The majority of those who sent in for partial refunds have temporarily stopped saying, “FUCK SHAPIRO!” for now, but there’s others that haven’t given up their mantra yet. The vast majority of people have received their check in the mail and have reported that their refunds were correct and their tickets were returned in the same condition they were sent. While the process took a little longer than anticipated, I’m glad it’s mostly behind us. If you still haven’t received your refund at this point, you can find contact info here to have your problem resolved-> “Refund Issues”.
In the meantime, the gear has been loaded up and is heading east as Dead and Company are set to illuminate the country. Scalpers are getting screwed like Perez Hilton at a Gay Pride Parade after party. I’m not sure if our favorite musicians thought that since the demand for the Fare Thee Well Shows greatly exceeded their expectations, they would sell out arenas across the country on this tour but that obviously isn’t happening. Tickets are still available for damn near everything and prices on StubHub are below face in many cases and dropping daily. This one is shaping up to be the perfect storm for US as not only are WE ALL GETTIN IN but if you waited to buy tickets, it’s likely you’re getting in for free. Cash or Trade is looking like a Flea Market for Dead and Company tix with many ads nearly begging people to take their tickets. There’s gonna be plenty of room to dance at these shows!
Where the hell are all of John Mayer’s fans? He’s supposed to be popular, right? Didn’t they buy any tickets? Maybe they should have had Taylor Swift singing Donna’s parts. I wonder what ticket sales would be like if Trey was playing? I’m looking forward to what John will be bringing to these shows musically but one thing he’s obviously not bringing is fans. This goes to show why playing 3 shows, that ultimately became 5 shows, for the 50th Anniversary was a brilliant idea. If Dead and Co were only playing 3 shows at MSG the demand would be ridiculous. Scale that out to an entire 22 show tour and the results aren’t nearly as impressive. For those that have talked about the rumors of more shows being added, I’m not so sure about that. I heard someone mention New Mexico. You can’t sell out Philly or Mass and you’re gonna play a smaller market like New Mexico? I guess ya never know…
Fans who registered are discovering their fate on the lottery for tickets to the free show on November 7th at Madison Square Garden. Victory posts by winners have been circulating all over social media. Being that the 10,000 seats is just a little more than half capacity for MSG, I’m sure other opportunities for tickets that are “Less free” are on the way. Imagine if they hit folks with the service and handling charge on the free tickets pushing up the cost to $18. All hell would break loose. I don’t try to guess what Jerry would say or do often unless he actually has said it and he DID say, “It all rolls into one and NOTHING comes for free”. Gotta be some money being exchanged somewhere before long. I don’t imagine auctions will bring in big money for seats but I bet there’s gonna be a chance to give some loot to The Robin Hood Foundation and get your tickets. I struck out on the lotto but regardless, I know I’ll be in the Garden on November 7th and if you choose to be there, you will be also!
An enormous wave of freshly divorced 40 and 50 somethings are set to embark on another chapter of reaching for the Gold Ring. As the band readies for an epic musical voyage from Coast to Coast, for the first time in a long time, more salty genetic confetti will be tossed around the hotel rooms of the fans than the members of the band. Folks being reintroduced into the single world along with 10,000- 20,000 others in the same boat during a tour like this is a recipe for one helluva an orgy. If you’re reading this, you might be one of em. This has truly been a year of incredible come backs for the people in our circles. Sights, sounds and things from the past have returned with increasing intensity. I wonder if crabs will make the same kind of comeback into the community. Does anybody get crabs anymore? I think they vanished when folks started gardening their undercarriages. It’s amazing to think that all those years, all you had to do was shave your pubes and your chances of crabs would’ve been close to zero. Sometimes things like that amaze me. Why the hell did it take so long for companies to make underwear for men in a color other than white? Could there have been been a worse choice in color for a man’s underwear in the first place? 100 years later some genius at Fruit Of The Loom recognizes that maybe making them in black would be a good idea. 100 years of the single brown pinstripe before somebody handled that problem. How many other problems exist in this world that are that easy to correct but nobody has done a damn thing about it yet? Makes ya wonder…
The sports world felt the effects that Grateful Dead members have on the universe when the Chicago Cubs made it to the NLCS solely because The Fare Thee Well Shows happened in Chicago. The remaining members of The Dead not named Garcia definitely had something to do with it. Unfortunately for Cubs fans, the same members that left enough magic behind in Chicago to fuel them to the NLCS will be playing in New York during the week of The World Series. The writing was on the wall all along. Where is the band playing this fall? Is Dead and Co playing in Canada? Are they playing in Kansas City? How about Chicago? Nope… It’s perfectly clear that based on the influence our favorite musicians have on everything that happens in the world that The Mets are destined to win The World Series Many will think it was because of their incredible pitching led by starters with hair like Fabio or because of the play of their second baseman, Daniel Murphy. Most people will totally fail to realize that it’s all because of Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh. Those that have eyes to see, let them see… It’s all very clear to me…
News surfaced of a couple of spots of cancer on Phil’s bladder that were removed recently. I would encourage everybody to take just ONE minute from your day, every day for the next month, to visualize Phil in perfect health. The power of the Hive Mind is remarkable! Focused attention with specific intention in intercession for others has a powerful impact. 60 seconds of focused attention with intention for Phil by all of US will go a long way. I see every cell is his body completely healthy and whole with nothing missing and nothing broken! He must be feeling OK because he popped in to play at TXR with The Terrapin Family Band last night! We Love you Phil!
I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m as happy as a midget at a mini skirt convention. We’re less than a week away from another large scale musical experience featuring our favorite musicians and John Mayer also. This time next week the first show will be grafted into our neurology and we’ll all be gathering together in The greatest city on earth! We’re just about there again! Can’t wait to see you all on the road!
Dead To The Core,
Dean Sottile (pronounced So Tilly)
Both Colorado shows sold out quickly. Just sayin’–there are places where demand is high. The venue here holds around 9,000.
Yup, San Francisco as well. Smaller venues sold out. Not to mention, nearly every Deadhead has been looking for an excuse to make a trip to Colorado since buds became legal… Secondary market is nothing tho. Still lower levels and floors for most of the others.
Broompatch sold out? Glad I got mine
I’m glad you did too Zoe!!! You deserve em! That should be great! Smallest venue on the tour.
Paris Hilton at a Gay Pride Parade after party ..LMAO!
Perfect storm and plenty of room to dance, will see brother!
Thanks for another share! ⚡?⚡
It’s PEREZ Hilton… paparazzi pseudoceleb.
Dang spell check …urghh
MSG, Broomfield and LA for me! Giggity, giggity, mini tour starts in t minus one week!!
Once again, The Grateful Dean Scottile ‘ s words of Wisdom start my day off with a smile.
Dunno, we have checked with about fifteen heads in five states (NY,Penn,Cal.,Oregon,Conn.NH and maine) and no one knows anyone who 1) won tickets to 11/7 or 2)heard they didn’t. As such this seems exactly like Chicago and all the confusion associated with that. The winners list is totally blank!Whatever. It sounded like a good idea, but I am not happy as 11/7 is an iportantdate to me, and you wouldn’t want to hear what others that I know are saying about it. It seems to add insult to injury for some, especially the many many who wont travel to NY. That includes about fifty people that I know, and is a drag. Some got reexcited about 11/7 and said they would indeed go, now they are evenmore pissed than they were when they got shut out of Chicago. They just want to see ratdog. period. Telling them “They should just go and will get in” does nothing, these folks have many significant serious health issues to deal with. When someone says here is something fun and free and then pulls it away, it causes grief. Some are even dumping their Worcester tickets and say forget itdoesnt matter anyways seriously. This is all fun and games until people who take the dead extremely seriously stat getting pisssed. I am hearing things I never thought I would hear, and I am not talking about a tape of the band..I am talking about people dissing the band, saying things they shouldnt. .Thee fewer the better is true, but screw 11/7. I’ll be happy on 11/8,but wondering where 11/9 is. The whole thing seems a mess to me, maybe it is, but Chaos can be great, right? but hey at we’d have to stay home and watch paint dry. I’d rather be with Bob,i f they would just tour west africa tickets would be easy to get. Youssou is there waiting. I guess us Mass heads are the only ones having this 11/7 experience. To us we dont think it is really even happening.
Dean, Is is possible with your connections you could find where our refund and tickets are? We sent an email to the “refundprogram” email address two weeks ago. They responded saying our refund and tickets were mailed Oct. 5 and if we have not received our refund by last week to email again. We emailed again and now they are not responding. Thing is, we enclosed a Priority Mail 3-5 day delivery SASE for them to use. The tracking number is still “not found.” If they used the correct self-addressed stamped envelope, we should have received everything the week of Oct. 5th. Any response will be helpful at this point. Thanks.
If you send me your information, I’ll get it directly to Peter. It’s important to him that everyone is taken care of properly.
Can you contact us by email so we can give you our info there? Thank you, Dean.
Message sent
After providing Peter’s office with our ticket numbers, our tickets were found! Within three minutes! And are “in the mail” today! Apparently, the tickets were sitting around the office with no address attached to them. They could give us no definitive answer on how that happened. And apparently another office is handling the refund checks, so not sure about that yet, but. . .
THANK YOU, Dean, You are a miracle!!!
Awesome! I’m always happy to help! I’m sure you’ll be taken care of immediately. Glad I could help you!!!
I’ll forward that info first thing in the morning Jason and Sharon.
Hey now, Just got confirmation from Shapiro’s office: The originals were mailed yesterday.
dont forget that if you got bad seats for anywhere but Philly that it is possible to upgrade usually for a fee of like $25, to do so go on the ticketdastard site and go to help area, in the contact us link they explain they can upgrade/exchange seats, u just email per their form, it worked for me for DC, so I wont be staring at a wall. Remember it is not the same as transfer, in which you can transfer a ticket to anyone anywhere with an email address. They suck, but these two functions might be alright in the end. PS I gave up on 11/7 and all my friends are laming out on 11/1 so it like Tonights The Night and then Philly and if/when 11/7 is available me go, otherwise its Worcester and then grounded. The thing that sucks is that 11/1 is my damn Year Anniverssary since Ihad a drink, like get it, my medallion, oh well I’ll get a lobster and maybe they can interview me on Amex upstaged about sobriety. Remember dont drink on tour no matter what, square paper is ok I think though. I dont wanna be a dry drunk, so i am avoiding 11/7 like a red sox fan, even though I dont care about sports much……………….see u during TODAYS space.
Keep me posted with what you ultimately receive back as your stubs, and if they are your originals. If they are not the originals, I wonder what they will be – if they are just fronts of the ticket stubs. Where can I stream the Dead & Co shows? We are seeing the show in St. Louis in November, and still looking forward to it … despite all of my stress with the stub return/refund missing. Cheers!
Our go-to for the best sound for Dead & Co. and other jam band related events in the NE is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/taperrob. Last night, taperrob was live (audio only) when we tuned in, about a half hour before the concert’s official start time. Except for a few drops in the first set, his feed stayed live throughout the set break to the end.
You can listen to last night’s show and others from his archive there now.
Last night we also went to http://mixlr.com/rippleish20/ as a back-up stream in case taperrob’s feed dropped. This site can be helpful for the chat because links get posted to other audio streams as they are found or requested – helpful in case the stream you choose to listen to first has technical difficulties. Sometimes video stream links can be found as well. But the best videos are all on YouTube today anyway 🙂
Will let you guys know what I receive when the magical package finally arrives! And Sharon, let us know if you find your original tickets, too! From what I heard last night, you’re going to have a blast in November!
Thanks for the tip on where to find the live music. LOVE the live recordings. And well, the silver lining here is that I got to connect-in with cool people and learn about some resources I didn’t know of previously. So thank you for that. I’ll post again when I have a status on our tickets/refund – which is hopefully soon. As I think you may have said, seems focus for band management folks likely shifts to the new tour now at this point. Hopefully the loose ends from FTW do get tied up though. Cheers! Sharon
P.S. I guess I need to think of a cool blog post alias – other than just my name, Sharon. I will work on that for next time. : )
So disappointing. I absolutely regret sending back our stubs. There should have been a more efficient way to process the refunds. What a disaster, and with months of stress, to boot! I am STILL eating, nothing in our mail today. This all leaves such a bad taste.
Sharon
At least it appears most folks received their originals back. Hopefully by some miracle you’ll still receive yours. And we still have the memories of the love, the community and the music. Good luck!