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.

Osnabrück - Halle Gartlage; 8 December '84

They say that dreams do come true and it's true. In 1984, Metallica spent a summer in Europe at various festivals and late autumn after the release of the album Ride the Lightning held its first major European Tour with Tank as a support band. German part of a tour, which included seven concerts  was promoted by Sunrise agency. This agency is responsible for the beautiful tickets and promotional posters on this Tour. From the first time many years ago I saw one of those concert posters I wanted to have one of them. I finally did it. I am a happy owner of a poster from a concert that took place in Halle Gartlage in Osnabrück.

I watched it at ebay for some time but both the condition of the poster (it was folded into several parts) and its price (almost $ 100) deterred me for a long time. As can be seen not very effective when I decided to buy it. The truth is that through all the years since I collect the tickets and posters, this was only the second poster from Sunrise series up for sale (second one from Nuremberg, cost five times more) and it was clear to me that I need to hurry up and eventually buy it otherwise I'll be waiting another few years until the opportunity comes along. My hunches were right because I was not only bidder. For me it is all the more valuable acquisition due to the fact that I have in my collection ticket from this concert.

As it turned out poster is not at all in such bad condition as could be inferred by photos. The poster along with a ticket as one of my favorite duos in my collection.