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Remaining DEAD members announce Spring Dead Tour

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stoned teacher

http://dead.net/dead09

With lotsa shows for us here in the Northeast!

I'm gonna be taking a lot of days off work, and if they tour in the summer time...well...there's my summer plans!


:muahaha:

No more G.W. + Dead tour = good start to 09'!!!!!


Ahhhhhhhh sweeeeett.....Just thought how cool it'll be I'll have plenty of Casey Jones harvested in time to bring to the shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's get ready to PARTY!
 
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A-Loc

A-Loc

mofuckin farmer smurf
Good shit, I saw them at the gathering of the vibes but they were doing jazz stough
 
Crunchy Taco

Crunchy Taco

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prices

prices

$80-$105 reserved seats? $45-$65 lawn seats. only one venue with a third 80 dollar mid level. those prices seem rather high for the dead. I can't see myself paying that much to see warren play with the dead. Is this what has happened to ticket prices everywhere?

The Dead, featuring Phil Lesh, Bob Weir,
Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined
by Warren Haynes and Jeff Chimenti, will
play the following shows:

Sunday, April 12, 2009 at the Greensboro Coliseum
in Greensboro, NC. Reserved seats are available
at $93.00, $69.00 and $53.50 per ticket. Doors
open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at the Verizon Center in
Washington, DC. Reserved seats are available at
$102.00 and $72.00 per ticket. Doors open at
5:30 PM. Showtime is 7:00 PM.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at the John Paul Jones
Arena in Charlottesville, VA. Reserved seats are
available at $79.00 and $49.00 per ticket. Doors
open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Friday, April 17, 2009 at the Times Union Center
in Albany, NY. Reserved seats are available at
$100.00 and $60.00 per ticket. Doors open at
6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Saturday & Sunday, April 18 & 19, 2009 at the
DCU Center in Worcester, MA. Reserved seats
are available at $100.25 and $69.00. Doors open
at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at the HSBC Arena in
Buffalo, NY. Reserved seats are available at
$100.50 and $60.50 per ticket. Doors open
at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at the Wachovia
Arena @ Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Reserved seats are available at $99.00 and
$73.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM.
Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Friday, April 24, 2009 at Nassau Coliseum in
Uniondale, NY. Reserved seats are available at
$102.00 and $57.00 per ticket. Doors open at
6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Saturday, April 25, 2009 at Madison Square
Garden in New York City, NY. Reserved seats
are available @ $103.50 and $58.50 per ticket.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Sunday, April 26, 2009 at the XL Center in
Hartford, CT. Reserved seats are available at
$102.00 and $72.00 per ticket. Doors open at
6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Tuesday & Wednesday, April 28 & 29, 2009 at
The IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ.
Reserved seats are available at $102.00 and
$57.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM.
Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Friday and Saturday, May 1 & 2, 2009 at Wachovia
Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA. Reserved seats are
available at $99.00 and $69.00 Reserved.
Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at All State Arena in
Chicago, IL. Reserved seats are available at
$99.00 and $54.00 per ticket. Doors open at
6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Thursday, May 7, 2009 at the Pepsi Center in
Denver, CO. Reserved seats are available at
$98.50 and $63.50. Doors open at 6:00 PM.
Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Saturday, May 9, 2009 at The Forum in Los
Angeles, CA. Reserved seats are available at
$89.00 Reserved and $53.50 Reserved. Doors
open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Sunday, May 10, 2009 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
In Mountain View, CA. Reserved seats are available
at $105.00 Reserved and $45.00 Lawn. Doors open
at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM.

Taper tickets will be available for all shows on the
tour except for Shoreline Amphitheatre where
taping will be permitted on the lawn.
Taper tickets are available at the higher ticket
price for each venue.
Taper tickets are limited to 2 per person per show.
 
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stoned teacher

Definitely a little pricey but..... MAN I'M PUMPED!!!!!!!!!!

Got all the shows I wanted, including some SICK seats at the Garden!

BOOOOOOOOOOOO-YA!
 
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visionbird

New member
NEW DATES ADDED ! :D

5/4 Chicago, IL
All State Arena
TicketMaster Public on-sale begins 2/20 11AM Eastern/8AM Pacific

5/14 Mountain View, CA
Shoreline Amphitheater
Live Nation Public on-sale begins 2/22 at 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific

5/16 George, WA *
The Gorge

Live Nation Public on-sale begins 2/20 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific
*With Very Special Guests The Allman Brothers Band and The Doobie Brothers
 
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Guest

Bill Kreutzmann, the drummer for the Grateful Dead, is one happy man. He has a new band, a power trio called BK3 that's making its San Francisco debut tonight at the Independent, an intimate nightclub in the Western Addition.

It's one of a half dozen shows for Kreutzmann with BK3, a group he's formed with bassist Oteil Burbridge of the Allman Brothers Band and guitarist Scott Murawski of the band Max Creek.

After that short tour, Kreutzmann goes straight into rehearsals with his reunited Grateful Dead bandmates - Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh - for a Dead tour that kicks off April 12 at the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina and ends May 10 with a homecoming show at Shoreline Amphitheater.

In addition to the new band and the new Dead tour, Kreutzmann has a new girlfriend and what sounds to me like a new lease on life.

"My personal life has changed immensely for the better," he told me from his home in Kauai, Hawaii. "I couldn't have dreamed of being this happy."

Too bad Deadheads aren't quite as joyful as he is these days. Many of them are furious over the nearly $100 ticket price the Dead is charging for the best reserved seats for its tour, the band's first in five years.

The outraged tone was set by a profane YouTube tirade by a female fan that has Deadhead chat sites and message boards buzzing over what is being seen in some quarters as price gouging by the ultimate egalitarian band.

As it turns out, $100 is sounding like a good deal.

"I've
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heard of tickets going for $1,200," Kreutzmann said. "They've been scalping tickets for horrendous amounts of money. And I really hate that, by the way. That's one of my pet peeves.

"There are people out there who just care about making money," he went on. "They don't care about the music or making the fans happy. Just because someone will pay $1,200 for a ticket, in this economic climate it's adding insult to injury. It's an uncool thing."

Plus it puts a lot of pressure on the Dead to live up to the elevated expectations that come with ticket prices that high.

"I don't know if I can play that good," Kreutzmann laughed. "That's like so much money. (Jerry) Garcia would be infuriated. He'd be like, 'No way, man. You can't charge that much.'"

In reality, ticket brokers are charging a lot more. After talking with Kreutzmann, I went online and found tickets for the Shoreline show going for more than $2,000 each. Tickets in the $500 to $900 range are commonplace.

"It's pretty awful," agreed Tim Jorstad, the Dead's San Rafael-based business manager. "Some artists are just fine with scalping tickets, charging a premium and keeping the money. We aren't. That money is not going to the band, and it's not good for the fans."

Jorstad explained to me the rather complicated process of pricing concert tickets while trying to maintain some control over the brokers and scalpers.

"We thought long and hard about ticket prices," he said. "The band was extremely sensitive about what they should be."

Jorstad had the band's booking agent survey ticket prices for some 50 bands touring last year, such as the Eagles, that are equal in star power to the Dead. Many ticket prices for those bands were in the $150 range.

"I went back to the band with my research and we sat back and said, 'OK, we don't want to be $150, which is what a lot of those tickets we surveyed were coming in at," he said. "We talked hours about this. We probably give this particular topic more time than anything else. In the end, our ticket pricing came in at 65 percent lower than that collective group."

What they agreed to charge, on average, was $95 for premium seats (plus $2.50 service charge), and $58 and $40 for second- and third-tier seats.

"We wanted to make sure we had something for everybody," Jorstad said, reminding Deadheads that "since our last tour in 2004, everything associated with touring has gone up in price - fuel, trucking, busing, personnel.

"This may be the Dead's last tour, and maybe not," he added. "And when you add into the mix the touring expenses and that this will be a good, four-hour show, we felt it was good value for the ticket price.

He acknowledged that it isn't what the fans are accustomed to paying. "They're used to $50 and $60 tickets," he said. "We don't like to make people unhappy, obviously, but what we're charging isn't an unreasonable price to pay. We've tried to be fair to the legacy of the Grateful Dead, but we are a business entity, and we're trying to give our band members a reasonable pay day as well."

According to Jorstad, the Dead had enough clout to get half the available tickets for the tour and sell them themselves at face value through Music Today's ticketing facility and the band's Dead.net.

In addition, the Dead set aside 1,500 of the best tickets for Grateful Dead-related charities to sell to support their work.

Despite the carping from Deadheads, Jorstad insists that the band still has its '60s bonafides.

"We didn't do what a lot of bands do. We didn't take corporate sponsorship money," he said. "And there were millions of dollars on the table for that."

The problem is that the Dead have no control over giant Ticketmaster and the ticket brokers that dominate what is called the secondary ticket market.

"Ticketmaster does what it wants. They have a secondary ticket Web site, and that's the auction. That's the secondary market, and that's where they scalp tickets for very high prices," Jorstad said.

"We shut that down as much as we could, but it was hard," Kreutzmann said. "It makes me feel the audience is getting exploited, having to come up with all this money."

It appears that the band is trying to give Deadheads their money's worth.

Augmented by lead guitarist Warren Haynes and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, the surviving members regrouped last March for an Obama fundraiser at the Warfield and followed that with a huge benefit concert at Penn State that raised $500,000 for the Obama campaign.

As a reward, they were invited to the Inauguration, playing at the Mid-Atlantic Ball. Afterward, they were among a select group of celebrities who shook hands with the president and first lady.

With those benefit concerts behind them, they have a head of steam heading into the tour. And they aren't taking it lightly. In two weeks, they're going into Bob Weir's San Rafael studio to begin a heavy rehearsal schedule, some 20 days, an unusually intense regimen for this band.

"We're going to rehearse like crazy before we go out," Kreutzmann said. "I want us to be really, really good."
 
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4th Disciple

New member
This is gonna be fkcin crazy! ive been waitin to catch the dead together for a minute.... no more phil lesh solos.. thank god :) :)
 
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North

CRAP.. why didnt i see this 3 days sooner.

I just booked plane tix for S.F. and leave for home 2 days before the shows there. CRAP CRAP CRAP!

and no shows at Alpine Valley? WTF?
 
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stoned teacher

Tickets weren't 100 for all shows...and for some shows market value has taken over and they're selling for less...and are very readily available...(can't speak for the shows out west....there's less of them so that may make difference...)

I have a feeling that deadheads will be able to pick up tickets at the venue/parking lot for a lot of these shows for way less than ticket price...

Getting ready to truck on down to Greensboro...
 
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