Any Deadheads score concert tickets?

[lambskin]

Wondered if any posters here are secret Deadheads and if so did anyone score a ticket to the concerts in either Chicago or California. Scalping has been rampant and the cost of a ticket is high enough to buy a decent piece of bling.

 

[LAJennifer]

My husband did mail order for Chicago. We got 2 tix for each night. They will be mailed some time in June.

ETA: Everyone else we know who tried for tickets were rejected.

 

[Sky56]

Deadhead here but waiting for the video of the shows to come out later.

 

[VRBeauty]

The Dead are going on another concert tour? I would love to see another one of their concerts! Not sure I'd be willing to pay a bling's worth though.... hmm...

I have to admit I slept through a part of the first Grateful Dead concert I ever attended. What can I say? It was dead week - as in the week before finals!

 

[kenny]

Here you go.

Only a million bucks, but fortunately the view of the stage is obstructed so you don't have to look at the ugly old farts on stage.

 

[minousbijoux]

Some friends scored tix here in California and they are a whole new generation of young Deadheads. It will be really interesting to see what they think.

 

[Sky56]

I've gotten so that I hate being in crowds and the idea of music festivals seem like torture to me. I love music and find that watching concerts on a big screen in my living room is so much better. My husband loves to go and goes without me and doesn't mind the crowds, so at first he was interested in flying to Chicago to see the Dead. But five minutes into researching it, he didn't want to go - the cost, knowing he wouldn't be near the stage, the hassle...and the crowds.

I also don't have much luck at concerts in general: oftentimes the most obnoxious, loud, drunk person at the show is the person seated right by me, even at a quiet show in a nice concert hall by Lyle Lovett or Emmylou Harris.

One of the last "Dead" shows I was at (Furthur at Mountain View, CA) I was sitting at intermission & the loud, smoking people around me made me feel uncomfortable so I move to a quiet seat. It was under a high-up ledge, and shortly afterwards, I was completely doused by beer. It turned out that a guy wearing a backpack spun around and didn't even know he knocked a large cup of beer on my head.

Things like that seemed to happen a lot to me.

Anyway, I'm a Deadhead who loves "Franklin's Tower" & "Row Jimmy Row" but hates half of their songs. (I find songs like "Brown Eyed Women", "Truckin''" and "US Blues" boring and Bobby's singing in general to be atrocious and rough on the ears.)

But when there is a great song and the guitar playing is perfect on a long jam, I love it. That's why I say I'm a Deadhead though I hate their bouncy, happy anthem songs. "Mars Hotel" - pure heaven for me - the Dead at their jazzy, rocking out peak IMO. Drums and Space - just awful and time to go to the bathroom at a concert or fast forward the recording.