Can’t wait for the insanity this spring when they tour! Way to go, Phil!

I would love to go..but I am very upset with the prices of tickets..I have never seen them and it has always been my dream to do it…looks like I wont get to.

They’ve always been apolitical, so I don’t like this, but looking at the line-up, the other acts should’ve sat back, watched, and learned. A partial look at the “most accomplished rock format” band in history…

I liked them better when they were more interested in providing a good time for all. Now they’re just Democratic party hacks.

Oh, and $100 a ticket? For “the Dead” without Jerry Garcia? You gotta be kidding me!

The last of all ’sell-outs’….Imagine the Dead playing ‘Throwing Stones’ before all the politicians and thinking it’s cool. When that song was wrtitten 25 years ago it seemed to mean something. Which Kool-Aid are the Dead drinking now?? Jerry RIP.

Loved em’. Followed em’ Stick to playing good music. The liberal movement today is not like the liberal movement in the 60’s. They WEREN’T marching in the streets yelling “We want more government and more restrictions!!”

I don’t like a politicized Grateful Dead, but Phil is still the man. as Bill Graham once said: ‘The master of space and time’. Be well always, Phil.

the dead are the dead are the dead.
what a long strange trip it continues to be.
finniculi finnicula.

Never have heard worse music than this band at the Inauguration. For professional musicians these guys are hacks, faux improvisation and all.

The dead will alwsy rock! Jerry is gone, but the core four still ROCK.

The Dead will alwsy rock! Jerry is gone, but the core four still ROCK.

The Dead will alwayys rock! Jerry is gone, but the core four still ROCK.

no way I’m paying $100 to see a glorified cover band this summer

Believe it if you need it, if don’t, just pass it on…..

we want phillllllllllllll

Republican Dead Fan | 2/6/2009, 10:04 am EST

“Loved em’. Followed em’ Stick to playing good music. The liberal movement today is not like the liberal movement in the 60’s. They WEREN’T marching in the streets yelling “We want more government and more restrictions.”

Hey Republican Dead Fan, if that’s how you justify your sell-out to yourself; so be it. Enjoy the music, and disregard their politics. Obviously you’ve already rectified the contradacitions in your own mind.. And for the rest of you dead haters: see previous Box of Rain quote from Hellion.

That show would make for the ultimate bootleg! I hope someone in that audience appreciated who was performing…including President Obama.

A “hack” is someone who gets a job for being politically connected. I don’t thing “The Dead” got thier jobs by being “connected” to anything political.

Quite the opposite, they formed in and helped continue to form an alternative lifestyle in San Fran in the early 60’s

A social phenomenon was born and continued till 1995 when Garcia, the defacto leader passed away.

I am a huuuuuuge GD and JERRY fan, but not that he’s gooooone, I don’t have much of a bone for it anymore.

The fact that they have become so politically involved is weird, but y’know “one man gathers what another man spills”

I’ll keep the DEAD WITH JERRY bootlegs

Thats THE DEAD to ME.

cheers to you all.
keep the good times rolling

Maybe the Dead singing Throwing Stones to politicians was a good idea. Let them know what’s up. I’ll miss the boys tour. Overseas. Have a great time everyone.

Who cares if you think the Dead should be republicans? who cares if you think Jerry was a close minded conservative right wing nut job? Who cares if you have tapes? The spring tour will be a wonderful adventure.

As Ken Kesey said: you should show love to everyone, even the TURDS of the world like Rush Limbaugh.

Hunter Thompson: if every deadhead voted in Florida in 2000, the world would be a different place.

Uh huh. Apolitical and/or conservative. Jerry just didn’t want the hassle of the govt on him in the 60s. But bet your butt they was left of center.

If Jerry could have have seen them at the Ball, he would be rolling over in his grave

Ratdog, Phil and Friends, BK Trio, are all rocking bands, and a pleasure to catch for the younger deadheads, who either never saw Jerry, or like myself, during the 90s saw a shadow of the man I listen to on my 60s and 70s bootlegs. This guys have made many great nights for many people, and should do what makes them happy. Don’t agree with their politics, but like the music, who cares. Joe Biden invented the drug czar. I don’t agree with his politics, but will always love the good old Grateful Dead. You are supposed to think for yourself. MSG 4/25 will be off the hook!!!

Too bad the Dead turned political. The music is apolitical, not presuming to know the truth but only to present things as they may seem on other days while going home. Idealogues eventually become robotons and then (ironically in the case of these guys)close-minded morons and prejudicial toward others who harbor different views and perspectives. Too bad. Jerry and Pig would not approve . . . and Phil, Bobby, Mickey and Billy know it even though I doubt they’d admit it. More importantly, Jerry and Pig would be right in not approving of the (fake) Dead’s 21st century political endeavors. Knock it off, guys, and just play the music with the talent with which you’ve been so graciously given.

ya about the politics stuff posted we know that with Jer things were different as a band. when you have the money, politics can be a powerful tool for responsible action.

To say that Pig And Captian Trips would disapprove of of the political move I think is wrong. They would have made a joke of it. Imagine Pig Pen singing Easy Wind or Hard Too Handle at the Ball. sounds sick that is why he would have done it.Think about the song Throwing Stones,, That is a jab at the whole political scene and th Dead played it at the Ball that kind of takes some balls. These guys are anti Bush Big Time. They supported John Carey, remember! These guys care about America. In 1985 at Starlight Theatre the Back Drop was a Huge American flag.I know I was there leaning on the railing that was between the crowd and the Band. It really is not that unusual that The Dead are political and Support OBama. This country has major problems, the economic problem is much worse than we know, Bush needs to be sent to jail,on and on and on. I commend what the Dead is doing. Politics are bad business, but We need someone, a leader to give it try at least to save this country and the Dead are in a position to put their 2 cents in. Good for them.. Dark Star from 1972 it aint no more but so what, Maybe the Dead will do So What (like they did when Jimmy Hearing was with the band) in DC this April?

now is the time to take a stand .anyone who stands on the sidelines after what this country haa become over the last 8 years would be irresponsable.and pigpen poseing with anglea davis with a machine gun in his hand wasnt political?

now is the time to take a stand .anyone who stands on the sidelines after what this country haa become over the last 8 years would be irresponsable.and pigpen poseing with anglea davis with a machine gun in his hand wasnt political?

Bobby Weir’s political views are no more relevant or informed or reasoned (in fact, probably less) than the average American’s. The same goes for the other 3 and every other liberal popular cultural figure in America. That he self-righteously implores young impressionable followers, if not overtly unmistakenly implicitly, what to think and how to vote, especially from one who prophesizes free thinking independence, is not only cringingly hypocritical, but downright antithetical to everything “Grateful Dead”.

For the liberal lemmings (and I include the fab four among these), consider the possibility that you have things back-asswards. I used to be a liberal lefty and upon honest reflection and pure openmindedness (everything I learned “on the Bus”)and ever-morphing degrees of maturity, discovered and readily admit I was wrong, self-righteous and unrealistically idealistic. Too bad, the (fake) Dead and today’s (fake) DeadHeads, comprised mainly of indoctrinated liberal lemmings, don’t have the intellectual balls to do the same, but instead go along to get along. Too bad. Stale. Yuck.

As Laura Ingraham would say: “Shut up and Sing!” Your views are no more important than mine, except mine are better reasoned. Take that.

Phil, articulate as usual. I wonder if you remember my note and checked it out. I hope Mr. Obama listens to his heart, his wife a bit, and not some of his closest advisors and “cabinet” if so, it could spell disaster in the face of changes so out of the box and huge in magnitude that, if leaders in govt, commerce, and religion may be caught completely unable to mitigate or deal with them.

Like all who objectively watch the data flow, those who predicted the financial collapse years before it happened, I am speaking of all of us (and me) beginning to turn and face the Great Waves of Change impacting everyone, elite, poor, or famous and official, equally. Turn at look at the changing seas presented by the Great Waves, the rows of tsunami sized waves, look at them objectively, see in your heart what response they stir within you: catastrophic climate change, violent weather, resource depletion (peak oil, natural gas & precious metals production), disruption of food production, political and economic instability and the growing risk of competition, conflict, and war that they will produce; which is certainly on the rise around the globe if you choose to look.

Remember, it wasn’t raining when Noah was building the ark, people must become aware of the danger, and not be preoccupied with mother culture and its dictates, check out What a Way to Go, the DVD, and Crude Impact. And, the nonprofit, Great Waves of Change, all of which you can google. Its time to begin again, in the new world we’re facing, as a human family, together.

Im with the traveler up above, spring tour should be kickin!

cant wait
SC, VA 2 nites in philly and 2 in jeerz!

Im with the traveler up above, spring tour should be kickin!

cant wait
SC, VA 2 nites in philly and 2 in jeerz!

Hey, Jerry said about Bill Clinton ” If he doesn’t fuck up too bad maybe we can play his second inauguration” so he wasn’t completely against the idea I guess.

why would you guys post on a web site that is a fan page for a dead member just talking shit. dont you have better things to do. there are some people here who still love this band and its remaining members and if you dont thats cool, but keep it to your self and think about getting some hobbies.

Glad to see they played the inauguration. There’s an example of change when the band that personifies the summer of love is now embraced by the political elite, well accepted anyway.
As far as the spring tour: $100 for a New York area show? Can’t justify that. Given what money was worth then and now, I have ticket stubs from the early 80’s and tickets then were $20. Can’t justify $100 for a ticket, even if it was the last time they would play together. I’m insulted they would be part of taking advantage of fans desire to see them after a 5 year absence. Jerry would not be happy about this.

whats worse? the dead playing for politcians or a bunch of real dead heads posting there politcal views?

Jerry was a commie

The quest for great and timeless music is not personal. They are still discovering and delivering it big time. Rock on!

there are a lot of angry sick people out there. you are destroying this country with ur senseless hatred of anything and everything, why are you so fucking angry and unhappy and why dont you go lick on some old white republicans balls and shut the fuck up. you know nothing about anything except what u want and allow yourself to hear.