In 1975, the fledgling Jet stepped out with Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson for a brief UK tour. Here’s Pete McDermott’s ticket – clearly he followed instructions and retained his Portion for posterity, despite the weird leading caps. Why oh why has retaining your Portion fallen out of favour in these troubled times? I blame young people.

Hunter-Ronson tour ticket
Keep calm and retain your Portion
Tour poster
Hunter-Ronson & Jet ticket
Tim Downes also kept his ticket and, as instructed, didn’t pass out
Hunter-Ronson-tour-poster-signed
Signed by all participants, including Blue Weaver who stepped in at the last minute (see comments below)
Jet_tour_1
Tour schedule part 1

And the second part, with identification of participating parties. Nice how they differentiate between ‘artists’ and ‘band’, although they bottle out at actually identifying who belongs in which category. I know what I think.

Jet-tour_2
Tour schedule part 2

More details here.

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