April 25 Sports / April 26 Americana

1976 "Elvis Presley Show" HUGE Concert Tour Archive with Schudules, Itineraries, Correspondence from Six Tours

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/27/2024

Offered is a voluminous archive of more than 100 documents from "The Elvis Presley Show" concert tours of 1976. The collection represents SIX different tours from that year and includes dozens of page of tour itineraries, tour member schedules and hotel information, correspondence from sound engineer Bruce Jackson concerning the concerts, a huge variety of concert venue information such as floor plans, three of Bruce's tour member luggage tags and even a larger purple "ELVIS IN CONCERT BUILDING PERSONNEL" rectangular back stage pass that is stuck to the back of an itinerary! It's an amazing assemblage of materials that you can lose yourself in, recreating the experience of working on tour with Elvis in the 1970s. Excellent condition with expected wear from handling.

The Bruce Jackson Collection - Elvis Presley Concert Sound Engineer

These items and another 22 lots in this auction emanate from the estate of Elvis Presley's Sound Engineer, Bruce Jackson. In the 1970s. Jackson worked with Claire Brothers Audio Enterprises and was responsible for the onstage monitor sound for Elvis Presley for 100s of concerts. The offered artifacts hail from that period of Jackson's career. He would go on to work with Bruce Springsteen for 10 years, and did sound for Barbara Streisand, as well. In addition to Presley, Springsteen and Streisand, Jackson mixed concert sound for Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart and the Faces, Barry White, Jefferson Airplane, Ozzy Osbourne, Carly Simon, Three Dog Night, the Jackson 5, Cat Stevens, Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Procol Harum and Lou Reed. Jackson kept a vast and interesting assortment of backstage passes, crew ephemera and tour documents from his time with Elvis Presley, some of which have rarely been seen by fans. We hope you enjoy the collection.