Old concert passes
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- Jaline
Has anyone here bought old backstage passes and/or concert tickets (such as from the 80s) just for a personal collection?
Just curious, as I am looking into buying a few. Some of them were made a few years after I was born though...
- Concrete0
Whenever I go to a concert I put the ticket in the album case of the artist.
I haven't got any old ones as I'm only a young'n
- spendogg0
Jaline, are you thinking of getting something from Blink 182 or Good Charlotte?
:) JK
- Jaline0
haha, NO
- flavorful0
Er... why?
For some reason I save a lot of my ticket stubs to events I go to, but I'm not really sure why. I just throw them in this one drawer I have.
- Baskerville0
I keep all my old tickets, and I've got quite a collection now.
I glad I do becuase I've seen some really influential peolple who have died since.
Like Nina Simone, or John Lee Hooker
One of my oldest tickets is a Radiohead ticket from 1998.
My dad saw the who and hendrix at the original isle of wight festival, I wish he'd kept the tickets!
I bought an old Van Halen t-shirt a few years back from a 1986 tour even though I would only have been 4 at the time. I just wish I could have seen them.
- Jaline0
Nice, Baskerville!
I was thinking of getting this one Madonna ticket from her biggest tour, since I'm not going to see her in Montreal this week. It's from a legit site too, so I'm content. There are other people as well, but that'll be for when I'm rich ;)
I definitely keep every ticket that I've used. My collection is coming along nicely.
- nocomply0
That's a good idea concrete. All my old tickets and passes are all over the place..stuffed in books, drawers, etc...this includes my VIP pass to the britney spears "oops i did it again" tour (long story).
- Jaline0
no worries, Evan. I bought that CD when it came out. actually, I asked my mom to get it for my birthday.
- nocomply0
No no.. now you people think i actually BOUGHT that VIP pass! To save face (and myself from boredom) I must tell the story...
Got hired by some record label (i forget which one, but it was a biggie) to pass out CDs after the show...Sitting on the steps outside of the arena waiting for the show to end, some lady walks out early, feels sorry for me and offers me her VIP pass. I ask my friend to watch the crate of CDs while I go in. I don't know what the hell to do with a vip pass so I grab the nearest hot, underage girl with one around her neck and ask her. She grabs my hand and takes me down to front row on the floor...we're talking front and center. I watch Britney get her groove on, all the while she's giving me the eye. She wanted me, I know it. SHe was looking right at me. So anyway, that's the story. Sorry, too much coffee this morning.
- Jaline0
You do know that Britney is gross? At least now...
- flavorful0
I have a lot of people who just get free everything from owning record shops, or working on various radio stations.
So I understand how seemingly unfathomable situations could arise like that, haha.
... I had backstage passes to JC Chavez and Justin Timberlake, haha.
(I didn't go...)
- Baskerville0
post the site that sells the old passes Jaline.
although I have to say, madonna you must burn in hell! don't buy that one.
buy one from someone more respectable like, I don't know, say, leanne Rimes, anyone else really.
- flavorful0
Britney never was hot in my eyes.
Or my type of hot at least.
Baskerville, that's awesome your pops caught the Who, they are my favourite band of all time.
- nocomply0
You do know that Britney is gross? At least now...
Jaline
(Jun 23 06, 08:37)The show was in August 2000. She was smokin hot back then...at least to me. Nowadays I'd cross the street to avoid a glace at her tired-ass face.
- zombiewoof0
My Favorite All Access badge: Flaming Lips: Hit To Death in the Future Head tour. My buddy was their tour manager at the time.
Best Stub. Black Flag 1986..it even has some small flecks of blood from a elbow that caugt me in the nose....
ahh those were such simpiler times.
- Jaline0
Lance was the gayest of all.
- fooler0
buying a used ticket to a show you didn't attend is pretty lame. IMO.
I usually put them in a drwer or in the cd case.
The oldest one I can find in my desk drawer right now is Social Distortion from '89. adm $9.00!
The Social D ticket is a ticketmaster tix. I wish I still had some of the old hand made xeroxed tickets pre '89. Anyone remember those DIY days with hand writen numbers on the back in some special ink, like red or green???
- flavorful0
A lot of the "concerts" I go to, are at really small venues and don't even have tickets, heh.
- Baskerville0
true flavorful, you can't exactly slice the skin off the back of your hand and stick the ink stamp into a sketchbook.
Well, I mean you could, but you'd be some kind of psycho who probably isn't allowed to leave the asylum anymore.
- Jaline0
fooler, the reason is because a lot of my favourite artists are really old now, are dead, or have stopped singing (or making good records), so I want something to signify a certain moment in history. It's lame to collect lots of them, I agree, but I don't think a few would be horrible.