800 tickets

After the last large delivery - 800 tickets in my collection has become a reality. Honorable name "ticket number 800" went to the ticket of June 15, 1988 from a concert which Metallica played in Pittsburgh during the Monsters of Rock Tour as a Van Halen support.
Long life, Metallica and more tickets in my collection. Below are some photos of my collection.

Ticket #800

New shit in my collection #14

The first new tickets in this year, rather late, but better late than never.

Above ticket from the first of two consecutive concerts that took place in the Top Hat, (Dublin, Ireland). I love all Metallica tickets from 80’s.

I know it may seem strange but find that ticket it was a real pain in the ass. Strange because it’s  relatively “young” ticket. A similar situation in my case with a ticket from concert, which took place a week later in Erfurt, Germany - never seen it.

A ticket from the second Metallica concert in the framework of the event Jailhouse Rock in Horsens prison. I had in my collection e-ticket from that concert, now I was able to get a hard ticket.

Ticket from a Canadian Quebec City from 2015. This was the last concert that took place in the hall of Colisee Pepsi in general. During their career, Metallica played there a total of eight times.

This ticket is from the last so far Metallica concert. The event was organized by CBS, it was called The Night Before and held in the hometown of Metallica San Francisco.

At the end I wish you all Happy Easter.

Hammersmith Odeon 1988

27 years ago, Oct. 9, 1988, Metallica played their first of three concerts at London's Hammersmith Odeon. Metallica was during the European leg of the Damaged Justice Tour and in the second half of September they arrived to Great Britain and Ireland where they had to play 14 gigs in total. Originally band planned two concerts in London – those were the last two concerts on the Isles. But the concerts were so popular that both were sold out much earlier. In this case, the promoter decided to organize a third extra Hammersmith Odeon concert. So Metallica played at the Hammersmith three nights in a row. The following three tickets of these concerts and original flyer comes from my collection. Poster, fully signed by whole band is owned by Chris from TMCC. Still looking for this one.

Three nights in a row

Flyer from UK Tour

Poster from Hammersmith Odeon (owned by Chris from TMCC)

Damaged Justice Tour - Germany 1988

In 1988 Metallica started monstrous Damaged Justice Tour to promote …And Justice For All album. The tour started in Europe a concert in Budapest (Hungary) September 11, 1988. During the European leg of Tour Metallica played in October and November ten concerts in Germany. Concert promoter rose to the challenge and designed a beautiful series of tickets, which I call “guitar shape tickets”. In the last week I managed to be the holder of the last two tickets from this set and now the entire German ten is in my possession. "Guitar shape series" includes only seven tickets. I do not know whether the remaining three concerts in Munich, Saarbrucken and Stuttgart also were tickets in the shape of a guitar. Maybe someone has information about this?. The remaining three tickets are also very cool. This increases their value is the fact that on the tickets from Munich and Stuttgart was printed the name of the album "... And Justice For All", which was quite rare in those days. I am even willing to venture to say that these are the only two tickets with the print.

Below all ten tickets from my collection.

All "guitar shape" series

Below some concert posters from that Tour. Notice that none of them in contrast to the tickets are mine. All scans stolen from net. Owners - Please forgive me ;)

Abowe typical one show poster from German Tour. Posters of all concerts were the same. They differed only in details as the name of the city and the hall, date, etc.

Nice Tour poster but this is not a poster which can be found on the streets. Below date and venues details

Huge, mean very huge (aprox. 170x60 cm) promo poster. I think this one hung in one of the music stores somewhere in Germany

New shit in my collection #9

Last time I totally forgot about a few tickets, so today is small update to part 8 ….plus new addiction from last 2 weeks. Also I’m waiting for huge package with tickets. Hope it arrive to me before Christmas madness.

First ticket today is from Ride the Lightning Tour, from show Upper Darby (Pennsylvania) January, 12^th 1985. Every ticket from that era is very hard to find and is in my top.

 

Next one is one of my favorite tickets. It comes from …And Justice For All European Tour ’88. Concert was held in Munchen (Germany) and ticket has really nice hologram. Everything would be perfect if not for the fact that the ticket is torn.

 

Another European ticket is from Oslo, Norway. This was first of two concerts Metallica played in Norway that summer.

 

Next two are tickets from BIG4 shows. In the years 2010-11 Metallica played 16 concerts known  as a BIG4 concerts (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax). The first ticket comes from fifth BIG4 concert, which took place in Athens (Greece) June 24’ 2010. It’s very nice, large and unused ticket.

 

Second one is from BIG4 show which took place a year later (July 3’ 2011) in the Swedish Gothenburg. Unfortunately, my ticket is heavily faded.

 

Last one ticket today is newest in my collection. It’s a variation of ticket from By Request show in Warsaw July 11’ 2014. This one is General Admission standing ticket and is torn but comes from GA standing wristband what is pretty cool.

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.