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Anyone going to Chicago for the shows? July 3,4 and 5 at Soldier Field. I scored some Executive suite seats and seats in section 105. I have seen many tickets being sold upwards of $5000/night. When they announced these shows, hotels sold out within a day so I turned to the boat harbor next to the field. Found someone to rent me their cabin cruiser for 4 nights. I won't have to drive or pay to park ($70) the whole weekend. What could be better than a 4th of July Fireworks show during A G.D. Song?
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Have not seen the current version of the Dead, but I saw them about a dozen times between '84 and '94.
Last time I saw them was in the fall of '94 in Denver. This was just a few moinths before Jerry died. the first set was a complete train wreck. They sounded like an out of tune high school band and they were screwing up the lyrics of songs they had been performing for 20 years. At the break my buddy who had seen them almost 100 times said it was the end. He said they were finished as a touring band. Then they came out for the second set and absolutely crushed it. It was like a totally different band.
I was never the type of Deadhead who knew all the lyrics to all the songs. And I rarely listened to them except at live shows and at parties my friends would throw. But I had some of the greatest times of my life at dead shows. They were the ultimate party band. I would dance myself into a mystical trance and their music was just perfect for the mood.
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I'm gonna break every record they've got. I'm tellin' you right now. I don't know how I'm gonna do it, but it's goin' to get done.
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The line up includes Trey Anastasio from Phish. I also saw Phish live several times. They were very much like the dead except I felt they were better musicians.
Also includes keyboardist Bruce Hornsby who toured with the original Dead for a while, and Jeff Cheminti who I saw play with Les Claypool (from Primus) in a band called Oysterhead. Claypool is one of the best musicians I have ever seen and Cheminti is brilliant. That was a great show.