DeadHeads, heads up: Weir / Lesh / Kreutzmann / Hart "Fare The Well" shows will be on Pay-Per-View

[Miles Archer]

Fare Thee Well Shows to Be Available on Pay-Per-View
April 22, 2015

http://www.relix.com/news/detail/fare_thee_well_shows_to_be_available_on_pay_per_view

In addition to the theater broadcast of the Chicago shows, the Fare Thee Well finale in Chicago will now also be available to watch in the comfort of your home. Rolling Stone is reporting that the three shows at Soldier Field featuring the surviving members of the Grateful Dead and Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti will be available via a pay-per-view broadcast produced by Live Alliance. All five shows will also be available via an as-yet-unannounced online streaming platform.

The band's Chicago shows will be available to watch on TV and in theaters, as was previously announced, while the June 27 and 28 Santa Clara, CA shows can be streamed online.

The pay-per-view event will be hosted by CNBC reporter Steve Liesman and feature special guest host Bill Walton, NBA Hall of Famer and noted Deadhead. The intermission for each show will feature taped interviews, live interviews with fans, a short documentary on the Grateful Dead directed by Justin Kreutzmann and more. The broadcast will also be accessible as a video-on-demand option for fans that can't catch the shows live.

[marym625]

1. I don't remember how many times I saw them when Jerry was alive

Many, many times.

I don't know that I want to see them without him. On TV is okay though

[Miles Archer]

2. That's why I used "Weir / Lesh / Kreutzmann / Hart" in my title instead of "Grateful Dead."

They're all working musicians and have the right to work. And as much as Jerry DID NOT WANT to be the head of that group, the Dalai Lama of the Deadheads, it's who he was. He was the "spiritual core" of the sound, whether he liked it or not.

[marym625]

3. I did catch you didn't say, The Grateful Dead

And I totally get why!



We need a little guy toking

[Enthusiast]

7. This is as close as I can find.

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[marym625]

9. Cool!

We can just make an assumption as to what is being smoked

[Enthusiast]

11. ...

[marym625]

13. K&R

[Enthusiast]

8. I've got a brazzillon shows to listen to plus You Tube.

It's one continuous Dead show here. Well, almost.

[marym625]

12. Here as in your home with YouTube?

Or here as in the area you live in?

[Enthusiast]

14. Oh, in my home.

Here's a Reddit Dead page. http://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead

http://www.reddit.com/r/grateful_dead

There are a bunch of Dead sites. I am gaining a new found appreciation for the Grateful Dead and Dylan.

[marym625]

16. Always respected them

And I'm sorry you never saw them live. You just can't ever know what The Dead with Jerry Garcia in concert was.

[Enthusiast]

18. I had a chance to go

to one of the last shows.

I sold my ticket at the last minute. Circumstances were not good with me at the time.

But now I enjoy the music very much.

[marym625]

19. What a bummer! but glad you enjoy the music!

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Personally, for me, after '91 it was pretty downhill.

I saw a few stellar shows from '92-'95 but it was much more spotty. The scene got worse and you could tell Jerry was in decline.

[zappaman]

33. Couldn't agree more!

Especially regarding the scene.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. You know I have a pretty solid skeptic side...

but there are things around the Dead, etc. that I still don't bother to try to explain logically.

WRT to the scene, etc. going downhill... to me it all felt like it was very much connected and part of the same thing. Maybe not anything cosmic but definitely what you would call a feedback loop. The energy got sort of fucked up.

[zappaman]

42. Yeah it did.

Sure would have been interesting to see what the scene would have become if Jerry hadn't died.
I honestly can't imagine...

[Warren DeMontague]

43. It is sad. If you listen to some of the '95 shows you can still hear his mind exploring, carving out

new sonic spaces.

I vividly remember seeing them in SLC.. man, talk about a culture clash .... and while the shows had that sort of spotty, on-off feel of a lot of their later ones, they also had some really transcendent moments... and Jerry really was taking it in some interesting directions.

I think if he could have got himself together AND stood up to the organizational inertia of Grateful Dead, inc... things might have gone very differently. Part of the problem is, Jerry didn't want to let down all these people whose livelihoods depended on this giant touring machine-- even when it was sapping him of his strength, at the end.

It's kind of ironic- while I'm glad that the Dead added shows in Santa Clara, for sure- that so many heads were up in arms about there not being more stuff for the 50th anniversary. I mean, if the band is establishing a boundary line around what they feel they can do at this point, that's a good thing.

[Enthusiast]

48. Jerry's appearance indicated his health had declined.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Somewhere in the 3 digits, here.

I tried to count, once, but gave up.

[marym625]

23. Cool!

I had a friend that followed them around the country for years. His memory of the 80s is pretty much gone

[Warren DeMontague]

24. It was a great way to see the country.

I feel truly lucky to have caught some of the ones I did.

[marym625]

26. I wish I had the gumption to have followed them

At least during the summer. But I didn't

[Warren DeMontague]

28. I didn't actually spend much time on tour, but I did some extended road trips

Compton Terrace in AZ, Vegas... up and down the West Coast, some Midwest venues.. Never got to Red Rocks, that's a regret.

[marym625]

31. I never saw them outside the Midwest

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Deer Creek, Alpine, Soldier Field, Buckeye Lake, UIC Pavilion...

The UIC Pavilion shows in 87 were really good, I remember that.

[marym625]

36. I saw them all those places

Except Soldiers field. I have lived here my whole life, except a 6 year hiatus, and I have never been there

[Warren DeMontague]

37. Then our paths have most definitely crossed at some point.

[marym625]

38. must have!

I saw your post and started cracking up! It looked like the one little dude was patting the other little dude on the head.



Are you from Chicago?

[Warren DeMontague]

40. Originally, yes.

I've lived in a bunch of different places, I was living in Rogers Park until the early 90s. Then I got the hell out of dodge. That January of 93 was brutal- threw all my crap in my car and headed west on I-80

[marym625]

41. That's actually when I moved away

From 93 to 2000 I lived elsewhere.

Now I live in Lincoln Square and I am up in Rogers park often

[Hassin Bin Sober]

44. Christ I forgot all about the UIC shows.

My friends were attending UIC. The had a killer place over on Oakley and Taylor. The neighborhood was a bit dicey. We had a blast at those shows.

I made all the local shows. Rosemont Horizon, UIC, soldier Field, Alpine Valley, Poplar Creek.

My boss once asked me: why do you always have a wedding to attend when the Grateful Dead are in town?

Then there was the time I came home with a black eye (whippet/car bumper mishap) and a sun burn from a "funeral" in Phoenix.

[Warren DeMontague]

45. Phoo, I had a few of those "mishaps", myself.

Phoenix? Not Compton Terrace 1990, perchance? Shit, coincidentally enough, I think there may be a Days Inn somewhere in Arizona, that I still owe a glass table to.



Sacrificed to the gods of "WA-WA-WA-WA"

Ooops.

If you listen to the soundboards of those UIC shows- April 87, I think.. yeah, the band was firing on all cylinders. A really good "loser", for one, that I remember.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

46. Was that the outdoor place? A race track? Then yes. Definitely 1990

It was my first trip out west as an adult without my parents. For some reason, I thought out west was like California -liberal laid back. Yeah, yeah, I know. Maricopa County coppers walking through the crowd yanking and arresting people for joints. Wtf!

We had seats down close on the side at UIC. We hopped the boards and stood down front. People were dismantling the chairs and passing them off to the side. It was a huge dance floor. At least till the second set when order was restored.

[Warren DeMontague]

47. Funny, I dont know how I managed to breeze through some of those places

Without getting into (more) trouble.

Especially that point in my life, I was this bearded longhair with all sorts of radical liberal stickers on my beat up deadmobile.


Yeah, compton terrace was a racetrack, and it had a terraced lawn, hence the name. i really liked that part, for dancing.

Thing I remember about the 90 shows, the band went out of playin'---> the first night and came back into it on the second. That and I think there was a kickass GDTRFB.

Between the summers of 89 and 91 were when I saw the most consistently powerful shows.

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. I'll be in Santa Clara

But at High Sierra during the Chicago shows. We are planning a viewing party on Monday after High Sierra to watch the Chicago webcasts.


I saw the GD 500 times or more. Living in the bay and touring. Love em all, loved all the various projects, love athe many local and national cover bands.. Love Phish and am really curious as to how Trey will do. Even though when he was in Phil and Friends he rocked it huge. He is one great guitar player. Still gonna be interesting.

[marym625]

10. You kicked my ass

I saw probably 50. All in the Chicago area, which includes 4 states. Alpine Valley always my favorite

[ghostsinthemachine]

15. Loved Alpine when they had camping

used to rage that place. I sold Guatemalan goods then (the first people to do that on tour in fact) and that was always a best stop situation. Loved the place and the vibe. Once the stopped camping, the vibe was lot and after that first year I never went back.....

[marym625]

17. We camped anyway

Once, in a cornfield. That was kind of accidental

[Warren DeMontague]

21. Yeah, I was at a lot of those Alpine shows, too.

They tore it up, that final year.

(I don't know what's up with the "the" )

[marym625]

27. I can't swear I was there

But I think I was!

[Warren DeMontague]

29. If you remember mud, it was probably 89. Dust was probably 88.

Rain and drought, respectively.

[marym625]

30. Then yes, I was there.

Thanks!


Reminds me of one year 5 of us went in my boyfriend's van. The last night we stopped at a rest area or something to stay the night. Bf kicked everyone else out of the van. I don't think we had tents. Then it started pouring. For hours. Bf let the one girl back in the van but not the 2 guys. I felt bad but agreed. Those 2 dudes were such assholes the night before. Drunk and high out of their minds and just complete dicks.

Now I feel bad thinking about it

But damn, the shows rocked! That was back in 79 I think

[NightWatcher]

5. That they got Trey instead of Warren....

grrrrrrrr

[ghostsinthemachine]

6. I actually love that

I love Warren but I never thought he fit well. It was always him sitting in sort of. I do love the Trey stuff with Kimock though in Phil and Friends.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. I wasn't available.

Plus my accordion is in the shop.

[antiquie]

32. Our loss.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. you are SO right.

You haven't lived until you hear my Unbroken Chain on the kazoo.