Grateful Dead - Santa Clara

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Hey, I'm going to be in Santa Clara that weekend! Any wish tickets left?

Or maybe I'll just skip it. . . .

[Drunk Monk]

We were joking that we could sell our tickets and pay for a trip to Oaxaca and probably have change left over, even without the parking.

[Drunk Monk]

Not nearly up to the glorious standards of old for GDTS, especially given the cost, but I have them now. They just came in the mail. :-D

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Did you pay money for these tickets or in actuality trade T for them and this Mexico trip is just a ruse?

[Drunk Monk]

We really wanted T to go and experience the Grateful Dead actually. It would solve a mystery for her about her parents. But Mexico takes priority. She gets college credit for her study abroad program there. Quite the opposite for the Dead.

[Drunk Monk]

On leaving the movie theater, we were greeted by a 3-piece of street musicians jamming on some dead tunes. Then we ran into a deadhead couple living out of their car; he was brushing his teeth in the parking lot. Then we hit the Poet & Patriot for a Guinness; it was open mike so even more dead tunes.

It's like the ultimate flashback

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Is it really a flashback if you are still living it?

[Drunk Monk]

I just got this email from ticketmaster:

Attention ticket holder!

We have great news regarding your upcoming event.

Greatful Dead – Fare Thee Well Tour
Levis Stadium

Your tickets for order number XXXX has been printed and have been shipped to the address provided.

Thanks for being a fan!

Ticketmaster Fan Support

srsly ticketmaster? you make that much frakkin bank on these shows and you can't even spell the band's name?!?! Ohhhh, that makes me so maddening.

[El Dingo]

I got an email that tickets were still available.

I requested 1 $60.00 seat and was offered the best seat...

Behind the stage.

Jerry would either be furious or laughing. Did Bobby agree to this? Shameful.

[Drunk Monk]

frakkin ticketmaster and levi's. :finga:

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

If only you had gotten two . . .

[Drunk Monk]

This article is misleading. There are still prime tix going for like $2K. These cheap tix are behind the stage, totally obscured view.

We just realized that for $60x2 parking, we should have just rented a hotel for one night. But we'll probably just take public transit in.

Grateful Dead Tickets Once Priced in the Thousands Now Sell for $19
Brad Tuttle @bradrtuttle
10:42 AM ET


C. Flanigan—FilmMagic/Getty Images Bassist Phil Lesh and Guitarist Bob Weir of The Dead perform at the Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 10, 2009 in Mountain View, California.
What a long strange trip it's been for reunion tour ticket prices.

Not long ago, tickets to this summer’s much-anticipated Grateful Dead reunion shows were averaging $2,000 apiece, and some sellers were asking more than $100,000 for three-day passes to the event. Fast-forward to late June, however, and it’s easy enough to buy a ticket for this upcoming weekend’s shows for less than the cost of a concert T-shirt.

The madness kicked off in early 2015, when the Grateful Dead announced it would play a few 50th anniversary reunion shows this summer featuring the “core four” members of the band plus special guests including Phish’s Trey Anastasio. Originally, the plan was for a grand total of three final “Fare Thee Well” shows only at Chicago’s Soldier Field, the last venue Jerry Garcia played with the Dead shortly before he died of a heart attack in 1995.

When tickets went on sale via Ticketmaster in February, some 500,000 people tried to purchase seats online at face values of between $59.50 to $199.50. All the tickets that were then available sold out almost immediately, and then scalpers took advantage of sky-high demand and very limited supply by asking—and often, it seems, getting—per-ticket prices that could have bought a handful of old VW vans. One seller listed a three-day pass for $116,000 on the secondary market, while at least one buyer paid $13,000 for a single ticket to the final show on Sunday, July 5.

Within a few weeks, the Dead announced a pair of “warm-up” shows on its home turf in northern California, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara on June 27-28. At first, it was assumed that hotel and ticket prices for both locations would soar, as would demand for the shows on pay-per-view TV.

Based on the latest ticket prices on the secondary market, quite the opposite is true, at least for the California shows. Over the weekend, the local NBC affiliate reported that Grateful Dead tickets for the show on Saturday, June 27, at Levi’s Stadium were being resold for $35 online, while tickets for Sunday were going for as little as $27.

As of Monday afternoon, sellers were listing tickets on the secondary resale site StubHub priced starting at $30 for the Saturday show in California. Ticket prices were listed from a mere $20.33 for the show on Sunday, June 28. On Tuesday morning, prices for the Santa Clara shows dropped yet again, down to $27.25 for Saturday and just $19 per ticket for Sunday. That’s with all taxes and fees included, mind you.

Prices for the shows in Chicago have retreated as well, though not quite so low. Tickets could be had for $200 apiece for each of the shows on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (July 3-5), while three-day passes were listed starting at just under $600. That’s not cheap by any means. But it’s quite a deal compared to $116,000.

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[thatguy]

A guy I work with is selling 4 GA floor tix for each night for $260 ea (currently)....If anyone is interested, I can connect you...

--tg

[thatguy]

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ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC
You Can Watch the Grateful Dead’s Final Shows on YouTube
Eric Renner Brown / Entertainment Weekly June 23, 2015

But you'll have to pay

Those unable to trek to Chicago or San Francisco to witness the conclusion of the Grateful Dead’s long, strange trip in person will be able to view the Grateful Dead’s final shows from their homes—or anywhere, really. Promoters Live Alliance announced that they will make the band’s final shows—two in Santa Clara on June 27 and 28 and three in Chicago on July 3, 4 and 5—available via YouTube. That means that any YouTube-connected device, ranging from computers to smartphones to gaming consoles, will be able to carry the concerts.

YouTube will broadcast the shows at youtube.com/dead50 and charge $19.95 for broadcasts of each of the Santa Clara gigs, and $29.95 for each of the Chicago ones. Because the shows sold out so quickly, promoters have gradually announced more and more ways to enjoy them remotely, including via pay-per-view, SiriusXM and at movie theaters.

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

From rainbows to raccoons, what a night