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bananas

(27,509 posts)
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:16 PM Jun 2015

How To Livestream The Grateful Dead 'Fare Thee Well' Concerts

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Source: Decider

After fifty years, six keyboardists, countless acid tests, a journey to Egypt, record-breaking runs at Madison Square Garden, a Top Ten single, numerous spinoff bands, many good trips, a few bad ones, and nearly 3000 concerts, the Grateful Dead are closing the curtain on a spectacular, half-century (!) run over the next two weekends.

The core four surviving original members—Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart—will be performing five shows over two weekends. The first will take place tonight, Saturday, June 27 (at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m PT), and the second tomorrow, Sunday, June 28 (at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT); both are being held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, not too far from the Palo Alto locales where they first came together.

The third, fourth, and fifth shows will go down at Soldier Field in Chicago (on July 3rd, 4th and 5th), where the Dead played their final two shows as the Grateful Dead in July 1995, a month before guitarist and de facto leader Jerry Garcia died, effectively ending the band.

All five ‘Fare Thee Well’ shows will be available to stream in a wide variety of packages and options.

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Read more: http://decider.com/2015/06/27/grateful-dead-fare-thee-well-livestream/

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How To Livestream The Grateful Dead 'Fare Thee Well' Concerts (Original Post) bananas Jun 2015 OP
Concert Venue Screenings bananas Jun 2015 #1
Interesting they list the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, Bob Weir's place, but neglected Brother Buzz Jun 2015 #7
I think it's also on Sirius XM shenmue Jun 2015 #2
Oh,I hope so. Ahpook Jun 2015 #6
My brother is taping tonights show. I'll wait. Lochloosa Jun 2015 #3
My husband is attending the one tonight. deurbano Jun 2015 #4
Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir says fare thee well to his birth father bananas Jun 2015 #5
Goin' to a show in my livingroom! antiquie Jun 2015 #8
Locking thread. TexasTowelie Jun 2015 #9

bananas

(27,509 posts)
1. Concert Venue Screenings
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:21 PM
Jun 2015
http://www.dead50.net/concert-venue-screenings/

Concert Venue Screenings

Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead will screen live at concert venues throughout the country. Check back for updates to see if your local music venue will be hosting a “Fare Thee Well” screening.

Don’t see your venue below? E-mail us to have your venue added to our list.

Bearsville Theater Woodstock New York
Brooklyn Bowl Brooklyn New York
Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas Las Vegas Nevada
City Winery Chicago Chicago Illinois
City Winery New York New York New York
College Street Music Hall New Haven Connecticut
Got Grass? Gourmet Location TBA
Gypsy Sally’s Washington District of Columbia
Hinge Northampton Massachusetts
Historic Memorial Hall Willmington Vermont
Homespun Republic Springfield Illinois
Ives Concert Park Danbury Connecticut
Jefferson Theater Charlottesville Virginia
LIFE the Place to Be Ardsley New York
Maennerchor Field Doylestown Pennsylvania
Mezzanine San Francisco California
Moe Bar Seattle Washington
Orpheum Theater Flagstaff Arizona
Park West Chicago Illinois
Saturn Birmingham Alabama
Shrine Expo Hall Los Angeles California
Starland Ballroom Sayreville New Jersey
State Theatre Portland Maine
Suffolk Theater Riverhead New York
Sweetwater Music Hall Mill Valley California
The 1up – Colfax Denver Colorado
The 8×10 Baltimore Maryland
The Barkley Ballroom Frisco Colorado
The Capitol Theatre Port Chester New York
The Independent San Francisco California
The National Richmond Virginia
The Norva Norfolk Virginia
The Regent Theater, DTLA Los Angeles California
The Sinclair Cambridge Massachusetts
The SPACE at Westbury Westbury New York
The State Room Salt Lake City Utah
The Theatre at Ace Hotel Los Angeles California
The Westcott Theater Syracuse New York
Union Transfer Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Brother Buzz

(36,217 posts)
7. Interesting they list the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, Bob Weir's place, but neglected
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:52 PM
Jun 2015

to mention Terrapin Crossroads, Phil Lesh's club in San Rafael. Both will be streaming.

http://www.terrapincrossroads.net/

shenmue

(38,503 posts)
2. I think it's also on Sirius XM
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:24 PM
Jun 2015

They have a Grateful Dead channel.

Ahpook

(2,747 posts)
6. Oh,I hope so.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:49 PM
Jun 2015

Thanks for the reminder

Lochloosa

(16,019 posts)
3. My brother is taping tonights show. I'll wait.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:28 PM
Jun 2015

deurbano

(2,891 posts)
4. My husband is attending the one tonight.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:39 PM
Jun 2015

bananas

(27,509 posts)
5. Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir says fare thee well to his birth father
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 07:46 PM
Jun 2015
http://www.marinij.com/arts-and-entertainment/20150627/grateful-deads-bob-weir-says-fare-thee-well-to-his-birth-father

Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir says fare thee well to his birth father
By Paul Liberatore, Marin Independent Journal
Posted: 06/27/15, 3:06 PM PDT | Updated: 45 secs ago

As the surviving members of the Grateful Dead kick off their series of Fare Thee Well concerts this weekend at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, one esteemed member of the band’s family will be there in memory and spirit only. Jack Louis Parber, a retired Air Force colonel who learned late in life that he was the biological father of Grateful Dead singer-guitarist Bob Weir, had been a fixture at his son’s concerts ever since the rock ’n roll hall-of-famer contacted him in 1996, beginning what would become a belated, but close, father-son relationship.

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In failing health after a series of falls, retired Col. Parber died April 10 of a pulmonary embolism at the Veterans Affairs hospital in San Francisco. Weir and his wife, Natascha, hosted his memorial at Sweetwater Music Hall, their hometown Mill Valley nightclub.

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In his eulogy, the 67-year-old musician recalled his father telling him that if he hadn’t gone into the Air Force, he would have liked to have been an opera singer. In keeping with the Grateful Dead’s aversion to sentimentality, the printed program for the service had a color photo of Col. Parber on the front and, inside, a handwritten inscription saying, “They don’t make ’em like Jack anymore.”

The story of how Weir found his birth father and embraced him and the brothers he didn’t know he had is a fascinating sidebar to the long, strange trip of the Grateful Dead.

Remarkably, all four of Weir’s brothers are guitar players. The oldest, Novato resident Anthony Parber, a 63-year-old retired field economist for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, performed at the Sweetwater service with his band, the Beatles Project.

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As a condition of the adoption, the birth mother was not to contact her son while his adopted parents were alive. They died in 1972, but Weir didn’t hear from her for another decade. He had just gotten home from a tour, gone to bed exhausted and was in the middle of a strange dream about his family home, a brother and a stillborn baby when he was awakened by the phone ringing. It was the Grateful Dead office saying that a woman named Phyllis had called, claiming to be his mother. It turned out that she was who she said she was.

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antiquie

(4,299 posts)
8. Goin' to a show in my livingroom!
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 08:04 PM
Jun 2015

Surprise for me.

TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
9. Locking thread.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 09:16 PM
Jun 2015

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