PINK FLOYD__1967__FILLMORE CONCERT TICKET__Syd Barrett__SAN FRANCISCO__EX++

Description

Here is an authentic
PINK FLOY
D
ticket
from November 2nd, 1967 at the Fillmore West, San Francisco.
This was the very early days with Syd Barrett and several years before David Gilmour came along.  The band members give Syd Barrett a lot of credit for the creation of their psychedelic musical style.  He was really the creative force that got them noticed and heavily influenced their sound from there forward.  But he had started doing mega amounts of LSD and before long he ended up losing his mind and unfortunately ended up going crazy.  They remained lifelong friends and fortunately for the rest of the band, their replacement (a friend of Syd's), turned out to be a solid choice with David Gilmour.   Syd was the inspiration behind the song 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond' on the Wish You Were Here album.
So this was their first break out tour to the USA.
The ticket measures roughly 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" and is in NM- condition, just very slight wear to the corners and edges and age related yellowing.
Purchase with confidence, I deal
only
in vintage original items, guaranteed authentic.
The Fillmore:
T
his was from the period
i
n the late 60's and 70's
when
Bill Graham owned and operated the F
illmore and Winterland
venues in SF.  He
decided to have his
own promotional posters
designed to promote
the co
ncerts.  F
irst, he would choo
se
an artist
to draw a
nd print a poster
custom
ized
for each individual
show
. The
tickets
were just a reduced
facsimile
of the posters and then typically color-coded to indicate multi
ple
night engagements.
Back then,
t
he Fillmore West and Winterland
were rather special
venues that
constantly held
extended engagements by the then
curre
nt and popula
r
performers.  Just about ever
y well know
n b
and played there except for a few
more established bands like
The Beatles and Rolling S
tones.
This was p
ro
bably
due to being located in SF, w
hich
became the focal point for psychedelic
music
and
countercultu
re
in genera
l
.  San Francisco was the ultimate
city for rock concerts and
Bill was
both a promoter and own
er of
the venues where they could play.
So that
he
could reconcile sales each night, patrons purchased tickets at the venue box office and handed them right back over at the door, thus most ending up in the archive in EX or NM- condition.  T
oday the original F
illmore
in SF
still
operates
with Live Nation
having been leas
ing
it
and it is also expand
ing
the Fillmore 'bran
d' by naming other
venues it owns or leases around the coun
try in cities such as M
i
ami, Phili, Denver, Detroit
, DC & NYC.
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using reinforced methods
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