Classic Concert Tickets

Our friend London sent me some very cool ticket stubs from shows he saw back in the early 80s. By his name you can guess that he is British. London tells me he was "living large" in the 80s and I would agree! Look at the shows he saw... and oh so cheap. I do not keep ticket stubs myself. Plus they are nothing special to look at these days anyway. Heck, most shows are all digital entry so there is no keepsake anyway. Kind of sad. I hope you enjoy looking at these stubs like I did. Click the image below to view two pages of stubs via Flickr.

Comments

[GNR]

I cannot disagree more with anyone about the sentimental value of ticket stubs. They are special to look at. Even if they are boring ticketmaster tickets. Similar to old photographs. The disdain of me is that you must accept digital or paper tickets as entry in this day and have no keep sake of the show. A stub gives you a defined date, a defined moment in time that you experienced. All venues that do digital tickets should give you a chance to go to a service counter or information booth and have printed tickets. You could really get creative with keepsake things.

FYI - One of my projects is to put a bar in my cave or somewhere and the ticket stubs that I have will be on the bar covered in clear coating.

[Shawn]

Great Point GNR I have most of mine and have them under glass in a picture frame but none of mine are as cool as these. The digital age is not all it is cracked up to be. I miss album covers.

[Bkallday]

I have close to a hundred ticket stubs from the early 90’s up til now and I love having them as keepsakes. They all bring up certain memories and being able to have the date on the ticket, helps even that much more. Life is about making memories & to me, having the stub makes my many concert memories that much more vivid.

[steverox]

I have a box will well over 100 tickets saved in there mostly in pretty good condition (some with a bit of fade in the ink of course) ... from my first show ever (Poison in 1987) to even current ones provided they were "paper" tickets.

Though I love technology and it's super convenient to just have your phone scanned, there is some nostalgia around looking at the old tickets and counting how many times you've seen a band etc. based on the tickets. I do find myself every once in a while looking at the contents of the box.

[Bkallday]

Yep, agreed Steve. When you’ve seen as many as most of us have, it’s just hard to keep up with who all you’ve seen, which tours, and how many times you’ve seen em!

[Him]

Agree with all of you on the value of the ticket stub. I hate not having them but also recognize the ease of using your phone to get into a venue.

I have many of my old stubs from concerts in the 80s, 90s, etc. I also made a point to go to the venue in recent years to purchase the tickets on site. So I am glad to have a stub from my ELO show a year ago. I also made lemonade out of lemons when I payed $2.50 per ticket to get actual tickets sent to me by Ticketmaster for the DLR shows in Vegas in March (a surprisingly low cost given all of their charges).

My friends thought I was being odd (or normal, as that is par for the course for them when dealing with me and my nostalgia). Then it got cancelled. So I purchased resin-block commemorative ticket holders (the tickets are held in the middle of the two clear resin slabs held together by magnets . .. they look fairly nice) and gave them to all of them as a memento of a memory . . . we didn't get to share! So even a ticket from a concert that never was is still a memory for friends to share. You can't do that sort of thing with a bar code on your cell phone.

Hands down, physical tickets are an image of your past. Even if faded (and many of mine are), they are memories . .. . which also, unfortunately, fade with time unless there are tangible things there to jog our memory banks.

[Metalboy!]

Having seen hundreds of shows, I am kicking myself for not keeping better track of my tickets, but I have managed to hold onto some priceless stubs, the crown jewel - LED ZEPPELIN, May 27th, 1977.

Others include everybody from Jeff Beck to Frank Zappa and all the Hair Metal in between!

[Metalboy!]

Correction:

Everything from A-Z ...

From AC/DC (8 times from ‘78 to 2016) to Zappa (‘78), I got stubs, if not memories!

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