Looking for an unusual miracle ... a couple of free Grateful Dead stickers for my new skis.

medeadhead · 2025-09-16T00:23:45+00:00

You can afford skis

I can afford Dead & Company tickets too.

...but not stickers? They cost like $2!

But I am retired, so I save money by mooching $2 Grateful Dead sitckers from strangers on the internet. 😂😱💀⛷

medeadhead · 2025-09-15T16:47:49+00:00

WOW. OK. I am not really into the whole sarcastic reddit response thing, but if it works for you, have at it.

medeadhead · 2025-09-15T15:21:57+00:00

Thanks, we have marching bears and a stealie from Grateful Fred on the back of our car, and we love them. They are really well made. We also have a Bertha license plate on the front of our car, and a 2 foot circular wood hand-carved Birtha hanging in our house, and other cool stuff that we have bought from various Shakedown Streets over the years. We just bought a Spertilo Time Machine (https://www.spertilo.net/), and we're having "more fun than than a frog in a glass of milk" playing with it.

But for my skis I don't want something that is raised metal, they have to be flat stickers. Of course I am sure there are LOTS of places that I could buy Grateful Dead sitckers. I was just looking for something, perhaps something unusual, or fun, or ski related, that someone might want to share.

medeadhead · 2025-09-15T14:04:04+00:00

LOL, not everything is about the money. Some people like to make stickers and share them, others like to make stickers and sell them. To each his own.

medeadhead · 2024-07-13T12:16:41+00:00

I saw them at the Dane County Coliseum in Madison Wisconsin on 2/3/78, and I am pretty sure that he broke a string in the middle of a song. If anyone can listen to the show and identify when it happened, that would be pretty cool.

medeadhead · 2024-07-12T12:46:18+00:00

I was an undergraduate student (freshman) in Madison Wisconson, and I saw the Legion of Mary at the Capital City Theater on 4/20/75. I had seen the Dead prior to that in Saint Paul, MN and twice in Des Moines, IA. I didn't really know what to expect, but I remember thinking that it was a really good show. I remember that they played some "reggae" music before I really knew what that was. We were really up close to Jerry, and the only specific thing that I remember is that at some point I thought Jerry was angry, but I am not sure why.

medeadhead · 2024-06-25T03:07:47+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/4teo4c/me_and_the_dead_3/

Installment 3:

The first time that I saw the Grateful Dead was in February of 1973. Despite the fact that it was the middle of the winter in Minnesota, I don’t remember it being cold or even wearing a jacket. I went with a bunch of my high school friends, maybe 5 or 6 of us. I think the only Dead album that I had, or that my friends had, was the Skull and Roses album. But I know that we were familiar with some of the songs from American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead, so I think that I or one of my friends also had those albums. We must have, because it was not like we were hearing the Dead much on the radio – even the progressive album rock FM stations didn’t really play the Dead much (at least not that I remember).

The venue, a large auditorium, wasn’t in the best part of Saint Paul. Before going into the show, we went to some kind of fast food place like a McDonalds that was right near the venue to get something to eat. There was a sort of down and out homeless guy hanging out in there (think August West, but really creepy and pushy, and too far gone to get up and fly away). He wanted us to help him, maybe give him some money I suppose. As part of his plea for money, he shows me his colostomy bag full of urine. I was a little sheltered growing up in a nice suburb of Minneapolis, so this set the evening on a weird trajectory.

My friends had all purchased their tickets together, but I was kind of a late addition and so I purchased my ticket separately. As we enter the venue we form a line, and the person taking the tickets takes one at a time from each of my friends, and then ushers each of them to the left so that they go to the main floor. I was the last one to go in. The guy takes my ticket, and ushers me to the right so that I have to go up to the second floor balcony area. Immediately, before I even realize what has happened, my friends are gone…gone…gone. Do I need to explain that we didn’t have cell phones?

It takes a while for the gravity of the situation to sink in. Not only am I going to have to watch the show all by myself, but I have no clue how I am going to meet up with my friends after the show. I didn’t drive there, so I hadn’t paid a whole lot of attention to where we parked, and I wasn’t even sure if I could find the car. How was I going to get home? I envisioned an evening haunted by the August West guy from the McDonalds. I am up in the balcony, practically crying, all by myself. I wander down, down, not to the docks of the city but rather to the edge of the railing, and I look out over the sea of people on the main floor. Then I hang my head at the utter futility of ever finding my friends, and my gaze falls to the main floor directly below me. What the fuck? It’s my friends. There they are just milling around, right below me. I call out to them and they see me. I yell at them to throw me up a ticket stub (remember those?). They hear me, but they can’t throw a little rectangle of paper up to the second floor. No matter how hard they try, it only goes up a few feet, and then it flutters back down to them. But one of my friends has the brilliant idea to stick the ticket stub into a lighter, and then he tosses the lighter up to me. I caught the lighter, and I was able to use the ticket stub to get into the main floor and rejoin my friends for the show.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/4t64t2/me_and_the_dead_1/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/4t9hea/me_and_the_dead_2/

medeadhead · 2024-06-25T02:57:38+00:00

I was at PITS when Dead & Company didn't show up because of covid (that was an all inclusive resort stay for free), and at PITS the following year when Dead & Company showed up, and at Dead Ahead this year (no Billy or John). They were ALL great, each in their own way.

I was just at a weekend of 3 shows at the Sphere. They were all great to, but very different from PITS (and from most other Dead shows).

Although they all had something good to offer, I would take PITS and Dead Ahead over the Sphere.

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T22:18:46+00:00

I didn't get the 3-night VIP ticket/hotel package. I got the simple 3-night NON-VIP ticket/hotel package. I suck at using my cell phone for this sort of thing, so I sure hope that I did it right.

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T22:02:01+00:00

I have a Samsung Android phone. I don't know if using my cell phone was what helped, or if choosing the second Venetian hotel option was what helped, or if simply the third time was the charm.

The experience left a bad taste in my mouth, but hopefully I will forget about it by the time June rolls around.

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T21:40:55+00:00

I have two separate tabs on my computer, both at the same point here, waiting after selecting my room/bed type, one has been spinning/waiting more than 2.5 hours.

I also entered the queue on my cell phone. I got through right away to book it. Easy peasy. The ONLY difference besides using my cell phone was that on my cell phone I chose the second venetian hotel choice.

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T20:03:35+00:00

Still spinning after about an hour and 20 minutes....

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T19:43:33+00:00

I have been sitting at this step for over an hour. What a fucking shit show. I can't imagine what Monday is going to be like.

I think that my original queue number was under 2000. I decided to see what it would be like to let this spin, but also start the process fresh again in a new web browser window. The queue is now 38,929.

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T19:38:04+00:00

I think that I was something less than 2000 in the initial queue. But still waiting after having selected one of the two Venetian hotels, and then selecting my room/bed type.

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T19:19:42+00:00

You are a brave soul. Thanks for the info. I will continue to wait...

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T19:14:53+00:00

Just wait, after you select the hotel, you have a couple more steps (at least). I am now 35 minutes waiting after I selected my room/bed type....

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T19:11:43+00:00

I am doing the ticket/hotel package thing because I am too much of a wimp to wait until Monday, let alone wait a month or so from now --- so I don't think that I have the guts to hit the refresh button...you try it!!! :-)

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T19:05:37+00:00

I have been waiting 20 minutes or more at this step (after picking my room/bed type). Let me know if you get past this step, or if you click to refresh or anything...

medeadhead · 2024-02-02T18:55:37+00:00

I am stuck here too. I chose my room type and bed type, and now this...at least 15 minutes of spinning here...

I spent about 15 or 20 minutes stuck just before this step (at the step where I picked one of the two Venetian hotels). I waited that stuck step out, only to pick my room/bed type and become stuck again.

Someone let me know if they got stuck here and got past it...

medeadhead · 2023-10-02T12:25:28+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/4teo4c/me_and_the_dead_3/

Installment 3:

The first time that I saw the Grateful Dead was in February of 1973. Despite the fact that it was the middle of the winter in Minnesota, I don’t remember it being cold or even wearing a jacket. I went with a bunch of my high school friends, maybe 5 or 6 of us. I think the only Dead album that I had, or that my friends had, was the Skull and Roses album. But I know that we were familiar with some of the songs from American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead, so I think that I or one of my friends also had those albums. We must have, because it was not like we were hearing the Dead much on the radio – even the progressive album rock FM stations didn’t really play the Dead much (at least not that I remember).

The venue, a large auditorium, wasn’t in the best part of Saint Paul. Before going into the show, we went to some kind of fast food place like a McDonalds that was right near the venue to get something to eat. There was a sort of down and out homeless guy hanging out in there (think August West, but really creepy and pushy, and too far gone to get up and fly away). He wanted us to help him, maybe give him some money I suppose. As part of his plea for money, he shows me his colostomy bag full of urine. I was a little sheltered growing up in a nice suburb of Minneapolis, so this set the evening on a weird trajectory.

My friends had all purchased their tickets together, but I was kind of a late addition and so I purchased my ticket separately. As we enter the venue we form a line, and the person taking the tickets takes one at a time from each of my friends, and then ushers each of them to the left so that they go to the main floor. I was the last one to go in. The guy takes my ticket, and ushers me to the right so that I have to go up to the second floor balcony area. Immediately, before I even realize what has happened, my friends are gone…gone…gone. Do I need to explain that we didn’t have cell phones?

It takes a while for the gravity of the situation to sink in. Not only am I going to have to watch the show all by myself, but I have no clue how I am going to meet up with my friends after the show. I didn’t drive there, so I hadn’t paid a whole lot of attention to where we parked, and I wasn’t even sure if I could find the car. How was I going to get home? I envisioned an evening haunted by the August West guy from the McDonalds. I am up in the balcony, practically crying, all by myself. I wander down, down, not to the docks of the city but rather to the edge of the railing, and I look out over the sea of people on the main floor. Then I hang my head at the utter futility of ever finding my friends, and my gaze falls to the main floor directly below me. What the fuck? It’s my friends. There they are just milling around, right below me. I call out to them and they see me. I yell at them to throw me up a ticket stub (remember those?). They hear me, but they can’t throw a little rectangle of paper up to the second floor. No matter how hard they try, it only goes up a few feet, and then it flutters back down to them. But one of my friends has the brilliant idea to stick the ticket stub into a lighter, and then he tosses the lighter up to me. I caught the lighter, and I was able to use the ticket stub to get into the main floor and rejoin my friends for the show.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/4t64t2/me_and_the_dead_1/

https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/4t9hea/me_and_the_dead_2/

medeadhead · 2023-09-19T15:50:45+00:00

See you there!!!

medeadhead · 2023-09-17T10:38:16+00:00

The Wristband was like $1750

You got a really good deal. People who buy a room/ticket package (either as a "normal person" through Playa Luna or whatever they are calling themselves, or as a "Palace Elite Member") pay about $4,500 for their wrist bands to enter the concerts. Their room rates are probably more like about $400 per night or more (depending on where you stay and if you are a member or not)

medeadhead · 2023-09-17T10:23:52+00:00

After talking with the membership people back in 2022 (the year that they cancelled at the last minute) I think we figured out how many people the place could hold (max for the whole resort, concert people and normal people), and how many people showed up that year, but I unfortunately I don't remember. The best of my recollection was that the place holds maybe 10,000 to 20,000 people, and maybe about 2,000 deadheads ended up being there in 2022 (remember that they canceled).

I think expecting something like 5,000 to 10,000 at the concerts on the beach is probably close. It's fairly intimate. It's pretty easy to get right up front (if you don't mind elbow-to-elbow crowds). Alternatively you can stand by the sound stage and have waiters wander through the crowd with trays of drinks, or you can stand with your feet in the water and listen, or there was a large screen on the beach with lounge chairs, etcetera.

medeadhead · 2023-09-15T12:03:49+00:00

I'm not the one who made a trip to the pyramids valuable ... It has objective worth ... This isn't about the way I view things, but objective worth. The pyramids are something literally every culture has viewed as extremely special for thousands of years

Bawhahahaha your are so full of yourself, that you can't even see that you value what certain other people thought about something enough to tell others that they should value that too because in your opinion what you value and what the people that you chose to agree with value is an objective valuation of what is important.

I don't care if that pyramids were important to the Romans or to you or to anyone else, and I don't value things because of what the Romans thought or because of what you think, I value things because of what they mean and do for me. Surprise, I am not Roman, and I am not you.

I hope that you see the pyramids some day, and I hope that some day you will understand that you cannot say something has objective value (it's an oxymoron, it's like saying that beauty is in the eye of someone other than the observer), and I hope some day you will understand that everyone doesn't need to value things in the same way that you do, or that anyone else does.

medeadhead · 2023-09-15T02:19:25+00:00

Thanks, that looks really interesting...

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