Conference rdvax::grateful

    Jimmy Buffet.
    
    Tie-died ParrotHeads!
    

    the rolling stones or the eagles,the bastards, at dead ticket prices!!!
    
    NOT REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    rfb

    Little Feat would be cool

The Radiators would make a most audacious opening act!

	dave

    I saw Little Feat open for Jimmy B. in Denver once... 1990(?)
                                                                 
    Michael T. CodgerHead 

I saw the FEAT and Buffet  and 

the "re-formed Lowell-less FEAT" open for the Dead in Oxford.  Taint the
same band w/ Craig Fuller (???) whom I've heard is out and some female is in.
She could probably sing Lowell songs better ...anyone know if that's true?

I'd like to see the old "Day on the Green" with The Who and The Dead

but today? I guess I'd like what's already been said....

Buffett and the Dead but only if Jimmy doesn't insist on playing UJB :)
Stones/Dead would be a mega show but also w/ its mega-headaches...

bob

    I was at that show , Mikey. GOOD STUFF!!!!!

    YES ... I see them mentioned in the same "hippy-psychedlia" sense as
    the Dead sometimes, which strikes me odd, YES being "hippy" but hey,
    I love the Dead, and I love YES, so why not together ??!!
    
    Wes

    Lawrence Welk and the mighty bubble machine would be most
    excellent

    Hot F'ing Tuna!

    er, Chris... he's DEAD, alright!

    damn
    ok the allman's run a close second

    
    
    
    Dave Matthew Band
    
    PhisH!
    
    The Allman Brothers Band
    
    

    thinking seriously about this, the RADS would be my real choice...
    
    erfb

    re .12: Half of THEM are DEAD, too!
    
    ...The original A.B.B. did in fact open for the Dead in ~1970...
    Some say that the Dead learned how to jam from the ABB... 
    
    sure wish I could have seen those shows...
    
    (While we're at it, I saw Little Feat open for the ALLMANS in Santa Fe
    in 1993! Strange how the same ole folks keep crowding in here... 8*) )
    
    
    ...mike
    

    Bob -- exatcly one year ago this weekend my wife saw Feat with the
    female singer...she said they were grate!!!
    
    rfb

    
    How 'bout Lynyrd Skynyrd (with Ronnie )....
    
    
    Toby

Bonnie Raitt

RFB,

"exactly one year ago..."

whhoopS!!!  just a tad slow here :)
bob

    	What about Paul Schaeffer on a keyboard sit-in?

	
	
				   CARLOS!!!!!!
	
	
	

    
    
     I change my answer to CARLOS.
    
    
     :-)
    
     Steve

    ooouuuuuuu....Carlos would be a good one...i saw Dr. John with Feat
    and i thought he was pretty rippin'....the Jethro Tull rumour last year
    was one i thought might work...let's see, who should open for the
    DEAD???
    
    
    
    
    How's bout BARRY MANILOW..."I write the songs that make the whole world
    				sing..."

Yea, Carlos!  Good answer!!

>    How's bout BARRY MANILOW..."I write the songs that make the whole world
>    				sing..."

I prefer Mandy. :)

bob

    mtduggan
    wasn't the allmans and dead double bill at the NJ englishtown raceway
    later on as well?
    anyways alive or dead lawrence welk rocks and always will
    
    carlos is another good one..nice calll jolly jay
    
    chris

    wasn't it Marshall Tucker, Little Feat and Dead at Englishtown
    
    Allmans played w/the Dead at Watkins Glenn in NY (also the BAND?)
    
    Pete

    re .25: I dunno... when Duane ate the semi truck I kinda lost interest
    in the Allmans for about twenty years... missed the whole trip of Gregg
    with Cher, and all that...
    
    and I was out of the country (until the statute of limitations ran out
    8*)) so I missed the daed going to Egypt too...
    
    ...mike t "Loss of Memory"Head
    

    yeah pete
    watkins glenn was the dead/allmans bill..
    ny...nj...nh.....
    new sumthin or other
    statute of limitations eh??

    Yea...summer of 73' if i remember at all...a miracle that i do to tell
    ya the truth...The Dead and Allman Brothers did RFK stadium in
    Washington in May me thinks and then Watkins Glen in July...thought
    they we're suppose to do a gig together in NJ in September, but i 
    didn't make that...i was still trying to come down off the Watkins Glen
    trip...%'}
    		Dugo

	Mashall Tucker and NRPS for Englishtown 9/3/77
	Allman Bros and the Band for Watkins Glenn 7/28/73

    GNP (Gross National Productions) with Matt Maverick.  I saw them quite
    a while ago.  They do a skit of Uncle Bisconi looking through the magic
    toilet seat.  They also do a song called BEES and someone is bee
    costume comes out running all over the stage.  They do another song
    called "that's the way it goes" that starts
    I saw her crying there, she thinks I'm rotten to the core, well I am
    so that's the way ot goes.
    GNP - One of all time greatest memories!

    the Carlos/dead at Vegas and Carlos/dead at Mile High were good
    combos. but time for someone new....Tull and the dead would NEVER go
    over. Last couple of times Tull was in Denver I heard he was TELLING
    people to NOT DANCE, to set down and listen...told a friend of mine
    that... 
    
    Neil Young and Crazy Horse????? Neil Young and Squirrell Spam, errrr, 
    Pearl Jam?? (even though that rumor of that combo has been dispelled by
    the Spam)
    
    I'll stick wit da RADS!!!!!
    rfb

Hmmm, those specualations over who played at Englishtown where causing me to
shake my head (Allman Bros??? don't remember them.  Little Feat, but I've
never seen little feat, how could it have been little feet?  Marshal Tucker
and NRPS... sounds good to me!)
That was a fun show.

PeterT

    re: Englishtown
    
    OK - Marshal Tucker and NRPS...Musta been heatstroke from my VW bus
    burnin' up the night before just outside of town.

re                      <<< Note 451.32 by CXDOCS::BARNES >>>

>    over. Last couple of times Tull was in Denver I heard he was TELLING
>    people to NOT DANCE, to set down and listen...told a friend of mine
>    that... 
 
yup, i've seen TULL a few times and that is pretty much what he says.
sit back, and enjoy da show.

BTW, ... FLOYD would be an intense opener!

    Yea...Floyd would do it in my book...giant pink pigs flying all
    around...that would fer sur git me goin'...*%'}
    
    dugo_who's_getting_ready_for_vegas

Still wanna know who's opening in La$ Vega$ ???

	;-)

    YES I DO!!!!!

I wonder if the Black Crowes will be opening for them...

I know they are opening in Tampa and have heard rumors of them opening
at the Northwest shows....

I saw them at the Orpheum  on a SatNite a week or 2 ago and all I can say 
is THEY ROCKED!  I had an excellent time and I kept thinking that the people
down in Tampa ought to go inside to hear the show....they even did a space 
like thing that was nice.  

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band opened up for them and came out (well 1/2 of them
came out) and did Hard To Handle - nice version w/ lots of horns.

bob

ps.  what other bands are rumored to be opening....??

    
    Still no official announcement for who is opening at Vegas. What's
    taking so long? Rumoured acts include:
    ------------------------------------- 
    Dave Matthews Band
    Phish
    The Allman Brothers Band
    Black Crowes
    Pete Townshend
    Edie Brickell, Bruce Hornsby, and Branford Marsalis

    I've heard the Townsend and Crowes rumors..Phish? ya right....personaly
    I'd just as soon the opener NOT be a big name act, like
    Townsend...strange crowds in past years with Sting and Frank Sinatra
    opening for the dead in Vegas..strange, deadly, bug-eyed individuals
    dressed in black leather and beads...mini-skirts..suits....scary....
    
    rfb

    how dare they don't wear a tie dye to a dead show.
    if phish opens for the dead all hell will break loose

Sinatra opened for the Dead?  Yer kiddin'?

Not likely Phish will ever open for them.  They hate the association
between the two bands already, and it isn't likely that the two very busy
touring schedules could ever be coordinated.

I like both bands, but I don't understand the connection between them
either - their styles are so radically different....the only commonality
appears to be the audience.

tim

    RE:Sinatra opened for the Dead?  Yer kiddin'?
    
    yep...april fools!!!! (late) although during set break first year in
    Vegas, Sinatra was played the entire time...people were BOGGIEIN Down
    too!! %^)
    
    
    rfb

    
    
    
    
    ....and that PhisH used to be a Dead cover band. 
        I have a tape from 1985, including Scarlet, Eyes, and I
        forget what else. Strange.
    
    
    ....and simply that they're a "jam" band. Like the Allmans,
        Dead, Santana, etc.
    
    
    ....AND (along the line of a crappy association), there are
        billyions and billyions of wasted people there.  %^P
    
    
    Steve-O
    

    ALLMANS! (are we vorting?)
    
    8*)
    
    Michael T. "Bro's"Head
    

If Phish ever opened (and worse, if they were established as the opener before
tix went on sale) we'd never get a damn ticket!

You know you're old when you feel there would be "too many kids" around at a
Phish/Dead show.

    
    confirmed Vegas opening act;
    
    Dave Matthews Band

    adam
    when you say we do you mean deadheads who aren't phisheads?

    DMB confirmed thru the hotline???
    
    rfb

    
     Who/What is DMB?
    
     How about CCR as an opener for the dead?  or is someone from
     CCR dead?
                                                  
     Sloan

        <<< Note 451.52 by ENQUE::SLOAN "Tell ME all that 'cha know" >>>
>     How about CCR as an opener for the dead?  or is someone from
>     CCR dead?
                                                  
>     Sloan

Hey Sloan,

DMB = dave matthews band - soon to be on TV on Sat.Nite.Live.  

CCR - yea, Tom Fogarty died from what I think were complications due to 
Aids but am not positive.  This was a few years ago.  Not John (who sang/wrote)
but Tom.

seeya
bob
ps.  CCR/John Fogarty  can't even play CCR tunes due to the "screwin'" they
received in their contracts (not sure if this is a "forever" thing but sooner
or later the songs will be public domain).

    I just happened to see the DMB on MTV's Spring Break show whilst
    channel flippin...watched for awhile cause I'd heard the Hendrix
    (watchtower??) tune they/he do/does. Alternative sounding ala Squirrel
    Spam singer/guit player, rasta drummer, regge horns, electric
    violin....ain't Phish or Carlos, but then again ain't Townsend..%^)
    
    rfb

I heard the DMB on the radio, the one with John Popper on Harmonica.  I thought
it was Blues Traveler until they ID'd the band.  I like 'em.

LeBlanc: No, "we" meant anyone who wants to see a dead show, Phish or no Phish!

Hapgood: I think Fogerty is allowed to play CCR tunes now.  They settled that
matter a year or 3 ago.  Didn't he play some CCR with the Dead at the Bill
Graham tribute?

adam

     Fogerty has gotten away with playing CCR tunes because he only
    plays them at benefit shows or free shows....if he had settled
    with that record company, I would think he'd be out on the road
    cashing in on the 70's craze(just MHO)....
    

    Rumor has it that Chuck Berry will open for the boyz in Portland, OR on
    May 28 & 29. That should be interesting!!

>    ....and that PhisH used to be a Dead cover band. 
>        I have a tape from 1985, including Scarlet, Eyes, and I
>        forget what else. Strange.

Phish was never a Dead cover band.  just because they used to play some covers
of dead tunes doesn't make them a Dead cover band.  would you call them a Duke
Ellington cover band because they play Take the A-Train and Caravan?  or an
Allman's cover band because they play Whipping Post?  or a Neil Diamond cover
band because they play Cracklin' Rosie?  or an AC/DC cover band because they
play Highway to Hell?  they play a wide range of cover songs, from a wide range
of musical genres, and some of those songs used to be from the Dead.  i'd
imagine they dropped the few Dead songs from their rotation because they got
sick of being called a Dead cover band.

- rich

    
    	Be careful when you start using Neil Diamond's name in vain,
    Rich.....the man is a legend, he is the fatherof grunge...oh, wait,
    you said Diamond.....never mind......
    
    

    :-) :-) :-)