Metro Pulse, Inc. was incorporated with the state of Illinois in June of 1980 and has been a constantly running enterprise. Metro Pulse has been collecting and selling rock memorabilia through mail order for the past 27 years. Founder and memorabilia expert, Michael Dehn, originally created the Lombard-based company to publish a magazine for distributing concert information, but quickly made the transition into marketing collectibles. The Metro Pulse inventory includes items from rare 60’s concert posters to Ringo Starr’s drumhead. Many of The Beatles collectibles in the Chicago Rock’n’Roll McDonald’s restaurant were purchased through Dehn’s business. In November of 1998, Metro Pulse donated one of its highly collectible Led Zeppelin tickets to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
Michael Dehn and Metro Pulse have always been dedicated to providing customers with the best and rarest collectibles and memorabilia. In 1986, after six years of negotiations with the Chicago Stadium Corporation, Metro Pulse secured all of the concert tickets to the 1980 Led Zeppelin shows that never happened. The tickets were purchased and held by Dehn until 1994 when Metro Pulse sold 1,994 of them mounted on matted posters with certificates of authenticity. ( Click here to see an ad from a special Japanese release.)
Above: One of the front row tickets signed by Robert Plant in the summer of 1988 at the Townsend Hotel in Clarkston, Michigan. This ticket and backstage pass are part of the Metro Pulse collection and more evidence that Michael Dehn is a true Led Zeppelin fan.
Right: Tickets from an April 6th, 1977 show, also part of the Metro Pulse collection.
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A Message from Michael Dehn, President of Metro Pulse, Inc.
Re: Why did I buy 80,000 tickets to a concert that will never happen?
“To begin—I saw Zeppelin six times live at the Chicago Stadium. That includes all three tours, 1973, 1975 and 1977. I lived it and was devastated when John Bonham died the day we were to send in our checks and money orders for the November 1980 shows. To those of you who are not native Chicagoans, it would be hard to describe our horror.
This is where my fascination with these tickets began. Being in the world of trying to obtain Zeppelin tickets for past tours and realizing it was by far the hottest concert ticket of the 70’s in Chicago, I knew there must be value in finding out how to buy them. Plus I knew they were preprinted, not Ticketron stock as was the norm for most tickets at that time, so they would look cool.”
Metro Pulse is a federally trademarked name.
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Above: A 1975 ticket stub from Michael Dehn’s personal collection which was used on the cover of the 1981 WMET Chicago Classic Rock Book which included contributions from Metro Pulse.
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