samiyam wrote:
pig, keith, brent, and vinnie

 Hairfarmer wrote: 
If anybody asked me to be the Dead's keyboard player, I'd have second thoughts...  What is this... the fourth one who's died?

Hairfarmer wrote:
 

Vince was great! Loved his work with the Tubes and Rundgren too! Damn shame how he ended...

Alafia wrote:
my first show was 1978, too (5/6/78)! my parents made me wait til i was 16!
my last was...the last show, soldier field 7/9/95.
i also saw the Other Ones at least a couple of times, went to the local dates for furthur festival, and i attended the one time only terrapin station: a grateful dead family reunion, up at alpine valley.

it was my brother who turned me on to music in general, but the dead in particular, when i was a kid.
he played american beauty for me when it was released, and that was all she wrote.

yeah, brent was phenomenal, but vinnie grew on me.

but, right now....i think i need to go play "live dead"—-st stephen into the eleven, in particular. yes. yes, i do.

triskele wrote:
I have two years on you... Saw my first show in 1978 (at age 18), my last at Highgate in, I think it was 1995ish?
I kind of lost the spark after Brent died (and I think they did too...) But it remains the seminal music in my life.

triskele wrote:
We really only go to smaller shows now, singer/songwriter types, and it's usually a great
music deal for the price.  I haven't been to an arena show in years! 

Chris Smither in a couple weeks, Kris Delmhorst the week after that.

Oops, threadjack...  Sorry! 

Alafia wrote:
yeah, i found that pretty shocking too, but then, i haven't been to a concert since the 90's. so it may be normal....i honestly have no idea.

(and my older brother, who was in the first wave of deadheads, says that this incarnation "still has it." he's seen them, he testifies! i was a late comer myself ...at the ripe old age of 8 in 1970...heh)

triskele wrote:
Y'know, I just might've, if it wasn't fer the $100 price tag...
WTF is up with that??

Alafia wrote: no, it's The Dead....this thread is just called The Grateful Dead....
and you'll never know if you don't give it a chance.

Not to rain on the parade, but...

It's not the Grateful Dead.
Not for me.
Those days were some of the most important of my life,
but they're over, and I think trying to recreate it is kinda sad.

My sincere apologies.
:duck and cover:

rachlan wrote:

 triskele wrote: 
  didn't see that.   just couldn't even log into the site so didn't, then thought if I get in then I have 4 people to buy for and I don't know if they know about the new price, and I got all worried.....

I have to leave now, but I might try when i get home.   I"m happy for you!!! and jelous.  I really want to go too.

rachlan wrote:
schlabby took care of it since i can't do that kind of stuff during work hours.

i am SOOO excited!!!
didja watch the videos they linked to in last night's email?

 triskele wrote: 
I do too.....  but...

did you get them?

rachlan wrote:
to me, while i disagree with the high price, i NEED this so much in my life right now that it doesn't matter.
I.
CAN'T.
WAIT.

 triskele wrote: 
they raised the price!    I don't know if I want to go for $99 a ticket!   geeze.

the dead.net email with details about the presale came out just a little while ago.

oldslabsides wrote:
i wish they'd release the info and instructions about the presale.
X
if they're going to tout a presale, then they need to give info! i am going to go take a bubble bath....

current info from ticketmaster for the Chicago show