Metallica concerts in Czech Republic 1993-2014

Today will be about Metallica concerts in the Czech Republic. To date, Metallica has played eight concerts in this country. A few days ago after many years of searching I managed to get ticket from the band’s first concert in the Czech Republic, so now I have the whole set and it became possible to write this text.

The first concert in the Czech Republic took place in Brno in 1993 during the Nowehere Else to Roam Tour and as a support before Metallica played The Cult and Suicidal Tendencies instead of Alice in Chains (who was on the bill). It was also Metallica's only concert in this city. As a curiosity I will add that together with the ticket to the concert I managed to get a bus ticket on the route Liberec-Brno-Liberec with cool graphics. Can You imagine something like this nowadays …. the wonderful 90’s.

Concert and bus tickets

For the next concert of The Four Horsemen, the Czechs had to wait three years until Metallica visit Europe indoor arenas promoting Load album. In September 1996 the concert was held in Prague at Sportovni Hall (Sports Hall). Sadly, poster You see below the tickets is not mine (photo stolen from Carol from Metallica Rulez).

After another three years during Garage Inc. Tour Metallica again visited Prague at Atleticky Stadion Slavia Praha. Below You can see a nice big ticket, along a little flyer from this concert.

In 2004, during another European tour promoting St. Anger album Metallica performed in Prague     T-mobile Park. Below ticket, is photo of a big poster from the Prague concert from my collection.

In 2008 Metallica again visit the Atleticky Stadion Slavia Praha and performed with Machine Head and Gojira. Along with the ticket photo of the info flyer.

The BIG4 Tour that took place in 2010 did not miss the Czech Republic. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax performed at the Milovice airport near Prague. Below ticket and flyer from this concert.

Another visit also in Prague took place two years later in 2012 when the band celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of the Black Album. Along with the ticket You can see photo of the flyer from the concert.

The last concert in the Czech Republic to date was a concert on the By Request Tour, where one of the supports was mighty Kvelertak, one of my favorite bands. Poster glued to the pole on the street of the Prague (no chance to bring it with me ….argghhhhh).

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

Prague in heavy rain

After two years without Metallica live show I hit the road again ...for a mini tour ... OK, very, very mini tour, because only two concerts. The concert in Prague was the first of them. This was to be my second Metallica concert in Prague. The first time I was here in 2008, but then the concert held at the stadium. This year, the concert took place at the fairgrounds.

Old fairgrounds

concert poster

This day was to be unique. First, I had a Snakepit wristband, second....have to write it - the first time I was more waiting for support than headliner. It's about Kvelertak, Norwegian band that I discovered this year and that blew me. I really wanted to see their show from snakepit. I was not disappointed, and although not much understand of what they sing (sing in Norwegian), the fact is the energy emanating from the stage could be shared among a few bands.

 

Kvelertakkkkkk

 

 

pure energy

 

After the Norwegians played Children of Bodom. During their show I decided to walk around the festival area and see merchandise stands. Next band Alice in Chains gave a very nice, although a little static concert.

some Metallica merch

At this point I must add that during Alice In Chains show started to rain. The closer to the Metallica concert, the more rain. A little worried that because of the rain band will walk around snakepit or spend the entire show on stage. During the third song James walked in the pouring rain to the furthest microphone and wet already said "it's just water." It breathes energy in people, in a band ... in me. It was a magical moment and a magical evening in heavy rain.

 

magical night ....due to heavy rain

 

 

Musically, the biggest plus for me was playing St. Anger, which won as a "vote of the day" ... performed far from we can hear on album, but this song is now very rarely played live by band. Unforgiven II lost in the voting and a chance to play this song live by the band departed on time. Pros - amazing despite the rain or perhaps because of the atmosphere at the concert, three guitar picks, met a lot of friends. Cons - I could not get a poster of the concert, which really counted and no shirt Kvelertak, which I forgot to buy after the show.

ticket from Prague concert

 

some goodies from show

 

 

 

New shit in my collection #1

During the summer holidays when Metallica played in Europe, my collection has been enriched with some new tour memorabilia. because no new idea for the next episode blog appeared in my head I decided to share with You new arrivals in my collection. Let's call it "New shit in my collection". In the future I'm going to share with you my new purchases often, so today's post will be number one. exactly, New shit in my collection #1. Today's episode will be devoted to things related to the Metallica show at Download Festival 2012 in the UK. When it comes to memorabilia from Download the whole stuff comes from my man in the UK - Richard. Rysiu You are the Men.

Poster from Download Festival 2012

10-th Anniversary poster

 I will not betray you the way Richard came into possession of all that you see in the pictures but I envy him his job as hell. Richard, If you need someone to a branch of Your company in Poland, you know .... I'll bring you a cold beer every day and meet you with Doda... I promise ;). The funny thing is that as a ticket collector don’t have ticket from latest Metallica Download performance, but all other stuff fully compensate for this lack. Sooner or later I'll get the ticket and then I'll show it to You.

Below all my Download 2012 Stuff.

Festival wristband, Snakepit wristband
and backstage pass ....all minty

Pass sheet from Metallica Download show 

Let's try Cyanide ....we need some really
heavy stuff in setlist

Big Mick kingdom

No oysters ...please

Richard ....who is Doda ? ;)

Who's next ?

Where is my fuckin snakeskin jacket ?

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.