Grateful Dead - Fare Thee Well - July 7/3-7/5 at Soldier Field

[VDB]

This blog was not sweet:
http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-14082-ladies-and-gentlemen-not-the-grateful-dead.html

Dude is bitter and unrealistic about the ticketing contracts and whatnot.

Worst part is that he's gotten syndicated onto Huffington Post with this garbage.

I could pick this apart point by point but why bother.

Something has stuck in this guy's craw and he's inventing elaborate conspiracies that, while they may acknowledge some fundamental shittiness about how major venus allocate and sell their tickets nowadays, assumes quite a bit more evil on the part of all involved than I find anywhere near plausible.

[sls.stormyrider]

yeah, the guy is bitter.

I had to laugh though when he made it sound like the GD themselves weren't concerned with commerce. Sure, they played free shows early on, and they were the 1st band to really allow taping.
But the Grateful Dead was, and is,  definitely a business with one of the better marketing machines going.

[mbw]

yeah, the guy is bitter.

I had to laugh though when he made it sound like the GD themselves weren't concerned with commerce. Sure, they played free shows early on, and they were the 1st band to really allow taping.
But the Grateful Dead was, and is,  definitely a business with one of the better marketing machines going.

reminds me of the kid in Festival Express yelling at Jerry cause, like, concert tickets cost money, and Jerry was just looking at him all like, 'Huh?'

[Hicks]

I think this "hypefestivals.com" or whatever blog is really just tryin to get clicks

but


http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/additional-grateful-dead-50th-reunion-dates-rumored/

Rumored the weekend before chicago in Santa Clara with Warren instead of trey

Billboard is also suggesting some credence to this.

Crazy!   :crazy:

[mehead]

Warren, huh?  No thanks.

Can't see this happening anyway.

[rowjimmy]

Rampant speculation is rampant.

I am highly doubtful that they book other dates although, obviously they could do it and get PAID.

I think additional dates wouldn't likely upset me unless they were local to me but I do think they would lend a degree of credence to the "money grab" camp.

[sls.stormyrider]

Honestly I thought is was a little strange that they didn't do anything in the Bay area

I don't care one way or the other

[sunrisevt]

^^^Yeah. There may be a touch of sour grapes here, but a full-scale  fest is honestly a bigger draw for me than FTW.

[shoreline99]

^^^Yeah. There may be a touch of sour grapes here, but a full-scale  fest is honestly a bigger draw for me than FTW.

Agree. Hotel already booked for Watkins Glen, assuming the dates being kicked around are valid.

[Gumbo72203]

Its funny because this is the first time anything like this could work on a tour level for stadiums. 

If they really were about money grabbing, they would take this on the road for a month, and then call it.  I'm not sure why they didn't, because 3 shows is going to produce pretty lackluster performances, especially given the fact that these dudes are fucking old now.  I get why they do it this way, for the memorial aspect of everything, but from a musical quality standpoint, this probably isn't going to be very memorable.  Although I hope I am SO wrong.  I would love to be proven completely wrong on this, but.....   unless they literally practice together for a week straight at least beforehand, 6-8 hours a day....  I just don't realistically seeing this having any playback value aside from the cast it is made from.


i donno, maybe I'm bitter I couldn't get tickets.  Trey and Bruce with Phil....  are you kidding? 

[VDB]

If it's going to be bad because they're old, how would a month on the road make it better?

[VA $l!m]

^^^Yeah. There may be a touch of sour grapes here, but a full-scale  fest is honestly a bigger draw for me than FTW.

Agree. Hotel already booked for Watkins Glen, assuming the dates being kicked around are valid.

Watkins Glenn?!  :-o
i need to keep up with the rumor thread better  :oops:

[Caravan2001]

^^^Yeah. There may be a touch of sour grapes here, but a full-scale  fest is honestly a bigger draw for me than FTW.

Agree. Hotel already booked for Watkins Glen, assuming the dates being kicked around are valid.

Watkins Glenn?!  :-o
i need to keep up with the rumor thread better  :oops:

Dude, that has been on the book (literally) since December.....

[antelope19]

Third'd on the Watkins Glen > FTW

[Caravan2001]

Santa Clara will be announced this week....for whatever that's worth. Don't know what to think about that exactly.  Guessing they won't do mail order again, lol.