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Offered Here: Classic Rock & Pop Backstage Passes & Ephemera With COA
Item Details: Own an instant collection of music history with this massive lot of over 70 pieces of classic rock and pop backstage passes and rare tour ephemera. This extensive archive features 22 heavy-duty tour laminates, 33 stick-on backstage passes, 7 unlaminated passes, 7 stick-on passes without backing paper, and 2 unique tour cards. Offering an incredible mix of highly collectible small items, the entire lot remains in good to very good condition while showing authentic, character-rich signs of tour age and storage. This is an exceptional opportunity for dealers and rock and roll enthusiasts alike to acquire a diverse, ready-made treasure trove of backstage history.
Provenance/Authenticity: Randall "Zeke" Clark is a renowned luthier and legendary guitar/amp technician who got his start in the San Francisco music scene in the 70s, working with various A-list artists until moving to LA in the 80s, where he worked for Eddie Van Halen.
From 1985 to 1993, he served as Edward Van Halen’s lead guitar and amp tech, transitioning to the crew with Sammy Hagar to maintain the band's gear through the monumental 5150, OU812, and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge eras.
Beyond his historic tenure as the custodian of Eddie's tone, Clark's elite five-decade career includes building, repairing, and maintaining specialized gear for iconic artists such as Prince, Sammy Hagar, Journey, Heart, Poison, and others. This curated selection of items offers collectors a unique and direct connection to rock history through the hands of a master craftsman who shaped the sound of guitar royalty.
This item was personally handled, vetted, and released by Zeke Clark, ensuring its authenticity and rock-history provenance. Zeke Clark utilizes an Official Personal Signature Stamp to validate and inventory documents and artifacts released directly from his private estate. This item comes with his personal ink-imprinted signature stamp on the certificate of authenticity, which serves as his legally binding, authorized mark of verification and carries the full weight of a hand-signed signature.
Backstage passes and tour laminates became a standard part of rock touring as concerts grew into large arena productions in the 1970s and 1980s, serving as the credentials that controlled access for crew, staff and guests. Santana, well represented among these passes, brought Latin rhythms and percussion into rock after its breakthrough performance at Woodstock in 1969 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. The archive also connects to the Van Halen camp of the Sammy Hagar years, when the albums 5150, OU812 and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge each reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Condition: Very good to good with commons signs of a use and age. Note that 7 of these stick-on passes have no backing paper also 20 of the stick-on passes are Santana related.
SKU: RZC2067