I don’t have the statistics, but I’d reckon close to 93% of concert goers keeps some of their ticket stubs. That is totally made up science…but it does seem that most people that care about music, collect something, anything, that has to do with the experience.
I have a drawer in a hall closet. It used to be a drawer in my bedside table. I started filling this drawer with nic-naks at a young age. One of the things casually thrown in there was concert and sporting tickets. Not all of them… but many of them. I am glad I did that.
Over the years and moves… the drawer came and was added to. When Coral and I moved in together, my childhood bedside table when the way of the majestic Dodo Bird for something more grownup. The drawer lives, but now in a closet. And still the concert tickets stubs drifted there.
The nature of my work means I’ve been to a lot of shows. Many I did not get tickets stubs for. Many concerts were club shows. No ticket stub. Early in my life, my friend Chris’ Dad worked for the Pacific Coliseum and snuck us into Coliseum and Forum shows. No ticket stub. But I did find many great stubs. Like the above two. my first and third “big kid” rocks shows ever.
I found a ticket stub for the day I found out Coral was pregnant. Coral and I had only lived together for a couple months at our apartment on Yates. That night I was to host a group of radio winners in the Zone’s suit at the arena for the Monster Truck Spectacular!
After work I took the Zone car home and asked Coral to meet me on Yates as we’d have to head direct to the arena.
When I pulled up to Yates she was standing on the corner crying. I asked her what’s up? We have to go to Monster Trucks RIGHT NOW! She said, “I’m pregnant.”
Whoa.
Well… get your shit together, we got monster trucks to do. And we celebrated…at monster trucks. And that ticket stub is a pretty important important relic in the story of Madelyn’s life.
Now, what to do with all these stubs?
Coral’s sister Alyx stuck a bunch to a cork board and made a collage…off to Michaels and $50 late, I had a sweet shadow box.
I dug through all my piles of ticket stubs. Found a criminally small amount to frame and got all Pinterest. Here is my finished project. But I really could have made like 4 of them… so many GOOD stubs. The best part of the project was going through all the memories. It is a very personal project so however your frame turns out, it’ll be awesome and you’ll be happy with it.
I put a select few concert buttons there too…. a Rifflandia 3 wrist band… and because its a shadow box and there is a ledge, a Sasquatch 2009 schedule. Neat.
I also saw at Michaels a concert T-shirt frame? O RLY? hmmmm
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 