Grateful Dead

You are on the right path - get away from the bad and surround yourself with the good. This tour is going to rejuvenate a lot of people myself included and I cannot wait. I hope you can get yourself to a show or 2. Take care.. "Everybody's braggin' and drinking that wine, I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shines. Come to daddy on an inside straight, well I've got no chance of losing this time"

Chi-town B-o-b - I thought it was an interesting read. It's a popular game among the kids today and many of us have children in the family who find this game wildly attractive. This translates into a wonderful way of introducing the little tykes to the music. I know I'm not alone regarding my belief that many folks would rather hear the kid, grandkid, etc. jamming to the Grateful Dead than the stuff playing on the commercial radio stations today. I didn't say I agreed with their reviews. Please don't shoot the messenger. One man gathers what another man spills.

hey guys, im a fellow lover of the grateness of the dead and i was turned on to the dead this past summer by an old dead head, who has followed these guys around almost all his life...i started hanging out with him, everyday a party you know, he taught me the dead ways, not that i didnt already know them myself, im what you might call a natural...lol...im a natural born hippie...product of my raising...i can find beauty with a sore eye, after my first concert in washington dc at the 930 club seeing dark star, the tribute band....i fell absolutely tee totally in love with them, their music, their words and the meanings behind them. i came home and started looking them up on youtube, and after a while became very familiar wtih all their songs...i love any music that has soul to it....this band is by far the best, and i only wish i could have seen jerry!! if i could go back in time, thats exactly where i'd go....when jerry was still alive and everyone was diggin the good tunes and good vibes...good souls, understanding people, the kind of people that make this world all the better to be apart of...i want to surround myself with peace loving wind breezin hippies, this past year has been rough for me and i've lost alot of confidence along the way, im ready to roll away the dew so that sweet winds can blow my way...im ready to forget my troubles and dance them away....im ready to let go of these negative people in my life and surround myself by good hearted free spirits, people like myself...i've suffered myself, by trying to help others come out of the shadows and into the light but in the end i realized i was being dragged into the dark, and drained of my energy, i used to carry the sun in my eyes and i want that feeling back....im a very sensitive but strong willed young lady and i desire most to go to atleast one show...im gonna follow my own path and ill go all to nothing to get there...im hoping i will meet alot of familiar souls...that i can connect with. This is me and this is what im about, not just the music, but whats behind the lines, sometimes you cant see the forest for the trees, but i know theres more to it than just the good tunes, its the waves of love and peaceful serenity, brotherhood, mind alternative people, who want the same things i want, i could go on and on about what could stand a change, but i wont, instead i wont worry about how to survive in the storm but instead how to dance in the rain. alot of nice things go bad out there, it sure is one big wild world!! There comes a point In ones life When you come to realize Who matters, who never did, who wont anymore, and who always will So dont worry about those people from the past Theres a reason why they did not make it to your future

Seems to me that the Boys should have booked more than one show at the Garden. The good news is that I am definitely seeing them at Nassau, while I have a 33% chance to be at the Garden show. All in all, I can't complain. "Let there be songs to fill the air."

Just exactly perfect. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

Has anything been confirmed on the opening act for the 09 tour? My Morning Jacket would be cool....

ONCE upon a time there was a large population occupying a large hunk of land between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. All television and photography was in black and white because in fact black and white was all there was. Five magicians looked at this from their particular perspective near the Pacific Ocean and said, "Well, this is okay but it COULD be so much better..." With that they waved their magic music wands and suddenly the world became purple, yellow, aquamarine and even translucent. Refrigerators walked the earth and amoebas grew to the size of apes, while planes began to fly underground and moles burrowed through the air. Stars and planets reached out to shake the hands of the gobsmacked earthlings, and the cartwheel became the new ambling shuffle. This golden gleaming terrain-and-mind-enhancing music-magic continues to speel out and as of press time, it is difficult to imagine that it will ever stop.

I tried to post the email that I just received from GDTS Too regarding the status of mail order. I guess that it is too big, so here is a summary. With exception of MSG, Philadelphia (May 2), and Shoreline (reserved seats), everyone who requested tickets will get them. If you have a postmark for the first day of mail order, you have a 1 in 3 chance of tickets for MSG and Shoreline reserved. You have a 1 in 1.5 chance for Philadelphia on May 2. Here is the rest: "We are waiting for the last bit of mail postmarked the 13th to arrive before starting the ticketing process. Orders that we are unable to fill from MSG, Spectrum and Shoreline reserved will be will be returned before we start the ticketing process. Tickets will start going out in the next few weeks. Outlet on sale dates for this tour are listed on dead.net"

This what I just received from GDTS Too: Here is our GDTS TOO mail order status for each venue on The Dead 2009 tour: Sunday, April 12, 2009 at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Friday, April 17, 2009 at the Times Union Center in Albany, NY. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Saturday & Sunday, April 18 & 19, 2009 at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, NY. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at the Wachovia Arena @ Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Friday, April 24, 2009 at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Saturday, April 25, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY. One in three orders will get tickets if you mailed in on the first postmark. Sunday, April 26, 2009 at the XL Center in Hartford, CT. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Tuesday & Wednesday, April 28 & 29, 2009 at The IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Friday and Saturday, May 1 & 2, 2009 at Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA. May 1 - Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. May 2 – One in 1.5 orders will get tickets. Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at All State Arena in Chicago, IL. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Thursday, May 7, 2009 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Saturday, May 9, 2009 at The Forum in Los Angeles, CA. Everyone who mailed in will get tickets. Sunday, May 10, 2009 at Shoreline Amphitheatre In Mountain View, CA. For reserved one in three orders will get tickets if you mailed in on the first postmark. For lawn, everyone who mailed in will get tickets. We are waiting for the last bit of mail postmarked the 13th to arrive before starting the ticketing process. Orders that we are unable to fill from MSG, Spectrum and Shoreline reserved will be will be returned before we start the ticketing process. Tickets will start going out in the next few weeks. Outlet on sale dates for this tour are listed on dead.net

Ticketmaster sent me an e-mail (I signed for a NYC area Dead Show alert!) saying Hartford on sale 4/23- As far as I know MSG is Sat at 10 AM. I have a My Ticketmaster account and have not received any further info on MSG show. I was ready for pre sale but got skunked! I sent mail order and would like to know if they will come before spending more needed cash with T.M. on Sat. Any ideas? I can only go to MSG show. I miss that and miss chance for 5 decades of live Dead shows!