11 Tuesday Sep 2018
TICKETS TORN IN HALF:September 11,1972-FACES/Rory Gallagher@MSG was nothing like the STP Stones show, as a matter of fact this was more like a ROD STEWART show and I had to buy tickets as WB Records had me on their shit list.BUT RORY GALLAGHER WAS WORTH THE PRICE OF ADMISSION.
09 Saturday Jun 2018
Ticket Stub Man:
According to my friends and family my obsession with music extends to an extreme level. It is not just the music that I love but LIVE music especially that I enjoy the most.Sitting at home listening to a recording or traveling in a car with the radio on will do once in awhile. But it is the excitement of a live show that hits the spot for me.Over the years and in the process of attending literally hundreds of shows I have accumulated many items of minor importance but tokens of remembrance of a time well spent…ticket stubs, programs, badges, bumper stickers, and the like. A few years back I decided that a few blokes on e-bay may enjoy one or two of my items more than the old mayonnaise jar which I used for storage of stubs found in my closet or records in my basement. So I experimented. And within a few weeks surprisingly I had more than $1000.00 (US) in my e-bay account. Flamin’ Groovies records, a poster, a flexi-disc and magazine went for about $75.00. A Grateful Dead 45 Compilation sold, A Cramps Picture Disc gone, DEVO 45,Johnny Thunders 45, a few CDs,Elvis Costello, Stiff Little Fingers,Raunch Hands, Raybeats, all gone. Easy money for the taking. With things going this smoothly on recorded things I ventured out with a few ticket stubs and concert programs and for sheer joy of my new endeavor I watched the final bidding develop on my screen. Fillmore East ticket stubs sold: THE WHO (6/6/69) $10.60; LED ZEPPELIN( 5/30/69)$ 61.77; DELANEY BONNIE AND FRIENDS w/ ERIC CLAPTON (2/7/70) $10.70 CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL $15.50. To a collector this may be cheap prices but to me, I didn’t pay more than $5.50 for any of those shows and I only sold a TICKET STUB for a nice profit. Hence, my buddy Joe dubbed me THE TICKET STUB MAN.
One morning I arrived at my desk to see my name plate removed and this one taking it’s place.
Then in another short burst of e-Bay activity I sold a few more items mostly ticket stubs and programs, etc…. and…Whew, my rent is paid. A Cat Stevens ticket, Blind Faith, Twisted Sister, The Clash, Led Zep, Springsteen, all sold in the next few weeks and sometimes the bidding was fierce. But then one morning I get an e-mail from a certain gentle men who owned a memorabilia shop in NYC across from Electric Lady Studios. The cat knows I have a certain item he needs for “his ” collection. A full size ticket, not a stub, for The Randall’s Island Pop Festival, Sunday Night , a festival in which Jimi Hendrix performed. He started the bidding at “a hundred” and when I said, “let’s see where it goes”, he determinedly stated “$250.00 Cash delivered to your office in the morning Fed Ex”. BINGO, SOLD.
The next morning my secretary told me a Fed Ex guy was here and he entered my office with a FED EX envelop in which I found five brand new $50.00 bills and a return FED EX envelop insured and addressed to him. The exchange was made and again THE TICKET STUB man made some quick cash. jazzbus@gmail.com
The Doors 1/24/69 MSG $122.50
Led Zep May 1969 $61.77
THE WHO June 1969 $10
Blind Faith July 1969 $51.75
Creedence Clearwater Revival July 69 $15.50
Led Zep 8/30/69 originally at Singer(on LZwebsite) $15.00
Delaney Bonnie Friends w/ Clapton Feb 1970 $10.50
Grateful Dead Program 5/15/70 $31.00
CSNY 6/6/70 $15.50
Ten Years After 6/25/70 $8.90
Byrds Sept 12, 1970 $6.00
Derek and Dominoes October 24, 1970 $15.00(program)/$44.00(stub)
Fillmore Auction $21.00 Stub
Fillmore Auction $24.00 Program
TYA MSG 11/13/70 Buddy Miles Express $5.00
Jefferson Airplane Nov 1970 $12.05
Derek and Dominoes Suffolk CC $20.00
Grand Funk RR/Humble Pie MSG 12/18/70 $8.25
Hot Tuna Jan 71 $5.00
Faces/Black Sabbath Feb 1971 $29.99Program/$19.99Stub
Allman Brothers March 13/71 $29.99
Elton John 4/8/71 $100.00(package4 Elton tixs)
Last Show (Allmans) $175.00
THE WHO at Forest Hills Who’s Next $15.50
Led Zep MSG Sept $28.50
Dr John/ Weather Report October 1971 Beacon $5.00
Led Zep 6/15/72 Nassau Coliseum $74.00
Cat Stevens 11/6/72 Philharmonic Hall NYC $18.50
Dylan and The Band 1/30/74 MSG $37.00
Rolling Stones MSG 6/25/75 $15.00
Kingfish (Program) Capitol Jersey 12/5/75 $14.00
Linda Ronstadt Capitol Jersey 12/6/75 $6.60
Fleetwood Mac MSG 6/30/77 $8.27
Frank Zappa Palladium Tix Stb 10/29/77 $7.00
Patti Smith Richard Hell CBGB Theatre $6.00
Ramones Runaways 3/24/78 Calderone $5.50
THE WHO MSG 9/13/79 $15.00
The Clash BONDS INTN’L 5/29/81 $41.00
John Entwistle 1/30/96 at TRAMPS NYC $5.00
Randalls Island Festival $250.00
02 Saturday Jun 2018
Posted in Nassau Coliseum, Rock music, Rod Stewart
June 2, 1989: ROD STEWART @ Nassau Coliseum:THE OUT OF ORDER TOUR. I enjoyed Rod as part of the JEFF BECK GROUP and again in THE FACES so I thought this would be a show to see. Unfortunately, this was the new ROD STEWART, the HOT LEGS, DO YOU THINK I’M SEXY guy. Hey, the ladies loved it so who would I be to judge.(written in my Notebook: Some drunk guy decides to stand on a metal stanchion to cheer Rod on, oops, hits the ground hard, head first as the band introduces “THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST”, out cold and blood all over the place).
