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Does anybody remember waiting zin Philadelphia to get Grateful Dead tickets? Sometimes we had to wait in a big long line that wrapped around buildings overnight literally had to spend the entire day before and the entire night in line till they open the next day.? I think we got the tickets at the spectrum in the industrial section of Philly. I remember going on Wood hunts to build fires because it was winter time. And it got really cold at night so we got a big bonfires going every 30 or 40 yards on the sidewalk with pallets We got from the local factories. I mean, that alone was a party like everybody partied all night long listening to music some people just brought chairs and blankets and coolers with food and beer in them. I mean they were different times the cops didn’t bother you. Unless you were getting out of hand. They didn’t care about the fires . They left everybody alone as long as everybody behaved. And there was no cell phones I’m talking this was all stuff from the 80s. It was such a different time because we didn’t have to answer where we were I mean you just were in line for two days and with no contact with the outside world . try to get someone to do that now . it was really just a big party I mean I think I was 16 or 17 and I just told my parents I’ll be back in a couple days I am going to, get Grateful Dead tickets and that was it they didn’t know where you were and if you were coming back until you came back sometimes it was three days. I don’t know why it was done that way, but I also remember waiting in line at a local ticket counter, that they set in a department store does out of business now called Jameway. It was the same thing we got there the day before and waited in line all night long but this was local. This was near my hometown, so it wasn’t as much fun. But u had to do that. If you want to get tickets now sometimes I didn’t get taper tickets. but the Grateful Dead always sold out. They sold everything out all the time back then so you had to wait in these lines. I mean it was like clockwork every spring. They did a spring tour and every city they went through. They did 2 to 3 shows and sold them all out. No bands did that. The greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands back in the day will go city to city, but they Would only play one night in the city, the dead played 2 to 3 nights in each city and the spring tour and the fall tour and they also toured in the summer. The summertime they would normally play stadiums were 100,000 people can get in up to 100,000. I live in Jersey so I will see them in Philly. I would see them in Jersey I will see them in New York. I will see them on Long Island, sometimes Connecticut but she knew they were coming every spring and every fall in the end of summer as well every year for 20 years or so. I think they played Madison Square Garden around that time and they played five shows and I think the Jerry Garcia Band played three shows in between all that I remember I went to about seven shows altogether, they had a big grill on top of Madison Square Garden. They shut the streets down around Madison Square Garden and basically it was tie-dye central for a week or two those shows were awesome. The Jerry Garcia band kicked ass too. I got a CD from those shows in my favorite CDs my wife wasn’t a big dead fan but she was a big Jerry Garcia Band fan.
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