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    oh no spammed already on deadnet
    I just received the following unsolicited invitation to get in touch with a certain Teeyah Bonke. (member name Teeyah4you) ''Hi, I found you very interesting with a faith that you will be a great friend to me. Pls can you contact me with my address so that i can tell you more about myself with my photo and the reason why i contacted you.teeyah4you@yahoo.com Thanks.Teeyah’' If you google this name you get a reference to someone from Sierra Leone looking for love on a military dating site!!! Congratulations, Dead.net has made it to the big time…we are spam victims already! No surprise I suppose...I Love the site and all you are doing to make it happen and keep it real
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    You sure did that - thanks. Glad to know that DeadLand is still a great place to visit
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    good news
    Be careful, Howard. I like my hippie men old and cranky. It's so much fun to make 'em smile!
  • Howard
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    Fair point Izzie
    OK Izzie, you're right. I'll take the good news. Just looking forward to getting the CD. Guess I'm just Grumpy Old man "Always look on the bright side of life" eh... Howard
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    anthony - are you looking for customer service at the Store? Try sending email to customerservice@deadnetstore.com Let us know if you were looking for something else.
  • bob_dylan
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    Is anyone paying attention to Customer Service Inquiries?
    I guess musictoday no longer does GDP merchandising? I asked a question a week ago and never got an answer. 1800-CAL-DEAD no longer is answered.
  • izzie
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    instant response!
    Howard, suspicious looking, I know, that immediate response when you re-ordered. To me, though, that's GOOD NEWS!! it means the system automatically acknowledged your order, which is something we've been working on lo' these weeks now. I'm so sorry that it looked so tacky just then, but really, that's sign of better customer service to come! this makes sense, right? We asked them to acknowledge orders, if nothing else, and they're doing that now. That's a front-edge of better customer service behind the scenes.
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    Reply/Store - Same experience as Jeremy
    It has been a nightmare of non-communications with the store since the setup changed. I spent a week trying to get my "Three from the Vault" ordered adjusted to the lower Shipping Charge ( I'm in Cambridge, UK). I tried contacting them via Customer Services on the Web (5 times), and via direct email (3 times I think) and got no replies whatsoever. In desperation I posted to the Admin forum here and got some support and help there from Izzie ( thanks Izzie). Shortly after I found that Customer Service had responded to my post and cancelled my Order. So I get no response at all to any email, but I get a mail shot from them, and when I reorder "Three from...." I get immediate confirmation of the order. Is the only interest in taking my money?? Surely not here of all places. The most disturbing thing about this episode is that it has the feel of a non-caring Corporation running the store - which is not what I expect from DeadHeads. DeadLand is normally a haven from the some of the harsher realities elsewhere, so to be treated this way is very upsetting. Please tell me this is all due to teething troubles - and not a takeover by Corporate America :)) Howard
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    The Reply option was apparently behind the weird non-chronological listing of some posts. I encourage you to use the old-fashioned copy/paste to respond directly to something someone else said. JeremyP - I'll copy your note directly to some Admin-folks who might can help out. Everyone (even admin!!) is having trouble with the Store customer service, and it's being worked on. But that's kinda out of our hands here, and all we can do is continue to pass your concerns along and scream a little louder every day. Thanks for your patience!!
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    Can't reply to others posts?
    I noticed the "reply" button at the bottom of posts is now gone. I think it creates more of a sense of community when you can directly reply to another poster. For example, over in the "best versions" thread, I was previously able to respond to someone's post about best Sugarees, but now it seems we can't get/keep that kind of dialogue going. (I guess we can if we cut and paste of respond to the poster by name without the quote.) Same with the "what are you listening to?" thread. It would make sense to be able to quote and/or directly reply to someone along the lines of "if you're listening to _____ you might like _____."Still, I'm enjoying digging around in here - plenty to do! "Got a few wrinkles but that's OK, hang out in the breeze and they'll blow away"
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Merry Christmas Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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I wonder if one reason why there has been some squabbling a bit in some of the forums is the basic issue of never knowing a person's tone of voice or emotions or facial expressions in the post. sure, the Tibet issue and the whole idea of organized religion etc etc are HOT topics, but I wonder if a simple solution, or a simple way to make things better (more clear) would be possible... what I suggest is the availability of little icon emotions, or little smile faces, that we have available, easily available, please; that people can add to their posts to kind of 'set the mood' know what I mean? I use these: ( -: or ( -; like yahoo mail or something has tons of cool little dudes to put in email. that said, I never figured out how to use them, just my neice who is only a small fry dude, knows how and she includes them. ) -; peace.
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and I don't know the current status. In my experience, people are just about evenly divided in the emoticon-fan and emoticon-phobe camps, but they do seem to come up with new and complex varieties. I stick with the ascii ones like your examples myself, but some software converts them automatically.
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feel like the ant in that Disney movie...did deadnet become the eharmony of music? Keep on rockin in the free world
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Sending out waves of good vibes and volumes of appreciation to Jonathon and marye and all those those behind the green curtain. Thank you for all your efforts. You can feel the magic everywhere, and without your efforts during the past few weeks this would not be happening. Take a minute and pat yourselves on the back and know many of us out here very much appreciate and love what you do for us.peace,love and thank you,pk
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The search function seems really broken. Searching on a simple keyword (e.g. pitch) yields a bunch of hits. Each hit shows an excerpt of the post that contains the keyword. So far so good. Now, if I click on the link to view the entire post that contained the keyword match I'm simply taken to the thread that contained the post instead of being taken to the actual post. The link doesn't even take me to the *page* within the thread that contains the post. A given thread may have a dozen pages with a hundred posts in total. I guess I have to slog through each page of the thread using the search function in my browser to try and find the actual post that your search engine showed me an excerpt of. Am I missing something or is the search function as useless as it appears to be?
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I'm wondering about a show in Canada , think it will happen ???i would come down to the states , but they won't let me :(
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the on-line pre sale process was not user friendly. i got kicked off several times and when i was finally granted access i paid 96.00 per ticket. i'm glad the band was able to contain costs in this time of econom ic downturn
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I started exactly at 12 to purchase tickets for 4/25 at the Garden.After about an hour I gave up. Now there are a ton of tickets on StubHub. How did they get in? It really pisses me off that I didn't get tickets and the people who did a-are not going and b-are making a profit selling their tix. Anyone else feeling that?
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keep trying it didn't work well for me yesterday but tried again today and got a couple.
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I was hoping to catch a show of the Dead coming to Philly, but looks like it is already sold out and the tickets were 100 bucks each. Are they worth it, YES. Is this Dead acting historically, NO. I remember getting a special invite as a Daedhead to see the group for a nite at the Tower Theater. This was 1976, no internet, a letter, mailed my check and got 2 third row seats for me and my wife for one of the best nights of music that I remember.. Warren Haynes is no Jerry, I like him, I would go see them, but can't afford it in this years economy."You the one thing I need is a left handed monkey wrench" Jim John 3:16
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Wouldn't be great if Robert Hunter sat in a few shows on the spring tour and sang days between!! R I P Jerry (you are missed)
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Why does the GD stress the Jerry Garcia Family LLC is (mainly his daughters)? Who cares? Is Deborah despised that much? Or am I assuming too much? I don't know her and I don't care. If what is said about her behavior after Jerry's death is true it says she has problems but WE ALL do. There is no way of knowing nothing unless we were there. Think, would you want to be under so much public pressure, your every move is scrutinized. What happened to forgiveness? Please remove "mainly Jerry's daughters". Its insulting to us and WHOMEVER the band is protecting. I think the band's behavior's becoming eractic. Roger
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This whole thing tries to please too many people. Oy! Its taken me two days of half trys to post my message! Roger
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sorry you don't like the way things are here, but you'll note that pretty quickly after that topic was posted, one of your fellow Heads took it upon himself to post the legal documents about the exact makeup of the LLC, so what is too much information for some folks is not nearly enough for others. We try to muddle along and coexist anyway.
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I'll ask Jonathan!
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There was a time I would write the GD anything to any email address I could find and someone would respond. I once asked why Brent was cropped out of band photos and got a response. What's that whirling sound? Its Jerry spinning in his grave. This new system is soooo impersonal, I hope there are riots this tour. Roger
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HEYYYYYY! Here's something to cheer ya up archive.org Check out the 4/12 and 4/14 shows. Hope you'll feel less grumpy!
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Type in The Dead live 4/12/09 (Search) and whirl!
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It being family in the first place, your in or your out. Being on tour, I'm darn sure every band member got over the hump somehow. Traveling , picking the tunes , etc. it just isn't a perfect world. Robert HUNTER , WHERE R U? Mickey and Phil patched things up? The Dead were all about breaking rules , if not doing the best that they do ; not one show is identical from another one. Love the Band for that reason.(separates the men from the boys) Counting down the days till Phili, so see ya there Robert Hunter. God , Allah, or whoever wears the pants in the universe , just make it happen. And like the man said; Days Inbetween. Lol. Kottonmouthjeff
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Robert Hunter has been writing tunes with Bob Dylan. Lots of them on the Dylan release coming out this month. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Marye: You'll need to guide me better. Where do I find the doc's re: the LLC? I'm curious, why do they insist on "mainly Jerry's daughters". And I defended Dborah, if her real name is Deborah, who knows what if anything about her is true? And please note, Wednesday I received part of my GD store order, so what is it, cancelled or shipped? Oy vay! I did let the pressures of my life spill over and for that apologize. Franky baby.
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lethedoom This week's Grateful Dead Hour is not included on the friont page 'The Latest' list and it is necessary to navigate through four pages to listen to it. Whoever is syncing your site is out of order or sleeping in. http://www.dead.net/front_page --> http://www.dead.net/features --> http://www.dead.net/features/gdhour --> http://www.dead.net/features/gd-radio-hour/grateful-dead-hour-no-807
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thank you, we're on it. fr8nk, sorry for the late response. I'm sorry, I don't know a thing about the LLC but I'd guess it's all public record at this point, and if you are still having trouble with your order lemme know.
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So i'm thumbing through some old CD covers and came across American Beauty. Man, theres some strange things goin on on the front cover. I can see the word REALITY in the word BEAUTY. I heard something about holding it upside down infront of the mirror and reading it??? Gonna check that out. Just another message from the grateful dead:)Forever Grateful, Forever Dead, Peace- Moye
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if ya hold mars hotel upside down and look at the mirror image it says "ugly rumors"....but at this point i believe that's pretty much common knowledge among deadheads.
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Ill have to check that out man, I seriously never knew that bout mars hotel. (I feel like a dum dum) LOL Seriously tho, look at the cover of american beauty....I can see the word REALITY plain as day in the word BEAUTY. Weirdorama..... Peace- Moye
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I get the impression that everything here is canned and pre-created. Everywhere I look there does not appear to be an area to post. This lives up to my impression of the whole Dead organization as being the closest thing to Hippie Nazis. Hell, your web site doesn't even accurately tell the members of the band.. and some of those pictures are so old it is pathetic. This whole forum is a total mess - perhaps you designed it to be confusing so your pre-made canned phony comments could stay in the locked forum and people who saw the shows and thought they stunk aren't able to speak the truth. Face it - this band should not exist - Jerry died and 50% of the creativity died with it.. the other 25% is Bob Weir and the other 25% was PigPen. Your overpriced tickets in huge crap venues like the Forum in LA show that you don't care about the fans, as much as you try to portray the cool hippie aesthetic. We know your true colors. I bet your T-shirts are manufactured in China. This tour will be a flop, I predict.
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Godwin's Law strikes again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law give mentous a prize: a free ticket to the LA Forum and a Tour -Shirt! Seriously though, I am not sure the concept of the 'Live' show reviews is working too well either. But folk have posted some interesting, critical and sometimes negative reviews of the shows. And if they were there, are happy, high and want to tell everyone, why shouldn't they?
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mebbe my posts make little to no sense but they are all mine, pal....nuffin' canned. ain't no-one paid me to write anything. isn't it odd you would predict a flop when the tour is half over? when folks have been saying how much they have enjoyed themselves? how wonderful it has been to see old friends and family? apparently something has been a monumental disappointment to you, to the extant that it has caused you to be delusional........'t's ok, man....have a cookie and relax...YOU don't have to be pleased with the music, the rest of us will try to be....
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with the big black dot where the steely should be ? I scrole over it and little black dots appear on the screen and the screen go`s dark ?
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Yeah, Man! What's with the dot Bob? What's with the dot? (I think it's a speaker) which means......MUSIC? a New Release?....a....***eyes dart around fervently***....DVD!?!!!!?! "In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul."
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appearing in a pattern oddly reminiscent of the Wall of Sound. Hmmm. Perhaps something 73-74ish is in the upcoming release chute? Worse things could happen... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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guys...perhaps it was never really there in the first place and we were all in a state of group mind? Who REALLY knows? Right? "In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul."
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I think Pid's right. I can see the pop-up wall of sound in the packaging already!
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time for that Freedom Hall '74 show to come out and play? The Truth is realized in an instant, the act is practiced step by step.
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when's it comin?tonight? in minutes? "In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head. Listen to the river sing sweet songs, to rock my soul."
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... one of my top ten shows (I don't know what the others are right now, but this one's always in there). Surely, the words six-eighteen-seventy-four hold a special place in all Dead hearts - hopefully, a great cal Senor Oroboros!!! " Beat It On Down My Old Kentucky Home "
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pop up packaging... we don't need no stinkin' pop up packaging. badgers? (-; yuk yuk yuk... peace.
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wall was gone, then back on the main page after I logged off. simple example of stoners trying to mind fuck other stoners... we WANT DVDs, not no pop up packaging. well, at the very least, I want DVDs. peace.
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Ya s'pose there IS any extant, unreleased video from the Wall Of Sound era? That would be pretty clutch! And to paraphrase Jesse Colin Young, I believe our Badger bathes often, therefore he don't smell... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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i've seen stoners pop-up (as soon as some one fires up)....but i have never seen any pop-up badgers. the speakers are still there tho. just place the cursor on the one where the stealie was....no badgers tho.....
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This is picky, but the entry for Big Boss Man mentions that Bob sang Big Boss Man in the '80s. But it doesn't mention that Jerry also sang it. He did a great job on it in the New Years Eve show of 12/31/81. PigPen would have approved. http://www.dead.net/song/big-boss-man
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I remember that version! Gotta get that tape out...