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    Today's Countdown brought to you by....
    Unicorns and Dolphins! Don't worry about how long it is to the shows, we'll get there eventually if we just stop and just smell the cow patties. Peace and Love and Harmony and My Little Ponies. (actually the new My Little Ponies rocks! I watch it with my 4-year old everyday). P.S. The above is just a box of satirical humor. Believe it if you need it, if you don't just pass on sending a PM. P.S.S. Love will see you through, but laughter will get you here! P.S.S.S What would Jerry say?
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    Blended Baby Blue Bugs Blood Blotches, Chapter 4
    As it rained, the windshield wipers made a merry mess of our late friends, the Blue Bugs, and we rolled down the highways with the Blue Meanies on one side and Sargent Peppers on the other...tunes blasting out and we are all singing along...guess what? The rain washed off the bugs, the windshield cleared, the rain stopped, the skies parted and a rainbow appeared on the horizon. We had made it safely through yet another moment in time, magical as it was... The Moral my friends? If you are traveling down life's highways and something starts bugging you, and it gets thick, and you can't see through the haze, much like our Blended Baby Blue Bugs Blood Blotches did to us, just slow down, let it rain, continue on the journey and embrace it with song. Let the spirit of the adventure be greater than the blending of the blotches. Let the rain wash down and clear you thoughts as it cleared our windshield... Let that rain represent the love of friends and family; the raining down of good thoughts, prayers, chants and best wishes. Let the music wrap you like the arms of a lost friend or lover, and be soothed. For soon you will be through the swarm, you will see clearly once again with a rainbow in front, a majestic sunset painting the sky and peaceful breezes of a pleasant evening around you. Peace, best wishes to all...look! A Butterfly! g
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    I though the moral of the story was going to be avoid the bugs if you can, and if you can't, make sure you have extra windshield wiper fluid on the dus. You don't have Love Bugs where you live do you? lol! Watch out for those unicorns in the road! Put down the coffee and pass me one those Genny Screamers.....Vroooom.
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    "Blended Baby Blue Bugs Blood Blotches"
    Great story NEOGEO. You are a great storyteller! Happy Friday peeps! It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright, bright Sunshiney Day... Expecting 105 degrees today here in paradise. Shine those sails and patch those rails, the circus is coming to town...
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    "Da Bugs" Epilogue
    ...never did get busted in that bus, and Brad and I haven't seen each other in decades...perhaps you have a like story, a happenstance you might relate too...perhaps you've driven the bus, ridden the bus, built the bus, or maybe almost got hit by da bus, This Dus has a cool and creative Briver, and He never seems to be concerned if you take the wheel. What brives us actually is you, and you, and me, and thou, and we are all in this together. The Blue Meanies may be TM, the bugs may be the flurry of emotions. We all have our ups and downs, and we all need a break once in awhile or a hug or a good word. You deserve a break as much as our friend smiling right over there with the whipped cream on his chin. Have another, Rich... And have a good day...
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    Nothin' left to do....
    but smile, Smile, SMILE !!!
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    "Da Bugs", Chapter 3
    It was about sunset just before twilight but after the hot sun had made it's trip across the southern sky, and we were rounding a curve not unlike that one rjrrrjrjrrr took at 80 plus where we all held on and sang Ripple together... Brad and I suddenly found ourselves in the swarm of a cloud of bugs, and they hit our windshield like so many spattering raindrops. Were we high? Hah! What do you think...two college kids in a cool vdub bus racing through the countryside on summer's eve? We slowed a bit and hit the windshield wipers a bit and that made a real mess of things. The bugs were blue. Blue Bugs..."They looked like little Baby Bugs", he said; I said Baby Blue Bugs" and that's what started it all: "Look at all the Baby Blue Bug Blotches" "Look, we're covered with Blended Baby Blue Bug Blotches" It started to rain, the windshield wipers were swishing back and forth, soon we had a windshield covered with what we termed forever and ever: "Blended Baby Blue Bugs Blood Blotches" Did we ever get a kick out of that. We sang that phrase every chance we got, as more bugs and rain and sloppy blue who-knows-what covered things, and a cloud of some type of smoke enveloped the bus. Singing, laughing and cutting up....all over a bunch of bugs...and that is the moral to this story friends...
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    "The Bugs", Chapter 2
    Turn down the music you over there...hi Rgrrrgrrr...may I continue? Great to see you here...this little snack has your name on it. Extra whipped cream on top and don't ask for a cherry cause we gave them to the squirrels cause they're cute. My story continues... "Let's paint da Bus!" he said...cool, i said..Rok Bagget was an artist, we could do a wrap around montage all running together, what will be the display. My Brother Steve pitched in to pencil out a design and away we went: "Let's be Sargent Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" Cool. With the Sun rising in front, large as life band members on one side, the big long glove chasing Blue Meanies on the other side, and rainbows and butterflies on the back. We'll use the bright acrylics and do it up right. It'll be perfect for going back and forth to the University of Alabama down in Tuscaloosa. Better put a Jesus Saves bumper sticker on the back, just for insurance from being stopped by The Man. So we spent a creative weekend painting up Da Bus and had many an adventure traveling through the south in it. The story continues one spring weekend as we were making yet another journey from home to college in the righteously cool bus...
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    feels like a freaking funeral around here... It's just dead space thank you all from my heart for all the well wishes...you are all family... Grab some coffee...it's like this place goes to pot without a briver... If we don't get this jalopy movin soon, you all will be late for the shows! Sarge crank up the old juke box to 11...Puppers choice.... Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove. Oh, oh, child, way you shake that thing, gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting. Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way, watch your honey drip, can't keep away. ....you are such a dog! Lazarus out....
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    Story time as we bounce along...."The Bugs", Chapter 1
    Good morning all. Rgrggrrr is taking a much needed break, the engine needs to cool, and the twins in back are getting restless. Before Rgrggrrr stepped off, he said I could tell you guys a story...well, he didn't say no, and matter of fact I didn't ask, but if I did, and he said yes, I could, but since i didn't and he didn't, he didn't actually say no, so that gives me a green light tell one anyway...This is entitled "The Bugs", so grab one of those croissants and the Java Joe and let's enjoy a bit of time together. Back in the Day as they say, in Northern Alabama, we had a grand time being newly minted hippies in a wild underground scene, running around trying to be cool and hip and bohemian all at the same time. It was the late 60's and early 70's, rock and roll was here to stay, Everything was happening allatonce. Long hair cropped up, tie-dye was being worn, and in the South, George Wallace and Lester Maddox were at odds with the new wave of more progressive thought. There were fabled stories of happenings out west and up north, little head-shops sprouting up here and there, it was scandalous and downright frightening to think about lighting up a dube in public. We were one false step away from a wrong turn and the law.Conservative society clashed with liberal youth, and the waning years of an unpopular war was still very real and present in everyone's mind. This Alabama boy was trying to sort it all out and hop on board the right bus...which way to turn, what to see, where to land; it was a time of turmoil, experimentation, joy and wonder for all of us who were coming of age at that time. In 1970 or so that bus took the shape of a brand spanking new Volkswagen camper bus, complete with a cool pop-up which belonged to my long haired red-head friend Brad. Just the vehicle we needed at the perfect time and place. In my family's driveway in Huntsville, in a nice middle class American subdivision, our story begins. I was 18 or 19 at the time, and Brad and I had a plan....
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NYC born n bred.... Citi field aka new Shea.... Me n Mr Met....shaking our bones on the dugout.....
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im so happy for you mike! yippie! great news! so glad you made it! onward and upward, just a little bit Further now.
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Gans Lambert announcement at 3pm Klangstones Chicago bound.....!!!! We don't need NYC or SF.... Congrats... Mike. What a long strange trip it's been! Hop on the bus....
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but Klang's gotta chip in for gas on this magic bus....gotta keep our motor running.... I got some Seagrams gin, they all got cups but they aint chipped in just sayin.... Rollin down the street...smo.... Fo Shizzle yo! T minus 75 minutes......
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ahem,,yes well, ah my name is Boo, and I miss Jerry too, and do not take a taxi ride with Kane, he's a stiff
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I know.... and hes a drunk and a womanizer....cant hold that against a man....can ya?
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with the druken womanizer, but a stiff, man that is low ok I admitted, what are the other 11 steps
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Give the kid a break. Prodigy is a heavy burden to carry.
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It's gonna be a great Friday!!!! From the bottom of the ocean To the mountains on the moon Won't you please come to Chicago No one else can take your place T-Horse just blew a kiss your way. For luck.
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she just said 'stand by for a major CONCERT announcement'
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she just said 'standby for a major CONCERT announcement'.
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ooooh mama ooooh mama ooooh mama oooooh mama...... Van Morrison reference
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an update from the grateful dead at noon
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We are going to need a bigger bus!
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Yep..I'm on it. Oh yeah...”major, major concert announcement coming up from the Grateful Dead” Has to be more shows....Citi Field and Levi's, my guess...
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I wanna ride on top and wave to the strange onlookers
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With Bill Walton in the Jerry Slot. Wooohooooo!
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Someone posted a link to the dead50.net HTML code on Facebook. Scan the text below for the references to Santa Clara and tickets. No references to any other shows were in any of the other code he shared. This is just a small portion of what was there. page-template-template--santaclara #show .vc_column_container{ padding: 0px 20px 20px; } .option-ticket-btn{ margin: 0px auto !important; } html .wpb_button { font-family:inherit; font-size: 12px; border-radius: 0px; line-height: 16px; padding: 9px 14px; display: block; *display: inline; /* IE7 inline-block hack */ } .page-template-template--santaclara #tickets .wpb_button { display: block !important; font-weight: normal !important; margin: 0px auto !important; padding: 11px 14px !important; width: 250px; } .page-template-template--santaclara #tickets .wpb_button a{ color: #fff !important;
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3:00 PM I am listening on live stream, and feel like I am on a crazy rollercoaster. Was there this much drama back in the day ? This is crazy.. I have the radio on the internet, 2,000 dollars in cash, an index card, a collection of sharpies, kayak open in a browser to book travel, good god I need some xanax to calm myself down. -- Tom
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Now @ 12:15pm PT. HAS TO BE SANTA CLARA ONLY. Klang got wood !!!!!
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"They realized they have to go back to where it all started...."
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Well, it is LOCAL shows. So there ya go. I am relieved it will not be 10 shows. Too much drama if it was.
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sorry - just santa clara
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I'll forward the email to our SD list now but check it out. Huge news for Deadheads! The original members of the Grateful Dead — Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir — 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 three shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th, the run will mark the original members’ last-ever performances together. The band will be joined by Trey Anastasio (guitar), Jeff Chimenti (keyboards), and Bruce Hornsby (piano) and perform two sets of music each night. We are thrilled to offer CID Experience ticket packages and travel packages for this legendary pair of shows. CID Experience ticket packages include premium seating and special amenities; travel packages can be purchased with your preferred ticket type and offer a variety of hotel choices in the Bay Area with round-trip transportation to Levi’s Stadium included. Travel packages are ON SALE NOW – CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE! CID Experience ticket packages are NOW AVAILABLE FOR REQUEST through the CID Experience online ticket request – simply CLICK HERE to submit your request for CID Experience ticket packages. You may submit a ticket request for only one CID Experience ticket type – either Golden Road Super CID Experience Premium Reserved, Golden Road Super CID Experience GA Pit, Steal Your Face CID Experience Premium Reserved, Steal Your Face CID Experience GA Field. If you submit more than one order for CID Experience packages under the same name or credit card, your request will be canceled. However, you may enter the online ticket requests for both CID Experiences and regular tickets. There is no online ticket request for travel packages, which are now on sale. Please note – by entering the online ticket request, you are not guaranteed to receive tickets. Please make sure your card can be charged, and you will be notified whether or not your order will be fulfilled by 11:59 PM EDT on Sunday, April 19th. If there are CID Experience tickets remaining after the online ticket request period ends, they will be made available with the public on sale on Monday, April 20th at 10 AM PDT. If you have any specific questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to our Guest Services team via email at guestservices@cidentertainment.com or by phone at 888-805-8930. We hope to see you in Santa Clara for what promises to be an incredible pair of shows! CID Entertainment Guest Services 10AM - 6PM ET, 7 days a week (888) 805-8930 guestservices@cidentertainment.com Copyright © 2015 CID Entertainment, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website for more information. Our mailing address is: CID Entertainment 1 South Broad Street 17th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107
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Where are ya buddies? All my work concentration hit the shitter about 10 minutes ago. I may as well go get a few early.
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Hop on it man! Good sweet mother of Moses!
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Ours wasn’t just a long, strange trip — it was a VERY long, VERY strange trip. We weren’t sure what it was going to be like to put a punctuation mark on the end of it. None of us anticipated the overwhelming outpouring of love and interest following our initial announcement of the shows at Soldier Field, and we were blown away by the response. We have tried to do the right thing wherever we could for the Chicago shows by honoring the roots of where we came from, while dealing with the realities of the current times. But that’s hardly comforting when you’re shit outta luck for tickets and your only option is inflated prices on secondary ticketing websites. That would piss us off too. From the moment these shows were first talked about, we have been thinking about what we could do to honor the roots of our Deadhead experience, even in the face of changing technologies. (Remember: Ticketmaster didn’t even go online until we got out of the game.) These shows were always intended as an expression of our gratitude, to both the music and the fans, so it’s important that we get things as right as we can. We have always been proud of our in-house mail order ticketing process, and the phenomenal way our fans have built a tradition out of turning a standard envelope into a frame-worthy piece of art. Some 60,000 mail order tickets were issued for the Soldier Field shows by the good folks at Grateful Dead Ticket Sales — yet we were still crushed to see how many of your beautifully designed envelopes did not get tickets. For shows of this magnitude, it’s impossible to eliminate every scalper. However, we offer you this: Working with our partners, we are using an online ticketing platform for the Levi’s shows that will help ensure that the tickets for these shows will get into the right hands, the hands of our true fans. We believe that this process is the best way to give each of you an equal opportunity to obtain tickets at the most affordable possible prices. We are are proud to announce that 65,000 tickets per night will be available via the "online mail order" for the Levi’s shows. For the nuts and bolts, go to Dead50.net. We will not be adding any more Fare Thee Well shows. The three Chicago shows will still be our final stand. We decided to add these two Santa Clara shows to enable more of our fans to celebrate with us one more time. But this is it. We love you guys more than words can tell, and hope to see you in the Bay Area or Chicago. If you can’t make it to the shows, we are working on ways for you to still experience our Fare Thee Well, from wherever you might be. Stay tuned for those details. Gratefully yours, Billy, Bobby, Mickey & Phil
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A LETTER FROM THE DEAD GratefulDead-SantaClara-480 More Info Santa Clara Chicago Dear Heads, Although none of us knew it when we walked off the stage at Soldier Field on July 9, 1995, the Grateful Dead's long strange trip ended in Chicago that night. As you are aware, twenty years later, we’re returning to Chicago to properly say Fare Thee Well. But every good ending must start with a beginning. For us, it all began fifty years ago when we grabbed a bunch of instruments off the walls of a music store in Palo Alto California and began banging away on them in the back room, at night after the store had closed for the day. Since we made the decision to go back to Chicago to say our final goodbye, it has become clear to us that we first need to return to our beginnings, where we first said hello — to each other and to all of you. And so it is that we have decided to plug in for two additional shows on June 27 and 28 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California — just a dozen miles south of where Dana Morgan’s Music Store once stood. At Levi’s — as at Soldier Field — we will have the pleasure of being joined by Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti. Ours wasn’t just a long, strange trip — it was a VERY long, VERY strange trip. We weren’t sure what it was going to be like to put a punctuation mark on the end of it. None of us anticipated the overwhelming outpouring of love and interest following our initial announcement of the shows at Soldier Field, and we were blown away by the response. We have tried to do the right thing wherever we could for the Chicago shows by honoring the roots of where we came from, while dealing with the realities of the current times. But that’s hardly comforting when you’re shit outta luck for tickets and your only option is inflated prices on secondary ticketing websites. That would piss us off too. From the moment these shows were first talked about, we have been thinking about what we could do to honor the roots of our Deadhead experience, even in the face of changing technologies. (Remember: Ticketmaster didn’t even go online until we got out of the game.) These shows were always intended as an expression of our gratitude, to both the music and the fans, so it’s important that we get things as right as we can. We have always been proud of our in-house mail order ticketing process, and the phenomenal way our fans have built a tradition out of turning a standard envelope into a frame-worthy piece of art. Some 60,000 mail order tickets were issued for the Soldier Field shows by the good folks at Grateful Dead Ticket Sales — yet we were still crushed to see how many of your beautifully designed envelopes did not get tickets. For shows of this magnitude, it’s impossible to eliminate every scalper. However, we offer you this: Working with our partners, we are using an online ticketing platform for the Levi’s shows that will help ensure that the tickets for these shows will get into the right hands, the hands of our true fans. We believe that this process is the best way to give each of you an equal opportunity to obtain tickets at the most affordable possible prices. We are are proud to announce that 65,000 tickets per night will be available via the "online mail order" for the Levi’s shows. For the nuts and bolts, go to Dead50.net. We will not be adding any more Fare Thee Well shows. The three Chicago shows will still be our final stand. We decided to add these two Santa Clara shows to enable more of our fans to celebrate with us one more time. But this is it. We love you guys more than words can tell, and hope to see you in the Bay Area or Chicago. If you can’t make it to the shows, we are working on ways for you to still experience our Fare Thee Well, from wherever you might be. Stay tuned for those details. Gratefully yours, Billy, Bobby, Mickey & Phil
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fast fingers
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no ftw tix, now two shows even farther/more expensive I have got to step away from the madness this has become later
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We decided, we are everywhere and we will be moving in to your house for the weekend before the Apocalypse... I got a room at your place and airfare.... Whose in?
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Yo Mike !! We're heading west brother !! Warn the neighbors and put away the dog. rrrrrgrrrrrr and I are camping in your front lawn dude - mind if we borrow the head?
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That there is an RV.... Pardon me I gotta clean the Shitter.... If you wanna abdicate the seat on the bus.... Let me know... Hey Jeff n Tami.... We may need to change the back of the shirt.....
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I am in the MEGA "Grateful Dead Lottery". Wish everyone tickets:) Peace out..........
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Godspeed brother... We all deserve one miracle...
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CID ticket package requests do not appear to be actually selling tickets as of yet. Travel Packages may. I just cant tell.
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Much easier than mail order.... Klang... Change the sheets please? Hey Dudley you bringing Nell n Mr Ed?
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It's both like Chicago...got my hat in the ring.... Btw...touche' I'm a Yankee fan.... ;-)
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Get ready to fire the BBQ, paint the parking space lines on the neighbors lawns, and build a stage on your roof. I know of at least 50 psychedelic painted buses headed your way. We need to book some bands with Shapiro. Promise to have the music shut down by 4:00am each night. We understand you have to go on living with your neighbors long after the party is over. We will have to work up a showering schedule for 800 people. We'll need to rent portable showers if more show up. T-Horse is so excited, he's heard about your pool with the high dive. He's already running around wearing his snorkel mask and fins. He's getting away with not doing it here, but I'll see to it he's wearing his swim trunks.
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Got our magic bus Santa Clara way.... Living after midnight, rocking til the dawn... Fonts bring your Harley.... Vroom vroom..... At least I'm enjoying the ride!