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A remarkable cache of 57 unused Grateful Dead backstage passes from 1995 — the band's final touring year. Unused passes are significantly rarer than used ones; they were typically held back by production staff for administrative and contingency purposes and were never distributed. That so many from a single season survived together as a group speaks to their origin within the Dead's inner production circle. The passes span the 1995 touring calendar, a year of considerable tumult for the band — including gate-crashing incidents, canceled shows, and ultimately Jerry Garcia's death on August 9, 1995, which brought the Grateful Dead's 30-year run to a close. For collectors of Dead credentials, unused passes from the final year carry particular historical and emotional weight.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

57 Grateful Dead Unused Backstage Passes, 1995

The Grateful Dead were not just a band. They were a traveling city. A self-sustaining organism of musicians, engineers, roadies, managers, artists, and devotees who dismantled and reassembled their world in a new location, night after night, for thirty years. The music was the reason, but the infrastructure was the miracle: the laminated credentials that unlocked backstage doors, the production cases that crossed continents, the itinerary booklets that kept fifty people moving across six countries in formation, the green room signs that came down at the end of the night and went up again somewhere else the next day. This sale is a portrait of that world — not the music, exactly, but the machinery behind it, and the human beings who made it run.&nbsp;From Dan Healy's personal Europe '72 tour itinerary to Robbie Taylor's road-worn production trunks, from Bill "Kidd" Candelario's Egypt backstage pass to Ram Rod's trove of unused credentials spanning a decade of touring, the lots gathered here trace the Grateful Dead's story through the objects that kept it moving. There are all-access laminates from the band's final summer, a ticket from the very last show, July 9, 1995, Soldier Field, Chicago, and signed posters that document the long aftermath of the Dead's run, in which the surviving members continued to carry the music forward under different names and configurations. Each item carries a direct, documented provenance. For those who believe that the crew built something just as enduring as the music, this is where to look.&nbsp;

Among the most historically significant items in this entire auction: an original, unripped concert ticket and unused backstage pass from July 9, 1995 at Soldier Field in Chicago — the final concert the Grateful Dead ever performed with Jerry Garcia. The ticket reads: “Grateful Dead with Special Guest, Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, July 9, 1995, 6:00 PM, $33.50 — Upper Stand, Gate 15, Section 113, Row 20, Seat 17.” Exactly one month later, on August 9, 1995, Jerry Garcia died at the age of 53, and the Grateful Dead ceased to exist as a band. An unused ticket from that night — never torn, never used — is one of the rarest physical artifacts of the Dead's final chapter. The accompanying backstage pass features a cowboy with guns blazing on the front, a design that, with hindsight, carries its own quiet symbolism.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Original Unused Concert Ticket & Unused Backstage Pass — Final Grateful Dead Show, July 9, 1995, Soldier Field, Chicago

Three original green room door signs bearing the names Jerry, Bob, and Phil, removed directly from the backstage doors of the BJCC Coliseum in Birmingham, Alabama by Tom Stack on April 5, 1995 — one of the final years of the Grateful Dead's touring life. Stack, founder of Club Dead and former Vice President of Licensing and Merchandise at Grateful Dead, took the signs on his way out through the backstage exit after the show. Each sign measures 11 x 6 inches and is sold as a set of three. Also included is proposed artwork for a Birmingham show t-shirt designed for the April 4–5, 1995 BJCC run, printed on 11 x 17-inch paper. Ephemera of this specificity — tied to a precise date, venue, and removal — is extraordinarily rare. As the listing notes, you can now pretend that Jerry, Bob and Phil all have a room at your house.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $75 (domestic US) / $225 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

Grateful Dead Green Room Door Signs — Jerry, Bob & Phil — April 5, 1995, BJCC Coliseum, Birmingham, Alabama

A substantial group of 69 unused Grateful Dead backstage passes from 1994, preserved together from within the band's production organization. The 1994 touring season was one of the Dead's most active late-period years, encompassing shows from coast to coast at venues ranging from the Boston Garden to Giants Stadium to the Shoreline Amphitheatre. Unused passes — never issued, never clipped, never carried through a backstage door — are far less common on the market than their used counterparts, and a group of this size from a single season is an exceptional find. A vivid document of the Dead's final full year of uninterrupted touring.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

69 Grateful Dead Unused Backstage Passes, 1994

A group of 57 unused Grateful Dead backstage passes from the 1993 touring season, held back from distribution and preserved intact within the band's production organization. 1993 was a pivotal year for the Dead: it marked the continued evolution of the band's late-period sound and the ongoing challenge of managing an audience that had grown far beyond the intimate counterculture community of their early years. These pristine, unissued credentials offer collectors a direct material connection to the machinery behind one of the most logistically complex touring operations in popular music.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

57 Grateful Dead Unused Backstage Passes, 1993

Seventy-five unused Grateful Dead backstage passes spanning more than a decade of touring — from 1983 through 1995 — from the personal collection of Lawrence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff, the band's beloved head roadie and one of the most revered figures in the Dead's extended family. Ram Rod joined the Grateful Dead organization in the late 1960s and remained a central presence for the rest of the band's career, his loyalty and steadiness earning him an almost mythological status among Deadheads and crew alike. Items from his personal archive carry a provenance of the highest order — these passes were not sold, traded, or distributed. They remained with Ram Rod, a quiet record of the years he spent putting the Dead's world together night after night.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $40 (domestic US) / $100 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

75 Unused Grateful Dead Backstage Passes, 1983–1995 — Property of Ram Rod

A rare and deeply personal set of artifacts from the Grateful Dead's legendary September 1978 concerts at the Giza Plateau in Egypt, from the collection of Bill “Kidd” Candelario — one of the Dead's most trusted and long-serving road crew members, and later President of Grateful Dead Merchandising. The lot includes two items: first, Candelario's personal all-areas Egypt backstage laminate, with his passport photograph laminated on the reverse alongside his legal name “William Candelario” and passport number — the kind of credentialing required for a production of that international scale. Second, Candelario's original golden Grateful Dead Egypt concert program from the Giza shows, held in front of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids. The Egypt concerts are among the most mythologized events in the Grateful Dead's history; backstage laminates from band and crew members connected to those shows have appeared at public auction only a handful of times.Shipping: Estimated shipping costs: $75 (domestic US) / $225 (international). ANALOGr will contact you following the auction with a shipping invoice.

57 Grateful Dead Unused Backstage Passes, 1995

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