The Grateful Dead's two night Fare Thee Well affair at Levi Stadium was a sight to behold (it even had a rainbow). After 2300+ live shows in the last 50 years, the band can even overcome the loss of Jerry Garcia on lead guitar to put on a great show. If you are into it, you know how fun it was and if not, you are too late. But from a Peninsula everyday-Joe perspective, getting to and from Levi Stadium was educational.
I headed to the 7 pm Saturday night show on the 4:45 pm Caltrain, connecting to VTA in Mountain View which dropped me off steps from the stadium. The Giants game had just ended and happy fans had started south from Fourth and Townsend. There was a soccer game at Stanford. But without a doubt, it was a Dead Train. SRO all the way. Six bucks from B'game to Mtn View is a deal even if the weekend local is slow. At least we had an amateur guitar player to lead a sing along! Caltrain can afford to add another car or two.
VTA and Caltrain coordinated very well after the show with a special Caltrain holding in Mtn View at 1:35 am. Imagine my surprise getting off the train at B'game Ave. at 2:15 am and seeing a bunch of people hard at work at Tell Apart. The Twitter acquisition doesn't seem to have dimmed the animal spirits one bit. When someone complains that some twenty-something just outbid their friend by $200K for a house in B'game you will know why it happened.
The Deadheads like to think this rainbow is Jerry smiling down on the proceedings. Why not?
Indeed, I saw the actual last Dead show ever at Chicago Soldier Field. It isn't the same without Jerry, but now we can see Bob and Phil at their clubs in Marin 10 feet away, easily.
"TellApart"...yeah there's not a housing crisis, it's called success and economic vibrancy.
And, the gov't is not there to guarantee that you can always live in the same house or neighborhood.
Perhaps Steelhead should start a new partybus service that includes preparty and postparty hangouts to travel to Sweetwater Café, Terrapin Crossroads, The Fillmore, and the rest of the great music venues around the Bay Area. I know, they should just start producing live music again at Steelhead...nah Domingo won't do it for some reason. Too bad, it's perfect for it.
Work hard, play hard.
Posted by: Work hard, play hard. | June 30, 2015 at 01:07 PM
The Music Never Stops...
http://www.dead50.net/watch-listen/
Posted by: Account Deleted | June 30, 2015 at 03:58 PM
The lights were on late at Tell A Part. They were having a hacking party. The person who could hack into their system received $50K. Reports from a reliable source says there were two winners.
Posted by: Russ | July 03, 2015 at 05:21 PM
Maybe the city should do the same thing, but the prize should be more like $50.
Posted by: hillsider | July 03, 2015 at 06:05 PM
OK, Joe and Russ, I know that you're both secretly Dead Heads...
Dark Star Orchestra
Fox Theater - Redwood City
October 1, 2015
https://foxrwc.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=80
Perhaps, I see you there!
Posted by: Secretly Dead Heads | August 30, 2015 at 06:22 PM
That's no secret in my case. Thanks
Posted by: Joe | August 31, 2015 at 12:59 PM
The China Cats are playing tonight at Club Fox in downtown Redwood City at 9pm. $35. https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/968671?_ga=1.156324539.1099299246.1451599069&__utma=1.1256612233.1451599069.1451599069.1451599069.1&__utmb=1.1.10.1451599069&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1451599069.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=(not%20provided)&__utmv=-&__utmk=101201793
You can warm up on www.siriusxm.com at 8pm tonight with the live "The Dead" show, which now includes John Mayer. If you don't subscribe, you can get a free trial.
Posted by: 8pm Live and then 9pm Covered | December 31, 2015 at 02:01 PM
There are a couple other Deadheads who read the Voice, so for my spinning buddies we have this news clip:
Today marks the start of a 2017 Sundance Film Festival that many feel could be dominated by the streaming services that are reshaping the independent film ecosystem.
The signs of brisk action are there already, even before the auctions start this weekend. Yesterday, Amazon paid a whopping sum in excess of $6 million for Long Strange Trip, the 4-hour documentary on The Grateful Dead by director Amir Bar-Lev and producer Martin Scorsese, before the film’s premiere.
Amazon, squarely in the Oscar race for last year’s $10 million Sundance acquisition Manchester By The Sea, will shortly set a distributor for a limited theatrical window before it streams the movie on Amazon Prime, and cut it into 6-pieces for television.
Posted by: Joe | January 19, 2017 at 11:05 PM
I was there 2 years ago! Great show!
Posted by: My Kayak Life | June 17, 2017 at 09:42 AM