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    A Letter from the Boys
    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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    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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    Hop on it man! Good sweet mother of Moses!
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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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    HERE IT IS - SANTA CLARA
    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
  • SoCalDeadFan
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    sorry - just santa clara
  • tfonts
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    CID Santa Clara on sale NOW!!
    http://www.cidentertainment.com/events/gratefuldead50-santaclara/
  • Totem
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    WTF / FTW on the delays
    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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    They are coming to Buffalo? Rockin.
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    "They realized they have to go back to where it all started...."
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Power out in da Buff due to thunderstorm...waiting for just a little light.... It's a byob and a dish to pass, smoke em if you got em.... Sing it Sgt Pupper......oooohhhyeahhhhh.....awoooooooo! And tell the nag to stop farting....
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Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition- Timothy Leary. I don't write em I just read em.
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men and women are equals imo.... Timothy Leary was a pill head like Trey..... We all bring our skills to the table.... We all sing in the choir Some sing low Some sing higher And Timothy Learys not dead.... He's just outside looking in..... rrrrrgrrrrr out.... Bet your bottom dollar tomorrow....
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Hey people hows life going? My names Willy Pete and I'm a pretty young dude (think 18) whose parents might be letting me loose for the first time to drive a few states over to hang out on the "scene". I don't really have buckets of money so buying a legit ticket is out of the question, but I definitely have enough for gas, food, maybe a cheap hotel to shower up or whatever. Anyone have word on where someone could get a shower? Is sleeping in a car safe/dangerous? Where the cheapest hotel might be (willing to drive out of town for this)? How not to get murdered or robbed?I don't really have a clue whats going to happen but I imagine it would involve hanging out, being a parking lot rat outside the show and later/before, at certain meet up spots. A big request my parents made is that I find people and/or events beforehand to meet up with online so i'm not showing up clueless and alone. So yeah, whats the word on how this is going down? I'd love to get to know some real down to earth people and have a good time. I've only spent time in small time local scenes, so this is a HUGE deal for me. Bring me to the circle of life! Love -
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It's Tuesday and final day for the SC lotto entry....Good luck to all.... Thanks to Mortatone.....for music to get my morning goin' Coffee is on....have some heavy Cream and a little Brown Sugar... ...and I have a Lust for Life!!!
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coffee is on here too , I have chicago in my sights for the 43 days plus 2 other shows while I am there . I hope I get Clara tickets then it will be 10 days of fun!
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Hey now and GM my fellow SD'ers... For those that missed Marye's post on the big board yesterday, I dropped her a note and got an okay to share this with you all and it's pretty cool... ************************************* Our Love Will Not Fade Away We are Gratefully Deadicated to organizing deadheads around the world in massive expressions of gratitude to the Grateful Dead during their 50th Anniversary Fare Thee Well shows. http://www.nfadead50.net/ Cheers !!
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I went up in a balloon so big!
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Time keeps on slipping into the future .. Morning have some Java
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Kyle check out the YouTube clip by Dan Deacon called Drinking out of cups....2:45 sec long
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Yeah right, Who's chair is that?
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Thanks brother - love, love, love your AM daily doses (well, so to speak...). CHEERS !! ps - I LOVE SEAHORSES !!
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And seashells on towels and little bags... Sea horses forever!
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David Marc Harris‎Grateful Dead 50th - Face Value Tickets19 hrs · FLAG IT! He just sent me this: YOU HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE FILE. And you might want to let your friends know that all the harassing emails, with low ball offer and statements about my character or what I should or should not do with MY tickets and the prices of MY tickets, are being forwarded to the Attorney Generals Office and placed into a file that is being put together regarding a charge of conspiracy to commit extortion. You see when you and your friends decided to harass sellers into doing something against their will, in order to gain something for yourself is extortion. And since all of you conspirators are in many different states you bought yourself FEDERAL charges. GRATEFUL DEAD - YOU WANT EM - I GOT EM I HAVE TICKETS FOR THE 3RD, 4TH, AND 5TH OF JULY AT SOLDIER FIELD IN CHICAGO miami.craigslist.org "If you got the denero, I GOT my Camero"
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Like the feds would really give a shit or make a priority about a scalper selling tickets on Craigslist. Laughable. I can't imagine anyone making threats or anything, right? That might be a different story. Just remember that words in this forum are Google searchable, I think.
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Whoa, James...what's that post you made all about dude? That was certainly far from a nice and pleasant correspondence... What's going on?
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If he was feeling harassed before, I am sure he is feeling absolutely carpet-bombed now. He should have thought it through before posting that statement.
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the offending message was from a scalper, and James was forwarding it.
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methinks thou doth protest too much.
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He made a threat that people who he felt were messing with him about the prices he was selling his tickets for were all being rounded up and reported to the Attorney General. A threat that has absolutely no merit. All he did was bring attention to himself, and this has all backfired on him.
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For a moment I thought it your horse talking after developing hoof n mouth.... Glad Trigger is ok.... Lunch time beer for our horses and whiskey for our heads.... sarsaparilla for our wharf rats.... Never used the word sarsaparilla before....
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I assure everyone I am not scalping tickets on Craig's List in Miami. I live in Ely, Nevada. I have not been harassed by anyone over it, and I certainly am not threatening anyone with legal repercussions. A scalper in Miami posted this warning. I regret any misunderstanding this post has caused. Still feel it is of interest to some.
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It's all good, does the rockin horse want a Porter, Stout or Double IPA?
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Fitting that today, the 150th anniversary of the Pony Express, you use the word Sarsaparilla. Anyone know just what the heck Sarsaparilla is? Other than rrrrrrgrrrrr (btw, we're still awaiting the details of your new cooking show on The Food Channel) anyone ever use that in a sentence? Who talks that way? Sarsaparilla: Sarsaparilla is a soft drink, originally made from the Smilax regelii plant, but now sometimes made with artificial flavors. Sarsaparilla was popular in the United States in the 19th century. What plant? The rrrrrgrrrrr plant?
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And why are Shirley Temples called that? Boy I loved to eat the cherry, but I ain't no boy called Sue.
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It's collected at harvest time in Mendocino.... Had some at Willies Place in Maui....just for shits n giggles.... Naan coming out of the clay oven now with some chicken masala and basmati rice..... Want a plate?
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Speaking of ponies and horses and wharfrats....the welcomeWagon is out. Welcome to bob, Kurt and Jeff2. Way back at 3am spicy icy posted a msg looking to meet real folks. We are real folk, right? But how did he find US?
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Waiting for our new DA members to properly introduce themselves....you know .... my name is.....insert name here.....I'm a deadhead and I miss Jerry.... And we all go...in a disaffected tone.... I know....then they get the welcome packet.... Patience grasshopper....it's all good....beer whiskey or saspirillie? Btw @74 it was a very good year but 4/09/82 was better...check inbox around 4pm est....
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would you collect it any other time than "harvest time"? lay off the rye..
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Desperate times call for desperate measures....And it's sarsaparilla for me...bro
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Boy Rich, you got me there. I had to look that word up. Don't even get me going on the Brown Derby serving Shirley Temples! Beer. I have a not so funny story about me, Southern Comfort, Hamburg Beach, and tickets for the 1987 Summer Tour. There is a happy ending involving kind people and a phone number of the girl I was wooing scribbled on the ticket envelope. Short story, No Whiskey! I should have had a Sasparilla instead.
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Kyle...87 was a wild tour year.... Ya know the Devils in the whiskey and the women....they are a bold deceiver... Lived it, loved it, regretted it, savored it.... And there's whiskey in the jar'o..... Really dig the Metallica version..... As for vocabulary...we use this forum to open our hearts, minds and enhance our vocabulary....I challenge each and every head to use 1 new word in a post daily and we will all be better for it.... and I like cherries too.....
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Rumor has it there's a severe epidemic of caliclarahypersomnia spreading throughout the West coast. I don't normally wish illness upon others; in this case I've got to admit I hope the rumors are true. caliclarahypersomnia:def: Severe and overwhelming need to sleep; inability to wake up; always coincident with GD Santa Clara ticket lottery deadlines. Effects include confusion upon awakening, severe distress over missing lottery deadlines, and a surplus of tickets for those unaffected.
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say the secret word win a $100.... That's the spirit.....excellent job, brah.... so when's Kane coming back....? No not the Canuck....the South Buffalo boy.....
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Just announced last night - he's cleared for full contact.
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Said in my best Jim Kelly....
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Ya got me to wondrin' whether I've got a slight case of irstaxihypersomnia. I'll probably feel better tomorrow though.
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Hey at least 420 is only five days later..
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speaking of double entendre, what kind of happy ending to your story???
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test one, two... we takin the night off here to huddle in the corner waiting for MO? ..and someone left one burning in the ashtray, not cool.that's how fires start.
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Thanks for the public service announcement Chris... Coffee is on... Extra tax forms, envelopes and stamps on the table... And remember, only you can prevent forest fires....
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5 hrs 34 min. so far. I knew this was gonna be a cluster mug. CONSPIRACY!! NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE FANS! SHAPIRO SOLD ALL THE TICKETS TO HIS ILLUMINATI CRONIES!. . Oh sweet mama, daddy's got them deep elm blues.
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Time for a little patience now...web site says: The ticket request period has closed. If you placed a request, you will be notified of your ticket status by 11:59 PM ET on April 19, 2015. And GM to all :-)