MoMack

FYI: $60USD face = $100cdn on the visa. And I think its worth grumbling. Jerry was obviously the only one that "got it".

Its the principle as much as anything. They think we forgot that Jerry won't be there and the crowd singing along will sound better than what comes from the stage. (yes, sour grapes) But seriously. Its not a fucking Madonna or Eagles show. Its the fucking Dead. Phil should edit his speach - "We couldn't have done this without you, you're part of the band blah blah blah" should be "we want your fucking money, why are you all so stupid as to have made us richer than imaginable and why are you still doing it you dumb asses" Family. Right.

$100/seat. Fucking BULL SHIT Happy New Year! The Dead, featuring Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined by Warren Haynes and Jeff Chimenti, will play the following shows: Sunday, April 12, 2009 at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC. Reserved seats are available at $93.00, $69.00 and $53.50 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. Reserved seats are available at $102.00 and $72.00 per ticket. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Showtime is 7:00 PM. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA. Reserved seats are available at $79.00 and $49.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Friday, April 17, 2009 at the Times Union Center in Albany, NY. Reserved seats are available at $100.00 and $60.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Saturday & Sunday, April 18 & 19, 2009 at the DCU Center in Worcester, MA. Reserved seats are available at $100.25 and $69.00. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, NY. Reserved seats are available at $100.50 and $60.50 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at the Wachovia Arena @ Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Reserved seats are available at $99.00 and $73.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Friday, April 24, 2009 at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY. Reserved seats are available at $102.00 and $57.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Saturday, April 25, 2009 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY. Reserved seats are available @ $103.50 and $58.50 per ticket. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Sunday, April 26, 2009 at the XL Center in Hartford, CT. Reserved seats are available at $102.00 and $72.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Tuesday & Wednesday, April 28 & 29, 2009 at The IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ. Reserved seats are available at $102.00 and $57.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Friday and Saturday, May 1 & 2, 2009 at Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA. Reserved seats are available at $99.00 and $69.00 Reserved. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at All State Arena in Chicago, IL. Reserved seats are available at $99.00 and $54.00 per ticket. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Thursday, May 7, 2009 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO. Reserved seats are available at $98.50 and $63.50. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Saturday, May 9, 2009 at The Forum in Los Angeles, CA. Reserved seats are available at $89.00 Reserved and $53.50 Reserved. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. Sunday, May 10, 2009 at Shoreline Amphitheatre In Mountain View, CA. Reserved seats are available at $105.00 Reserved and $45.00 Lawn. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Showtime is 7:30 PM. The only mail in dates for these performances are January 13, 2009 through January 20, 2009. Orders will be filled on a first come, first serve basis by postmark, not when we receive them. Please do not mail in before January 13th as your order will be disqualified. 4 ticket limit per person per show. Taper tickets will be available for all shows on the tour except for Shoreline Amphitheatre where taping will be permitted on the lawn. Taper tickets are available at the higher ticket price for each venue. Taper tickets are limited to 2 per person per show. To reduce our carbon footprint our new address to mail in for this tour is: GDTS TOO P.O. Box 456 Stinson Beach, CA 94970

I can't even get to shnflac.net to do that???

I can't get in there?

Which sucks for those of us seriously considering hitting Dead shows instead...

Any hotel suggestions for Worcester?

no one.

Just watched three great promos from YouTube for the upcoming Dead run. Worth 15 minutes of time. Got some goosebumps and I think I just went from doing 1+ of the tour, to 2+, maybe even three... (the three are "We Strike At Dawn", "Get Weirder" and "Time in the Groove")

I didn't mean today - I meant over time.

I think that that is probably the ideal for people our age. Have the "6 months salary" or whatever they say you should have accessible stored in there.

You don't pay taxes on initial RRSP investments (or alternatively it becomes a refund). The ideal strategy would likely be to max RRSPs and then use any potential tax refund (if not done up front) to deposit into the TFSA. As far as long term goes, it makes the most sense to go RRSP. The tax savings now are worth more then 25+ years from now. Plus, long term = retirement and the fact that its harder and there are more penalties to withdraw from an RRSP makes it more likely that the money gets used for what is was meant for. I think I read that the TFSA is a better vehicle for income-splitting if that is a benefit to you. Basically it all depends on where you're at in life. If you're thinking of buying a home in the next few years, you're probably best getting the RRSP account up over $20,000 and then concentrating on the TFSA so that you can use it all for the house. Really - I don't know what I"m talking about but I am extending my lunch hour.

You don't need Hampton tickets that bad Basher - they're going to tour. Hit something closer and cheaper.

No thoughts here - but a question. We get $5,000/year to put in the TFSA. When we withdraw we get that space back and can redeposit (say if we withdraw for a downpayment on a house or something). My question is, do I have to deposit $5,000 this year to have $10,000 in room by next year? Or is it automatic? I don't have the cash to put anything in a TFSA right now, but i have the credit and would quicly deposit and withdraw if necessary to accumulate future deposit room.

Someone gave me a copy of the halloween DVD with "iclips" in teh bottom. So it can be done. But I'm from Canada and they think I'm slow ehh

http://gratefulvideo.com/ Etta James up there with Bobby telling the crowd that "The Grateful Dead is the badest American Blues band there is and the Tower of Power is the badest horns."

The most common problem is that your eyes continue to deteriorate. This means that you end up needing glasses again in 5 years or 10 years or whatever. Some doctors will give you life time "re-dos" but I think there is a limit to how many your eyes can handle.

thats why the pigeons felt so long! were you there Chewie? The Genesis from 12/30 was pretty sweet too!!

all about the bling

ps. I wasn't bitching about Phish playing Bonnaroo - I think its great. Its the past few years I was bitching about. And not necessarily because I don't like some of the bands - just because I think they're more suited to Molson Amph and the like.

Honestly. Every time I read anything you post, whether to me or anyone else, I'm always left with "why are you such a fucking dick?" We were having a discussion that I was enjoying. You are the reason I won't be at bonnaroo and exactly the kind of "music-love" that ruins things. Were you at Grateful Fest? No. Rothbury probably not. But don't worry, eventually you and your folks will be there and I'll be lamenting their death as well. Merry fucking x-mas

Whats so bad about it is the crowd that potentially comes with it. It changes the atmosphere and attitude of the whole thing, IMO.

I got caught up in this. It was Clear Channel that bought Bonnaroo although they still retain Superfly and AC Entertainment to run it and produce it. Clear Channel may have been bought out by Live Nation? Or however, the TM, LN, CC work, I always take them as one and the same really. Coran Capshaw, DMB manager and now Phish manager has also owned a chunk of Bonnaroo since day one and put up a lot of the dough for the initial festival. If you do a search for Bonnaroo and Clear Channel there are lots of articles. Some of them make my point - yes, being exposed to other acts is great, but there still has to be some common denominator. The commonality with Kanye West and Metallica being Clear Channel / Live Nation. Basically Superfly / AC are in "don't bite the hand that feeds me" and thats why they get the mainstream acts connected to their bosses. Phish gets pushed into doing the festival - which i think is good - because they are now managed by Capshaw AND Bonnaroo did not sell out last year, came in 10,000 under and while it was likely still a profit, it was $1million under expectations - and now the economy has collapsed and they have to get back to the roots.

I think the implication was the early formation of this festival had a number of artists who have covered songs by the Grateful Dead (even the Dead's covers of covers) and thus ever was. Why is this catagorizing myself, or why is it a negative? There isn't a band out there that didn't start from somewhere. My preference is generally ones that started with the Dead. Learned their craft that way. I don't think thats closed minded. You have to start from some sort of reference point. I'm not going to just go onto iTunes and pick random acts and go to festivals built around them. The first couple years of Bonnaroo it was based around this reference point. Superfly and AC Entertainment's Jazzfest programs have always been based around this reference point. Metallica and Kanye West aren't based around this reference point. I'm not saying Coachella is a bad festival. I'm saying that Bonnaroo is for the kind vegan brother bears - or at least it was - and when they booked the acts to go along with that it was a better festival. Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand. The person camped beside you is your new best friend for the weekend. That sort of stuff. If Bonnaroo gets back to that, and phish is there great. I don't see that as me being close minded.

Haven't had it a month yet - but it was $3 on top of what I was paying which means it'll be about $65/month tax in etc. as long as we don't use it in the U.S. or send too many U.S. texts. Those two kill it.