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Offered Here: Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Backstage Passes & Ephemera With COA
Item Details: Turn up the volume on your music memorabilia collection with this premium lot of 28 authentic hard rock and heavy metal backstage passes, tour laminates, and ephemera. This high-octane archive spans the golden eras of heavy music, featuring coveted backstage items from legendary titans and arena icons including AC/DC, Aerosmith, Guns 'N Roses, Def Leppard, Poison, Scorpions, Deep Purple, Tesla, Bad Religion, Bulletboys, Mr. Big, Killer Dwarfs, and more. Every piece in this rock-ready collection shows signs of use, age, and storage, making it a phenomenal, certified acquisition for serious collectors and fans of heavy rock history.
Provenance/Authenticity: Randall "Zeke" Clark is a renowned luthier and legendary guitar/amp technician who got his start in the San Francisco music scene in the 70s, working with various A-list artists until moving to LA in the 80s, where he worked for Eddie Van Halen.
From 1985 to 1993, he served as Edward Van Halen’s lead guitar and amp tech, transitioning to the crew with Sammy Hagar to maintain the band's gear through the monumental 5150, OU812, and For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge eras.
Beyond his historic tenure as the custodian of Eddie's tone, Clark's elite five-decade career includes building, repairing, and maintaining specialized gear for iconic artists such as Prince, Sammy Hagar, Journey, Heart, Poison, and others. This curated selection of items offers collectors a unique and direct connection to rock history through the hands of a master craftsman who shaped the sound of guitar royalty.
This item was personally handled, vetted, and released by Zeke Clark, ensuring its authenticity and rock-history provenance. Zeke Clark utilizes an Official Personal Signature Stamp to validate and inventory documents and artifacts released directly from his private estate. This item comes with his personal ink-imprinted signature stamp on the certificate of authenticity, which serves as his legally binding, authorized mark of verification and carries the full weight of a hand-signed signature.
The artists represented span several generations of hard rock and heavy metal, from 1970s pioneers such as Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC and Scorpions to the bands, including Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses, Poison, Tesla and Mr. Big, that dominated rock radio, MTV and arena stages in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Deep Purple's Machine Head helped lay the foundation for heavy metal, while AC/DC's Back in Black and Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction rank among the best-selling albums in history. These acts built large-scale touring operations that made live performance central to the genre's commercial peak and its global reach.
Condition: Very good to good with common signs of age, use, and storage.
SKU: RZC2068