Woohoo! I found a ziplock full of old ticket stubs!
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Been packing, sorting, and organizing to move and found the bag in an old, totally unrelated box. I thought it had been lost forever. Check out this beauty:
So glad to have found it! The ticket isn't ripped because we entered through the back door of Cap Centre. I grabbed a setlist off the wall on our way out. Robert Plant is really freaking tall. I was stunned into complete silence (for once, lol!) and couldn't even utter a word to him or Jimmy Page. Kicking myself in the butt for that now.
Lots of goodies in the bag but, sadly, my Phish NYE '95 stub wasn't in there. The 30th was but not the 31st. Bummer.
ETA: I just googled and Robert is only 6'1.
Whaaa?? He looked at least 7' tall, like a freakin' golden god. Guess that was just through the lens of my awe. 
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Soooooo jealous right now! 
and he gets lots of comps. He has an absolutely mind-breaking collection of framed photos of him with big time musicians.
He used to give me comped Dead tickets, and we went to Plant & Page together, but I started to feel guilty asking him for tickets. Haven't done it in ages. IIRC that might have been the last time. His part of the family doesn't see my part all that often and I didn't want him to feel like I was using him.
Damn you, conscience! 
Over like a dozen moves ... contents look like this ... without the Sports and Theater tickets, this is just Concerts ... you treat these heat-sensitive tickets w/care, man!
And mah Page/Plant tix, from the two tours they did ... both killer, but honestly the 1998 tour was ... incredible. It was like watching Zeppelin. Much as I love Porl Thompson from The Cure, who was the 2nd guitarist in 1995 tour ... the 1998 tour was a totally stripped-down, purely Zep-like rocking affair. 1995 was a more an ensemble show. It was still awesome to be sure ...
I actually chatted with Porl for a bit before the show. He had his son (?? a 5 or 6 year old) with him and I didn't recognize him until we went out to our seats and I looked at the program my cousin bought.
I'm glad to have found the ziplock but bummed so many of my stubs are missing. I spent my early teen years through mid 30's going to see live music, so I've been fortunate enough to see a shit ton of great shows. My parents encouraged it when I was young and, until one of my best friends was finally old enough to drive, Mom would take me and my crew to whatever we wanted to see.
This will probably kill you, so prepare yourself: Many of my belongings, including the Kodak envelope full of all my stubs, were the victim of a bad break up. It was about 20 years ago. The Asshole threw a bunch of my stuff into the dumpster of our apt. complex while he was moving his stuff out. I was at work at the time.
He was a musician and *knew* how much my stubs meant to me. He didn't just toss the sealed envelope into the dumpster, he shook it out. It was one of those big, outer Kodak envelopes that reseals at the top.
I went diving for them when I discovered what he had done, and only recovered about a third. I was shocked, crying, and absolutely livid, all at the same time. It literally gave me physical pain. And that was probably the douchebag's intention. Ugh. A lot of other small (but important to me) momentos were lost, too. He knew exactly how to hurt me the most. Grrr.
I'm glad I was able to recover some of the stubs, but still pissed and heartbroken over what was lost. I think that's why the ziplock has stayed hidden for so long- it brings up a weird mix of emotions.
Anyhoo, it could have been worse. He could have burned them. And I'm super glad both parts of this one were recovered. Most of the ones with more than one piece (tickets from multi-day events, like my Clifford Ball wristbands) are missing pieces. But it could have been worse.
but my oldest is crazy expensive. I never noticed until reading your post and then sifting through the bag. 1984, the Jackson's Victory Tour, $28. Dang! Michael and his brothers must have been seriously low on cash, lol!
I was nine or ten at the time, Mom took me and my older sister. I can't even imagine what that show, if it were possible, would cost these days.
My 1987 U2 ticket was only $19, and Eric Clapton in 1990 was $21.50. Wow! Two years later, Clapton tickets had only gone up a buck, to $22.50.
Lots are from amphitheaters and smaller venues/clubs, so that's probably why $12 or $18 has the highest representation. And good gawd, I had no idea I saw Widespread Panic that much back in the mid 90's.
We’re watching the Led Zeppelin 1977 Seattle show on YouTube
My hubs is bitching because it’s so much better than the show he went to in Oakland where they were 4 hours late and the crowd was pissed off