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completely off topic, but Rhino4ever - you have the best avatar....my wife was leaning over my shoulder - saw it - and couldn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes...thanks for that...

set list looks amazing....

I'd love to see Wilco do a three day block next summer at Alpine Valley ala how the Grateful Dead played there 87/88/89...lost my mind and regained it several times at alpine...

minneapolis iowa and milwaukee!!! and then chicago!!! I'll try to go to all of them...

I took my 10 year old daughter to the Tweedy Iowa City show this past March. We were right near the "Mayor of Cedar Rapids" incident and she got a real kick out of it.

I am a 4.0 tennis player from Madison Wisconsin...and our team just beat Milwaukee to all but ensure our victory at WI state.... YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Many many months of hard work...... And while winning my match tonight I was singing, "pot kettle black....every song's a comeback..." etc.....

listened to the 08 May 2011 tulsa show...very very very strong performance...

Can't wait for the Ryman....

just listened to this show - very strong and enthusiastic performance...sounds like the band had a ton of fun...best show of the mini tour?

great...thanks!

Seems as though it was only singles? Odd...

I really liked So Many Roads. There weren't too many exceptional versions due to jerry's health. It is a great song to play on accoustic as well...

Here is one of my favorite shows ever (at least the second set) and it is from 1982: 17 September 1982 Collection: GratefulDead Band/Artist: Grateful Dead Date: September 17, 1982 (check for other copies) Venue: Cumberland County Civic Center Location: Portland, ME Disc 1 - Set 1 01 [06:20] Bertha > 02 [04:06] Promised Land 03 [06:23] Candyman > 04 [08:05] CC Rider 05 [07:36] Althea 06 [03:13] Me & My Uncle > 07 [05:32] Big River 08 [05:40] Dupree\'s > 09 [07:03] It\'s All Over Now 10 [07:31] West LA Fadeaway 11 [05:33] Throwing Stones > * 12 [05:39] Deal TT [62:30

It takes two to lie - one to listen and one to lie... who said that?

With the dead we used to get tour blocks through gd ticketing... They'd award the best seats by which envelope art they liked the best...still I could have sold them to scalpers.... As noted above it is a supply demand thing...

The distinction is between "venue" presales and "frontgate" presales. The frontgate presales have yielded fantastic seasts for me on this tour, but the Madison "overture center preale," for example, seemed to only have the back rows of each section - just seconds after presale started...

You stated, "So called "venue" presales, for example. The bar for admission to these presales is really low, and they are designed to create hype around ticket sales and scare fans into buying often pretty shitty seats while better ones are held for the general onsale (get some fans to buy the 2nd balcony now while they think tickets are going fast, then it will be easier to sell "mid level" or average tickets later), or, worse yet, for random ticket drops, a big drop the day of the show, or for other sleazier purposes." That was precisely my experience today for the Madison "overture center

or he is lying so as to justify his high asking price...I saw Jerry and the Grateful Dead about 50 times (and JGB) and scalpers were really the only people that 'heads would openly ridicule (it was too dangerous to _openly_ ridicule the police or security)...

Need 2 tickets for ryman night 1 (october 1, 2011)...

makes you wonder though if TicketMaster retains some choice tickets for themselves to sell to brokers...Pessimism wouldn't exist if it wasn't sometimes true...

Ryman virtually gone for both nights now...glad i got ticks in the presale...wanted two more for either night but no go...

hmmmm....beginning to think venues use the "presale" to get rid of crappy tickets...

Doing madison presale through overture right now and the available tickets all are way back in the highest level balcony...odd....

so Madison 10/5/11 "overture center presale" states - 4 ticket limit per household. Do the two tickets my wife got in the Wednesday "frontgate presale" count against the "overture center presale"? - In other words, am I limited to being able to only get 2 tickets in the presale today?

whew... got 4 for Ryman Night 2 Section 1 Row H got 4 for madison section CC center very lucky...