking about it though since I suspect finding tix in the parking lot will be a lot easier than with StubHub.
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Happy Birthday Phil.
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The way I figure, many folks will just hold tickets for the simple lot transaction. Tickets ate being mailed late and folks would probably just rather hold them instead of dealing with emails, phone calls, money transfer, ticket transfer. Simple and clean in the lot. I would work it early on Friday though before things get scarce as the weekend gets along.
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I'll be on Shakedown well before the shows, but I'm thinking for my two late lunches: Lou Malnati's for some deep dish BopNgrill for Asian fusion burgers If someone can suggest a great Chicago dog place near/in the loop (Grateful Dawg on the menu??) I may skip BopNgrill.
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II was just thinking about what the caller on the show with Siri radio said about the Facebook page called GD50limbo: that there is a fantastic and supportive group of heads on it. I do not do FB, but I know from this forum there are lots in limbo
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...is not suffering that I can tell. Lowest non-obstructed reserve ticket I could find was $680. It's so sad because you know on Ebay and StubHub there are plenty of deadheads cashing in. I can't believe that all the tickets for sale are from the brokers. A sad world we live in where a buck is all that matters... On ebay, 14 Fans are bidding on $1600 buy it now price tickets, have bid $1400 but the RESERVE IS NOT MET??? I am gonna be sick...
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I did find one site with 385 but obstructed. I check in on TM daily just to see if any released. Really hoping you get tics! And me too actually. Since last batch of returns went out Sat it will be a week or more of waiting for myself. Still keeping that positive vibe going but the only emails I get are ads for GAP.
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There's a very slight chance I'll get to buy all three nights for 1 from a buddy who got lucky with the mail order. If that happens, you can buy my Friday GA pit for face value Klangstone. While there are so many deserving folks out there you have made it quite clear that you REALLY want to go. So do I, but if I'm lucky enough to get three tix after having been shut out at every other attempt then I'm going to at least make someone else lucky enough to get one of those nights. Sorry, I'm going to play my greed card and keep the Saturday and Sunday :) It's still a dream but the closest I've felt to going since I got my MO's back. And maybe if you're hoping it happens too then I'll have a better chance :) Check your inbox for details.
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Cashed. My money orders and canceled. My hotel room and paying off my rosebud replica guitar I'm having built.
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Holy shit are you kidding me???? I would LOVE a GA pit. OMG. I am speechless, well, I will be speechless if it comes through. You guys are incredible people... Even if it falls through, I am honored!
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It was on stub hub, single ticket for Friday night. Now its 724, the 680 is gone. Sec 214 row 13 $724. I urge people to not buy at this price. But it does seem the prices are dropping, slowly.
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Some idiot still has 1 million dollar tix for sec 123 row 13 for Sunday on stub hub. Others nearby have similar in the low 1000 range. Priced at $999,999.99. F#ckin' jackass! Someone has a sick sense of humor. Or is it rumor, hahahaha... :- [
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This is the most fantastic thing I've ever read on this site! God I hope that it plays out. I haven't met clown guy yet, but I've been pulling for him to get his ducket. Thank you! That's a shot across the bow to the scalper bastards. Our love will foil your schemes. I'm smiling all day for YOU!
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Yeah, that's alright for me, but I gotta partner!
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Hey now Klandstone - that's a truly grateful offer by seeing red and so very much in the spirit of the Dead. Kudo's to seeing red's offer to you and hope things work out for all. I'm the recipient of that same spirit with tickets to Fri and Sat and now I'm down to needing a pair for Sunday. Watching all the secondary market resellers, Sunday show is the highest priced (no surprise) but to your point, prices are still way, way high. From everything we're all hearing and reading, GDTS TOO and TM will be sending out the tickets by mid-June. IMO, this will be the time when the flurry of deals go down. Deadheads that are too far to travel with air & hotel costs through the roof; Bears and PSL owners who've been listing on ebay, StubHub, etc...and no one has bought their over-priced tickets. By then, Shapiro will have announced the simulcast/PPV also (my guess) which will also ease the pain of those not able to attend. So, Klang (can I call you "Klang"?...lol) if I were you, I would have already booked my air/hotel to get yourself to Chi-Town and as a last but perhaps most fortuitous resort, get to Soldier Field Friday afternoon with a fist full of dollars and a seat map in your pocket and you will score. Unless I find another grateful fan to part with a pair for Sunday for my wife and I, that's going to be my strategy for Sunday tickets.
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Looks like prices held over the weekend. Crappy seats dropped a bit last week while good seats held. Wait for end of June....long ways off
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I understand the frustration with tickets but checking IDs at a venue that holds 60K+ people is simply insane. It basically makes all tickets equivalent to "will call" - it is a logistic nightmare and no one would even consider it at a stadium - it is just too labor intensive to be feasible. We heard the rumors of this show at the Leftover weekend at the Stanley and the rumors included the fact that if the west coast show happens it will be strictly a Ticketmaster sale with perhaps 10% of the tickets available via a dead online pre-sale. I have absolutely nothing to support these rumors, just reporting them. Personally, I'd like to see a mail order because that does limit the scalpers a bit - nothing is perfect. On another note - the weekend was fantastic. Felt like early times with the Dead (but we've all got more money now so physically we were living in comfort). Find a scene that does it for you. I'm 64 now and still finding new music and family - sure, the roots are all Dead, but the Leftover scene has grown its own personality which closely resembles what a Colorado small scale Dead scene might be today. Over the years the band that once brought us "Pasta on the Mountain" has evolved and found their true voice - and it is amazing. Several hundred of usd (I don't know the capacity of the concert hall at the Stanley but it is small and I'm terrible at judging crowd size) had a joyous weekend of music and mirth at one of the coolest locations on the planet - the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. Oh yes - a fellow named Sam Bush sat in on Friday and Saturday as did Billy Pane for the entire weekend - life is good. And the whole thing most definitely felt like family - because it was. So - find your bliss - you might be surprised what's out there. And if the Bay Area show happens I hope everyone who wants to go will be able to.
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Rgergelis calls me clownstoner, and although somewhat unflattering I haven't objected...yet. Klang is a good nickname, but as long as I know you are referring to me it's no big deal what you call me. Hell, I don't care what you call me if you sell me a face ticket! Thanks everyone here for supporting me and my quest. If I somehow get an extra. I will pay it forward here for sure! Y'all are kind hearted good folks! So strange, a couple of months ago I wasn't even a member of this forum. But now it seems like I have been on here all my life and you are all my family and closest friends. What a trip, man! (it's all very humbling, and renews my faith in humanity)
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Klang, Congrats on the ticket. *thumbs up* At the end of the Phil show last night they delivered a cake to Phil. He said, thanks and see you in Chicago. Santa Clara... not gonna happen.
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SSIA. (If you read it backwards) ;p "...in the strangest of places, if you look at it right."
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...looking for a face value ticket anywhere inside the stadium. I had a career change from corporate geology to urban middle school science teacher this year and was hoping to finish up the process by celebrating one more time. I have cash, vintage music equipment, and all sorts of interesting trades or combinations of all three for a ticket to get me in the door. Any help would be appreciated from anyone who is willing to help out a second generation deadhead get into one last show! I've asked before and I will ask again. If I sound like a broken record help fix me right!
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We should arrange a quick meet and greet and hold a toast to all the lucky bastards who are getting inside the walls. Any ideas where or when? I suppose we can figure that out via our smart phones that weekend. Boy, that was not possible before, it was all set up beforehand in the day. I'll bring some shots, unless someone has Kool Aid.
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This announcement of the fare thee well show allowed me to wake up from my 25 year slumber and look around. It seems like many scenes and festivals have sprouted in the wake of what we had back then. I have changed as well. I no longer think sleeping in the back of my 1981 Datsun 310 is a great experience. It was great then it really was. So I missed out on 3 attempts for Chicago, Mail order, CID and TM. But... I learned how things work in 2014 and was able to get pre-sale for "Dear Jerry". Pre-sales suck for the masses and often help the scalpers but it is what it is and I adapted. I also grabbed tickets for a Bruce Hornsby show, and a widespread panic show. Really the combination of these events is likely going to be closer to what I experienced in my era, I did not like stadiums. Stadiums are for football games gladiators and other spectacles. Dear Jerry will have the music I loved, Bruce will have the virtuosity I respect and a small well behaved crowd, and Panic will have the tour feel but more like 1981 rather than 1991. So I am good, I am celebrating the anniversary with a mix of what I hope to experience again. So really the grateful dead is not just the grateful dead anymore, it is a whole family of bands doing a very similar thing. Respecting the fans, playing innovative music and improvising. For a modest sum any one of us here could get tickets to some very good combinations, Billy in New Orleans, Billy and Bobby at Peach, Phil at Lock'n, Disco Biscuits at Red Rocks, Panic at Red Rocks. Is it the same ? Not quite, but it NEVER was the same, really. Also Chicago is not as much the same as you think it will be. Enjoy the summer, somehow someway !!!
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Don't congratulate me yet. You can congrat me for having found new friends here, but NO TICKET YET. Remember "seeing red" said it is only a remote possibility. Can't let myself get excited yet, but knowing there is a possibility does bring some hope to what would seem an otherwise hopeless situation.
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Hey guys, Here's my article on the "Fare Thee Well" concert shows later this July in Chicago, in which I interviewed a few Deadheads from this forum and got their perspective on what the Grateful Dead means to them. Figured I'd post it here since this was a big help to my story in the first place. http://www.columbiachronicle.com/arts_and_culture/article_fab108c4-ca03…
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1) I would love to meet up with some people here in Chicago, I think that would be a hoot. 2) IF I get a ticket, then I would definitely be down to meet up somewhere in Chicago and get together. 3) But first things first, not flying out there without at least 1 hard ticket or the promise of meeting up to get that miracle... With the support of a lot of the folks here (again my utmost honor), it seems my chances of getting to go are looking up and getting better! Still hoping...
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And great to see a few deadheads help you out on the job. Have to say, this quote gave me an "oh shit" moment though: “We look at it as sort of the Super Bowl of concerts,” Serra said. “You’re looking at a band that with this announcement had almost 4 million people that were looking for tickets. It is a pretty coveted ticket at this point.” Yeah, no shit it's a coveted ticket - I NEED A PAIR FOR SUNDAY :-) Anyway, let's hope your professor give you an A !!
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Don't know if I would want to see the dead in SF without Phil if they are gonna attempt it without him. If it's not the Grateful Dead without Jerry, then it is not even close without Phil. Gotta have those improvisational bass lines, there is no (and can be no) alternate to Phil (and still call it anything related to the dead). There is no one other than Phil that can play a bumblebee on the bass... (besides who is gonna sing Box of Rain? I guess Mickey could do a rap to it! NOT!!!!)
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only saw Hornsby one time. Aug 9 2005. small wooded outdoor amphitheater in the midst of a very urban area (Cleveland Hts, Ohio). Anyway...great show...anyway, based on the date, he did two very moving tributes: lady with a fan and black muddy river. Good call seeing him! and Panic is always a blast!
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Thanks for the well written article and for keeping it simple and about the scene, rather than about the corporate aspect. Hope that you get to pull some media-credentials out and get in to see the show. Let me know if you need an assistant to carry your note pad :)
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Thanks for the well written article and for keeping it simple and about the scene, rather than about the corporate aspect. Hope that you get to pull some media-credentials out and get in to see the show. Let me know if you need an assistant to carry your note pad :)
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And if the note pad carrier assistant needs an assistant, I would love to be the assistant to the assistant note pad carrier - especially on Sunday :-)