Yes they were, and you're really old.
NFR Best concerts
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Well I kept a few, at one time after the 'no- rentry' policy was installed at the larger venues, you didn't get to keep a stub. I asked for several of those '75 ones.
joefromchicago
Steelhead
I also have an extensive collection of stubs. It was also standard procedure to snag a concert flyer on the way out and still have a few of those.
Tragically Hip farewell tour opener in Victoria. Absolutely awesome! Get choked up every time I think about it.
RIP Gordon Downie.
I didn't know I had this old stub, it had gotten tossed into my tying room "junk drawer" (do you have a junk drawer?). I decided to purge a few things and found it, took a picture and promptly forgot about the picture. The concert was a lot of fun, my godson and his big brother loved it.
Thread drift: junk drawers and the back shelves of dark closets. What you can find when you decide to clean and purge. Some of the stuff my wife and I found we just shook our heads and wondered why in the heck did we ever keep this thing and that thing.
Back to the thread - no ticket stub but a sort of nice water color on the family room wall we bought down @Mossback's way while listening to the Philadelphia String Quartet at "Concerts in the Barn", that was a lot of fun.
My brother, a buddy and I ripped 4 of these down outside the Wamu Theater after the show in '08. Large and really thick paper, quite a prize. As we made our way down the street, a guy stopped us, fuming, saying he should have the fourth poster. Simultaneously we told him fuck off and go earn one, the way we did. The nerve of some people!
wanderingrichard
Life of the Party
A bit anticipatory for us, but the upcoming Trans Siberian Orchestra concert on Nov. 25th will probably be the best we've seen in a very long time.
Which is saying something because wife is a huge Dar Williams and Toad the Wet Sprocket fan and catches them every chance she gets.
Will be Abbys 2nd concert, but the first of an orchestral fusion type.
Which is saying something because wife is a huge Dar Williams and Toad the Wet Sprocket fan and catches them every chance she gets.
Will be Abbys 2nd concert, but the first of an orchestral fusion type.
Paige
Wishing I was fishing the Sauk
The Trans Siberian Orchestra was/is the band Savatage.
Absolutely on of my favorite bands of all time, and one of the best concerts I've seen. A bar called Madd Dogs in Northgate, a tiny venue back in the 90's!
Chris Bellows
Steelhead
Still some great shows available. Just saw two nights of Robert Glasper with Lupe Fiasco and Black Thought in NYC.
I forgot to say what a lucky effer you are...
There were 2 shows that night. I had tix to the late show, but got there early and was able to sneak in for the last 1/3 of the first set. Karma, however, is a bitch. When I went to get my car, it was stolen. I ended up taking the subway home. I had no insurance, so I had to take a bus back to VT where I was living. It was a tough and cold couple of months until I could afford to buy another car.
joefromchicago
Steelhead
Still, seeing Hendrix almost makes up for it.
Dating myself here. Once again. Sometime in the 60s, I believe in middle school, my best friends Mom took us to a concert at the auditorium in Barre Vt, of all places, to see a band called Joey Dee and The Starliters. They were the band of Peppermint Twist fame, fleeting as it was. The band included a young, skinny, emaciated looking dyed red-haired guitarist who twirled around on one leg with the other held out near his shoulders. He also distinguished himself by playing a right-handed Fender upside down left-handed. Little did we know what would become of the fellow with the upside down guitar and the incredibly fast fingers. Strange as it may seem I still remember marveling at what he was able to do and the way he dominated the stage. Little did we know.Still, seeing Hendrix almost makes up for it.
Those are great. Love the powder blue Gran Torino there, too. I had a very faded powder blue Torino for a while, a 1970 model.
However, the ONLY time it is acceptable to wear a band t-shirt of the band that is playing, is if you bought the t-shirt that night! Then it’s just easier to wear it than carry it, and not considered a faux pas.
Still, seeing Hendrix almost makes up for it.
Missed my chance to see Hendrix when he dropped out of The Monkees tour before their August 24 1967 date at The Coliseum. My first concert. Course I was 11 so his genius may have been lost on me at the time. But hey, I saw The Monkees!
