Blaze Foley and The Pawn Ticket Story

We recorded many strange stories for the Blaze Foley documentary (Duct Tape Messiah) but this is one of the best and strangest. It says more about the people who knew Blaze and the mythology that evolved around his death. This story was cut from the movie because it wasn't about Blaze (well, okay, it was but wasn't, was it?) and it's more like a Townes story. Still, it's a great story and many as good if not better in the final documentary.
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[@tct84]

I think the most surprising thing was that Townes came from a wealthy family😂

[@bjellison905]

J.t. his son has the guitar. And the ticket. Theres a video of him playing it somewhere singing nothing and it will give you chills. I so wish I could see that video again. It starts off with a bearded guy with a Panthers head band doing a sound check and then pans over to j.t. feet kicked up on the table he talks about how he felt nothing was the true embodiment of his father and he thinks it was a window in to the truth if himself. Or something like that.

[@josephambrose2852]

I put this right up there with the crock about Gram Parsons
Regardless, my late brother adored that pitiful tortured soul
R I P Blaze & Tony

[@tct84]

I was born in Travis Heights so yea he's not forgotten at least

[@orvisboy8188]

There is another story told by Townes that they went to the pawn shop,explained fully about the ticket being in Blaze's pocket in the grave,AND they got the guitar back by paying a fee.It's just not such a fun story,but is probably the truth.Exhuming bodies was after all illegal to ordinary members of the public.

[@mattkaustickomments]

I could see how talking about/fixin’ to/threatening to exhume the casket, maybe even going out to the barn and firing up the backhoe turned into the story of actually exhuming the body once it went through the grapevine.

[@jimbanda]

I think you got it Orvis B , just ain't as crazy as the backhoe though. Omg!!

[@simonvanderheijden432]

I don't know if the story is true or not but i hope it is. And if it is, these guys couldn't care less about what was legal or illegal...

[@bigbictors2804]

I believe it, love all, big

[@Joelontugs]

It you just wait until the time was over the pawn shop would put it up for sale and you could buy it back then

[@deniskozlowski9370]

My thoughts exactly. It would be a lot cheaper and easier that obtaining a backhoe and engaging in grave robbery.

[@fortunatoofamontillado1059]

What frickin fun would that be??? lol

[@BillMcGirr]

The pawn shop was willing to sell him the guitar for $1800 ... since it was provable that Blaze was dead...
But with the ticket he could get it back for the pawn price plus fee.
Or at least this is what Townes said.👍🥃

[@marcusbrown4928]

daaaamm

[@joblo6394]

I heard Townes tell this story

[@strumminfuel4625]

I heard he had smoked a whole pack of cigarettes down there when they opened the coffin.

[@mandoist]

Not true (about digging him up).
Also not an original thought; this story has been told countless times, about any number of people and situations.

[@familycorvette]

It's a plot point in the horror movie Mr Sardonicus.

[@tct84]

However, back then pawn shops were quite the establishments, and as shady as they were certain rules they would not break. So I'm sure this has literally happened or it would not have become a trope. Show me one stereotype or trope that isn't based upon Truth for that matter. Minus libtard cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics. I was born and raised in Austin. It wasn't always this way.

[@darnelacat]

What nonsense this is, You produce a death certificate and go from there. Backhoe-- sheesh!

[@darnelacat]

I don't remember now. I guess I was using the logic that kicks in at some point during the third martini.

[@avalondreaming1433]

@Tony Hebert Oh, not half as crazy as the Gram Parsons story. Lol

[@avalondreaming1433]

@Tony Hebert It's a crazy story. Google death of Gram Parsons.

[@avalondreaming1433]

@Tony Hebert No he dies and his friends steal his casket because he wanted to be cremated and have his ashes scattered at Joshua Tree. They tried to burn his casket but were caught. Cliff Notes version.

[@l1zrdking]

@@avalondreaming1433 decent movie starring johnny knoxville about the fiasco.

[@davidmadewell1614]

Total bs