**Off Topic** Grateful Dead (How many RX'ers have seen the Dead?)

[SportSavant]

great bit on 60 minutes right now...

 

[Fishhead]

Been there, done that.

 

[SportSavant]

FISHHEAD are you a 'PHISHHEAD'?

how many shows did u see & where?

 

[fivedoorsdown]

around 125 times between the ages of 17-32
still trying to get my braincells back

 

[SportSavant]

fivedoors did you see any of the shows at Rich Stadium in Buffallo?

 

[Fishhead]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SportSavant:
FISHHEAD are you a 'PHISHHEAD'?

how many shows did u see & where?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Just once, at the Silver Bowl in Vegas 5-6 years ago.

 

[Dshotda1]

Best Show I have EVER Been to was in the Old Tampa Stadium w/ Black Crowes and GD...Man I wish they were still around!!

 

[SportSavant]

'the dead' are still touring...

not sure about the crowes though...

I saw the Steve Miller Band aswell as Sting open for the dead in Rich Stadium.

 

[RIOSHILL]

Saw them at Irvine Meadows when Garcia was alive. Respect the group, but never was able to really get into them.

 

[Phaedrus]

Saw them once, and then later incarnations at the Further Festival twice (and saw Bob Weir's RatDog a couple of times as well, which I actually enjoyed more than the Dead/Further.) Never really saw the attraction to the Dead myself, but two of the Mrs. Phaedruses were very into them.


Phaedrus

 

[SportSavant]

the fascination with the dead is the way that the 'jam' or 'improvise' any show. No two shows...ACTUALLY, even the same song!!! is never played exactly the same way twice...

DEAD always encouraged people to share music for free & allowed, even AIDED people to tape their shows & trade them for free (not like today's greedy artists).

DEAD's following was for such a reason... their fans enjoyed the LIVE music...

IMAGINE seeing that fag ROD STEWART 5 NIGHTS in a row

Impossible cauz it would be the same choreographed show every night & you would be

by the fifth night...

With 'Jam' Bands... or the DEAD it would be a DIFFERENT show every evening...

 

[fivedoorsdown]

almost everywhere along the east coast.
sometime seeing 3 shows in the course of a week.

mathews and phish are very good at what they do and brings out a dead type atmosphere also

 

[mgspooky]

Saw them at Madison Square Garden not too long before Jerry moved on.
A night to remember.

 

[gambler1]

Saw them about 4 or 5 times 1 show in the "Meadowlands" was real colorful.

 

[BeatPete]

i only saw the dead once back in 94. it was the last time they played at the boston garden. it was a goodtime. i only wish i coulda gone to more concerts.

as for phish, ive seen them about 15 times. 2 of the times were weekend festivals in limestone maine almost right into canada. wow them hippies party real hard, but never had a problem. everyone was friendly and drugged up

 

[Skyweasel]

Ventura Fairgrounds 1984 (same day as Live Aid)
Minneapolis Metrodome 1986 (1st show w/Dylan)
Minneapolis Met Center 1988
San Fran Polo Grounds 1991 (Bill Graham Tribute)
Oakland Coliseum 1991

I think that's it...

 

[ivanm]

Great band in concert. The last tour with Jerry was terrible. He would forget some of the words, you could not understand him at all. You could tell the rest of the band was fed up with him. Has anyone seen them without Jerry? They were one of a kind