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Re: Tickets Are for Remembering

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Post by niccl »

jMyles wrote: post #7
lmm wrote: post #5

No, for those of us who care about the actual play rather than the hip ephemera, tickets are for getting in.

I've been working on a system for my own bluegrass shows of free-to-enter, pay-for-a-ticket-if-you-want-to. Not sure how it will go, but an interesting experiment I think.

I think Derek Sivers [0] had something to say about this. He used to run CD-Baby, and IIRC was also a musician with some well known bands from back in the day. I've found his stuff about different ways of approaching live music very thoughtful

0: https://sive.rs

Re: Tickets Are for Remembering

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Post by sho_hn »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #18

As someone who has been saving my ticket stubs for 20+ years I was very frustrated by the disappearance of physical tickets. I paid the extra fee to have them mailed to me, but eventually that went away. Printed emails are not the same. I eventually figured out how to make the most realistic replica ticket stubs possible to add to my ticket stub album. I spent several thousands dollars on professional printers and re…

I definitely do get it, as someone with a (loose and not organized) physical ticket collection. That said, I think it's partly the authentic object I'm attached to. While I'm absolutely amazed at the length you went to create facsimiles, I'm not sure a recreation does it for me.

That said, I think it's a nifty gift idea to create e.g. fake tickets to your birthday party or something.

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Post by lmm »

akeyva wrote: post #20

Event tickets should be NFTs. They can retain the quality of bearer instruments and remain a keepsake after the event. It would also unlock new ways to connect with audiences. For example, if your wallet holds 3 or more NFTs from this venue/director/band, you get early access to purchase tickets for future events.

Back home the local football club would sometimes give priority to e.g. people who could show at least 2 ticket stubs. Of course they could do that because they were the sole issuer of their tickets, it would be much harder for an entity that sells tickets through multiple channels.

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Post by eastbound »

dlojudice wrote: post #9
alsetmusic wrote: post #4

I have a small tin box that something or other came in as a gift. It stored concert tickets and other small memorabilia (like the movie ticket from a great first date) for every event I'd gone to for well over a decade. Gradually, as physical tickets got phased out, I had fewer and fewer items of memorabilia to add. At this point, I have no physical record of shows we see. I feel like something has been lost. But I s…

I've been doing this for over 20 years, but I confess that I've never gone back to look at the tickets. Maybe one day, out of nostalgia, I'll look at the dusty box full of old tickets and have good memories of shows, movies, good and bad. For now, what matters is the feeling that part of my life's memory is being preserved for something that I don't even know what exactly it is...

Some tickets were awesome. I’m in France and I still remember getting JJ Goldman (an artist)’s physical red star ticket for his communist tour, or the photo negative film physical artifact, he always made sure the physical artifacts were never a simple printed piece of paper.

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Post by beng-nl »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #18

As someone who has been saving my ticket stubs for 20+ years I was very frustrated by the disappearance of physical tickets. I paid the extra fee to have them mailed to me, but eventually that went away. Printed emails are not the same. I eventually figured out how to make the most realistic replica ticket stubs possible to add to my ticket stub album. I spent several thousands dollars on professional printers and re…

Wow, I must say, what a great business idea (even though the business aspect may have been accidental And I’m not in the target audience personally) and how well-deserved the success is, given such an authentic origin. Best of luck to you!

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Post by madaxe_again »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #18

As someone who has been saving my ticket stubs for 20+ years I was very frustrated by the disappearance of physical tickets. I paid the extra fee to have them mailed to me, but eventually that went away. Printed emails are not the same. I eventually figured out how to make the most realistic replica ticket stubs possible to add to my ticket stub album. I spent several thousands dollars on professional printers and re…

I don’t get it.

Isn’t the point of an experience… the experience?

Not to be able to have evidence that you were there? Even if you weren’t?

I feel like the whole thing is like some kind of cognitive hangover - “this ticket is important and I must not lose it before the show” turns into “I can never, ever dispose of this piece of paper”.

Re: Tickets Are for Remembering

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Post by emptiestplace »

madaxe_again wrote: post #26
CosmicShadow wrote: post #18

As someone who has been saving my ticket stubs for 20+ years I was very frustrated by the disappearance of physical tickets. I paid the extra fee to have them mailed to me, but eventually that went away. Printed emails are not the same. I eventually figured out how to make the most realistic replica ticket stubs possible to add to my ticket stub album. I spent several thousands dollars on professional printers and re…

I don’t get it. Isn’t the point of an experience… the experience? Not to be able to have evidence that you were there? Even if you weren’t? I feel like the whole thing is like some kind of cognitive hangover - “this ticket is important and I must not lose it before the show” turns into “I can never, ever dispose of this piece of paper”.

Yeah. Interesting territory, discussing this.

Re: Tickets Are for Remembering

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Post by smolder »

akeyva wrote: post #20

Event tickets should be NFTs. They can retain the quality of bearer instruments and remain a keepsake after the event. It would also unlock new ways to connect with audiences. For example, if your wallet holds 3 or more NFTs from this venue/director/band, you get early access to purchase tickets for future events.

NFTs: for imposing scarcity on things that have no reason to be scarce. It always struck me as backwards.

Re: Tickets Are for Remembering

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Post by joshka »

One of my biggest regrets in life was throwing away in a house move my tickets / flyers / poster collection from many years of gigs I attended. Probably a banker's box full of random things. I wish I hadn't done that. And then they stopped making them the same way.

Re: Tickets Are for Remembering

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Post by diegolas »

madaxe_again wrote: post #26
CosmicShadow wrote: post #18

As someone who has been saving my ticket stubs for 20+ years I was very frustrated by the disappearance of physical tickets. I paid the extra fee to have them mailed to me, but eventually that went away. Printed emails are not the same. I eventually figured out how to make the most realistic replica ticket stubs possible to add to my ticket stub album. I spent several thousands dollars on professional printers and re…

I don’t get it. Isn’t the point of an experience… the experience? Not to be able to have evidence that you were there? Even if you weren’t? I feel like the whole thing is like some kind of cognitive hangover - “this ticket is important and I must not lose it before the show” turns into “I can never, ever dispose of this piece of paper”.

you could say the same about taking a picture of a special moment, it's a souvenir, people have been keeping things that remind them of past experiences since like forever
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