Wolfgang's Vault Wolfgang's Vault - Where Live Music Lives
Login
Product Detail
Grateful Dead
By Category
Grateful Dead
By Product Type
Grateful Dead
By Price Range
Performers
Vault Tips 

You will see a watermark on all our images, however, that will not appear on your product when you order it.

Next Tip

Grateful Dead 1960s Ticket

from Dec 31, 1968

 - BG152-T6

Add Item To Cart
WVIP discounts will be shown in the Cart

Email A Friend

Description

Artist Conklin restrained himself to a vaguely classical reference on this garish della Robia wreath of flowers, milky breasts and entangled bodies with the New Year's babe emerging from the Dead's mascot. The 1969 New Year's Eve concert, featuring perennial performers the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, It's A Beautiful Day and Santana, was held at Winterland.

Before the dawn of computers and bar codes, Bill Graham Presents printed their own concert tickets, many of which are now considered exceptional works of art in their own right. Small facsimiles or derivations of the show's promotional posters, they were typically color-coded to indicate multi-night engagements and represent a bygone era of extended, one-venue engagements by major performers. So that Bill could reconcile sales each night, patrons purchased tickets at the venue box office and handed them right back over at the door, thus ending up in the archive as mint condition concert tickets. We may occasionally and in select cases offer for sale one-of-a-kind, extremely rare and valuable concert tickets in less than mint condition.

Shipping Information