Death Magnetic German Tour 2009

In the spring of 2009 Metallica came to Europe with a gigantic World Magnetic Tour with concerts in indoor arenas. After a series of concerts in the UK (which you can read on the blog  - Death Magnetic UK Tour 2009) Metallica came to Germany. German fans could never complain about the lack of Metallica concerts in their country. Metallica during each tour played in Germany several times. So it was in the spring of 2009 and Metallica played in Germany mini tour consisting of seven concerts between May 6 and 17.

• May 6th - Munchen, Olympiahalle,

• May 7th - Lepizig, Leipzig Arena,

• May 9th - Stuttgart, Hanns-Martin-Schleyer Halle,

• May 11th - Frankfurt Festhalle

• May 12th - Hamburg, Color Line Arena,

• May 16th - Oberhausen, Konig Pilsener Arena,

• May 17th - Koln, Lanxess Arena

When we add one more concert in Hockenheim on July 4th where band played under the sign of Sonisphere Festival it is clear that the German fans could not complain.

As for the tickets they were not particularly beautiful when it comes to design. Regular printing of Eventim, even without a graphic logo of Metallica. I’ve seen a nicer version (from concert in Stuttgart), but it is very difficult to find them. The fact that the tickets were not attractive appearance was in my opinion an impact on that people do not care about them. A large part of the concert tickets from that tour with whom I had to deal with was in a very bad condition (folded, crumpled, dirty etc..).

Flyer from Hockenheimring 

Promo folder dedicated German Death Magnetic 2009 Tour

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

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