Grateful Dead

Phil is playing the Capital Theatre in late Oct and early Nov. 4 shows. Tickets go on sale this Friday via TicketFly.

Fresh off eBay, another pair of Bears/PSL seats, club level, sect 215 SOLD for $1,799. http://www.ebay.com/itm/151616803749?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2648&ssPag… Just can't allow these price points to happen. Oh yeah, fuck da Bears and enjoy Jay Cutler !!

What's that pic you got above your name? I saw the thread in the other forum, I'm not busting balls here, just wondering who or what it is... They say curiosity killed the cat, but at least they have 9 lives.... Party on Wayne....

Cowboy Niel, I believe... Don't know the hammer's name, tho... ;P

I don't know his hammer's name - but my god what a trip juggling that thing all the while dancing on Koolaid and Benny...my favourite Neal story though had to be in Hells Angels by Thompson, (I am paraphrasing here) a "character" made famous in a book about cross country travelling jumped off the porch stark naked yelling and giving the finger to the cops gathered at the property line...priceless.

Neal Cassady...never met him or saw a pic....righteous brother!

Unlike Kesey who said he was too old to be a hippy and too young to be a beatnik, Cassady defined what beat was...though he himself was not a great writer despite being the muse for so many books. Favourite tributes had to be the Northwestern tour in '68 right after Cassady died of exposure counting rail ties, when the boys (and they were boys then) did TOO every set and stirring renditions of He Was a Friend of Mine...sung and played for a fallen icon and friend as well as key member of the Pranksters...

Quite the historian, my man. My son actually read Kesey and Kerouac....I just lived it from 73 on.... I got me a violin, and I beg you call the tune... The Phil webcasts from the Cap for his 75th are very good, Warren being given the respect he deserves...Barraco, Molo and Krasno are amazing.....but too many Allmans tunes.... Btw...it's time for the Allmans Beacon run....maybe that's why their tunes are plentiful? I miss the Allmans and I really miss Jerry.......thanks for being alive Phil....

I am just a huge fan of music period...I think I can hold my own on a lot of eras, even going back to the start of the blues...kind of a jack of all but master of none. Saw the Allman's once - but was horribly straight and 4 hours of jamming was a lot to follow...although heading to the Beacon would be fun, I hear those shows are typically incredible and leave nothing to be desired..

Saw the brothers many many times, but missed the swan song at the Beacon.....they were great in their own way....and I will miss them esp the Warren Derek era....yes more structured but organized chaos.... Phil at the Cap this week has given a new light on jamband to me....the music is seamless....easing in and out of structured songs....and the humility of the individual musicians.... if you or anyone has the chance to catch more than a YouTube clip, I strongly encourage it....if Chicago is anything like Phils 75th its gonna be a wang dang doodle....at least for me.... Too bad Trey is a pill head.... Just quoting Hitler there... Joke for the thick skinned.... Bag it tag it, sell it to a butcher in the store.... Peace.....

I was 13 in '73 so I never made it to the Dead and A-Bros @ Watkins Glen. Huge fan of the brothers though - especially the Dickey Betts era - man could that boy carry a lick. Closest I ever came was at Wanee Festival in 2011 with Further and A-Bros. Not quite the same but great nonetheless. And if I'm not mistaken, Little Feat opened before Further. Nice afternoon and evening of tunes to be sure :-)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GRATEFUL-DEAD-TICKETS-JULY-3rd-AMAZING-CLUB-SEA… I offered the ebay Bear's fan $215 for 1. Is that face value for club level? Or did I offer too much!

Happy St Pattys my friend.... Brother Dickey was great in his day...Liz Reed will always be on my hit list along with Back Where it All Began... I remember a show in 92 or so I think...Thorogood opened around the Get A Haircut release and the Brothers began w Statesboro Blues....No Dickey to be seen....a snot nosed 13 or 14 yo on guitar.... Was Derek Trucks....who knew back in the day..... Gregg sez...something like Brother Dickey couldn't be here tonight, he's in jail....or something similar....disturbing but overall a good show with Warren and a young Brother Derek.... Not gonna catch me, no.... Not gonna catch the Midnight Rider....

You definitely didn't offer too much...that has to be close to face value for the club seats. If you get it, you've made a headline. G'luck. ps - there was no link in your post

Watkins...I was 15.... So I went with friends who took good care of me....got no good memory at all but I was there, mud on my shoes....shut down the Thruway and many other roads....I remember a Bertha.....a lot of wind and some rain....not so cold rain, but no snow.....

I have to chuckle because many, many posts ago, someone wrote to you and ended his comment by saying "even though I can't pronounce your name".....lol I still laugh - in a good way. And yes, brother Dickey wa a wild man - still miss the shit out of him though - man he was fucking so good !!! Maybe a cameo by Greg on Sunday evening, huh? I keep pretending to myself Sunday evening will be "Last Waltz-ish" Lots of special guests and friends...Perhaps a little Dave Matthews, or Carlos comes to mind as well. Guess I need a ticket first....damn details.

I responded just call me Grateful....but you can call me humble..... Just don't call me late for dinner, or Chicago.....

I love it - should we all try to make our best offers of face value and flood the guy with requests? Kind of like how the scalpers used bots to flood TM to block out actual humans? I know nobody here is likely to be fans of Ween, but I will say that their guitarist (when the band was together) is amazing and has been doing his own tributes to people http://ultimateclassicrock.com/dean-ween-dickey-betts/ Very well respected as a musician and can hold his own - amazing live (like a fucking airplane taking off from the stage - just a full-on sonic assault!) Would love to hear the 37 minute Echos...one of my fav PF songs by far... I know I am way off topic here - or at least on the outskirts of the camp but still...

Overhead the albatross.....hangs motionless upon the air.......

Shit the return from their version of 'space' always gave me chills...amazing. I am going to officially give myself away for age, but their last tour was my very first concert outside of a bar...the dead was number 3. Talk about coming hard out of the gates and making other shows pale in comparison. Poor other bands, why do you even try :) I feel sorry for other bands trying to compete with those...

Has anyone on here been to Terrapin Crossroads? My wife and I are flying to Cali next spring to get dinner and try to catch a Phil show at the Crossroads. I was curious what peoples opinions were.

MSG 7/2 7/3 7/4/77 Animals MSG... On 7/4 some poor bastard with a big red ass fro had an M80 thrown into it ......wild shit back in the day.... Wish You Were Here....

No it's on the bucket list.....enjoy, get tix well in advance....

These are the highest prices I've seen paid yet. These are two Ebay auctions that were actually closed with a winner. The one guy did get the CID package with the hotel room, so he might got a deal. http://www.ebay.com/itm/151603938668?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPag… http://www.ebay.com/itm/191524766720?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPag…

Good luck to the lucky bastard getting the CID package transferred to his name for will call....hopefully the seller is willing to give up his drivers license, the credit card used for purchase and a signed letter authorizing the purchase transfer....buyer beware....

Is it July yet? I'm thinking of starting a mushroom garden to pass the time. Harvest time you ask? Why July 2nd of course.

Really upset that I am not in Cali sometimes - the Greensky Bluegrass show this month with Phil at TXR should be amazing. There are regular shows with Phil there with a wide variety of backing musicians...I read the food is mediocre but meh, you are in essentially a washroom with Phil at the stall next to you! Kinda makes me think of the first Dave's Picks cover, clashing swords anyone? :)

He only paid $18,000.00. If he would have just spent a little more he might might not have had those problems.

And through the the window in the wall comes streaming in on sunlight wings ..... A million bright ambassadors of morning.... Sorry on my Echoes Floyd trip..... Totem, you must be a Fungi..... :-)

Hey now Totem - I'm a liking the way you think? Are you a local Chicago-ian (or however you would say that) and of the means to successfully do so? Thursday night at Grant Park kickoff !!! Speaking of, we need to get our list started - shit, I'm game to be the keeper !! BTW gang, I just grossly low-balled a 3 tix Sun nite club box deal (asking $7500, offered $825). If a miracle happens, I have one to spare.

I have my no-view tickets - one for each night. Hard-won, but I bought at face value. Now to see if I can pull the rest of the trip together. I am a working class head living paycheck to tips, and will be going without some things over the next few months to make this trip possible. I figured it was a now or never kind of thing and I have no family to support so no lectures please ;) All that said, if I make it - and I am hoping/counting on that I do - I will probably want to do one or two planned things - and cruise the rest of the time. I will very likely go to the Art Institute. I will probably do that alone - as museums I find best done that way. Baseball would be fun though so MadSwan - if you're still looking for baseball buddies that would be fun I think. Beyond that - what about a kick-back picnic near the lake somewhere? We could all hang out in the sun together, conversing, listening to tunes if we can hook up the electricity or maybe some acoustic, eat some foods, and look forward to the show that night...? Just a thought! Peaces

Picnic fo sho.... Gonna do 3 shows but no $ for after parties esp Dead related ones....at least for me.....no offense but there's so much more...picnics by day....blues clubs at night perhaps, art museum, a cruise maybe....just want to maximize our time there....

They are selling. Far as I can tell slowly. But they are selling even at $1000+ a tix. IMO, if they came down any substantial amount, they would sell off very fast. I wonder when in June they will send them out. I have to think a couple weeks before the show.

Oh my goodness, BLUES. Yes. That must be done. For me, being a symbiotic kind of a person, I ought to see if there are any venues that I can catch some other Chicago-born kinds of music. Closer to the event I think a new thread will probably be created for our ideas and synching up. If any Chicago locals want to chime in on the picnic collaboration, cool :)

how DO you pronounce that ?? If you're going to do a cruise, may I suggest a a river architecture cruise, instead of the lake.

Does Lake Michigan have beaches like Lake Huron? Just curious - might be worth a day just hanging out on the beach; not dead related but just curious, I am familiar with all of the Great Lakes that border with Canada, but not that lone wolf adjacent to Chicago...and sunny Gary IN!

Talk to me girl.... In Chitown 7/2-7/6 wanna do cruise, museum, the park with the bean or egg....and the blues on 7/2..... Please call me Grateful but mostly humbled... Or Rich....whatever you prefer..... :-)

Great to see. Count me in on the fun. Kristine suggested the Buckingham fountain. I say on the "go west young man" side. Or wherever else suits our fancy. tfonts, are you the one we should PM e-mail addresses to or are we holding out for our own forum? Don't forget urr gurgle iss and Stella mountains of the moon girl!

We are in me the missus the boy and his boo....create an itinerary and to paraphrase Bono....we will follow!

I'm listening in... @RGERGELIS, I think that m80 you refer to caused Roger Waters to have a "cow" (disrespecting the band and the music and all that). One of the incidents that started him to build a Wall between himself, the audience and the real world.

Was that before or after Waters peed on the crowd in Montreal? :)

Any recommendations for Thursday 7/2..... Want good, willing to go early, do dinner etc.... Any recommendations welcome, would do Buddy Guys but wonder if there are better?

Gonna do 3 shows? You get tickets my friend? I thought you were still looking...

I think its pronounced are-gurgle-is... heehee, hoohoo

Sorry, but I don't have a proper answer for that question. He was pretty incensed during that tour...

Glad you tore down the wall!,,,, Klang you will always be!!!!! Ahhh shit, right Clownstoner? JK.... ......I was not prepared to make the final cut.....

Oh, one more thing. If I make it to Chicago... ...count me in on the party, the picnic, the beach, the jam, ALL OF IT!!!

You can call me Ray you can call me Jay... ...but ya doesn't has the call me Johnson...

Busy day on the thread indeed! Anyone see Roger's Wall tour? My goodness what a show. Musically doesn't stray to far from the album, but the visuals really blew me away. The man knows how make a large venue experience work. I'm definitely up for a gathering in Chicago. I'll get my email to senor fonts. Stella- Prop asked for dibs on Wrigley if it breaks his way, other days still up for grabs. Hey who's coming to Merriweather? Maybe we can do a thing there too.

Going to Chicago x 3 courtesy GDTSTOO batch #320,, that came through on 2/26, posted here I believe that day..... waiting on you all to join me in Chicago....