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Got any old concert tickets? This isn’t mine, will get wifey to see if we where we have ours. Lots of people save them. It’s 4:30, doubt she would appreciate that right now.

Yep, have all mine (maybe a dozen). I think they’re in a little box with my guitar tools (tuner, picks, cleaning stuff) Good memories thanks to the folks I got to go with and who I went to see.

A few years ago I had tickets to see Aaron Lewis (of Staind) at a smaller local venue. Wife and I couldn’t go at the last minute and gave them to a guy at work and he still raves about how great the show was. Bummed we missed it…tickets were center stage about 6-7th row.

How was Iron Maiden’s show by ‘85, Hanco?

I do as well.
Saved alot of them.
Will dig some out after work

My coworker and good friend Wayne Sumrall from Foxworth, Mississippi brought four tickets out to the offshore drilling rig we worked on to show me. They were Lynyrd Skynyrd tickets -not stubs- for the upcoming concert in Baton Rouge. The plane crash happened and he never got to see them.

About five years ago I found out Wayne had passed away back in 2012.
RIP Wayne ..

I have ticket stubs from a Rolling Stones concert from the 90s. Not sure where I filed them. That was my last concert.

In the mid-90's I had a second job in a Casino/Biloxi there was a TV in the breakroom. News channel out of New Orleans interviewing people leaving the Rolling Stones concert.
A guy who had skipped work >sick- was on TV- I said hey it's Johnny the Poker Dealer dude. Everybody looked and laughed including his boss that was watching.
He was high as a kite,, laf

I still have 2 unused tickets for the Lynnyard Skinner concert that they were coming to play when their plane crashed.

ETA:

And the 2 stubs from The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels concert in New Orleans.

I've never kept any of mine. Never thought to.

First show I ever saw was AC/DC's Back in Black tour at the Budokan in Tokyo in '80.
In the intervening years between 1980 into my early 40s I attended shows into the triple digits in several countries. Here's a pic of an envelope I just pulled out of a drawer in my desk. There are other envelopes full of stubs but this is the one I am fondest of.

Oldest ticket is the AC/DC one (black in color). I had that thing in my pocket 44 years ago in Tokyo, being blown away by the band and the sound. In attendance with me on that night in addition to my brother Cap'n Chaos was my then little GF, and now wife for 20+ years. I was ten at the time of that first one and a budding metalhead.

My tastes changed over the years, as most folks' do, and my headbanging days are decades old memories. A lot of water under the bridge and a long way we've come since then, but our world of memories includes those associated with this old bits of paper. There are many, many more, but I'm not bothering with dragging them out and taking pics. Guess you'll have to take my word for it.

Haven't been to a show in years and there are precious few I'd spend money on seeing today, but there are a few. Thanks for the memory trigger, Hanco. Would like to hear from others.


AC/DC x4
Aerosmith x6
Pink Floyd x4
Rolling Stones x4
Iron Maiden x2
Scorpions x2
Judas Priest
Rainbow
The Cars
Whitesnake
Deep Purple
Blue Oyster Cult
Styx
REO Speedwagon
Grateful Dead
Molly Hatchet
Yes
U2
B-52s
Steve Miller
Roy Orbison
Tom Petty
Adam and the Ants (ha, ha)
Roger Waters x3
David Gilmour
Jimmy Page
The Pretenders
ZZ Top
Loudness
Page and Plant
Bad Company
Boston
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jethro Tull x2
Dio
Twisted Sister
Anthrax
Black Sabbath x2
Ozzy x2
David Bowie
Lenny Kravitz (backstage)
Heart
Foo Fighters
Keith Richards
Max Creek
The Cranberries
Garbage
Pantera
In Living Color
De La Soul
Dead Kennedys
Pearl Jam
TOOL
Soundgarden
STP
Lollapalooza and a bunch of other big festivals
ICE T
Public Enemy x2

Post a picture of the Skynyrd tickets.

Man my list of national acts or acts people would know is much shorter lol.

Garth Brooks
Brooks n Dunn
Joe Diffie
Chris Ledoux
Goo-Goo Dolls
Buffalo Tom
Fun Loving Criminals
The Architects
Live (x2)
Luscious Jackson
Bush
ZZ Top
Cheap Trick
Foghat
Styx
38 Special
Great White
3 Doors Down
Collective Soul
Loverboy
Joan Jett
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly (x2)
Frank Turner
Samantha Fish

I used to keep all my stubs. Don’t know where they got off to. Had some great ones from the 70's forward.

Edit: I vaguely recall that the ticket was $9.00?

A concert of radial bomber engines and V-12 fighter engines (maybe a Corsair, too? I can't remember):

What, no Chris Ledoux? (Grin)

Nice list though

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I got one from the Headpins somewhere.

Edit: Blue Oyster Cult played there, too. They were on the souvenir t-shirt with Boston, Heart, Van Halen.

Saw them a couple or a few times at Albert Whitted Airport in St Pete, FL.

What turned out to be the last time Queen played in Dallas. I have to say that Freddie Mercury had an incredible voice, he was a singer, not a screamer (David Lee Roth):