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Led Zeppelin - Zep Collectors Box with Chicago Tickets
Expert: Chris M. Zangara - 8/31/2008
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Chris,
I have been looking bout the web for any background on a piece of Zep memorabilia in my possession.
It is a presentation box (sized to fit all 10 albums from 1 - Coda). It's entitled 10 years gone - given the name I presume it was issued in 1990.
It contains 8 (plus 1 stuck to the box) unused Chicago 1980 tickets of varying colour, plus 5 photos which look like they were taken during their 75 tour one for each of the band and one of the whole band - a particularly nice on of JPJ on his 3-necked guitar.
It also comes with a glossy poster of the Chicago newspaper ad for the concert and on the back, details of the circumstances surrounding the unused tickets.
I bought the box in a reputable shop in the early 90's (the now closed Penny Lane records here in Liverpool), do you have any idea where it comes from?
Answer
Hi Paul, I wrote to Rick Barrett who is an expert in Zep collectibles and below is his response to you. Thanks to Rick. You can also visit Rick's website of collectibles at http://www.zeppelincollectibles.com
I've seen a number of different products with those 1980 Chicago tickets, and I recall a CD distributor in Illinois partnering with the owner of those 80,000 unused Chicago Stadium tickets (which means those tickets really aren't that scarce at all!). In order to sell more tickets for the one party and a number of boxes and CDs for the other party, they produced these "after-market" pieces as a "limited edition", which anyone could produce...it was a sweet way to sell a number of sets of tickets (1,000?) and make a fairly easy buck on (1,000?) presentation boxes. Who knows what the actual quantity ever made was...it's likely they produced whatever they could sell to record distributors and music stores. Atlantic Records was obviously fine with the project (if they even were aware of it...the CDs might've been bought from a distributor, rather than directly from Atlantic) as the possibility of selling a large quantity (10,000? 1,000 of each?) Led Zeppelin compact disc would certainly be enticing. (If the CDs were bought directly from Atlantic it would have been a nice, though a relatively small to moderate order for them.) Many collectors shunned these type of products, because when it came right down to it, they were simply "commemorative" items, ultimately produced to sell products...rather than what others might consider more legitimate releases from the record company themselves. Yet these items do regularly get produced because the entire run usually sells through...meaning they did what they were supposed to do...produce profit.
I hope that helps!
All the Best,
Rick Barrett
Hope that helps Paul, take care.
Chris Z.
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