New shit in my collection #18

Time for new tickets in 2017. Traditionally, from the oldest to the newest.

The first ticket from the Damage Inc Tour during which Metallica performed as an Ozzy Osbourne support.

Unused ticket from the Wherever We May Roam 1991-92 Tour concert in Fresno.

Very special ticket from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where Metallica during the Billboard Music Awards made the only performance of The Unforgiven II. It is worth mentioning that a unique opportunity to hear the song for the second time was in 2014 during the By Request Tour in Prague but Unforgiven II lost the Vote of the Day Song instead St. Anger. To be honest, I myself voted for St. Anger \ m /.

Another ticket is special for me because it is from my third concert, which took place in my hometown Warsaw in 1999. Although I already had the ticket in my collection that this particular ticket is unused and came additionally with a special folder in the form of a program in which holders of VIP packages received their tickets. The whole set is a very nice souvenir from Warsaw concert.

Another ticket is from the first concert which was held in the new hall Centre Videotron in Quebec City in 2015.

The last of today's ticket is a rare ticket from promotional concert that Metallica played at London's House of Vans during the promotion of their new album Hardwired ... to Self-Destruct.

New shit in my collection #17

09-04-1986 – Ticket from US Master of Puppets Tour ’86 when Metallica supported Ozzy Osbourne. 

18-06-1986 – Another ticket from Cliff era. Heard that Metallica show was cancelled for unknown reason. Don’t know if it’s true, any info will be appreciate.

24-11-1991 and 28-11-1991 – I hardly looking for any tickets from 1991. Those two are nice gems from US Indoor Wherever We May Roam Tour. Both in very nice condition. I’m really happy to finally get them …. just a few more to complete all 1991 year.

04-02-1997 - Nice “extended” version of US 1997 ticket. Most of those tickets after years are small stubs. This one has side parts still on place.

New shit in my collection #12

Many new tickets went to my collection recently. Today, the first part - the glory of the old days.

Very special ticket in my collection. At this gig Metallica played for the first time ever live Fade To Black. 09-02-1985 - Aragon Ballroom (Chicago)

All other tickets presented today come from the Damage Inc. Tour during which Metallica played as a support act for Ozzy Osbourne. On this tour the band was finally able to reach a wider audience. The tour lasted from April to August 1986 and was sadly the last Metallica tour in the United States with Cliff Burton. At all concerts Metallica performed the same set of songs:

Battery

Master Of Puppets

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Ride The Lightning

Welcome Home / interchangeably with Fade To Black

Seek & Destroy

Creeping Death

Am I Evil

Damage Inc.

01-04-1986 - Kemper Arena (Kansas City)

It was the second concert of the Damage Inc. Tour. Together with the ticket cameramen pass.

06-04-1986 - Mecca Arena (Milwaukee)

08-05-1986 - Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Special Events Center (Austin)

20-05-1986 - Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Phoenix)

02-08-1986 - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Columbia)

A week earlier, James broke his arm while riding a skateboard and in Columbia  he just sang. On this part of the Tour during US leg and Europe James was replaced by John Marshall from Metal Church.

New shit in my collection #11

The first ticket is from the Metallica tour with Ozzy Osbourne, from show which took place in 1986 in San Diego. The ticket is not in perfect or even good condition, and far away from full ticket but each ticket from Cliff era which I don’t have in my collection is valuable for me. 

Another ticket is one of my best …looking for that one for a long time. It comes from the concert that took place in Athens (Greece) during the summer tour Nowhere Else To Roam ‘93. It is a large, printed on hard paper and has a very interesting graphic design with two skulls. That same design can be seen on most concert posters from that Tour and on stage.  

Next interesting item is flyer from Turkish concert from Garage Inc. Tour 1999.

The last two items today are two tickets from 2014 South-American Metallica By Request.  Tour. Both from fairly exotic locations: Ecuador and Brasil. Exotic means for me: rare and hard to find. Since these two are in my collection, I’m looking for only one ticket from that tour – ticket from Chile. By the way, thanks a lot for these gems to my Chilean connection - Rodrigo. Thank You my Friend.

Ticket from Ecuador

and Brasil

New shit in my collection #10

This is the last topic in my blog this year. Traditionally begin with the oldest of the new tickets in my collection. This time it's about really old ticket because of a concert which took place on August 22, 1983 in Tyler on tour Kill Em All For One. I must admit that at first I had concerns about the authenticity of this ticket, it surprised me even perfect condition. My fears dispelled my friend and Metallica ticket collector stating that I have no reason to worry.

Kill Em All For One

Next ticket comes from Damage Inc. Tour during which Metallica supported Ozzy Osbourne. You can see that the ticket was printing ink with glitter - I have a few similar Metallica tickets, most of the second half of the 80's.

Unused ticket from July 22, 1989 from Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford during the Damaged Justice Tour.

I was looking for that ticket for a long time. It is a ticket to the third consecutive concert in Rosemont Horizon in Chicago where Metallica played three nights in a row during the tour Wherever We Roam 91-92 May.

Ticket from Summer Shit Tour 94. This is not really a new ticket in my collection. This one is just a whole and in better shape than previously held.

The last two tickets are from a ticket presale for Metclub members (those are Metclub tickets) and comes from two concerts at The Forum in Los Angeles during American leg of the World Magnetic Tour.

Coffin twin

At the end I wish You all a happy New Year 2015 and only rare tickets, posters, flyers, records etc. in Your collections.

New shit in my collection #7

Time for new tickets. We start with the oldest.

First ticket is from a concert in Nashville (Nashville Municipal Auditorium) of July 27’ 1986. A day earlier, James breaking his arm skateboarding and concert, which was to be held in Evansville (Indiana), has been canceled. Since Nashville show until September, Hetfield just sang and Metallica played as a five member band with John Marshall from Metal Church as a second guitarist.

 

In December 1988 the band promoted the newly released album ... And Justice For All . This is one of my favorite periods in the history of Metallica. The ticket, which is below comes from this period and was to be held in Phoenix (Arizona ) at Memorial Coliseum December 4’ 1988 . Just look at the setlist from Phoenix . I wish now the setlist like this at current concerts.

Blackened

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Sanitarium

Leper Messiah

Harvester Of Sorrow

Eye Of The Beholder

Master Of Puppets

One

Seek & Destroy

And Justice For All

Creeping Death

Fade To Black

Battery

Last Caress

Am I Evil

Whiplash

Breadfan

 

 

During the American leg of tour after The Black Album, Metallica quite often played concerts in the same place for two or even three evenings in a row. In early January 1992, they played three nights in a row in Los Angeles. The ticket comes from a second (January 8 ' 1992) from three concerts at The Great Western Forum.

 

The ticket from Summer Shit Tour '94. On this Tour Metallica was supported, by Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies. During the last show on tour in Chicago at the World Music Theatre (July 7’94) Metallica invited guests on stage and played with them the last three songs in the setlist. The Last Caress and Green Hell with Glenn Danzig on vocals (BTW.. the author of these songs) and So What with musicians Suicidal Tendencies. Was it the first time when Rob Trujillo, at that time bass player of Suicidal played for the first time together with Metallica?.

 

A similar situation as with above ticket from 1992. Metallica played three nights in the row at the Rosemont Horizon Arena in Chicago. The ticket came from the second concert February 8, 1997.

 

The last ticket today is my first ticket from 2014. Metallica just ended South American leg of By Request Tour. The ticket comes from a second concert that took place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on 29 March 2014. Many thanks as always to Piotr and Kasia for this ticket. If someone has a ticket from the first concert in Buenos or other South American concerts of the By Request tour please let me know.

 

New shit in my collection #6

Time for the first new tickets in the new year. The first one who brought the postman is another ticket from 1986. Ticket from the show at Philadelphia Spectrum. Metallica is not listed on the ticket – this is a common feature of most tickets from Ozzy tour where Metallica played as a support band – but believe me that day they played at Spectrum and even performed for the very first time live The Thing That Should Not Be from Master Of Puppets album.

Premiere of The Thing That Should Not Be - April 20' 1986

 

 

Next two are tickets from concerts held in Portland (Oregon). First of them is from The Summer Shit Tour ’94, when Metallica were supported by Alice In Chains. Second is from 1997 American leg of Poor Touring Me Tour where as a support played Corrosion Of Conformity. Despite the fact that both tickets are typical “ticketmaster’s” they are interesting due to location – You can’t find too often tickets from Oregon.

 

Portland 1994

Portland 1997

 

The last ticket today is from trade with another collector. Unused ticket from the concert at  Allstate Arena (Chicago) during Madly In Anger With The World Tour.

Chicago 2004

 

 

New shit in my collection #5

Last post in my blog this year will be about new arrivals in my collection. And most of my new addition are from 80’s so, I think it will be quite interesting. Let’s begin from the oldest one.
 
1. Nurnberg December 2’84 / Osnabruck December 8’ 1984. Both tickets comes from Metallica's first successful tour through Europe in 1984. Successful, because the band appeared on the old continent earlier this year, but due to poor ticket sales, large part of concerts have been canceled and Metallica played only single concerts and at several festivals. Both tickets comes from the German part of the tour of a series I called "sunny" from the promoter logo (Sunrise). Each ticket from this series was in a different color. Nurnberg (Hemmerleinhalle December 2’ 1984) is red and Osnabruck (Halle Gartlage December 8’ 1984) is pink. I think it's one of the nicer series Metallica tickets - unfortunately quite difficult to find, even though prices are going down. Ticket from Osnabruck is my second ticket from this show in my collection, and if anyone is interested just let me know. I’m sure we can make a deal.

Nurnberg (Hemmerleinhalle December 2’ 1984)

Osnabruck (Halle Gartlage December 8’ 1984)

 

2. St. Louis, The Kiel April 2, 1986. Next ticket comes from US leg of Master of Puppets tour where Metallica supported Ozzy Osbourne. This was fourth concert on this tour. As you can see ticket is in a pretty good condition.

 

Ozzy and Metallica St. Louis, The Kiel April 2, 1986

 

3. Passaic, Capitol Theatre, November 12’ 1986. Very interesting ticket from the second part of the U.S. tour promoting the album Master of Puppets. Fall-Winter part of the original tour was canceled because of the death of Cliff Burton. Part of concerts in October and November was postponed to later dates (November-December). You can find on market tickets with the old and new dates from the same concert. My ticket has an old date November 12 but really this concert took place on November 29. Tickets from this part of the tour are very difficult to find.

 

Passaic, Capitol Theatre, November 12’ 1986

4. Nurnberg, January 31’ 1987 - Another my wanted ticket from the German tickets series of European Master of Puppets tour  in 1987. Tour, which was to be held in the autumn of 1986 years but was canceled due to Cliff Burton death. I wrote about this series on my blog in post Almost 25 years ago (check post from January 2012). Now this series expanded for another ticket, this time from Nurnberg, Hemmerleinhalle.

 

Nurnberg, January 31’ 1987

 

5. Dublin,  The Point Theatre, July 5’ 1999 – Fast forward to 1999. Last ticket is much younger than all from the above but it was one of the few tickets from 1999 which I missed. Kept in very good condition and comes from European Garage Inc. Tour.

 Dublin, The Point Theatre, July 5’ 1999

 

 

Finally, I would like to wish You Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. See you on the next European tour in 2014.

 

Their show, their stage, their rulz

A few days ago, looking through my collection (again - why did I’m not surprised?) and drew attention to the fact that some of them in addition to basic information about the concert and the artist, included are various other interesting annotations. So today's topic is "interesting, funny, annoying annotations on tickets." I think I chose the few most interesting (for me) cases, which also show how changed over the years to participate in a concert with all the pros and cons.

2 drink minimum
If there were a machine to move in time I think it would be fun to see in 1982 Metallica concert. In addition to the pleasure of watching a nascent legend, ticket holders were given two drinks. It is now possible only in the VIP area, where it let's face it, fun is not too cool. I Would like this ticket in my collection, but unfortunately I am not the owner. It comes only from my collection of scans of tickets, which counts more than 1,600 scans.

2 drink minimum. Check also ticket price 3.97$

God Bless You
Belgian Heavy Sound Festival was the third major festival, which Metallica performed in 1984 in Europe. Performed there with such legends as Motorhead and Mercyful Fate. At the ticket outside the typical restrictions for large events, we have to do with "God’s blessing". This is for all those stray sheep, which, instead of to the church hit the hellish event.. Anyway - God bless you. Scan the ticket taken from the web.

God bless Metallica

Don’t drink and drive
Another nice ticket from the concert in Clarkston, Michigan (21 July 1986) where Metallica was support for Ozzy Osbourne. Like many other concerts bringing alcohol and glass bottles for safety reasons contractors are prohibited. But no one forbids drinking before and after the concert. Organizer of the concert with a view to the safe return of the fans after the concert to the house warned: don’t drink and drive

Don't drink and drive

No opening act
American tour after the release of Metallica's "Black Album" was just a Metallica concert and not in addition five other bands. I admit that I miss it right now. The exception for me was the "Big 4" tour where happy to listen to and watched all four bands. Looking back, however, the endorsement "Metallica - no opening act" would be actually a very pleasant surprise for me.

Thanks God - no opening act

No body surfing
Body surfing - one of the signs that the audience has fun and the concert is successful. In an age when half the audience is standing with cameras and phones, recording every move the band on stage phenomenon of body surfing practically ceased to exist. Currently, it is prohibited in most concerts.

No body surfing

Their show, Their stage, Their rulz
This ticket  is my favorite ticket in this episode. As for me, the words "Their show, Their Stage, Their rulz" This reflects the philosophy of Metallica concert. Let's do it on our or fuck off.

Their show, their stage, their rulz ....no other way

Special quest James Hetfield
WTF? Special guest James Hetfield?. Yes. Such information on tickets appeared in 2000 when as a result of back problems, James was unable to play three concerts during the Summer Sanitarium Tour in July 2000. When he returned to the game with the team some tickets in August, has been bearing the text "Special Guest James Hetfield". I must admit it was a very important guest at concerts:).

Very special quest

No moshing or crowd surfing
It is not even funny, it's sad. No MOSHING at Metallica concert???. Where I am ….at Justin Bieber concert ???

No moshing - sad but true

More than words
Sometimes a few pictures says more than 100 words. A ticket from Copenhagen Lars hometown of the first of the five nights concert in the Forum. Without comment.

More than words