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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-grateful-dead-jam-on-uncle-johns-band-and-sugar-magnolia-live-20130506

Up now officially... http://www.dead.net/may1977

So Sammy Hagar and Uncle Cracker are opening for Furthur this summer? WTF. St Stephen > I Can't Drive 55 > Caution ? http://i.imgur.com/g49Gqrr.jpg Odd.

From Bob Lefsetz latest blog: Utterly LAUGHABLE! And this is the OFFICIAL CHANNEL! Is someone brain dead there? It's almost impossible to watch this video and have a desire to go, talk about revealing the clueless men behind the curtain. This is the Stones. A band that can't even play "The Last Time" as well as you did in middle school. In case you've been buried in a hole, the Stones got rid of all those high-priced seats by blowing them out for $85. Four digits worth. Doubt me? Just read these tweets from Wes Brodsky (@WesBrodsky): @Lefsetz how right you were... Look at the $85 ticket line at Staples for Rolling Stones. Slashed everything last min http://t.co/x9Lh0q45OC @Lefsetz btw that line wraps around 3 times. Must be 2-3k tickets that got released at the $85 price point Click through to that pic. You'll be stunned. Then again, that's how it used to be, back when concert tickets cost 3, 4 and 5 dollars. Before greed turned everybody into a bottom-fisher. In other words, these people would have gone for a reasonable price, they wanted to attend, but not for $600. Meanwhile, they couldn't even bake in the fees? I mean even the Eagles, who broke the triple digit ducat figure, don't have the chutzpah to charge extra, they include the fees in the ticket price. But the dirty little secret is the twenty seven to forty bucks in fees are promoter profit. In other words, the Stones are not part of the solution, but part of the PROBLEM! And is anybody really gonna pay $600 for a ticket after this? Or are they just gonna wait for the bargain? This is how Ron Johnson lost his job running J.C. Penney, by trying to turn a second-rate brand based on discounts into his previous employer, Apple. But even Apple doesn't insult you with prices this high. Yup, you can see the Stones or buy an iPad, which will give you years of functionality, well, at least until the Cupertino company supersedes the model you've got, unlike the Stones, who've been playing the same old songs for decades. And I got this interesting e-mail from a scalper: "From: Brad Coombs Re: Stones Tickets Bob: A few observations from my brother-in-law at Circle City Tickets, in Indianapolis. Brad, He's right on everything about how the markets work and that eventually people just say screw it I'm not going. With social media if people are thinking that way it only takes a short time to get a "tipping point" where virtually no one new is going and the sales just stop. You'll always have the die-hards that will find a way to go no matter what but after that a lot of people only go so as not to be out of the loop socially. Thanks for forwarding. Mike Mike Peduto Circle City Tickets" Yup, resellers know the game better than the Stones! But come on, if the above video isn't taken down by time you read this, I'd be stunned. There's no energy. The crowd looks like a parody of the seventies. The band is so thin they make Gwen Stefani look fat, and she looks like she stepped onto the set of "Cocoon," and she sucks besides...well, she adds nothing. Why didn't the band get someone their own age? It's not like the audience cares about Stefani, maybe only the press. Where was Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy? Fergie worked on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame special because that was made for everybody, for HBO, not fans. So if anybody who was at this show says it was great, they're lying. Because we have evidence. This horrible video. The Stones shouldn't have gone out at all. They're a laughingstock. Video may have killed the radio star, but social media and the Internet put a stake in the heart of the Rolling Stones, who should have quit while they were ahead, kept their money and stayed home. They're an insult to history. They rehearsed? Paul McCartney is better in his SLEEP!

Good stuff. Price is right too! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/etree-mobile/id584868442?mt=8

WOW. I can't believe this. They're *finally* offering downloads of new releases!!! "Once these 15,000 boxes are gone, May 1977 and its shows will never be available again on CD. However, the 111 tracks will be made available on release date as FLAC and Apple lossless full-set-only downloads." Finally!!!

Link was apparently put up in error and should be announced on 5/8.... Listening party and a DL "seaside chat" as well as the tracklisting in this link: Nice venue error on 5/17... http://www.dead.net/e72photos/features/daves-picks/features/jam-week/april-12-april-18-2013?page=100&filter0[0]=product What's Inside: •Five Complete Shows • 5/11/77 St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, MN • 5/12/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL • 5/13/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL • 5/15/77 St. Louis Arena, St. Louis MO • 5/17/77 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY •14 Discs, 111 tracks •Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman •Artwork by Grammy Award-winning graphic artist Masaki Koike •Period Photos by James R Anderson •Historical Essay by Steve Silberman •Individual show liner notes Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000

Another given tune the Stones will be doing this tour.. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/01/mississauga_high_school_choir_to_perform_with_rolling_stones.html

Dem Kebekers sure like their ZPZ!~

Zappa Plays Zappa will embark on a tour celebrating the classic Frank Zappa album Roxy & Elsewhere. The band, led by Frank’s son Dweezil Zappa, will make their way across the U.S., Canada and Europe this fall and winter. Following the tour, Zappa Plays Zappa will pay homage to the album by performing at Hollywood’s Roxy Theatre on the 40th anniversary, to the day, of Frank Zappa’s epic series of concerts that produced Roxy & Elsewhere. A full list of confirmed dates can be found below. As previously reported, the footage and recordings from Frank Zappa’s legendary Roxy run are being compiled into a concert film called The Roxy Performances. A trailer for the film was released back in 2003, but so far no full movie has been released. Zappa Plays Zappa 2013 Tour Dates 9/3/13 Providence,RI - Lupo’s 9/4/13 Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Music Hall 9/5/13 Columbus, OH - LC Pavilion 9/6/13 Iowa City, IA - Englert Theater 9/7/13 Urbana, IL - Krannert PAC/ Ellnora Guitar Festival 9/8/13 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater 10/8/13 Lincoln, NE - Rococo Theatre 10/9/13 Eau Claire, WI - State Theatre 10/10/13 Chicago, IL - Copernicus Center 10/11/13 Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue 10/12/13 Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection 10/13/13 Kent, OH - Kent Stage 10/16/13 Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre 10/17/13 Buffalo, NY - Kleinhans Music Hall 10/18/13 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre 10/19/13 Toronto, ON - Queen Elizabeth Theatre 10/20/13 Ottawa, ON - Algonquin Commons Theatre 10/22/13 Laval, QC - Salle Andre’ Matie 10/23/13 Sherbrooke, QC – Theatre Granda 10/24/13 Saint Hyacinthe,QC – Centre de Arts Juliette-Lassonde 10/25/13 Saint Jean sur Richelieu, QC – Theatre des Deux Rives 10/26/13 L’Assomption, QC - Theatre Hector Charland 10/27/13 Quebec City, QC - Imperial Theatre 10/28/13 Rimouski, QC - Salle Desjardins-Telus 10/31/13 New York, NY - Beacon Theater 11/1/13 Portland, ME - State Theater 11/2/13 Boston, MA - House Of Blues 11/3/13 Ridgefield, CT - Ridgefield Playhouse 12/8/13 Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy 12/9/13 Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy 12/10/13 Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy

Does this smell of "jee, we're not selling out the house with our $650 seats so we'll paper them the day of for $85 to fill it" or is it me? Special $85 tickets for the 50 & Counting Tour sold out immediately when they first went on sale. Fans may have another opportunity to purchase a few additional seats at this price, once production is loaded in and availability can be determined. Go here to register: http://bit.ly/RS_Register

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John M Kadlecik: Bob wanted to play... if Phil, the crew & management couldn't talk him out of it, you think i have some magic power? This wasn't overpartying, btw, it was accidentally taking an ambien instead of a painkiller... the shoulder injury is real, & the white guitar just showed up the last couple of shows because it only weighs 3 or 4 lbs

How in the fuck is that Phil's call or anyone else's for that matter? Mind you I havent seen anything but if Bob or any teammate says they are good to go you and you have known them for years you give them the benefit of the doubt. I think it's less about not telling the other what NOT to do, but more about doing what almost any sane person would think is the right thing to do for a friend and brother of 50 years who's in major crisis. But sadly it was the former and not the latter that happened. But then again, how long did these guys carry on with the band while Jerry slowly killed himself right in front of their eyes?

Methinks: Shoulder injury + booze + meds + 9 shows in 12 days + 65 years old seems reasonable. What I find sadder then watching that video, is the fact that they didn't bag the show at set break, or at *least* just keep Weir off stage. WTF was Phil thinking? Mind you, compassion has never run deep in GD land so it's really not that much of a shocker I suppose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu7rugK4vJE&t=0m53s

Not good.. http://zagsblog.com/articles/bobby-weir-collapses-on-stage-during-concert-and-is-taken-away-in-an-ambulance/ And some more pics here: http://www.philzone.org/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=439459&post=14083139#POST14083139 (((Bobby)))

I wonder how well attended this was given tickets on Stubhub were going for $6

The SPAC and Alpharetta prices are for parking passes. That aside, you can get pretty cheap tickets for pretty much every show...

Impending Toronto date?

This is going to be a VERY cheap show for a lot of Pholks.

The Montreal show is not being sold via TM but through http://www.evenko.ca/en/ so the usual cut/pasting of the rollingstones.com address like people have been doing won't work. Yes that will be crazy as it's the Sunday of the GP!

Great article!: http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/48216173465/the-business-of-phish

Black Sabbath have announced four North America summer shows in support of the release of their new album, 13, due out June 11. The dates include stops in Holmdel, NJ, Los Angeles, Seattle and Toronto, ON. Tickets for these shows go on sale Saturday, April 20. Pre-sale tickets will be available beginning on April 18. In addition, in advance of the release of 13, the album’s first single “God Is Dead?†will debut on Thursday, April 18 at 3:00 PM (ET)/12 Noon (PT). Produced by Rick Rubin (seven-time Grammy winner, two of those as Producer of the Year). Here’s a look at Black Sabbath’s North American dates August 4 Holmdel, NJ—PNC Bank Arts Center August 14 Toronto, ON—Air Canada Centre August 24 Seattle, WA—Gorge Amphitheatre September 3 Los Angeles, CA—Los Angeles Sports Arena Although it seems Ozzy has fallen off the wagon. This is not good on the eve of a tour... http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2013/04/16/20744826-wenn.html

$103 all in for good seats in the sheds? Good luck with that.