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Group/Artist Name: Steve Miller Band

Origin: 1966 in San Francisco, California

Genre: Rock

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Back

Material: Cloth

Type of Pass: Access Working Pass

Tour Name and Date(s): 1995 Tour

Size: 4 1/2” tall

Condition: Unused

Album Sales: 24 Million Plus

Date of Induction to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Steve Miller was inducted in 2016

Grammy Awards: They have been nominated 3 times, and have won 1 time.

Other: They are number 35 on the Best-Selling Albums of All-Time List.

  
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.

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. You get 12 for $18 (that's $1.50 each). Vintage 4 1/2" wide package contains a paper mache dog with two cigarettes. Says "Smoking Dog and Two Fillers" "Insert filler - then light - and watch dog smoke by himself". Marked "Made in Japan" and circa 1950 or earlier. These are the old paper packages they used before plastic bags. Unsold old stock we found in the remote storage area of a store in Northern, Ohio. Excellent condition.

They are in unused condition, and are uncommon. They were sold as hippie beads in the late 60s from a bead store near the Haight Ashbury area. In 1967, the hippie phenomena dominated the area and the demand for beads was huge. The owner of this store put out the call that he wanted all types of beads that were either colorful, large, earthenware, or had mystical significance. Some of the items that he brought into the store were much older, and we will note them in the listings. The hardcore hippies wanted glass or ceramic or earthenware, so that is what most of these items are. The lucite stuff was for the fake hippies. The demand started slacking as the hippie phenomena died down and by the mid 1970s, they started selling gold chains and disco related items instead. The hippie items were taken from the front shelves, and stored in the back. The newspaper they were wrapped in was dated 1977, so that's when they put them back there. The most striking thing in the store is an old display of huge African Trade Bead necklaces from the 1800s. They were even selling those sort of beads to the hippies. One of those necklaces will run you about 2 grand now. That place is a real time warp. You could still smell incense around some of the boxes and I kept hearing Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane in my head. Just amazing.

Click on the picture to see a more detailed image of both sides of the ticket.  There are various colors. Vintage 4" wide unused concert tickets from Bread concert at the KRNT Theater in Des Moines, Iowa on April 22, 1972. These are in almost perfect condition. You will never see any nicer.

Group/Artist Name: Bread

Origin: 1968 in Los Angeles, California

Genre: Soft Rock

Location and Date: KRNT Theater in Des Moines, Iowa on April 22, 1972

Size: 4" Wide

Condition: Unused

Grammy Awards: They have been nominated 1 time. 

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

 

Group/Artist Name: Show of Hands

Origin: 1987 in Devon, England

Genre: Roots, Folk

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Unmarked*

Material: Laminated

Type of Pass: VIP Pass

Tour Name and Date(s): 1988 Tour

Size: 4 1/4” tall

Condition: Unused

Other: They are recognized as pioneers int he folk/roots genre, and were a big group in Europe.