I did the same thin with the binder and nine pocket card sleeves too. I found a bunch of stubs I have the other day that are waiting to go in so I figured I'd ad to the thread and I love talking about music Here are a few....
In 2001 I went to Vancouver for a couple days vacation with my best friends but we ended up staying for weeks. In 2000 that city was awesome for a kid just out of high school and a bunch of graduation money. We walked into the first hotel we could find, The Cecil hotel/strip club. It was pure debauchery. They put us on the floor right above the club where the strippers "green room" was, it was legal to drink at 18 or 19 , we got $150+ Canadian for ever $100 American, and guys with backpacks were walking up and down the streets all day yelling out "buds, shrooms, mdma" like they were red rope vendors at the ball park (those drugs were basically legal). One of the nights I met some of the guys in favorite band , Deftones, and Cypress Hill another night at a show.
I got Chino Moreno (Deftones singer) to sign this:
Cypress Hill signed this:
Both items where all I had on hand for them to sign, but I like to think the gods were smiling on me that day when it came to Cypress Hill. Hahahaha!!! Here is the Lovely Cecil Hotel ....
Here are some more recent tix:
One of the top 5 shows I have ever been to, Coachella Festival 2004. A ton of band inlcuding four of my all time favorite bands...The Cure, Radiohead, the first show from the reunited Pixies, and an unannounced acoustic Beck set.
The first band I ever remember listening to was The Beatles. My mom was one of those massive Beatles fanatic in the '60s and my parents would play her childhood records all the time. I got in trouble one time thinking I was a Jam Master J, scratching away using Rubber Soul . So 40 years after my Mom saw em in Detroit I took her and Dad to see Paul McCartney as an apology.
Here are some more. Nothing as cool as those beautiful Filmore tickets, but anytime I can talk about concerts I will. I have slowed down now, but from teen to mid twenty's I went to on average 2 shows a week. Most of my friends were part of the local music scene and we got tons of free tix....
Very early Def Leppard along with some Scorpions and Sir Ted Nugent (yes - he is at least wearing some tarzan like thing - but at times during that concert - it was like seeking the slam dunks in 70's basketball shorts eeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwww
These are awesome. Any queen, freddie mercury era of course, or guns n roses? I'm dying to get a nice authentic freddie autographed anything. I only got to see queen in buffalo in March of '06. But that was with Paul Rodgers which was still a great show.
Pete
.Looking for ANY National Bank notes of Skaneateles, NY
I'm not digging the ticket out but 17 years ago tonight I was at David Bowie's 50th Birthday party. Lou Reed, Robert Smith, Billy Corgan, Frank Black, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters and so on. Awesome show with artwork by Julian Shnabel - but Bowie was better in much smaller venues.
Killer mid 70's stubs! I love those two Sex Pistols stubs. If you want an interesting read sometime, check out the book by Noel Monk who was their tour manager on that short tour. Most of us remember Noel as being the tour manager for the Roth-era Van Halen tours, but he's been around a lot of great acts.
These aren't my tickets, but I think they are pretty sweet just the same. The colors are amazing, and they are of three artists I would love to have in the collection.
You must have been reading my mind, I was scanning E-Bay looking for about half of the tickets you just posted ! Not only are those some classic tickets, but they are from classic venues and classic album tours. I must have worn out "Dark Side of the Moon" in High School. Genesis in my opinion has always been one of my favorites as well, underrated band. Let me know if you ever plan to let any of those go.
Anyone know of any concert tickets that are commonly faked ? I was thinking of bidding on a ticket from the last concert of one of my favorite bands before their un-timely deaths, but am afraid the tickets may be reproductions.
I've seen quite a few repro's of tickets like the Metallica, Ozzy '81, and Nugent ones above. Not saying those exact tickets in Ice9's post are repro's, but that particular style of ticket has a lot of repro's out there from various bands. I've seen a lot of Van Halen one's that were repro's and in that style.
Also, there are a lot of fake Elvis tickets from '77 that were supposed to take place after his death.
I'm sure some others on here may have some examples as well.
Be cautious if spending big bucks on a ticket you're not sure about.
Have the opportunity to buy a ticket from Lynyrd Skynyrd's last concert in Greenville, SC. The concert right before their plane crashed and killed most of the original members. The ticket is torn, but I have seen some completed auctions were the seller was selling torn repo's with a brick from the Greenville Auditorium which was torn down in 1997. I'm sure their are repo's of the ticket, I just don't know what to look for on that particular ticket if there is anything to set it apart from a repo. Of course the seller says they are authentic. Thanks for your help.
The ticket may very well be legit, but I would pass for the price it's listed. Is a tourbook, newspaper articles and a ticket stub worth the asking price to you? There's no way to verify the brick. Someone could get a ticket stub, tourbook, some newspaper clippings and then pick up any old brick to further enhance the story and make it plausible for a higher price.
I checked toolhaus for the all time negative feedback history on this seller and there were a lot of negatives, but only one of them involved something not being authentic.
On the other hand, this seller is from Columbia, SC and all this whole package could be perfectly legit, but it's not a price I'd be comfortable with if all your after is a ticket stub.
Go with your gut on this one....sorry I couldn't help more!
Thanks for your opinion, there are also two other stubs supposedly from the same concert on E_bay at the moment too. The seller says he was at the concert, but only has 11 feedback of 100%. Been a member since 2010. Those were started @$99 a piece and it has a bid from someone who often bids on tickets. The seller simply listed them as Lynyrd Skynyrd Tickets, which may be why there is only one bidder. I also asked a seller on E-bay known as The_Wyzard to take a look at them for me, as I have bought from him in the past and he has always been very helpful. I bought the Boston ticket listed above from him earlier this week.
There's a guy who has sold 5 or so of the bricks on ebay and also includes "high quality repro" tickets with each brick. He had one sale that included newspaper articles also. I couldn't match up the buyers so I don't know if the current brick/paper guy bought the lot and is now trying to flip it or if it's someone different.
It's hard to tell that they are repro's in the photos because they are torn and look nice in the pics.
Well, I just received an e-mail back from The Wyzard he said he couldn't tell from the scan if the two were real or not, then proceeded to bid and win one of the tickets. So I guess he thought it was legit enough to bid $150 on. I should ask him if I get a finders fee. I replied to his e-mail after the auction and said thanks for the info, let me know if the Skynyrd ticket is legit.
There are a bunch of ways to identify fake tickets. Most (but not all) tickets from the mid 70s to the mid 80s have a stamp or printing design that is only visable under a black light. Not sure if this is gonna work or not, but I've tried to capture this below:
Back of ticket under regular light...
Back of ticket under black light...
The cursive design on the back indicates "Counterfiet Control"
Also, most tickets from the 60s and 70s were printed on a printing press, so the section, row and seat *should have* some indentation from the press hitting the ticket. The Blue Oyster Cult ticket below is real (see the slight indentation around the C, E and 6?); the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl is not (no indentation, only a shinny surface which indicates a modern copier or printer)...
Another way to determine if a ticket is fake is to look at the perforations that seperate the ticket from the audit stub. Do they go all the way through the paper stock? On the BOC ticket below, you can see that the perforations cut through the paper stock. On the KISS ticket, the perforations are printed on the surface of the ticket...and not even all the way across...not good.
I'd stay away from the Skynyrd stub. This has been reprinted many times. Ask the seller for a scan of the reverse.
BTW - all the tickets I've posted (with the exception of the Beatles and Kiss tickets above) are real.
"Must these Englishmen Live That I Might Die? Must They Live That I Might Die?" - The Blue Oyster Cult
Thanks, that is some very useful information. The_Wyzard also told me that tickets are also usually printed with like a middle layer that is different from the outer layers and surrounded by the white layer you see if torn. I only know enough about concert tickets to be dangerous to myself, that's why I always try to buy from sellers I trust and I usually don't spend more than $100 on a concert ticket unless it is from some very trustworthy sellers like Wolfgang's Vault or a few guys on E-bay.
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Thanks so much for sharing!!
Rodney
In 2001 I went to Vancouver for a couple days vacation with my best friends but we ended up staying for weeks. In 2000 that city was awesome for a kid just out of high school and a bunch of graduation money. We walked into the first hotel we could find, The Cecil hotel/strip club. It was pure debauchery. They put us on the floor right above the club where the strippers "green room" was, it was legal to drink at 18 or 19
I got Chino Moreno (Deftones singer) to sign this:
Cypress Hill signed this:
Both items where all I had on hand for them to sign, but I like to think the gods were smiling on me that day when it came to Cypress Hill. Hahahaha!!! Here is the Lovely Cecil Hotel
Here are some more recent tix:
One of the top 5 shows I have ever been to, Coachella Festival 2004. A ton of band inlcuding four of my all time favorite bands...The Cure, Radiohead, the first show from the reunited Pixies, and an unannounced acoustic Beck set.
The first band I ever remember listening to was The Beatles. My mom was one of those massive Beatles fanatic in the '60s and my parents would play her childhood records all the time. I got in trouble one time thinking I was a Jam Master J, scratching away using Rubber Soul
Here are some more. Nothing as cool as those beautiful Filmore tickets, but anytime I can talk about concerts I will. I have slowed down now, but from teen to mid twenty's I went to on average 2 shows a week. Most of my friends were part of the local music scene and we got tons of free tix....
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Pete
1. AC/DC's first ever shows in North America, opening for Canadian band Moxy, summer of '77
2. Two of the Sex Pistols seven U.S. shows, January '78
3. Kiss opening for Black Sabbath; "Dressed to Kill" tour for Kiss, "Sabotage" tour for Sabbath, 1975
4. Rush opening for Kiss; Rush lovingly referred to this as the "Down the Tubes Tour"
5. Rush on the "2112" tour, 1976
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Rodney
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Will PSA slab these?
Ozzy AND UFO ? friggin imaculate congrats to all here
Here are some of the full tickets in my collection...
1. Pink Floyd from the Dark Side of the Moon tour
2. Genesis from spring '74; Selling England by the Pound "Black Show"
3. AC/DC opening for Uncle Ted; one day before Highway to Hell is released in North America
4. Ozzy from the end of the Blizzard of Ozz tour, 1981 at the legendary Fox Theatre, Atlanta
5. Metallica from 1986 Damage Inc tour...opening form Ozzy in May
6. ...and headlining in June...
You must have been reading my mind, I was scanning E-Bay looking for about half of the tickets you just posted ! Not only are those some classic tickets, but they are from classic venues and classic album tours.
I must have worn out "Dark Side of the Moon" in High School. Genesis in my opinion has always been one of my favorites as well, underrated band. Let me know if you ever plan to let any of those go.
You can buy a lot of really neat vintage tickets here LINK
They call me "Pack the Ripper"
Also, there are a lot of fake Elvis tickets from '77 that were supposed to take place after his death.
I'm sure some others on here may have some examples as well.
Be cautious if spending big bucks on a ticket you're not sure about.
They call me "Pack the Ripper"
I checked toolhaus for the all time negative feedback history on this seller and there were a lot of negatives, but only one of them involved something not being authentic.
On the other hand, this seller is from Columbia, SC and all this whole package could be perfectly legit, but it's not a price I'd be comfortable with if all your after is a ticket stub.
Go with your gut on this one....sorry I couldn't help more!
Ticket 1
Ticket 2
It's hard to tell that they are repro's in the photos because they are torn and look nice in the pics.
Good luck with this!
Back of ticket under regular light...
Back of ticket under black light...
The cursive design on the back indicates "Counterfiet Control"
Also, most tickets from the 60s and 70s were printed on a printing press, so the section, row and seat *should have* some indentation from the press hitting the ticket. The Blue Oyster Cult ticket below is real (see the slight indentation around the C, E and 6?); the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl is not (no indentation, only a shinny surface which indicates a modern copier or printer)...
Another way to determine if a ticket is fake is to look at the perforations that seperate the ticket from the audit stub. Do they go all the way through the paper stock? On the BOC ticket below, you can see that the perforations cut through the paper stock. On the KISS ticket, the perforations are printed on the surface of the ticket...and not even all the way across...not good.
I'd stay away from the Skynyrd stub. This has been reprinted many times. Ask the seller for a scan of the reverse.
BTW - all the tickets I've posted (with the exception of the Beatles and Kiss tickets above) are real.