Jane's Addiction Reunion, 1997, KROQ Free Show at The Roxy - 4 Authentic Items

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*Also see eBay item number: 133809128489. I moved to L.A. in June 1997 and soon after started hearing promos on KROQ about a free ticket giveaway to see Jane's Addiction play at the Roxy to kick off their reunion (all original members except that Flea was standing in for Eric Avery on bass) with the "I-Itz M'My Party Tour." It was a completely free show that you had to win tickets for in order to go. I was a huge Jane's Addiction fan at the time and had been since I heard their first album in early 1988, which was recorded live at the very same Roxy Theatre as the free KROQ show. I even had vanity plates on the car I drove in high school which read, JNS ADXN. So when KROQ opened up the phone lines and began giving away free tickets, I started calling-in like a maniac every hour on the hour until I was finally the 10th caller that they answered and winner of a pair of tickets. Anyway, I took my roommate to the show with me and we had a great fucking time. After the show was over, we were sort of milling about outside of the Roxy and happened to meet a man who had two invitations to the after show party, but couldn't go himself. If I remember correctly, he said he was an off-duty LAPD officer who also happened to be a big Jane's Addiction fan. He said that he was married with a child and had to get home to his family, so he could not attend the after show party and offered the invitations to us. We gladly accepted, of course! *These items have been sitting in a box at my parents house since 2002 when I took a job overseas and needed to store my things somewhere for a few years. I'd forgotten all about them until I visited my parents recently and rediscovered them while I was going through some of those boxes.