David777
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Am so so glad, just I went to all 3 Dead & Company evening shows at SF Giants, Oracle Park. So immensely happy to be alive and healthy now in this mortal existence. Will share a bit of how good senior life can be.
All 3 were quite different wonderful, ecstatic experiences within a marine climate setting with temperatures of 65F to 57F. More people (especially older people from my senior era) have freestyle danced at Grateful Dead shows year after year than all the rest of touring rock concerts added together. For this 2023 touring finale, people arrived from across the nation, world, and locally. In the colorful tyedye t-shirt crowd mix, were significant numbers of twenty-something local tech people, many that were obviously doing the famed Dead concert thing for the first time and many indeed discovered secrets of the universe.
The SF Giants baseball park is one of the finest late era designed stadiums in the world. The towering seating deck orientations block the prevailing west and northwest marine winds as well as provide afternoon seating sun blocking shade. From seating sections looking outward, the stadium structure above outfield areas is lower so able to view over, east to southeastward. Thus one sees beyond, a wonderful scenic expanse of the bay, lots of big ships, giant port crane machines, and distant hills. Only the right field fence is close to bay water (McCovey Cove) and is topped by a level castle wall like walkway. The view beyond left field is shade and palm trees, South Beach Park. That park has grassy strips with benches and shaded grassy spots to enjoy sitting on. And beyond, the park's left field boardwalk like harbor edge is the jetty circled, full of private boats with tall masts, South Beach Harbor. Also as part of its jetty wall, a narrow fishing pier with superb morning photographic views back towards the stadium, boat harbor, Bay Bridge, sky scrappers.
Last night, Sunday 7/16/2023, when I just had a nose bleed 3rd deck seat ($72 at release date) to the left up above home plate, and was a bit drained from the previous 2 days, the night surprised me the most. I was intent on finding a good open place to dance, so explored out to the extreme end of the left field deck seating. The last section was not sold because they didn't have stage views. Indeed, very nicely walkways wide enough to dance on with views right down on field crowd and seats. Powerful clean sound as it was high above the stage. I met a group of lovely, mixed age, high dynamic movement, women freestyle rock dancers. So we cross pollinated in an open zone with excessively exhilarating fun. All had immediately realized I used many of the same natural inner bilateral, 4 segments with appendages, creature body dynamics as they and many powerful dancers have discovered and done for decades.
Saturday night will be the favorite of these finale shows for Dead & Company touring with the current band member mix. That is because on Friday, an acquaintance suddenly because someone else had a sore back, had a spare General Admission ticket (Stub Hub then $600+) on the chairless, baseball field where there are no seats just, a thick white hard plastic interlocking protection layer meant for crowds stepping on. Each night those below on the field were the huge envy of dozens more thousands in deck sections above because they were free to excitedly dance about at least on the foul ball sides away from seating ball field fences. David is now on thousands of stadium deck seating fans smartphone, short video clips.
Friday night had a 3rd deck ticket too but spent most of my lively time flowing about elsewhere on my feet, but in places without views, just band sounds. Too much fun for an old guy. But somebody has to do it. On Friday they only opened up half the length of the walkway about right field. I spoke with a few stadium personnel there about how it would be better versus blocking it all, to instead open the rest of that walkway and just rope off the few rows of seats they didn't choose to sell. Because stage views are somewhat obscured, it will never be an open zone where those many walking about, looking for standing open stage views behind seating, are going to bother stopping at. So it is a valuable, novel, uncommon, flat zone unblocked with people zone, that stadium venue event marketing should celebrate as an exceptional non-field zone for event attendies to dance about at during music concerts. Well folks, someone might have listened because yes on Saturday and Sunday, they opened that castle walkway.
All 3 were quite different wonderful, ecstatic experiences within a marine climate setting with temperatures of 65F to 57F. More people (especially older people from my senior era) have freestyle danced at Grateful Dead shows year after year than all the rest of touring rock concerts added together. For this 2023 touring finale, people arrived from across the nation, world, and locally. In the colorful tyedye t-shirt crowd mix, were significant numbers of twenty-something local tech people, many that were obviously doing the famed Dead concert thing for the first time and many indeed discovered secrets of the universe.
The SF Giants baseball park is one of the finest late era designed stadiums in the world. The towering seating deck orientations block the prevailing west and northwest marine winds as well as provide afternoon seating sun blocking shade. From seating sections looking outward, the stadium structure above outfield areas is lower so able to view over, east to southeastward. Thus one sees beyond, a wonderful scenic expanse of the bay, lots of big ships, giant port crane machines, and distant hills. Only the right field fence is close to bay water (McCovey Cove) and is topped by a level castle wall like walkway. The view beyond left field is shade and palm trees, South Beach Park. That park has grassy strips with benches and shaded grassy spots to enjoy sitting on. And beyond, the park's left field boardwalk like harbor edge is the jetty circled, full of private boats with tall masts, South Beach Harbor. Also as part of its jetty wall, a narrow fishing pier with superb morning photographic views back towards the stadium, boat harbor, Bay Bridge, sky scrappers.
Last night, Sunday 7/16/2023, when I just had a nose bleed 3rd deck seat ($72 at release date) to the left up above home plate, and was a bit drained from the previous 2 days, the night surprised me the most. I was intent on finding a good open place to dance, so explored out to the extreme end of the left field deck seating. The last section was not sold because they didn't have stage views. Indeed, very nicely walkways wide enough to dance on with views right down on field crowd and seats. Powerful clean sound as it was high above the stage. I met a group of lovely, mixed age, high dynamic movement, women freestyle rock dancers. So we cross pollinated in an open zone with excessively exhilarating fun. All had immediately realized I used many of the same natural inner bilateral, 4 segments with appendages, creature body dynamics as they and many powerful dancers have discovered and done for decades.
Saturday night will be the favorite of these finale shows for Dead & Company touring with the current band member mix. That is because on Friday, an acquaintance suddenly because someone else had a sore back, had a spare General Admission ticket (Stub Hub then $600+) on the chairless, baseball field where there are no seats just, a thick white hard plastic interlocking protection layer meant for crowds stepping on. Each night those below on the field were the huge envy of dozens more thousands in deck sections above because they were free to excitedly dance about at least on the foul ball sides away from seating ball field fences. David is now on thousands of stadium deck seating fans smartphone, short video clips.
Friday night had a 3rd deck ticket too but spent most of my lively time flowing about elsewhere on my feet, but in places without views, just band sounds. Too much fun for an old guy. But somebody has to do it. On Friday they only opened up half the length of the walkway about right field. I spoke with a few stadium personnel there about how it would be better versus blocking it all, to instead open the rest of that walkway and just rope off the few rows of seats they didn't choose to sell. Because stage views are somewhat obscured, it will never be an open zone where those many walking about, looking for standing open stage views behind seating, are going to bother stopping at. So it is a valuable, novel, uncommon, flat zone unblocked with people zone, that stadium venue event marketing should celebrate as an exceptional non-field zone for event attendies to dance about at during music concerts. Well folks, someone might have listened because yes on Saturday and Sunday, they opened that castle walkway.
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