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Other Shows To Come
The tour was contingent on how things went at the Terrapin Station weekend, which took place at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis.
New tour dates for the Other Ones’ start in mid-November and run for 15 shows through December. Both Boston and Philadelphia will host the band for two nights. Right now, the tour looks to keep to the Eastern portions of the States.
Terrapin Station was a reunion concert marking the first time all four remaining Grateful Dead members – Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir – had planned a full concert together since 1995. The shows also came nearly seven years to the day after the Dead’s last show.
Reviews of the event have been positive, with the weekend deemed a success by the Grateful Dead organization, local law enforcement and the promoters.
Not long after announcing plans for the event, the reunion was thrown into jeopardy when the Walworth County Board in Wisconsin reversed its decision to allow the concert to take place at Alpine Valley.
The committee was concerned with the traffic, fearing it would overwhelm the sheriff’s department and emergency response teams. The locals were also wary of unauthorized camping, drug use and other public nuisances.
Although there were 35,000 tickets sold for each day of the two-day event, authorities had feared that more than 200,000 would show up. It’s quite common for thousands of ticket-less fans to turn up at Dead shows in hopes of getting in. To prevent that from happening, the band, venue and promoters publicized and enforced a strict “don’t show up without a ticket” policy.
Needless to say, in the end, only about 50 arrests were made at the Terrapin Station event and authorities ended up sending officers and tow trucks home early when it became clear the mass posed no threat.