Link here  113 page pdf book http://gratefulseconds.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss ..read more

 Thank the lord for Sam Cutler. At this point, the Dead were making about 5% profit on their touring revenues.  So 1,500 miles to the city. Wow http://gratefulseconds.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss ..read more

 When the Grateful Dead came out of "retirement" in 1976, they played 60 gigs that year good enough for 14th on the rankings of top grossing bands in America.  Manager Richard Loren worked with the band to create a great profitable touring schedule. Two years later in 1978 the band rose to the 4th position behind the Rolling Stones, the Commodores and Bob Seger.  I'll tell you more when my book on the Economic History of the Grateful Dead is finished. But I will leave with you this: http://gratefulseconds.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss ..read more

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I'm over 400 pages in my draft of my book on The Economic History of the Grateful Dead and I've discovered a fascinating fact. While the Dead ended up playing 52 shows at Madison Square Garden in New York for the first two they were vastly underpaid.   With about 20,000 tickets sold always at the Garden, and about $9.28 in average ticket price, the band got less than 20% of ticket sales.   Most gigs for the band were about 45%-50% of ticket sales in this era.   This got fixed in September and remained about half for the next 50 shows. I'm curious why the first Gar ..read more

Published on 1-30-2016 So it was another Spring Saturday during my Senior year at Andover, so I hitchhiked down to New York City to see the Grateful Dead.  At the time, it was just Dave as usual trying to see a show, but looking back it was quite the adventure. I left in the morning, writing down in the log that I was "going home to Maine for the weekend:, but instead I headed down Main Street to the 495 on-ramp and onto the big Apple with about $25 in my pocket. I recall numerous short rides, somehow a detour to Long Island and a few train rides but I ended up on East 14th Street at t ..read more

otiginally publiched 2/28/19 3:49 PM   The music is listening Play on you tube  This is another in the famous show series aka Dicks Picks 24. AKA The Sound Check. Sadly this is the last of the three Playin in the Band>Uncle John's Band>Morning Dew>Uncle John's Band>Playing in the Band shows.  They almost couldn't get the initial Playin out of first gear. The other other show ever with Playin>UJB>songs>UJB>Playin (aka Double sandwich) will occur in six years up in Lewiston, Maine. As with all 1974 shows this one is FAB. And it comes with lots of ..read more

 First Time I Saw: Grateful Dead        June 9, 1976 The Other Ones     September 18, 2003 The Dead                June 24, 2004 Furthur                    July 4, 2010 Fare Thee Well        July 3, 2015 Dead & Company   November 7, 2015    http://gratefulseconds.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss ..read more

The best post-Grateful Dead Jam in my View, March 30, 2002, The Eleven/Millennium Jam This was originally posted June 17, 2020 My history with the Grateful Dead covers over 110 concerts over a 45 year period between 1975 and 2020. I saw the Grateful Dead 80 times between 1976-1987 and once in 1994 I saw Jerry Garcia Band and various Dead spinoff bands 14 times between 1975-1981 And I saw Dead spinoff bands 19 more times between 1990-2019 This post gives you my memories of these shows I saw since 2000. Phil Lesh & Friends/Bob Dylan 6/29/2000 Irvine, CA I had discovered my ..read more

On Bobby's 70th Birthday, I don't have much to say.  They say a picture is worth a million words.    So special issue today is a collection of (almost) one million magazine issues around the world featuring the Grateful Dead.  If you click to save the cover, you should be able to get the date of the issue.  ..read more