I haven’t seen much written about The Dead’s $100 ticket prices by journalists, but the fanbase couldn’t be angrier. Deadheads have taken to internet mailing lists and message boards to air their grievences. Most seem to understand that other ’60s relics charge similar prices for tickets, but expected the band to offer more reasonable pricing to their loyal fans.
One sassy Deadhead took her complaint straight to the viral video world. If you’re at work, make sure you turn down your speakers because this video features plenty of profanity, but is hilarious…
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Around noon, I tried to help a friend purchase tickets through The Dead’s online presale and I haven’t seen a ticketing site crash so badly in years. It took us both 30 minutes to attempt to put tickets in our virtual basket. Eventually we received the message that no tickets for the band’s MSG concert remained. Not only that, Consider It Dan – The Dead’s VIP ticket vendor – has already sold out of the $350 “High Time” packages for the show at MSG. So while most of my Deadhead friends are complaining and not purchasing tickets, somebody certainly is. Did you buy tickets today?
- Previously on HT: The Dead’s Spring Fling
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Had the same problems – could not secure tickets for MSG – The site crashed and burned. $100 tickets with no choice is ridiculous but they know people will pay it here in the richest ripoff city in the world… GOD BLESS THE GRATEFUL DEAD>… i will get in…
“plus nitrous!!” hilarious
I appreciate her anger, but she shouldn’t use Haynes name in vein.
“For $100, I want Bob Weir to cum on my face…” she’s got spunk!
“…and that fat piece of shit Warren Haynes who’s probably gobblin’ up half of my hundred dollars for his cocaine and cheeseburg habit…”
couldn’t have said it better myself
Sounds like some bullshit ala the Phish Hampton ticketing situation!
On a good note, 10K Lakes Festival leaked a few of their artists, including Widespread Panic, Wilco and DMB.
Same deal…I couldn’t get MSG, but got upper deck at Nassau.
Wow. I’ll try again with ticketmaster.
So, $100 is the price. I was appalled. It could have been sixty. Why gouge us? It hurts. A concerned head.
I bought my Shoreline tickets for $41.00 a piece on dead.net …Once all you east coasters were done clogging the system!!!
This will be my ???th dead show & the FIRST time I have EVER bought a ticket!
No holdin out for a “miracle” THIS TIME!!
$99 is uber-retarded. I got shut out of MSG, but scored a ticket to the LA show at the Forum. It was a few bucks cheaper.
I loved the rant, BTW.
Shut out in Chicago. Why did they have all the dates go on sale at the same time? Why not stagger them if their system couldn’t handle it, which it obviously couldn’t? Hundred bucks also makes it a little harder to swallow, I know these guys deserve to get the bank these other reunions are getting, but with the amount they tour, is this really a reunion?
Anyone know how much Dead tickets are going for?
I know it’s the guys from the Grateful Dead so they’re expected to not make money & just perform in the name of peace & brotherly love. If tix were $60 people would find a way to complain. I think $100 is too much so I probably won’t go. Problem solved.
epic youtube!
what pisses me off is that the tickets sold out on ticketmaster, yer tickets now a company of ticketmaster is selling tickets at three times the price. how did they get them, unless they let scalpers in first?
what pisses me off is that the tickets sold out on ticketmaster, yet tickets now a company of ticketmaster is selling tickets at three times the price. how did they get them, unless they let scalpers in first?
personally, i would pay $100 for bob weir to NOT cum anywhere near my person.
Quality rant. That said, whoever it is responsible for getting the Dead’s tix price up to $100 a pop should be ashamed of themselves. Seriously. They should be hanging their heads right now. Thank God for Phish tour. I’ll do both nights at Jones and Alpine for one night at MSG and Nassau. Bobby, that’s one expensive mustache you’ve got there pal…
save your money and CRASH THE GATES
crash the gates
no dice on MSG for myself and another friend that was trying. I did score a floor for Nassau and Tier 1 for Chicago. Overall though, this was a joke
So sad that this tour … that brought such excitement when the official announcement was made … has brought such rage (and well deserved) with the selling of tickets today. So sad.
The tickets are there. The crash was strategic. There will be plenty of tickets for under face. Relax, people. Do NOT pay face if you don’t want to spend the money! I thnk the ticket prices are outrageous. Wait it out. Most of these tickets were snatched up by brokers. They WILL be stuck with them. Ticket prices will plummet the week before the shows. Have patience young jedi.
Pretty funny that the same people bitching that the tickets are so expensive are the same people bitching that they couldn’t get tickets.
I’ll be home with my DVD’s of Winterland, Buffalo, Alpine, etc watching the REAL Grateful Dead.
People who are still living in 1990 need to wake the hell up when it comes to concerts. Ticketing has changed completely since then, and one has to either deal with it or stay the hell home. I am so tired of old school Deadheads bitching about everything related to shows and “the scene”. Get real. In my experience, almost every post-Jerry Dead-related show has been a.) musically fair AT BEST, b.) full of sloppy, old drunks who can’t get good drugs anymore yet have a bizarre sense of entitlement that they are somehow better/smarter/more appreciative of music than anyone born after 1970, and c.) attended by a few really really old school wookies (pre-Star Wars, what did y’all call them anyway?) who believe it’s still 1973 because they act, smell, and dress like it. I’ve had much, MUCH better times at Phish, moe., Umphrey’s, etc. shows. AND, the few old-schoolers whom I’ve met at these shows AGREE with this opinion and usually rant even harder on their peers than I am here! Personally, I’d rather spend my money on a few choice DVDs (like Festival Express, Closing of WInterland, or Clifford Ball).
I’m definitely not going. The first time I saw the Grateful Dead in 1989 tickets were $17.00. I realize that was a long time ago and prices have gone up but this isn’t even the real band. Without Garcia, the sound is empty and definitely not worth $100.00. If Garcia were alive they wouldn’t be gouging us like this. It’s pretty obvious that the past couple years have just been about the money.
It’s very sad how they’ve lost their purpose like charging outrageous prices for tickets, pulling shows off of sites, and getting involved in politics.
A lot is made of nothing here- they could have offered presale for selected venues in stages- that was a mistake. They needed to gauge the demand- there will be shows added. As for the cost- if you knew about what it costs to put productions on now, you’d see that $60 is about right. C’mon- everything costs more now than it did in ’95. Look at the insurance premiums that they need to pay to lug all the gear around and have folks put it up- those increases alone justify the ticket price increases. My motto- quit yer bitchin. These guys will all be DEAD sooner than we’d like, so suck it up and enjoy the shows while they are here.
We tried to get tickets for MSG from the UK. Tried to get from the Dead site during the first duration(50 mins) of the pre-sale – couldn’t get in. My son then found a ticket site and we got 4 x $250 tickets which we reserved – this is masses of money – however I have found exacttly the same tickets on the same row and area for sale on 3 ticket agency sites – because I had a problem with paying from the UK and they need PayPal it took a while to think about it and I decided not to. So either the Dead give a certain amount of tickets to agencies or people buy 6 tickets and then sell 4 tickets on to the agengies. Here in the Uk we have Glastonbury Festival – fabulous festival, have done it for the last 4 years – but you have to register with photos so you or anyone else cannot sell your ticket on. Arduous registration process but you know that tickets cannot be sold on at a profit – can the Dead be bothered or do they just want the cash??????
I am passing on the shows. Yes, a hundred bucks is absolutely ridiculous. I imagine the Dead smirking when the Eagles ransacked their fans, but I guess that the mindset has changed for them. Oh well. Frankly, if the Dead were up to their formerly incredibly high standards, I would consider going, but every show I have heard (except for the initial Other Ones tour after Jerry checked out) have been awfully uneven affairs and only point out that other than Phil, Jerry was pretty much the straw who stirred the drink. Ratdog? Pleaeeease. Phil and Friends have made some interesting music, Mickey too, but all in all, the thought of another half-assed run with the likeable, but WAY mismatched Warren Haynes, makes the decision to stay home very, very easy. But have fun, maybe they will pull some great shows out of their ass. I hope so for fans and the band’s sake.
I made this rant…My boyfriend and I were just messing around. Most of the people on this site got it and realized I was just over acting and being a goof ball.
But you should read some of the things people have said about me on youtube and PT BOARDS…I most of if cracks me up to the point of peeing my pants.
Especially when the dude on PT board said “I want to stick my foot up here snatch and use her as a snowshoe” hahhhhaaaa.
Most people just called me a whore, c^%&, or said I sounded fat.
What the hell does fat sound like?
Everyone have a safe summer tour/festival season and watch out for yourself.
that was the funniest thing i have heard in a while- thank you!!!! fuck $100 tickets
be good sassy dead head. I love that you made the video. youtube is a form of expression. people don’t have to click and watch it.
$100 is ridiculous. Anyone who says ‘suck it up” is some trust-fund, range rovin, closet yupster who has never had to work for the value of a dollar.
at some point, enough is enough. I applaud you Sassy!
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
YOU GUYS ROCK.
Hey Goff, aka J_M_F
thanks! glad you enjoyed it
coming out to I-town for any shows? U-melt maybe? 1/30 castaways. *WOW check it out!*
hey sassy — People called you a dirty cunt because of how you spoke down of phish fans in your pathetic rant. No one cares you can’t afford to save some money like the rest of us for a few select shows. I think if you wern’t such a cunt you might see that phish folks don’t want your refried reunion tour anyway. That’s what happens when you speak down upon people who you don’t know. You end up looking like a cunt.
Outside of bashing on Phish fans (although yes there were only mostly bunk drugs at Phish shows) I totally agree with this rant. Oh, also I don’t really want Bobby to cum on my face. But BESIDES that, I’m completely disappointed in ‘The Dead’ for this. I don’t blame them, maybe they need the money?? but I am totally disappointed. This is so completely antithetical to what (I thought?) the Dead stood for. As Frank Zappa would say, ‘Strictly Commercial’. Once the Dead (I thought) was not about the all mighty dollar, but now it appears that only those with disposable income can afford to go to these shows. And most deadhead folks that I have known aren’t necessarily really rich. I can’t agree with the previous comment on this site regarding biting the bullet and saving up for these shows. When I thought, naively as it turns out, that the good seats were going to be $60, it would have still been a tough choice to save up for these shows. For myself, my husband, and daughter that’s 180 bucks plus ticket bastard fees plus driving two hours. Personally at $100 dollars a show I wouldn’t go on principle. I can’t even listen to them right now, and previous to this their music was something I use to get through the day. Now they’re just part of everything that is really crappy in the world right now, rampant commercialism. As my husband said, there’s some fat cat promoter talking it up in a back room somewhere, comparing what all of the other sold-out bands like Fleetwood Mac or the Eagles charge for their tickets. I used to laugh and just be disgusted with these other bands, thinking they were yuppy jerks. Now I just have to feel sad that the Dead has sold out their fans in this same way.
just goes to show that true assholes only go to shows for the drugs. If you buy drugs from strangers at any show (dead, phish, wsp, dmb, umph, db….whatever) YOUR A SHITHEAD! Someone i knew bought some bunk drugs in the ratdog lot that sent him to the hospital. So by sassydouchebag’s logic then ALL ratdog/dead lots are bunk and the people in them are no better than the “phish” fans she dissed in her pathetic rant. So bunk drugs defines a scene huh? you people are losers! There are bunk drugs and shitheads on every lot on every tour. Just grouping phish into that pathetic rant just goes to show how much of a super tampon douche sassy and the ^^ above posters really are. Stay home, get spayed, and STFU…..cunt!
It wasn’t the $99 tickets so much as the unfair way The Dead’s pre-sale operation played out.
Online ticket resale outlets were already posting MSG specific seating for $450-$1,500 a week before the pre-sale event.
^^ you can thank hannah montanna for that! You know why they are selling tickets at those high ass prices? because some dumb ass always buys them! If people didn’t buy them then they wouldn’t be selling them at $1000. Its all supply and demand. Now you know what it was like trying to get phish tickets for hampton after the scalpers hacked the system and stole those tickets away from real fans, just to sell them back to people at 9x the original prices.
Does this broad eat with that mouth – Hey Bob dont waste your load on this misrable cunt . And as for Warren shut the fuck up – Warren rocks you junkie skank . Pay the $100.00 , if you dont have the money give knobbers in the parking lot – if your not too much of a pig it should only take 4 loads in your mouth to pay for the ticket . Plus a cock in your mouth would shut you the fuck up . Like Ringo said ” peace n love peace n love “
I bet that fat chick’s breath stinks like taco bell and ass! what a loser. please stay home, we don’t need an eye sore like that on tour being loud and obnoxious. Why don’t they show her face? Because she is a fat pathetic gross retard…yes…many dicks belong in her mouth just to shut her up!
I want Mickey to cum on my face too for 100$. Perhaps they could have a circle jerk during drums? Maybe they could have figured out something more clever re: tix for the “family”, so the scene could have semblance of the way things used to be. Let’s see if mail order pans out…
And…wookies be gone…bring back the spinners!
I hope I do not have to sit next to her!!!!!!!!!
Trey is Bobby…Hope Trey is on top of his game if you paid 1000 for a Hampton ticket.
^^ hey dumb ass, trey has nothing to do with the fact that some idiot would pay a scalper $1000 for a ticket. Anyone who would pay that much for a ticket needs a reality check and it has nothing to do with trey being on his game or not. Seriously, paying a scalper $1000 is something only a mentally handicapped person would do (that being said, no disrespect to handicapped people).
and trey is not bobby you douchebag!
i think it’s the guys from the Grateful Dead so they’re expected to not make money & just perform in the name of peace & brotherly love. $1000 ticket! come on. just stay safe. better nit to go there also
I agree..the price of nitrus is WAY too high these days!
Hey, “phallis Tomlinson”–dude, what are you….Hedwig the Angry Inch? Mellow out….too bad that pharmi 714’s aren’t around anymore cause you could use a couple…..
ok, I totally forgot about this rant. I remember hearing it and CRACKING UP because it is hilarious. Sassy dead head,if you’re reading this and actually did make the video, PLEASE put it back on youtube. I need to hear it again.