Grateful Dead

It would be interesting if they toured together. MAYBEY IN A PERFECT WORLD. The parking lot would be off the hook, or it could be a complete disaster. LONG LIVE THE REMAINING MUSICIANS!!!!

Only looking at ticket prices-- How can you not compare the Dead and The Phish. Both are doing a return to glory tour, both have deep roots in the community and both are what pretty much drive the community these days. Who else is bigger or was bigger then the Phish or the Dead?? So for one band who is all accounted for to charge 49.50 and the other who is missing a key element and has thus been replaced by Borin' Warren of all people (WTF!!!???!!!) to charge 75 it just seems as though someone screwed up big time. oops, there goes the boat, I messed up.

Peace!And a big HUG for awest27!

Everyone stfu already, jeeze, everyone's here b/c they love the GOGD w/ Jerry and also love and appreciate the boys sans Jerry. Tickets are a tad exorbitantly high and that's an issue this first time back. Maybe they'll come around again and heed some of what they are hearing and come down a bit but it is what it is and we all will have to adjust accordingly. Of and did I say stfu in advance? And that I love the Grateful Dead? Oh, OK, yes I do. Thanks. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -enjoyin' the ride -There'll never be another Jerry

about this notion of "respectable Deadhead"?!?!? :-)

awest27 - forgive me if I didn't see 500+ shows. I held a job through the past 30 years and it only allowed me to see 69 Grateful Dead shows - I justed didn't feel the need to justify myself to you.

Awest27 says: Didn't have to pay for most. Most respectable deadheads didn't. Didn't you ever hear of passes? Guess the passes thing didnt work out huh? Burnt some bridges with that "Cooler then thou" attitude. While you search for some passes I'll be IN the show jammin to the tunes. P.S. Most respectable DeadHeads don't mind supporting their band.

So... It's been 14 years since my last Dead show - I saw Mickey once a few years ago, and that was cool, but have spent more time being a parent and struggling to get by than being a DeadHead and getting down over the years. So I got pairs of "well, at least I'm in the show" tix for Fri in Albany and Sun in Worcester. Just physically didn't have the bread to get the good seats. so I am in the nose bleeds in Albany and side stage in Worcester. Yeah the price is too high for any band, let alone a "Dead" band without Jerry and who are pushing 70... but reading the hate and anger here I am a little horrified. Geez folks - these guys let us take their music and trade it for free for over three decades. Think about the money they lost doing that. Seriously... how many people here own a (purchased) copy of Built to Last or Go to Heaven? How many have at least several hundred hours of FREE bootlegs? I still have my Maxells and I still listen to them... When we were all on tour with these guys playing concerts is not how you made money in the music business folks - it is what you did to market your record sales, but we - the whole circus - did things differently, and they fed our fever with constant touring. Think about all the time they spent on the road - they "gave all they had to give, - how much WE'LL never know". There are other factors to consider too... I was at the Albany shows the last time the Grateful Dead played there and it was a mess. An embarrassing mess. I am sure the city of Albany is getting chunk of the pot, and I bet police will be out in force and security will be tight. Another thing to consider is that this is not a single band right now, and the band that will be playing has several different members that each have their own agents, etc. - Blaming the price on Bob is just incredibly outrageously unfair. I remember when ticket prices hit the 30.00 mark I was stunned, but I paid them and I went, and danced and sang, and soothed my soul. That 30 bucks was a greater percentage of my income at the time than even the 100 would be for me now, but perspectives change and so my wife and mother-in-law pitched in to buy tix for two shows for me as a birthday present. They got two tix for each night so I can bring my 15 year old son who has always wished he could have seen them. So I got Miracled - sort of - and it is just sinking in, that feeling I haven't felt in so long - I am going to see the DEAD I couldn't sleep last night...I remember thinking 14 years ago that I would give everything I owned and a couple fingers to see them one more time. Cheap at any price.

awest27 I'm just a Chump, a Loser and I'm sooo jealous... of you! That's too kind! Oh and you're the hardcore 500+ shows, most respectible Deadhead! Good for you! It's too bad that whatever peaceful community there was and still is is lost on your spiteful meanderings. Whatever bus you got on wasn't the same one I got on!

I never thought the day would come when people that live outside the mainstream would be mocked by followers of this band. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake