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