Chicago July 3-5 The Dead anyone going

[AlanN]

Thanks for that Red Rocks photo, Miked. It rekindles that era. I had forgotten that Donna was still in the band. I listened to a 1974 recently (Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City) and fast-forwarded the Sunshine Daydream, can't take it anymore.

[Tom C]

I have the video from Roosevelt (actually has not been in my possession for a while). B&W but it has that sound that is soooo that show.

[AlanN]

Now, that I'd like to see (as I was there) - rain-out and all. Tom, ping me if ever you re-acquire that, thanks.

[mandroid]

Willie played Mac Court too , brought his own Large Diesel Generator for Powering the sound gear.

[jaycat]

Slow day at work so I will tell my Grateful Dead story. My girlfriend, a friend, and I went to see them at the old Sargent Gym at Boston University. Probably around 1971-2. It turned out we had been sold counterfeit tickets so we were turned away at the door. Very disappointing, however . . .

We walked around the side of the building and found that others who had similarly been bilked were taking turns hoisting each other up to a second-story window, from which they would free-fall into a storage room. Fortunately, what was stored in the storage room were wrestling mats, so our fall was cushioned. From the storage room it was no problem to enter the gym and find a seat (not sure why there were empty ones).

The opening act was a monkey act. The girl in the seat next to me felt very sorry for the monkeys, she probably went on to make it big in PETA. Anyway the show was very enjoyable.

I don't know if stuff like that still happens (counterfeit tickets, second-story windows, animal acts) but it seemed par for the course 'back in the day.'

[mtm]

In retrospect, I'm not disappointed. I also do not really want to be in a stadium like atmosphere. And for me, without Jerry it'd be like seeing the Stones without Jagger.
I've never seen a casino show before and we are looking more forward to seeing Willie then we were the Dead show. Plus the Willie show is way cheaper.

Hey Dawg ... it's Jerry's music that keeps his memory alive ... I saw DSO a short while back and when I closed my eyes, it WAS Jerry playing, and the audience treated it like a Dead show. The vibe was there, and I'm pretty sure the vibe will be at the final shows ... of course, having Chicago Bears season ticket holders get priority for tickets, I may be wrong on that !!!!! (apologies to Bears fans)

If anything, the 'event' has me revisiting my vast catalog of Dead music again, which I've neglected for a while ... makes me smile!

[Robert Smyth]

Heard a rumor today that the Dead will play the weekend before Chicago in Santa Clara at the new Niners stadium...Yay!!! Hard to imagine the Dead would have shut out California.

[mandopaul]

How much are tickets? I'm afraid to ask

[Spruce]

How much are tickets? I'm afraid to ask

...your soul.

[jefflester]

Slow day at work so I will tell my Grateful Dead story. My girlfriend, a friend, and I went to see them at the old Sargent Gym at Boston University. Probably around 1971-2. It turned out we had been sold counterfeit tickets so we were turned away at the door. Very disappointing, however . . .

We walked around the side of the building and found that others who had similarly been bilked were taking turns hoisting each other up to a second-story window, from which they would free-fall into a storage room. Fortunately, what was stored in the storage room were wrestling mats, so our fall was cushioned. From the storage room it was no problem to enter the gym and find a seat (not sure why there were empty ones).

The opening act was a monkey act. The girl in the seat next to me felt very sorry for the monkeys, she probably went on to make it big in PETA. Anyway the show was very enjoyable.

I don't know if stuff like that still happens (counterfeit tickets, second-story windows, animal acts) but it seemed par for the course 'back in the day.'

Nov 11, 1970.

There's only a partial recording of it that has ever circulated:
https://archive.org/details/gd70-11-...033.sbeok.shnf

[jefflester]

Now, that I'd like to see (as I was there) - rain-out and all. Tom, ping me if ever you re-acquire that, thanks.

I believe Tom is probably referring to the Roosevelt Stadium show from 1976, not 1974:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1yLgdzAbXQ

[darrylicshon]

Peter Shapiro and the band have announced today that there will be two additional shows, June 27 and 28 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. Most importantly, some 90 percent of the tickets will be sold in true Grateful Dead style, through an innovative online mail order lottery

link to full story
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7041670

[mvlh]

I'm gonna stay "a million miles away" in a figure of speech, even though they'll be just down the road in Santa Clara. For one thing I too am very satisfied with my memories, little regrets, and of the 30 shows I went to between 71 and 89, I can remember at least one thing about each that made it special. My feeling is that people with an x-number of shows under their belt to brag on actually can't remember most of them, it would be a big blur. besides my favorite people in the band are either dead (or out of it, the exceptions being Phil & Bill) so anyone attempting to make a "replacement player" sits ever in their shadow. I certainly do not regret not being part of the current following, a good many of whom never saw them with Garcia to begin with, (or maybe weren't even born before he died) but having been there while it was all still young and vital will always be a great part of my own musical development and source of wonderful things to remember. And since my first show was accomplished for a mere 2 bucks (along with free "electric apple juice") I think I can safely duck out of all this hoopla. I always wanted to see them become "mainstream" but there was something about being part of it "before it all became acceptable" that can't be recovered.

[jaycat]

Nov 11, 1970.

There's only a partial recording of it that has ever circulated:
https://archive.org/details/gd70-11-...033.sbeok.shnf

Thanks for posting that. It's good to see my memory of the monkey act corroborated -- there are so many things from those days that I think I remember that didn't really happen.