Chef Jim Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 (edited) Anyone have any success getting tickets for their tour this spring? I see about $100 for GA lawn tickets at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountainview CA. That's nucking futz. Sorry, this should have been on OTW. Please move. Edited January 27, 2009 by Chef Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDontletthedoorhityourars Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Anyone have any success getting tickets for their tour this spring? I see about $100 for GA lawn tickets at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountainview CA. That's nucking futz. Why would anyone go see them--half the band is ...well dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Why would anyone go see them--half the band is ...well dead. It is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDontletthedoorhityourars Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 It is? Well there's Jerry Garcia...and then didn't I read that one member just die not too long ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Why do you need tickets? The nitrous and acid is in the parking lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDontletthedoorhityourars Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Why do you need tickets? The nitrous and acid is in the parking lot. Can I ask a dumb question: what does nitrous do to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Well there's Jerry Garcia...and then didn't I read that one member just die not too long ago? They've had a few keyboardist die over the years so that really doesn't count. So that means that Jerry is the only one gone leaving Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann. One from five is not exactly half. And with Warren Haynes does a great job filling in for Jerry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Can I ask a dumb question: what does nitrous do to you? Hyperventilate until you get dizzy and almost pass out. That's about it. It's a blast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDontletthedoorhityourars Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Hyperventilate until you get dizzy and almost pass out. That's about it. It's a blast. Sounds fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Sounds fun. When you're 15 yeah, it's fun. But then so was !@#$ing a knothole in a tree when you're 15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Can I ask a dumb question: what does nitrous do to you? I think the chef was a to little brief. Its called "laughing gas" and dentists used it for such pleasant procedures as extracting wisdom teeth. And by golly,you just didn't care. pull em all out doc, I'm having a ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDontletthedoorhityourars Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 When you're 15 yeah, it's fun. But then so was !@#$ing a knothole in a tree when you're 15. Sounds fun. You know I was being sarcastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RI Bills Fan Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 When you're 15 yeah, it's fun. But then so was !@#$ing a knothole in a tree when you're 15. Please! Please! Tell me how to get rid of THAT Mental image!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Sounds fun.You know I was being sarcastic. Yes I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDontletthedoorhityourars Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Yes I did. Just checking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew in CA Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 They've had a few keyboardist die over the years so that really doesn't count. So that means that Jerry is the only one gone leaving Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann. One from five is not exactly half. And with Warren Haynes does a great job filling in for Jerry. Personally, I'd include Pigpen as part of "The Grateful Dead", so 2 out of 6. Still, less than half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RkFast Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I got out of the Dead. Now Im into Death Metal. Id listen to some mamby pamby half baked dude whine about the Cold Rain and Snow and Id want to just go to bed. Now I blast out Obituary's Chopped in Half and it makes me want to run through the wall and choke out the !@#$turd in the office next to me who blew the deadline because he was too busy picking his nails. Much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallie Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Oooops, my bad. I thought The Dead was a thread about Bill and Hill'ry.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Hyperventilate until you get dizzy and almost pass out. That's about it. It's a blast. I thought it makes you laugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCinBuffalo Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 My lawyer just got tickets for April...I guess here. He reminded me that we hadn't gone to a Dead show together in 10 friggin years. Man I feel old. I have always loved the music with great passion, but I developed over a time a great hatred for the politics. It was while on one of my many mini-tours that I first developed a real understanding of why hippie politics/socialism is BS. In fact "The Dead" as a concept, is the perfect analogy for exactly why these ideas suck, and that fact that they are utterly hypocritical. Going to a single show is great, you feel connected with the audience, you are going out of your way to do things to help others have a good time, and they are doing the same, it can be a real eye-opening experience of what is possible if everyone really works for "the collective". But then reality sets in. Everybody wants to get to the next show so they can feel that again, just like a drug. But, everybody doesn't want to contribute equally, or can't contribute equally, to get there. Same is true for food, "treats", all the rest. Worse, the longer you are on tour, and especially if you planned properly, the more you find yourself doing most of the contributing, and the more you find out that what's really going on is perhaps the most damning example of pure selfishness you have ever seen. Even in your own "family", and that's the part that really sucks. Not to mention that the minute people need money for the next ticket, hit, etc., the parking lot turns into the most acute display of tax-free, unregulated capitalism you have ever seen. It would make a pharmaceutical executive blush. (i.e. selling beer to 16 year olds for $5 a bottle, t-shirts for $30, and veggie-burritos that cost 30 cents to make for $4...talk about exploitation!) After my 30th Dead/Phish show, I started thinking how funny it would be if somebody was to go around charging the same taxes and enforcing the same regulations that are applied to legit businesses. Talk about an eye-opening experience!!! You'd have open rebellion...burritos and didgeridoos flying everywhere. Suffice it to say: the average hippie's entire ethos is based on convenience...meaning they will say whatever is convenient for them at the time, as long as they get what they want next. You will not find a purer form selfish behavior anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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