New shit in my collection #18

Time for new tickets in 2017. Traditionally, from the oldest to the newest.

The first ticket from the Damage Inc Tour during which Metallica performed as an Ozzy Osbourne support.

Unused ticket from the Wherever We May Roam 1991-92 Tour concert in Fresno.

Very special ticket from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where Metallica during the Billboard Music Awards made the only performance of The Unforgiven II. It is worth mentioning that a unique opportunity to hear the song for the second time was in 2014 during the By Request Tour in Prague but Unforgiven II lost the Vote of the Day Song instead St. Anger. To be honest, I myself voted for St. Anger \ m /.

Another ticket is special for me because it is from my third concert, which took place in my hometown Warsaw in 1999. Although I already had the ticket in my collection that this particular ticket is unused and came additionally with a special folder in the form of a program in which holders of VIP packages received their tickets. The whole set is a very nice souvenir from Warsaw concert.

Another ticket is from the first concert which was held in the new hall Centre Videotron in Quebec City in 2015.

The last of today's ticket is a rare ticket from promotional concert that Metallica played at London's House of Vans during the promotion of their new album Hardwired ... to Self-Destruct.

"Will Call" envelopes

Today's blog post will be about the "will call" envelopes. Certainly often you purchased tickets to a concert and as a form of personal reception chosen to receive them before the concert where they were waiting for you just in "will call" envelope. From Wikipedia: "Will call refers to a method of delivery for (purchased) goods where the customer picks up the goods at the seller's place of business, primarily in North American commerce. The word "call" is a shortened form of "call for" which means "to come and get", so "will call" literally means "(the customer) will call (come and) get (the goods).”

It is still in wide use for ticket sales at the box offices or at large venues as a indoor stadiums or arenas, where you can find "Will Call" pickup windows. The method of receiving tickets and envelopes are most prevalent in the United States, but not only. Currently, tickets in cool envelopes may be obtained at the shops / music stores etc. around the world. A separate category are special envelopes in which we can pick up before the concert VIP packages. Then usually envelope design refers to the artist / band. Envelopes and tickets You can see at my blog, refer of course to Metallica.

Nice Japanese envelope and ticket from Metallica "Final Countdown 1991" concert. I think I still have a special bag which comes with envelope and ticket.

A typical envelope with advertising radio station. In which envelopes received the tickets won in one of the radio contests

 

Classic Ticketmaster envelope and ticket

Envelope and ticket from Re-Load Tour 1998

Real gem. VIP package in special envelope from Polish Metallica concert in 2008

Not typical envelope and tickets for First ever BIG4 concert in Warsaw (2010)

Another Japanese "Hot Stuff" from 2010

Really nice stuff from Paris 2012

One of my favourite envelopes. Contain VIP package for Metallica Warsaw By Request concert in 2014

The European leg of the By Request Tour 2014

Europejska część trasy By Request to 17 koncertów podzielonych na dwie części. Na wstępie muszę zaznaczyć że nie udało mi się zgromadzić wszystkich biletów z tej części trasy.The European leg of the Metallica By Request Tour include 17 gigs divided into two parts. Most of the tickets You see below are from my Friends: Piotr, Kasia, Michał, Richard, Alex and Mike. Thank You very much.

This part of the Tour will be for me remembered because of few facts:

• A concert in Helsinki (Finland), during which band played for the first time in the history The Frayed Ends on Sanity from the album ... And Justice For All. Even bad weather was not able to overshadow the show.
• Two fastest sold out concerts on the Tour: Horsens (Denmark) where the band played for the second time in prison, and Hamburg (Germany) where in my opinion was the best lineup.
• Metallica performance at Glastonbury Festival. It was probably the biggest surprise not only for fans of Metallica but I think especially for the festival regulars Glastonb ury. It was probably the biggest surprise not only for Metallica fans but I think mainly for Glastonbury Festival regulars. Tickets for the festival were sold about six months before the announcement of the performance of Metallica, and due to the fact that they were registered they can not be sold. Tickets for the festival were sold out about half a year before the announcement of the Metallica concert, and due to the fact that they were registered they can not be resold. It is therefore highly likely that this hippie-alternative festival, there were not many fans of the team in San Francisco. Ponieważ trudno nazwać Glastonbury “ciężkim” festiwalem, bardziej hipisowsko-alternatywnym nie było na nim zbyt wielu fanów Metalliki. Atmosferę podgrzały liczne protesty przeciwko występowi czwórki z Frisco na festiwalBecause Glastonbury is definitely not "heavy" festival, more like hippie-alternative,  there were not too many Metallica fans. The atmosphere heated the protests against Metallica at the festival. Metallica we właściwy dla siebie sposób odniosła się do tych wydarzeń – nakręciła krótki film, którego przesłanie sprowadza się do krótkiego i dobitnego - Pieprzyć Was. Co warto odnotować, frekwencja podczas występu zespołu była rekordowa. Band in an appropriate way referred to these events - they made ​​a short film with a message boils down to a short and emphatic - Fuck Off. It is worth mentioning that was a record-breaking concert at the festival this year when it comes to the number of people.
• Koncert w Warszawie podobnie jak ten w Pardze został przeze mnie szczegółowo opisany tutaj [Warsaw 2014 home sweet home].Warsaw, it’s not because it’s my hometown (more has been described here [Warsaw 2014 home sweet home]) but also Metallica played during one concert two instrumental tracks Orion and The Call of Ktulu. Taka sytuacja kiedy na jednym koncercie Metallika zagrała dwa instrumentalne zdarzyła się pierwszy raz od ……. This was first Metallica concert with two instrumentals since February 7’1985 when they played Anesthesia and The Call of Ktulu.

Below, all my goodies from European leg of Metallica By Request Tour 2014.

 

Stockholm, Sweden May 30' 2014

 

Oslo, Norway June 1' 2014

 

poster

 

Horsens, Denmark June 3' 2014

shitty e-ticket and nice info folder

 

Hamburg, Germany June 4' 2014

nice ticket in very bad condition ...arrived to me after two months ..f##k

 

Nurnberg, Germany June 6' 2014

 

 

Pilton, England June 28' 2014

 

 

 

Basel, Switzerland July 4' 2014

 

Stevenage, England July 6' 2014

 

 

 

Prague, Czech Republic July 8' 2014

 

 

 

Vienna, Austria July 9' 2014

 

 

Warsaw, Poland July 11' 2014

GA ticket with wristband

GC ticket

 

wristbands and passes

 

pass sheet

 

poster

 

Istanbul, Turkey July 13' 2014

 

 

Bilety z tej trasy, które wciąż poszukuję : Tickets from  the European leg of the By Request Tour, which I am still looking for:

Helsinki Helsinki

Nurburgring (Rock am Ring) Nurburgring (Rock am Ring)

Landgraaf (Pinkpop) Landgraaf (Pinkpop)

Rome Rome

Werchter Werchter

 

Please, send me private message if You have any of these for sale/trade

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.