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Click the picture to see a more detailed image of both sides of the pass. 

  
These Grateful Dead stickers/decals are old tour merchandise. I found them wrapped in plastic in boxes in master cases. They came from a distributor who sold them to tour vendors. The condition is pristine and they still will work as a car decal or window/mirror sticker. We found them packed away in storage boxes dated 1992 (many are older than that) and 1995 (year Jerry Garcia died). They are high quality artist renderings of Grateful Dead themes. Back in the day, the Dead did not monitor copyrights and that sort of thing, and in fact, at one point encouraged artists to do designs. The LA times explained it well “The Grateful Dead was famously lax in enforcing it’s intellectual property rights and trademarks, allowing fans to create their own designs using the band’s expansive iconography”. Since there was no serious monitoring or much concern back then, a lot of up and coming artists got involved in designing them. This is how some of them got their starts. Some of the sticker artists who designed these stickers went on to produce official licensed works for the Grateful Dead and other famous groups. These stickers include some by now famous designers including David Opie, and others. These older stickers are very hard to find anymore.

Click the picture to see a more detailed image of both sides of the passes. Extremely old and rare OTTO backstage pass. These are believed to be the earliest known OTTO backstage passes, and there aren't many.  They were made prior to mass production around 1973. Don't confuse these with the group "The Sharks" which started touring in 1979.  They are different groups.  This one was just called "Sharks".

Group/Artist Name: Sharks

Origin: 1972 in Britain

Genre: Rock

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Front

Material: Cloth

Type of Pass: Guest Pass

Size: 4 3/4” tall

Condition: Unused

  
These Grateful Dead stickers/decals are old tour merchandise. I found them wrapped in plastic in boxes in master cases. They came from a distributor who sold them to tour vendors. The condition is pristine and they still will work as a car decal or window/mirror sticker. We found them packed away in storage boxes dated 1992 (many are older than that) and 1995 (year Jerry Garcia died). They are high quality artist renderings of Grateful Dead themes. Back in the day, the Dead did not monitor copyrights and that sort of thing, and in fact, at one point encouraged artists to do designs. The LA times explained it well “The Grateful Dead was famously lax in enforcing it’s intellectual property rights and trademarks, allowing fans to create their own designs using the band’s expansive iconography”. Since there was no serious monitoring or much concern back then, a lot of up and coming artists got involved in designing them. This is how some of them got their starts. Some of the sticker artists who designed these stickers went on to produce official licensed works for the Grateful Dead and other famous groups. These stickers include some by now famous designers including David Opie, and others. These 1995 and older stickers are very hard to find anymore.

Group/Artist Name: Metallica

Origin: 1981 in Los Angeles, California

Genre: Heavy Metal

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Unmarked*

Material: Laminated

Type of Pass: Guest Backstage Pass

Tour Name and Date(s): Damaged Justice World Tour 1988/89

Size: 5” tall

Condition: Unused

Album Sales: 125 Million Plus

Date of Induction to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 2009

Grammy Awards: Has been nominated 18 times, and has won 8 times

Other: Metallica is number 61 on the Rolling Stone Top 100 list. They are also number 22 on the Best-Selling Albums of All-Time list.