I read on Reddit a few days ago that people are starting to receive GD mail order rejection notices. No one said they had received tickets.
The tension is starting to build.
Later, someone broke down the math. They calculated that there are going to be roughly 45,000 rejections out of 60,000 requests. I have always Hated math.
This past Saturday I opened my mailbox and sticking out from under the junk was the corner of what was clearly a white #10 envelope. It looked thin. F*ck. I pulled it out and ... Thank God!! It's a summons for jury duty! How wrong is that?: Thank God! Jury duty.
I saw an article that John Mayer's mail order was rejected. He's friends with those guys and has a harem of groupies to offer that I am sure the GD would die for! Rejected. What chance do I have?
I looked on Stub Hub on Sunday to get my Plan B in order. Tickets prices range from $8,000 to $58,000. I showed this to my wife who thinks this whole event is ridiculous to begin with. She was thrilled. She said that if I do get tickets I have to sell them so we can pay off our mortgage. I said "no kidding!" She wasn't. We had another fight about the Forth of July. Now I live in constant anxiety that my wife will get to the mail box before I do.
Last night I drove in to our drive way, looked at my mail box and was suddenly struck with heart palpitations.
I keep slipping into these fits of self-hatred and regret for not learning how to draw. I am worried because I think there is a real chance my attempt to draw a Steal Your Face will be mistaken for bird poop and my letter will be tossed in the garbage without a response of any kind.
Today I have found myself hoping that the mail Won't come.
What if I don't get tickets and I send an innocent person to jail because I can't focus during my jury duty? What if my wife gets the mail before I do and sells the tickets just so we can pay off our mortgage and I have to go on a family vacation to the Galapagos Islands? What if I have a heart attack and die the next time I open my mail box - what would happen to my tickets?
Please God. Don't make me sell my car.
Please grant me tickets!!
AAAAAAHH!@
[Edited on 2/10/2015 by axeman]
[Edited on 2/10/2015 by axeman]
Tickets prices range from $8,000 to $58,000. I showed this to my wife who thinks this whole event is ridiculous to begin with.
You're lucky to have such a smart woman in your life. 
What if my wife gets the mail before I do and sells the tickets just so we can pay off our mortgage and I have to go on a family vacation to the Galapagos Islands?
As I was saying....
Beautiful letter! I feel you, as I, too, have been dreading the rejection letter when I check my mail each day. 3 different friends have all received them, and I'm holding my breath!
I looked on Stub Hub on Sunday to get my Plan B in order. Tickets prices range from $8,000 to $58,000. I showed this to my wife who thinks this whole event is ridiculous to begin with. She was thrilled. She said that if I do get tickets I have to sell them so we can pay off our mortgage. I said "no kidding!" She wasn't. We had another fight about the Forth of July. Now I live in constant anxiety that my wife will get to the mail box before I do.
Stub hub is a joke and so please don't use them! Tickets are not on-sale yet (end of Feb.) and so you still have a shot at getting them on-line. No one is actually paying those prices. If I, or any of my friends have extra's we will sell them at cost. I know it was tongue-in-cheek in your letter, but just a friendly reminder to all out there!
People are seling their rejection letter on ebay. 
Maybe I should sell the rejection letter that hit my mailbox yesterday.
Axeman that is a great post!
You need to send that into Relix or at least to the folks at dead.net.
I'm afraid we won't get a room; no rejection letter yet (yay!) but accommodations are hard to come by at this point unless you want to pay through the nose for a hotel that is within reasonable distance from Soldier Field.
Any suggestions, as I've never been to Chicago and don't know what a reasonable distance would be to get back and forth? Thanks!
Go to VRBO.com or homeaway.com
Those are websites where people rent their homes or condos. I've often stayed in great places in Chicago through VRBO.
You might check into air b and b as well. I've not used it but that site is a lower cost alternative to the two sites previously suggested.
I'm afraid we won't get a room; no rejection letter yet (yay!) but accommodations are hard to come by at this point unless you want to pay through the nose for a hotel that is within reasonable distance from Soldier Field.
Any suggestions, as I've never been to Chicago and don't know what a reasonable distance would be to get back and forth? Thanks!
We are staying in Rosemont, near O'Hare, there are a ton of hotels. The Blue Line runs 24/7 both ways from downtown to Rosemont and the hotel is a cheap cab ride from the El stop.
Tickets prices range from $8,000 to $58,000. I showed this to my wife who thinks this whole event is ridiculous to begin with.
Not even if Jerry was still alive and the drugs were free.
Tickets prices range from $8,000 to $58,000. I showed this to my wife who thinks this whole event is ridiculous to begin with.
Not even if Jerry was still alive and the drugs were free.
EGG ZAKK LEE!
Axeman, I wish you luck.
I just don't see me shelling out any significant coin these days for any show much less in a stadium. Hell, one of the best shows I've seen in the past five years was Jack Pearson in Nashville. I believe it was $12.00. Robben Ford in a couple weeks...free!?
Blooby
[Edited on 2/11/2015 by Blooby]
I just don't see me shelling out any significant coin these days for any show much less in a stadium. Hell, one of the best shows I've seen in the past five years was Jack Pearson in Nashville. I believe it was $12.00. Robben Ford in a couple weeks...free!?
I understand your sentiment, but you are missing the point. This is not a show, this is an EVENT! Having been on dead tour since about '83, many of us miss that. It was over when Jerry died and none of the incarnations really lured many of us back "on tour" and so I, like many others, would catch Further or The Dead when they came to my town, but didn't travel. Now the remaining members have announced a 50th anniversary, one-last-chance group of shows. I called, emailed, FB'd, etc. all the usual suspects and we're going to have some closure: One last hurrah to bring it all full-circle and grab that feeling one last time. It isn't about "the show", but about so much more. We'll have a family reunion in Chicago this summer and it will be EPIC!
Sell the tickets 😉
I understand your sentiment, but you are missing the point. This is not a show, this is an EVENT! Having been on dead tour since about '83, many of us miss that. It was over when Jerry died and none of the incarnations really lured many of us back "on tour" and so I, like many others, would catch Further or The Dead when they came to my town, but didn't travel. Now the remaining members have announced a 50th anniversary, one-last-chance group of shows. I called, emailed, FB'd, etc. all the usual suspects and we're going to have some closure: One last hurrah to bring it all full-circle and grab that feeling one last time. It isn't about "the show", but about so much more. We'll have a family reunion in Chicago this summer and it will be EPIC!
This.
I think Trey does a good job with the Jerry parts during the song, but I have doubts about the jam parts and many of the extended solos. Jerry is just not his style of improv.
Doesn't matter. The shows will be fine but the reunion with so many old friends in that setting is what I am looking forward to.
Still praying for good news!!
I understand everyone's perspectives. I wish all those that are going the greatest and most epic get together of all times!
Amyjared your comment about closure is salient. I too have know old heads that are going and I would like to be there just to share in that space and time.
I've decided not to go but I hope to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the Grateful Dead at Lockn' and, hopefully, at Terrapin Crossroads. It is just a personal choice. I know the Chicago shows will be the rock music event of the Summer.
Got our "rejection letter" today from GDTS TOO.
I call it the "letter of shame." I guess it wasn't meant to be.
To all those lucky enough to get tickets, let there be songs to fill the air!
Good article:
It should be a cool event, and I wish I were going. Glad i went to another recent final show though!
