anyone going to see the 50th Grateful Dead anniversary

leftwinger57

I saw this on the early morning stock program Squawk Box. The promoter was saying there will be 3 shows at Soldier Field July 2-4. This was were Jerry played his last show and I guess it's in the middle of the country so that was the reasoning behind Soldier Field. Trey from Phish is the lead guitarist and Bruce Hornsby on piano. Even if I could afford it I would not go , I tried in 2009 when they were just called The Dead w/ Warren Haynes on lead and it was terrible. Further prices were off the charts so I never bothered to see them. I did see the true GD about 28 times Wall of Sound and all and a load of Jerry Band shows and when they were good they were the the best at what they did but if you caught them on an off night they were f#%king horrible. There was no in between w/ them.

dromunds

There's a pretty funny Youtube video, one of those with Hitler, commenting on the Soldier Field shows. Pretty funny and pretty much nails it. Most of my Deadhead buddies aren't interested.

vcwatkins

Not a Deadhead here, but I will say that I really enjoyed Anastasio, Lesh, and Weir playing with Further at Lockn MF. They played Workingman's Dead through and a good selection of "hits". Far exceeded my expectations. And much much better than what I've seen of Bob Weir & RatDog where there doesn't seem to be much lively interaction between players, just Bob's snooze-jam. Never got my attention enough to take me to another place; but might have just been off nights.

mhardy6647

http://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/165645/anyone-going-to-see-grateful-dead-in-july

decal

There is no Grateful Dead anymore.

dromunds

This is the one I referenced above:

http://youtu.be/k-6YgVKtmmY

outlander

I’ll go if they figure out how to bring Jerry back. I also saw them as The Dead with Warren Haynes and it completely sucked. They sounded more Molly Hatchet than the Grateful Dead, instead of a wall a sound it was more like a wall of ****. Hey, what movie was the Hitler clip taken from? Now that’s something I’d like to see.

Joey Ward

They change there name from THE GRATEFUL DEAD to WERE DEAD. Sorry, but the dead are so dead when there dead.

leftwinger57

While it's very true that Pig Pen, Keith, Brent, Vince, and Jerry are really dead when they were on like I said they were the best at what they did .Between covers of every song imaginable to there free form jamming and when Jerry was vibrant one of the best going. I also said there's no in between w/ their fans you either liked them or just never got it or happened to see them on a bad night which unfortunately they had a bad average for a professional touring band. I also said I wouldn't go to this w/ the exception of hitting the lottery taking a plane and catching a Cubs game at Wrigley on an off day or night.