ARTICLE: The Return of Ticket - Two shows only and the reissue of their long lost album Awake
03.09.10[press release]
"Two things I remember clearly about Ticket: their hair was long and their songs were even longer.
And back in the early 70s those were two very good things indeed.In truth I don't remember much else - definitely not the names of the Auckland clubs I saw them at - but they were at that Elton John show at Western Springs in late '71 because I dragged some friends along early to see them.
To be honest, my Elton-fan friends didn't get Ticket - but then again a band whose first two singles were called Country High and Stoned Condition probably weren't for those who liked the piano player.When you saw Ticket live in a club it seemed to me they had extended the contract of tough blues-rock into free-flowing acid-rock (before we actually had acid) and Eddie Hansen was a local guitar hero alongside Harvey Mann of the Underdogs and Billy TK of Human Instinct...
