I’ve got some NASCAR tickets to certain events I went to, such as Dale Earnhardt’s last win and Dale Earnhardt Jr’s first win, but the neatest ones that I have, in my opinion are some tickets that I never used. ECW was bleeding money left and right before WWF bought them out. They were going to put on a show about 30 miles from my house and were just passing out tickets to try to fill the convention center. I got four, and for some reason, didn’t go. They announced on their site the next day that ECW had folded and that was their last event. They’ve had reunion events since, but that was the last ECW event that wasn’t owned by WWF/WWE.
I saw AC/DC the night the video was shot for “Money Talks”. I have my ticket stub in a photo album with a few of the “dollar bills” that were dropped out of the ceiling. They dropped thousands of them. A few weeks later, I saw them at a memorabilia store, selling for $10 a pop. Made me wish I’d scooped up a few hundred of them that night.
About a decade ago, a punk friend and I had some really unexplainable long-running in-joke about Huey Lewis (which we can’t joke about now, since we now have members of our social circle who unironically love the guy). We found out he was coming to town to play some small, intimate club, and we decided we were going to be punks-for-Huey, and we’d go see him wearing leather jackets painted with Huey’s face (mocking the ubiquitous Misfits skull leather-jacket-paintings) and mosh enthusiastically to his songs until we got kicked out.
We bought the tickets, and had blown up a photo of Huey to reference when painting our jackets… and the show got canceled because of low ticket sales. This was for a club which held maybe 500 people max, so sales must have been really horrible. We got refunds, and still have the unused tickets.
Kind of. I still have the email with the pdf file ticket for President Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park in Chicago. So technically, I can print out a copy any time I want.
