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

Group/Artist Name: Bang Tango

Origin: 1988 in Los Angeles, California

Genre: Hard Rock

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Back

Material: Laminated

Type of Pass: Full Access Tour Pass

Tour Name and Date(s): Dancin on Coals Tour 1991

Size: 4 1/4” 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.

 

PRICES ADUST WHEN ITEM IS ADDED TO CART

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image of both sides of the pass. You get the pair pictured for $5.00 (that's $2.50 each). These are 4 3/4" tall cloth OTTO backstage passes. These These were used during the 1995/96 Balance Tour. Eddie Van Halen was famous for wearing a "No Clowns" T-shirt. On the passes it says "NO CLOWNS BACKSTAGE, Cafferty's Concerts", and picture a clown crossed out, like many of Van Halen's pictures.