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Grateful Dead Reunion Shows Sell Out Immediately, Resale Prices Soar

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Garcia Gone but...

5:11 pm ET
Mar 2, 2015 MUSIC
Grateful Dead Reunion Shows Sell Out Immediately, Resale Prices Soar
By MIKE AYERS
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015...ly-stubhub-explains-resale-prices-top-100000/
Grateful Dead fans flocked to Ticketmaster.com over the weekend in hopes of snagging seats for the band’s 50th anniversary concerts this summer. On Saturday morning, half a million people hit the site seeking tickets to what the band calls its “Fare Thee Well” celebration.

The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will be joined at the “Fare Thee Well” concerts by Phish’s Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti, and Bruce Hornsby. Online tickets to all three shows, slated for the July 4 weekend, sold out swiftly. The shows will take place at Chicago’s Soldier Field, which has a capacity of 61,500.

Although members of the Dead have performed with personal projects over the past two decades, the July concerts mark the first reunion of the band’s “core four” members since 1995. The Dead has made clear they won’t be reprising the “Fare Thee Well” shows ever again.
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After sales began Saturday on Ticketmaster, seats popped up on secondary markets such as StubHub, with some sellers asking more than $100,000 a ticket. On StubHub, the lowest price for an “obstructed/no view” seat was $587.50 for the July 3 show; a three-day pass for one person was being offered for $1,281.25; a General Admission three-day pass with one field-level ticket is available for $116,004.09 ...
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Weren't they planning on only doing 5 shows or something?

Im guessing they will do more. Trey seems like a logical choice.
 
Those prices are pretty insane, but expected given the circumstances

But those prices pretty much prove the claims that hippies don't work or do anything productive.
 
Hell, I thought they were all dead. Expected this to be an onion thread.
 
sangha said:
Those prices are pretty insane, but expected given the circumstances

But those prices pretty much prove the claims that hippies don't work or do anything productive.
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I'm pretty sure one would have to be productive and earning money to afford those prices.
It would take a hippie a long long time to pan handle up enough change to get a ticket.
 
sangha said:
Those prices are pretty insane, but expected given the circumstances

But those prices pretty much prove the claims that hippies don't work or do anything productive.
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Nope - it proves that many of them grew up, got jobs and still like that music. ;)
 
HenryChinaski said:
I'm pretty sure one would have to be productive and earning money to afford those prices.
It would take a hippie a long long time to pan handle up enough change to get a ticket.
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Or at least a good day selling drugs. ;)
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Nope - it proves that many of them grew up, got jobs and still like that music. ;)
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Proving that hippies can be productive

And if you need more evidence, look at the members of the Grateful Dead. They're hippies and they've made millions doing 200+ shows a year for decades. Sounds like a pretty hard working bunch of hippies to me.
 
sangha said:
Proving that hippies can be productive

And if you need more evidence, look at the members of the Grateful Dead. They're hippies and they've made millions doing 200+ shows a year for decades. Sounds like a pretty hard working bunch of hippies to me.
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Yep, I too was once a hippie/biker but have graduated to being a self employed handyman, with a rather long (22+ year) stint of being a defense contract worker in between. ;)
 
The Return of the Deadheads
The Grateful Dead’s Fare Thee Well concerts are resurrecting hordes of aging fans
By JOHN JURGENSEN
May 6, 2015
The Return of the Deadheads - WSJ
[Incl Slide Show and more pix]

The last of the 121 times Michael Sheridan saw the Grateful Dead was in 1995...
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A 50-year-old band missing its most essential member is responsible for one of the biggest clusters of live shows ever, and Deadheads from every sector of society are mobilizing. In addition to the holders of 210,000 tickets to the three sold-out concerts at Soldier Field, an untold horde of additional fans will descend on Chicago just to soak up the scene, which will include dozens of smaller concerts around the city by like-minded rock, folk and bluegrass bands.

The sprawling jubilee in Chicago will be preceded by two Grateful Dead concerts June 27-28 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., near the band’s Bay Area home base. Concert promoters hastily added the June dates to quell a backlash from fans who howled about getting shut out of the Chicago ticket sale, which yielded more than 500,000 online requests, a Ticketmaster record. Their list of grievances ranged from the price-gouging by scalpers to the decision to add Phish guitarist and singer Trey Anastasio to the Dead’s lineup.

A heady mix of nostalgia and opportunism is turning summer 2015 into the season of the Dead, proving that the band’s music and influence hasn’t faded.

Promoters are trying to turn the concerts into a national happening, with live Simulcasts in movie theaters and Pay-per-view feeds over cable, satellite and the Internet. Separately, there’s a flood of releases timed to the 50th anniversary.
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Never understood a Dead Head.
 
Montecresto said:
Never understood a Dead Head.
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really? Garcia used to say play the music, and the music will take you to the place you need to be.

I saw them -i'm not a dead head - and their long jams are oookk..but sometimes you just want them to tighten it up and kick it out.

I'll stick with wasting my money on Fleetwood Mac reunion tours, and the annual Tom Petty & Heartbreakers new release tour

 
annata said:
really? Garcia used to say play the music, and the music will take you to the place you need to be.

I saw them -i'm not a dead head - and their long jams are oookk..but sometimes you just want them to tighten it up and kick it out.

I'll stick with wasting my money on Fleetwood Mac reunion tours, and the annual Tom Petty & Heartbreakers new release tour

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Heck yeah, fleetwood mac! I've nothing against the Dead, I just only liked A Touch of Grey, which most Dead Heads apparently didn't. And fleetwood mac just doesn't sound good any more.
 
sangha said:
Proving that hippies can be productive

And if you need more evidence, look at the members of the Grateful Dead. They're hippies and they've made millions doing 200+ shows a year for decades. Sounds like a pretty hard working bunch of hippies to me.
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Hell, many of their roadies are wealthy men as well. Bob, Phil, Bill and Jerry made lots of money but that wasn't what motivated them. They just loved playing to fans. A guy I went to law school with was a bartender out in the bay area before he came east to go to Ivy law. Garcia would come into his bar and play several times a year and all he'd take in pay was a free lunch. People would still throw bucks (often LOTS OF THEM) into his guitar case which Jerry would then give to the staff. I never met anyone who knew the man who didn't like him. Even a conservative Cincinnati Lawyer who knew his widow, said he wished he'd had more time to spend with Jerry
 
Back in the 70s I knew dead heads that lived on panhandling and selling qualudes that managed to see the dead in Egypt. So it's true that you shouldn't misunderestimate dead heads.
 
i think it's cool that they're doing it. kind of wish i had seen them when i was in college.
 
Montecresto said:
Heck yeah, fleetwood mac! I've nothing against the Dead, I just only liked A Touch of Grey, which most Dead Heads apparently didn't. And fleetwood mac just doesn't sound good any more.
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I saw Fleetwood 2x this winter.they sound great.
They are in the mid 60'sand 70's now..But Mick stillkills the drums,and Stevie twirls around ( her voice was outstanding),and Lindsey is still
a fantastic guitarist.
They rock, they are older but in some ways they are more cohesive.. I mean I just turned 60. I wish I had the enrgy for a 2 hour
set and no intermission!


^ this tour 2015 check out a few you tubes
 
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tomorrow, we are going to surprise my mom with James Taylor tickets for Mother's Day. the GF and i are going to take her to see him in June.
 
Helix said:
tomorrow, we are going to surprise my mom with James Taylor tickets for Mother's Day. the GF and i are going to take her to see him in June.
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girl I just broke up with saw him last year in Tampa,and liked the line up. He's got a good voice still , and wrote a new song or 2.
She liked it, I hope you all do too.
 
Only got to see them once, but have seen Dark Star Orchestra several times, they recreate entire shows, song by song.

GD is great, you can film, you can record, you can make t-shirts and sell them, etc. They don't care. You can see 5 concerts in a row and never hear the same song twice...and no lip synching.

Great stuff.
 
Helix said:
tomorrow, we are going to surprise my mom with James Taylor tickets for Mother's Day. the GF and i are going to take her to see him in June.
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Send her this.
My favorite rendition, a duet, of My Favorite JT song.

James Taylor/Joni Mitchell - You Can Close Your Eyes - 1971 - Live John Peel Session - London




I believe an Actual Concert Pic. 44 yrs ago!
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BTW, The Dead Chicago concert is July 4th Weekend.
Should be a WILD 4th there.
 
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annata said:
girl I just broke up with saw him last year in Tampa,and liked the line up. He's got a good voice still , and wrote a new song or 2.
She liked it, I hope you all do too.
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saw some videos on youtube, and he sounds great. GF took me to see Bob Dylan for my birthday, and the show was amazing. James Taylor is close to her favorite, so i wanted to pay her back for a wonderful birthday gift. Mom really likes him, too, so we thought that it would be a great Mother's Day gift.
 
mbig said:
Send her this.
My favorite rendition, a duet, of my favorite JT song.

James Taylor/Joni Mitchell - You Can Close Your Eyes - 1971 - Live John Peel Session - London




I believe an Actual Concert Pic
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BTW, The Dead Chicago concert is July 4th Weekend.
Should be a WILD 4th there.
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You Can Close Your Eyes is our favorite James Taylor song.
 
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