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 #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.

 

Hungarian Metallica tickets 1988-2010

Just before Easter, I was able to get a ticket from a concert in Budapest in 1991. I thought that cool would be to write something about Metallica tickets from concerts that took place in Hungary.  I checked my collection and found that this last „Hungarian” ticket whose it was lacking in my collection. This also prompted me to write the following text.

“Please wear low-heeled shoes to protect the grass.”

1988

The first concert in Hungary was September  11, 1988 and this was the first concert during the European Damaged Tour. During this tour Metallica promoted their  new album …And Justice For  All and in Budapest band performed for the first time Eye Of The Beholder, Blackened,… And Justice For All and One. The ticket from concert is very rare and difficulty to find in good condition because was printed on the thin paper. Every copy without tears, bends and stains is a good hit. Unfortunately my copy will not surrender to classify as the good hit. One of the Metallica fans from Hungary of whom I have this ticket was very nice and translated to me the original Hungarian text printed at the ticket. Part of this text reads “Please wear low-heeled shoes to protect the grass.”

The world domination was yet to come

1991

Metallica returned to Hungary three years later during the huge tour Monsters Of Rock 1991 when they supported AC/DC. For me to find and get this ticket it was a pain in the ass.  This was first time when I saw this ticket in stock and I knew that I could not squander such opportunity. On the most of European tickets from this tour AC/DC logo is this which dominates in the graphic design of the ticket and the Metallica name was mentioned lower-case letters - on this ticket You don’t find Metallica name at all. The world domination was yet to come.

Gold logo rules

1993

When in 1993 I was in Bratislava (Slovakia) on my own first Metallica concert, I was not conscious that only just the day later band plays concert not distant Budapest. The show was part of  Nowhere Else then Roam Tour which was a last leg of the mammoth tour promoting Metallica bestselling album till now - Black Album. For me this is the nicest ticket from Hungarian concerts. The golden Metallica logo does the really large impression. Two or three years ago in the short time several these tickets appeared in stock on ebay, but generally one does not see their too often on sale.

Mint and unused since 1999

1999

The next ticket  dated  1999 is from the Garage Inc. Tour.  On the ticket so as on the most of tickets from the European leg of this world tour is visible the photo from the Garage Inc. album cover.  This ticket was for sale on ebay for a long time in the set with other tickets from this Tour. And though the price of the set was a bit high then the middle price for the ticket went out rather little. Very nice, unused ticket with great design.

At least it has classic Metallica logo

2010

The last Metallica concert in Hungary was in 2010. Like all previous held in Budapest.  I got this ticket from other Metallica tickets collector. Since this is ticket from Eventim, this is not surprising that the ticket design is not very interesting and limited to basic information about the event. The only advantage, in contrast to many other tickets from the same tour is to put on the ticket classic Metallica logo.

All together now. Different years - various sizes

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