Do you guys think this event(s) is worth all this cost, stress and confusion? Is this a 'manufactured' community at this point?

I can't 'ruin' anything for anybody, that is abuser talk, man?

"Says who?" Like every other thread in this forum maybe? Where are my tickets, I didn't get the dates I wanted, I paid for better seats, the promotor' pre-emptive 'apology letter? So that aside I really want to know if people want to hear music first or be with other people in a community/ritual setting - probably both right. But it feels weird to have to pay so, so much $$ to get that experience? I can think of a smaller scale analogy.

But say back in the day, well my day, tickets were about $18-25, not free to a young person, and then getting to the shows, but it was accessible and very doable and really not much undo hassle, and the de-facto community was real, people you knew, you'd run into, Steve Kimock tuned my Yamaha acoustic guitar, oh there's attorney Tony Serra dancing a few people in front of me, hey here are some people I knew from high school that I'm trying my best (under trying 'circumstances') to be cordial with, here's my brother and his group of buddies, now my girlfriend and I are dancing, is the set over, I think I levitated during Deal, man I love this music it's pointing to a new direction, all directions, everything is possible. I certainly hope you a ll get some of that, we need that in our lives, it has been lost to what is called "Modernity", please fight to get 'that' back, its something that a lot of other cultures in the world still have. Fight against the darkness and BS of INdustrial Capitalism and proto-fascism etc., like the GD and the fans did for so many years. But we need new strategies that go beyond this commemorative one-off $$ weirdness. Perhaps new ideas will be fomented out of the chaos! Enjoy!

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