Hello Metro Pulse and Mr. Dehn,
My name is John Lopez and I recently purchased the TWENTY YEARS GONE, THE MILLENNIUM ISSUE of the 1980 UNUSED CONCERT TICKET AT CHICAGO STADIUM set for 10 November 1980 through a seller on E-bay. The number of my Authenticity is 0945/2000-1. l lovet this treasure gem and I am looking forward to keeping this valuable collectible till the day I die. lf you would like, please use my comments as one of your testimonials. I would like for people to know how much I truly love this treasure. l would like to highly recommend that all die hard LED ZEPPELIN fans to purchase this special treasure. What's even greater is that the MIGHTY LED ZEPPELIN IS BACK and I know for fact that the super group is touring in late 2008-2009. Please tell Mr. Dehn that I envy him for seeing ZEPPELIN six times. l only saw them once on 23 July 1977 at the Oakland Colosseum in Oakland California which is one of the last two shows that the MIGHTY ZEPPELIN would ever perform live on American soil. Again, thank you Metro Pulse and especially to you, Mr. Dehn, for helping keep the ZEPPELIN legend alive. What I'm saying, THE ZEPPELIN LEGEND LIVES ON! LED ZEPPELIN IS BACK!
LONG LIVE THE THE MIGHTY LED ZEPPELIN,
John Lopez
San Antonio, Texas
Dear friends,
I‘d read about in a Brazilian newspaper and I decided to write to ask for information about the Led Zeppelin’s tickets.
I would like to buy a ticket with home and I want to know the price (the newspaper published US$ 75.00), how I could pay (cheque, credit card, money) etc. That’s all. Thanks for your attention.
Moacin
Gentlemen,
Your ad in Goldmine #140 is amazing to say the least. I am interested in anything you have on Frank Zappa!! Not necessarily $100 for a promo “freak-out“ album, (the most I might pay for an album is $50.00), but any other albums, boots, posters, promo kits, stickers, any paper goods on F.Z.??? Please, I want them!!! (I know F.Z. doesn’t have much stuff.)
Thank you, Cliff
Hi Michael,
I am writing to thank you for the Chicago 31p you sent me. The show is great and I am very happy. Also thanks for the postcard-follow up. I would welcome the opportunity to deal with you again. Please keep me in mind for any Chicago items. Thanks again!!
Dave
Dear Metro Pulse,
Not too long ago you came into Sound Warehouse and mentioned these tickets. I gave you my name and address, but heard nothing from you. I am thrilled to see your ad in Rolling Stone.
I would like to know how I could acquire 1 ticket without having to pay handling. I do live in Lombard. Please contact me. I am incredibly interested. Thank you,
Janey
P.S. Do you have a catalog or something?
Dear Michael,
Thanks so much for the Jay Ferguson poster and mobile! Like everyone else at the time, I never thought to hold on to these kind of things. It’s great to be able to recover and have a bit of the past (I just now finished completing my Filmore West Spirit poster collection).
Thanks for your generosity. Let me know if I can return a favor sometime.
Best Wishes,
Jay
Dear Michael, I received your book that you wrote and I think it is great to go with my tickets. I really appreciate you being such a great person about the whole deal. It was great doing business with a real person instead of a 2 Bit crook!! Sorry it took so long to get back to you hope we can do business again on same Zep stuff. Thanks again. I’ll do what I can on selling some tickets for you. Keep me up to date on Zep inventory. Take care and good luck.
I thank you very much,
Mark
Dear Metro Pulse,
Thank you for your letter.
I really received Zeppelin tickets, and thank you for the extra one!
I am so glad having them.
It looks nice.
Do you have any other items? (Especially Zep, Stones, Pink Floyd, D. Bowie)
I am looking for such items you will be selling.
Now I’m happy and thanks again,
Masahiro
I would like to know how I can get the ticket here in Brazil.
Excuse my English.
Information to buy. Thanks,
Pedro
This letter will conform that morning personality Johnthon Brandmeier (5:30-10am) of The Loop gave away a Jimi Hendrix bandanna on Monday, February 3, 1986, to call-in contest winner.
Best regards,
Sandy
Good morning Mr. Dehn,
It was me who called and left a message a few days ago (forgot to leave my name) about whether or not the LZ ticket I was looking at was “legit”. I called from a antique mall where I saw a framed unused Led Zeppelin ticket hanging on the wall in a vendor’s booth. Of all the zillion pieces of junk I scoured at the antique mall that day it was this alone that captured my attention as this was maybe not crap at all, instead perhaps it was something. So I payed the $65 asking price despite being skeptical of its origin because it seemed so perfectly presented and displayed, and because I am such a humongous Led Zeppelin fan and drummer who’s spent the last 30 years attempting to capture even a little of Bonham’s feel and groove behind my own drum kit.
What I came home with is a year 2000 issue black metal and glass framed “20 Years Gone” pink box seat ticket which you signed and sealed.
Once I got home with it and ran the Google to see if I’d just purchased nothing more then a used picture frame, I found I’d not been hosed at all. In fact I’d found a gem! At this point I should apologize for taking up any of your time with an issue that doesn’t involve a direct sale from Metro Pulse, but I felt compelled to write after having completely read your highly entertaining website, ledzeppelintickets.com.
What a great story! What you did, you picking up the entire ticket stock for those shows was ingenious, and much appreciated by this Led Zeppelin fan. On top of that the perfect presentation of the ticket itself and your supporting website, reading like “from one great fan to another“, makes it just that much more cool.
Thank you and kind regards,
Walt
Dear Sirs:
This is to confirm that Michael Dehn, President of Metro Pulse, Inc. in Chicago has been the Official Collectable and Memorabilia supplier for WMAQ-AM, NBC Radio in Chicago. I have had the pleasure of working with Mr. Dehn for several years here at NBC and WMET in Chicago.
Mr. Dehn has always been a dependable and reliable in all our projects together. In the radio business, it is imperative that what we promise our listeners and clients, we truly deliver. In all cases, I have had complete confidence in Mr. Dehn filling his obligations to the fullest, with the finest in music collectables. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Cordially,
Laura
Dear Michael,
First of all, let me thank of your supremely honest dealings with me on the Muddy Waters poster. I appreciate your integrity and look forward to any future dealings we may have. I am faxing you this letter and returning the poster under separate cover because it is undoubtedly a reproduction, albeit very cleverly antiqued.
The first hint is mottled lettering is from the silk screen, not any legitimate aging, the cardboard is actually old, and so some trouble was taken to print the thing on authentically aged stock, although the edges probably should have been more frayed. Similarly, the stains are cute.
Another hint comes from the billing given Otis Spann, who eventually did garner a certain reputation on his own, but in 1957 he was nobody but Muddy’s brother-in-law and extremely unlikely to have received any billing for that.
In checking with a couple of other collectors, they were familiar with the piece as coming from the discredited New Orleans batch which you thought it might or might not be a part of. Definitely is, according to my sources. But please don’t feel too gullible. One of the collectors I spoke to admitted he paid $2000 for eight of posters in question and said that Sotheby’s has auctioned off some of the reproductions. So these things have fooled the best.
Please keep me mind when any vintage posters […] I have a small but select collection and am always thrilled to add pieces […] included in the package with the poster a few postcards I […] for your amusement and small check to help defray your costs […] poster.
Stay in touch and thanks again for the opportunity.
Best,
Joel |
