New shit in my collection #16

The first two tickets today, it was a real pain ass to get it but in the end both are in my collection. Besides ticket from Basel (which I'm still looking) those two tickets from Dortmund from summer Monsters of Rock 1991 Tour was the hardest to get.

Another ticket, which rarely appears on sale. I could not deny myself the pleasure;)

Ticket concert from Arras 2008, which was filmed for the DVD that was released in Metallica Box “Francais Pour Une Nuit”.

The last ticket today is a ticket from last year's Metallica Summer European tour concert in Gothenburg (Sweden).

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

One concert - different tickets

My collection increased just for the ticket from the concert in Dortmund (autumn-winter tour 1992) and would be in this nothing special because I have already in my collection the ticket from this concert. Easy, I’m not at the point where I buy doubles or triples copy of the same ticket. I wanted to have this ticket resolved the fact that he looked otherguess than that which I already have. Because ticket had additionally interesting design I thought that would be cool to have this ticket in my collection.

Old one at top and new addiction below ....both nice

I remember the situation of which I witnessed during my second meeting with the band in 2009 in Vienna. Already then as the collector I adverted on  tickets of remaining fans, because my personal ticket on this concert did not belong unfortunately to too interesting. Most stranger was for me the fact that from about 20 persons waiting for Metallica had been about 8 different examples of tickets !!!. Besides most popular tickets from Eventim were also tickets bought at national distributors in Germany, Bulgaria, Czech Republic etc.  In the situation when lucky winners on meet & greet consisted of representatives of several European countries and every from them bought the ticket at his own national distributor should not surprise the fact so many different examples of tickets on one concert.

 In the 80’s and at the beginning of the 90’s (in times before the Internet) all tickets at concerts were the same. Of course, I remember single situations when on one or two Metallica shows at the beginning of 80’s were two different tickets but this were single situations. Internet and buying on-line brought to the situation that we dealt with  many different tickets. Much „worse” the matter looks with e-tickets  -  tickets sent to buyers as a file in PDF format to printing on the home printer.

Printed e-ticket ....nightmare of every ticket collector

and hard ticket from the same show ....a little bit nicer, but still far from my TOP wanted

In times of the computerization and the standardization of tickets gladdens the fact that in some countries (like in Poland) comes back to the sale of short limited series of collecting tickets with very nice design (sad that not comes with Metallica tickets).

 Below some twins pairs …You can call them Dr. Jackyl and Mr. Hyde

1996 Load Tour

Summer 1997 Festival

1999 Garage Inc Tour