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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 pass. 

 

Group/Artist Name: Smash Mouth

Origin: 1994 in San Jose, California

Genre: Rock

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Back

Material: Cloth

Type of Pass: After Show Pass

Tour Name and Date(s): Why Can't We Be Friends? European Tour 1998

Size: 3 3/4” tall

Condition: Unused

Album Sales: 5 Million Plus

Grammy Awards: They have been nominated 1 time.

  
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 of both sides of the pass. This is a super rare pass featuring King-Kong and is marked in the corner for Roosevelt Island. This was part of the Kongrontation ride.

 

Group/Artist Name: Taylor Dayne

Origin: New York City, New York

Years Active: 1985-Present

Genre: Pop

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Back

Material: Cloth

Type of Pass: Backstage Pass

Tour Name and Date(s): 1990 World Tour

Size: 4 1/2” wide

Condition: Unused

Album Sales: 4 Million Plus

Grammy Awards: She has been nominated 2 times.

Other: Dayne is ranked number 18 on Rolling Stone's best female dance artists of all time list.