Grateful Dead

LunaSol, I know for at least the Charlottesville shows that tickets through the arena or musictoday.com will go on sale Jan. 23. It breaks my heart to say this, but I truly think the people promoting this show (like the musictoday.com people, who I knew growing up in Charlottesville) are money-grubbing fascists...how could Jerry have left us?

Sadly I can't afford to go to any shows right now. I was so built up to go and even had the hotel reserved. We just don't have the cash right now. My husband promised me we can see several smaller shows to make up for it. I'm hoping Widespread Panic has some good dates on their spring tour, maybe I can hit two of those for the price of one of these, LOL! We've got some good shows coming here to Knoxville too this spring so I should be able to get my fix. I know it won't be the Dead, but there is always the infinate number of Grateful Dead show recordings I have that I can listen to. :) Congrats and have a great time all of you who got tickets. To those who haven't gotten theirs yet, good luck. I hope everyone has a blast!! :)

After they started this insane ticket price inflation. So what am I doing Saturday night? Taking my wife to see the Eagles (please don't throw your shoes at me...my only excuse is that she asked, and she never asks, so how could I say no?). So much for my personal vows, anyway. At this point, I know that I've become jaded to what's happened with ticket prices (music, sports, you name it), so the choice becomes either stop doing something I love (seeing the bands I want to see, going to games), or living with the change. I'm living with it, but I still won't hit the aftermarket for tix, will refuse the "VIP" crap, and will muddle along as best as I can with those options off the table. I'm not happy living with it, but I know that I'd feel a lot worse just cutting off from this stuff. Sigh....

Did anyone else have an incredibly hard time yesterday with the presale tickets? The site kept freezing on me or kicking me off (and I have broadband!). I googled presale tickets and hit a site that offered tickets but as I was in the middle of a business meeting and covertly trying to buy tickets, I didn't pay enough attention to what I was doing, and ended buying 4 tickets for nearly $300 EACH, and then realized it was some lame ticket-broker site! That was at 12:15 EST - how do those fascists get tickets so quickly and then turn around and resell them? I just don't get it. I'm so MAD at myself for not paying attention better - but on the other hand I was not going to miss this Charlottesville show, so live and learn...just wondering if others had trouble too...

I, like us all, had hoped for a good vibe, a traditional gathering from this tour. I also wanted my 13 year old son--a big fan like his dad--to see his first show. Instead, I got no tickets, a huge on-line marathon headache and a sad realization of the enormity of the corporate sell-out by the band. Did anyone notice that every decent seat (in Denver anyway) was marketed as "VIP" in the $380-$505 range? Not just on the floor but every decent seat. The VIP label alone sent chills down my spine. I naively believed that the Dead was one of the last sanctuaries for community, where VIP stood for Very Uptight People (you know, the ones that can't let any little thing slide). Would deadheads of the early 70's have tolerated this VIP sell-out? Is this the vibe that brought us together, the love community Jerry preached? I'll remain an LIP (Less Important People), I guess, and bang on my guitar at home with my son. For me, the Dead is dead. Adios, boys. Or, more appropriately, Adidas.

When it gets to this its over, and I can assure you the band realizes it, and set these prices with this in mind. For all our sakes and pockets I hope these shows melt our faces! Good, Bad, or Ugly this will be the end of Dead shows as we know them....no not negative, just the reality of the scene, for those of us who spend any time in reality. Sorry Jerry :(

I am justifying the ticket prices I paid with the large collection of sbd's I have collected over the last 20 years. I didn't have to pay for them. Kinda like the band is just collecting now. I am still way ahead of them though as I have 7 - 300+ binders full of gd & jg data dvds! 8D Soooooo........ Winnah winnah chicken dinnah...... Still hope they sell sbd's at the venue though cause I need those too.

I was a little shocked by the prices too, but mail order tickets are $69 bucks or something like that. I checked one of the venues websites and the tickets were at least 60 to 80 dollars higher than the pre-sale price. May be the last time, so I am going to spend the $$$. BTW mail order started yesterday and runs through the 20th I hear. I went to GDTSTOO.com and found out there.

musictoday didnt take no time to charge my card, They want their money buddy.

Awesome! we took our 7 yr old to see phil in st. louis over the summer. he had a blast and is still talking about it. he wanted to follow them to milwaukee! and was upset that we couldn't! have fun. good luck scoring denver tix.