New shit in my collection #8

Time for new tickets from last weeks. Presented chronologically, from oldest to newest.

The first one is from the 1989 in Noblesville, Indiana. Graphically nothing great but I consistently completes all the tickets from 1989, one of my favorite periods of Metallica.

 

Another ticket from 1989 in Roanoke, Virginia. Full ticket, but the color faded a little. I don’t know why some sources (eg Metlist) give the date of the concert August 9, 1989 - day later than the date on the ticket shown above. Someone knows something about this?

 

 

In very good condition ticket from Oklahoma City from Live Shit Tour in 1994. Some of US tickets are two-color and one color means the shape of the state where is concert. In this case, Oklahoma State. Interesting. I'm sure I've seen other states shape on tickets. Should I write about it in future.

 

 

The ticket from Woodstock festival in 1994. Do you remember how Metallica concert started? Announcer - We are sorry, but Metallica will not be making tonight ...... then James from backstage - Fuck You ... ..Breadfannnn. From this concert comes my favorite version of Seek and Destroy. Almost 11 minute jam with part that is reminiscent of what we hear two years later in the song The Oulaw Torn. Listen to yourselves.

 

Fuck You ....Breadfannnnnn

 

Seek and Destroy video

Another ticket from Portugal from one of my favorite series tickets - European Poor Touring Me Tour ‘96.

 

 

Another two tickets come from 2009 - from Stockholm. While the first concert was held on March 7 as planned, the second day was canceled due to poisoning by James oysters. The concert was moved and held on 4 May of the same year.

 

 

 

 Oyster Show

 

In the end I managed to be the lucky owner of a second ticket with the first Metallica visit in China. Thus, both tickets from China are in my collection.

 

 

Last ticket today is quite exotic. It comes from the concert, which was held in 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tickets from this part of the world are hard to find and even more so in such good condition as this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warsaw 2014 Home Sweet Home

The Boys are back in town ....one of the huge billboards near my home

 

... Then it's time for a concert in Warsaw, my hometown. What could be cooler than a Metallica concert in my hometown?. Just a few days before the concert there were no signs that it will be special gig for me, what more I did not have wristband to the Snakepit, and I thought I'd spend the whole festival in the Golden Circle area, which was in Warsaw monstrous (money rule the world). Two days before the concert I got a text message from my friend that he may be able to get me on backstage as a guest. Finally on the day of the concert, after long nervous anticipation and uncertainty I have received a VIP laminate - my "golden ticket". A piece of plastic, so that all the doors were opened ... OK, maybe not all. This all seemed completely unrealistic for me.

On the red carpet

Kings of Life

I stood in the lobby where there were dressing rooms all bands. Episode 1: high five with Joey Belladonna and Frank Bello just before their show. Episode 2: short conversation and high five with Kvelertak members. Episode 3: Kirk with his bodyguard passing me ….this time I’m not trying to make high-five ….You know, his bodyguard looks like guy from Danzig song “Thirteen” “I was born to bring trouble wherever I’m at…”. I was moving all the time between the Golden Circle, Snakepit and backstage trying to see bands on stage and meet bands on backstage.Zawitałem więc do garderoby Kvelertaka, gdzie miałem okazję pogadać chwilę z zespołem, głównie z gitarzystą Maćkiem, który ma polskie korzenie.

Kvelertak live on stage

 

Scott Ian (Anthrax)

 

So, I had honor to visited Kvelertak dressing room, where I had the opportunity to talk briefly with the band, especially with guitarist Maciek, who has Polish roots.Ci goście rządzą. These guys RULE.Spędziłem też około 40 minut w garderobie Anthraxu. Gwóźdź programu miał jednak nadejść, o czym jeszcze nie wiedziałem. I also spent about 40 minutes in the Anthrax dressing room. Beer from Anthrax in their dressing room tasted better hahaha.

 

With Kvelertak. THANK YOU GUYS

But the best had to come.Tuż przed koncertem Metalliki postanowiłem sprawdzić, czy mój „złoty bilet” upoważnia mnie do wejścia na scenę. Just before the Metallica concert I decided to see if my "golden ticket" entitles me to enter the scene. It turned out that, YES. Not disturbed by anyone walked directly behind the stage and stood on the right side of the stage, next to Kirk.

 

View from stage just before Metallica hit the stage

 

The gig started and I still did not believe that this is happening. Watching the band and the concert from the perspective of the scene is a unique experience, for me it was something more than a meet & greet with Metallica a few years earlier. The team is at your fingertips. During the concert, the band members go through every moment beside you.

 

James

The Call of Kthulu

  

The Ripper

 

Because I knew what to expect at the concerts on this tour I've been waiting impatiently for Creeping Death, when the fans standing on the stage are invited to the edge of the stage where they can chant the famous Die, die, die ... ..

 

Die , die , die ....Kirk and I

Creeping Death Video from National Stadium. Recorded by Monica and Krzysztof

 

It was the moment I had been waiting probably the most. Standing on stage in front of a packed National Stadium and chants die die die .... it was something unreal, something best, what happened to me in the history of my concerts Metallica and it was my sixteenth Metallica concert. All good things come to an end. The concert has passed very quickly.

Seek and Destroyyyyyyy

I knew that after the concert will approach us band members to give us the guitar picks. It was the first time I did not have to fight for them in the crowd ... I got them personally from Kirk;).

Thank you Rysiu. Without you, my FRIEND, all this would not be possible. Many, many THANKS.

Below some stuff from concert:

 

ticket

Some wristbands and laminates pass

VIP package envelope and flyer

Pass sheet

Concert poster