Four nights at the Fillmore

Two months ago at The Fillmore in San Francisco were four anniversary concerts of the 30th anniversary of Metallica. Everyone who turns in the world of Metallica know that these concerts are a dream come true for any Metallica fan. This time the problem was not the price of tickets, which amounted to $ 19.81 for four tickets to all four nights (price of tickets referred to the year of foundation of the band) but lucky in the lottery. I had no luck and the only thing left to do is follow me celebrate the 30th anniversary of relations between the band's official website and through dozens of videos on You Tube thrown by the lucky fans who were in Fillmore.

Four tickets from four nights at the Fillmore

In the situation when I myself could not be at the concerts, the priority for me was to get used tickets to all four nights. Tickets for each night had the same design but different in color and were definitely hard to get. I was secretly hoping that one of the friendly members of TMCC who frequently come to the Fillmore (orange shirts rule) will help me get tickets and I was right. With the help of four people (Mike, Christian, Terrence and Terry - thank you very much) I am a happy owner of a set of tickets from the Fillmore, including one signed by the first bassist - Ron MacGovney.

Ron MacGovney signing my ticket ...pic by Twerry (thanks dude)

Looking for tickets at the right angle you can see on them printed lyrics of Metallica songs. On each ticket are other songs lyrics but I did not notice the relationship between the set list and a ticket of the day.

Dear Mother, Dear Father.....

Immediately after the concerts you could quite easily buy tickets on eBay, which makes me a little bit surprised because I thought that only “real fans” were at these historic shows and no one will want to sell their tickets. I was wrong. Initially, their prices were at $ 60-70 for a single ticket and about $ 180-200 per set. Over time, prices have dropped and you could buy single tickets at $ 30-40. Now, three months after the shows we do not find the tickets already on sale

Poland for the first time

We just celebrated the 30th anniversary Metallica with four concerts at the Fillmore (Will be about this in the next topic) and I was highlighted today that exactly 25 years ago, Metallica came to Poland for the first time. This was also the first visit of a band in Eastern Europe. Metallica had come to Poland year before during the European Tour in 1986, but the tragic death of Cliff Burton has caused the postponement of the visit.

Metalmania '87 Festival program cover

Metallica came to Poland as the main star of the festival “Metalmania” for two concerts held on 10 and 11 February at the Spodek Hall in Katowice. Support was Polish band KAT.

Metallica and KAT at backstage

On both evenings, the hall was filled to the brim and the band watched each about 8,000 fans. Many more came to Katowice from whole Poland without tickets, hoping that somehow get into the Hall. Those of You who were in Metallica Headquarter probably saw in one of the toilets framed part of a newspaper article about Polish fans who are on their way to a concert vandalized train.

We are scanning the scene in Katowice tonight...

Setlist for both nights (10 & 11 february)

Battery

Master of Puppets

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Ride the Lightning

Bass Solo

Whiplash

The Thing That Should Not Be

Fade to Black

Seek And Destroy

Creeping Death

The Four Horsemen

Guitar Solo

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Am I Evil?

Damage Inc.

Fight Fire With Fire

Bliztkrieg (did not play this song on the second day)

Holy grail for Polish fans - ticket from the very first show in Poland

Back of the ticket

Tickets for both shows are now very hard to find. They were printed on very thin paper and tickets which have survived to modern times are usually in poor condition. All tickets to the 80's and 90's were held in Spodek Hall had the same design. They showed Spodek Hall building. Different graphics colors depend on whether the ticket was seated or standing. Nowhere on the ticket does not have information about the artist. In this particular case, about the fact that it is a Metallica concert ticket shows the date of the concert. I do not have in my collection ticket from the second concert (February 11) so if anyone has a ticket and wants to make it part of my collection, please email me. Scan of the ticket from second night, which you can see below I found on the Internet.

Ticket from second Katowice show (11 february) ...scan stolen from Internet

Football vs LULU

Recently, my collection has grown by two interesting tickets. Both related to Metallica but not quite. Both rare and hard to find despite the fact that separates them 24 years from release. Let's go back in time nearly 25 years. Remember the Metallica summer tour through Europe - Monsters of Rock 1987?. After two large festival concerts in Nürnberg (29 August) and Pforzheim (30 August), Metallica's management has planned yet another show - August 31, in Frankfurt at Stadion am Riederwald. However, hard to find any information about this event. Why?. Because it's not about a concert in the tour but football match.

Bundesliga Match-Ticket

German organizers of the Monsters of Rock concerts invented football match between members of bands like Scorpions, Deep Purple, Metallica and Iron Maiden and local VIPs with the minister of culture to the forefront. From my information, it appears that Metallica eventually did not participate in the match but the fact is that it appears on the ticket. The ticket looks very cool and designer refers to the rest of the German concert tickets on this tour. Over the last 5 years I saw him once in sales and this is the copy that you see in the picture ... .. so you can say that is quite rare.

The second ticket is from the end of last year (11 November 2011) from a concert that took place at the Kӧln 1LIVE Radio Station. It was a concert of artists hiding under the name of LULU and promoting the album with the same title. For those who do not know, LULU is Lou Reed and Metallica project.

My name is LULU

I have not like 90 percent of people on earth the problem with the understanding that this is not Metallica's next album. This is album of LULU. It's more or less successful collaboration Lou Reed and Metallica. Unless the songs from the studio versions sounds at least strange and monotonous at live they sounds a lot better. But Metallica is a typical live band and it shows on stage. Whole concert I only watched on You Tube and ticket with wristband bought the day after the concert. This performance showed me the strong side of songs from LULU. Both Metallica and Lou have shown incredible commitment to the stage. It was evident that playing material from LULU is happy for the band. I do not share the opinion that the recording LULU is a step back in the band's career. I will say more, you have to have balls that after a good album (Death Magnetic) release such material, probably because no one believed it could succeed commercially. But Metallica has balls (which has already proved more than once) and can afford to pursue their artistic vision and collaboration, without regard for others. I wonder how many other bands would take such a challenge?.

Ein Abend mit Lou Reed und Metallica