Party Of The Century Scheduled For This Summer

I was thinking we were out because of the ticket price but I had a feeling the prices would come down. I still have my hotel reservations within walking distance and we still might go if prices get a little cheaper. I'm not going to cancel our hotel reservations until the last minute. I'm kind of debating it with my wife right now...but we each have our own funds so I'll spend mine as I please.

 

All five shows will be shown on Youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/dead50

 

Pretty cool streaming options in this day and age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6fc_Cxe0dE

 

the Rainbow controversy.. http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/06/grateful-deads-reunion-concert-ends-with-controversial-rainbow/

 

As it turned out, we cancelled our hotel reservations and were just planning on watching at home since we didn't get tickets. During the show last night we decided we had to be there for Sunday at least. We scored a couple of tickets with un-obscured views and we were even able to get a room at the hotel we originally booked...withing walking distance! So we'll watch tonight's show at home and be in Chicago tomorrow night.

Side note....back in 1995 I had this guy airbrush me a shirt with a big Steal Your Face on it with a mushroom and some other stuff in the middle of it. I think I gave him $20 and half an ounce of pot for it. I happened to be wearing that shirt at Jerry's last show. I also happen to still have that shirt so I think I'll wear it Sunday just for the hell of it. Why not?

Also....I'm kind of chuckling about all the people who said Trey was going to ruin it. Trey is doing just fine.

 

Well, that was awesome!

 

Saw a pick the other day, a friend of mine was nearly front row at one of the shows...700$ tickets....you gotta be fuckin' kidding me.

 

I really didn't get to check out the Shakedown scene. I wish we could have but we didn't have the time for it. We didn't even get to our hotel until a little after 5 pm. The hotel was on Michigan Ave...north of the venue just a bit. We took a few beers with us, stopped to wait in line for food, made it around to the south end of the venue and then we jumped in line (more like....crowd) to get in. That took forever. We got to our seats just before the band walked on stage.

We were in the 5th row behind the floor and just about the center of the stage. Pretty damn good seats for waiting until Saturday to get tickets.

There were a few people selling stuff here and there on the way back but most of the shirts they were selling were not very good at all. I bought one kind of cool shirt for my son. I bet there was all kinds of great stuff on the lot though. We probably could have checked it out after the show but the crowd was massive and we were already heading north. By the time we finally got some elbow room....there was no way I was walking back through that crowd to get to the lot.

But I'm not going to complain about that. I was just glad to get to be there.