After server issues during Tuesday night’s Furthur show at http://www.tristudios.com, there has been chatter about how TRI will make it up to all the paying viewers who missed out on part or all of the webcast. Some people complained unforgivably while others waited patiently, certain TRI, Furthur, and Bob Weir would offer a solution. Just […]
June 8, 2011
Earlier in the day it felt as if I had made up my mind. I’ve been to concerts before, once seeing Furthur at Coney Island in New York. Hours before I would feel the pre-show buzz all the way from my hands to my feet. The feeling distracts from anything else going on around you […]
June 2, 2011
While it may have been news to me around this time last year, it’s fairly known that the Grateful Dead were business and cultural pioneers of their time – hell, of anyone’s time. They managed to accomplish things that today require a slew of social networking technologies in a time where there were none. Facebook, […]
August 11, 2010
A few months ago I wrote about the business of the Grateful Dead as inspired by my visit to the NY Historical Society’s Dead exhibit. Today I stumbled upon two interviews with Bob Weir from different economic resources that discuss everything from his personal finances and business decisions to the 2012 prophecy of the end […]
July 11, 2010
Two weeks ago I went to my first Futhur show. You’ve heard about my first parking lot (click here if you haven’t), but I’ve kept you waiting to hear about my first show experience, past the gates. Please accept my apologies. I promise, I’d write to you every day if I could. As I mentioned […]
July 4, 2010
On July 4th, 1989 the Grateful Dead held a show at what was then known as Rich Stadium in Buffalo, NY. Several reviews refer to this show, and the rest of the tour, as one of the Dead’s best in their last 15 years on stage. In 2005 the CD and DVD recordings of this […]
June 9, 2011
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