Posted on 03/03/2015 11:47:33 AM PST by C19fan
A three day pass for The Grateful Dead's "Fare Thee Well" sold out reunion show in Chicago are being offered for as much as $116,000 on online ticket site, StubHub. That price gets fans a spot on the general admission floor in front of the stage. But just to walk in the door will still cost upwards of $1,435 -- and that's an obstructed view seat!
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Rebel has sold out
Because dropping acid and rolling in the dirt ain’t free.
“A fool and his money are soon parted”.
Casey Jones you’d better watch your wallet. Trouble ahead, Jerry Garcia is dead. No way I would pay that much to see a remnant of the group.
Never liked them. I also will never pay more than $50 to see a band, no matter how good the light show.
“A fool and his money are soon parted”.
LOL!
VW van reunion tour.
some folks have too much money and time with zera to do.
This is like, those who fondly remember the band but are now huge-bucks traders and such. Who else would lay out what it costs to buy a medium size house?
Whatever machine they raged against, it was not the capitalist one.
Only a retarded old drug-addled hippy mind would pay for some crap like that!
I wish they’d chosen to close things out by announcing a couple of short-notice, unadvertised “Formerly the Warlocks” shows, selling the tickets using their old network.
That might have been fun.
They’ve had one helluva run.
I never got into the Grateful Dead that much. There were some good tunes, but I was not a member of that lifestyle, a “wanna-be-perpetually-doped-up kind of Hippy. To each his own. I’m sure that group would figuratively throw rocks at some of my favorites.
I’m one of the 22 people alive in the 70’s who will tell you straight out that I liked two of the world’s silliest songs; #1. Kung-Fu Fighting #2. Disco Duck, and two of the world’s corniest; #3.To Sir With Love, by Lulu. #4. Could It Be Magic by Barry Manilow. Yes, I liked them, I liked them real good!
In 1998, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart, along with several other musicians, formed a band called the Other Ones, and performed a number of concerts that year, releasing a live album, The Strange Remain, the following year. In 2000, the Other Ones toured again, this time with Bill Kreutzmann but without Lesh. After taking another year off, the band was active again in 2002. With Lesh's return for this go-round, the Other Ones then included all four living former Grateful Dead members who had been in the band for most or all of its history.
In 2003, the Other Ones changed their name to the Dead. The Dead toured the country in 2003 and 2004. In 2008, members of the Dead played two concerts, called "Deadheads for Obama" and "Change Rocks". In 2009 the Dead performed on a spring tour, and were at the Rothbury Music Festival on July 4, 2009.
I wouldn't pay one red cent to see them.
Absolutely right. Without Garcia, it's not the Dead. It would be like the three remaining Doors members (Krieger, Manzerak and Densmore) getting togeather and calling it a Doors concert.
$116K? Holy crap, gonna need a big miracle.
Counter culture don’t come cheap, friend.
Good post. Every sold ticket funds lefties.
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