New shit in my collection #7

Time for new tickets. We start with the oldest.

First ticket is from a concert in Nashville (Nashville Municipal Auditorium) of July 27’ 1986. A day earlier, James breaking his arm skateboarding and concert, which was to be held in Evansville (Indiana), has been canceled. Since Nashville show until September, Hetfield just sang and Metallica played as a five member band with John Marshall from Metal Church as a second guitarist.

 

In December 1988 the band promoted the newly released album ... And Justice For All . This is one of my favorite periods in the history of Metallica. The ticket, which is below comes from this period and was to be held in Phoenix (Arizona ) at Memorial Coliseum December 4’ 1988 . Just look at the setlist from Phoenix . I wish now the setlist like this at current concerts.

Blackened

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Sanitarium

Leper Messiah

Harvester Of Sorrow

Eye Of The Beholder

Master Of Puppets

One

Seek & Destroy

And Justice For All

Creeping Death

Fade To Black

Battery

Last Caress

Am I Evil

Whiplash

Breadfan

 

 

During the American leg of tour after The Black Album, Metallica quite often played concerts in the same place for two or even three evenings in a row. In early January 1992, they played three nights in a row in Los Angeles. The ticket comes from a second (January 8 ' 1992) from three concerts at The Great Western Forum.

 

The ticket from Summer Shit Tour '94. On this Tour Metallica was supported, by Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies. During the last show on tour in Chicago at the World Music Theatre (July 7’94) Metallica invited guests on stage and played with them the last three songs in the setlist. The Last Caress and Green Hell with Glenn Danzig on vocals (BTW.. the author of these songs) and So What with musicians Suicidal Tendencies. Was it the first time when Rob Trujillo, at that time bass player of Suicidal played for the first time together with Metallica?.

 

A similar situation as with above ticket from 1992. Metallica played three nights in the row at the Rosemont Horizon Arena in Chicago. The ticket came from the second concert February 8, 1997.

 

The last ticket today is my first ticket from 2014. Metallica just ended South American leg of By Request Tour. The ticket comes from a second concert that took place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on 29 March 2014. Many thanks as always to Piotr and Kasia for this ticket. If someone has a ticket from the first concert in Buenos or other South American concerts of the By Request tour please let me know.

 

Lithuania 2010

In next few days marks the fourth anniversary Metallica concerts in Lithuania, where they promoted Death Magnetic album. It was leg of European World Magnetic Tour during which the band arrived for the first time to Lithuania and also gave concerts in Latvia and Estonia. The concert which became a question mark, because air traffic over Europe was largely paralyzed by a volcanic eruption in Iceland. Metallica as always did everything to bring their music and from Scandinavia (Oslo) moved by ferry to Riga (Latvia). A lot of fans from Western Europe, however, was not so lucky. But I know guys who drove by car from Belgium to Lithuania.... Respect. Me and my friend also went to Vilnius (capital city of Lithuania) by car where we showed up the morning of the concert.

 

Siemens Arena early morning show day

 

METALLICAAAAAA !!!!

 

After the obligatory visiting the old town where you could find a lot of Polish accents (the city that for centuries was Polish and lay on Polish territory) went into the hall where the concert was to be held.

 

Vilnius - where old meet new

 

Vilnius cathedral

 

At the hall we met some friends from TMCC, but what was strange - the lack of crowds at the hall. It was so strange, because it was the first ever Metallica concert in Lithuania. Because on this tour Metallica played on stage centrally located, so we just waited until everyone gathered at the hall come and quietly went inside hoping that, we will all see well. Inside we were surprised again - still could take the place of the barriers in the first row. WTF???. We were on one of the stage corners, but right in front of one of the microphones. The first support was Fear Factory. The sound was weak and I don’t remember much from their performance. Then there was the Gojira. I saw the French for the first time in action and despite still not the best sound performance stuck in my memory ... maybe because of the distinctive bassist playing. During the supports behind us was quite empty, you could easily reach first or second row. Metallica as always came and smashed... at least to me.

 

Show number one

 

Thank You and goodnight

 

During the concert several times passed by us Eric from TMCC, who was working for Metclub recording videos of concerts. As it turned out “knowledge” with "concert staff" made ​​the guards more favorably looked at my camera, which I had hidden earlier and which now snapping occasional pics. They gave us even water. After the concert, we came to Big Mick, who gave me the setlist from the concert with his own hand-written notes. Add to these ticket and two guitar picks ……Yeahhhhh. Ticket from second show bought from other TMCC member two years later.

 

Tickets from April 20 and 21 '2010

 

 

Setlist from Big Mick and guitar picks

 

 Info brochure

 

 

Unfortunately we could not stay for the second concert, which was to be held in the same hall the next day ... a great pity. What stuck in my memory is still in relative peace among the fans and the lack of madness. In Poland the unthinkable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aussie Tour 1993

In the spring of 1993 Metallica was in the last phase of the Black Album promotion. After it drove almost the whole World, band appeared in Australia. Nine concerts as a part of Nothing Else To Roam Australia-Asia Tour on the Australia continent were the first concerts in kangaroo land since 1989 when Metallica played there during World Justice Tour.

So, during this visit Metallica played in the following cities:

March 27th – Melbourne
March 29th – Brisbane
March 31st – Sydney
April 1st – Sydney
April 3rd – Melbourne
April 4th – Melbourne
April 5th – Adelaide
April 7th – Perth
April 8th – Perth

As a support band on all gigs played Kyuss. The direct inspiration for this topic was enlarged my collection of two tickets from that Tour. Currently from nine shows I have four tickets (You can see them below). If anyone has other five and would like to found my collection – I welcome with open arms.

March 27th –Melbourne

March 31st – Sydney

April 3rd – Melbourne

Stars in the background

April 7th – Perth

Warsaw 2010 - a new variant of the ticket

Due to the amount of tickets I still looking for, I try not to collect tickets from the same show in different variants such as sitting, standing, VIP tickets etc. Exceptions to this rule are the two situations. Firstly, when I find a really interesting and radically different tickets from the same concert, and second when it comes to the Polish concert tickets. Especially in the latter case, I’m trying to find all available ticket options that were on sale. Last week I managed to buy a ticket from the very first BIG4 concert which took place in Warsaw, Poland in 2010. It’s seating ticket from tribune B and this is third different ticket from this concert.

 

new variant - seating ticket (tribune B)

 

Now in my collection from this show are: standing Golden Circle ticket, standing normal ticket and sitting ticket. Now, time to find seating ticket from tribune A.

 

From top: standing normal, standing Golden Circle, seating

 

New shit in my collection #6

Time for the first new tickets in the new year. The first one who brought the postman is another ticket from 1986. Ticket from the show at Philadelphia Spectrum. Metallica is not listed on the ticket – this is a common feature of most tickets from Ozzy tour where Metallica played as a support band – but believe me that day they played at Spectrum and even performed for the very first time live The Thing That Should Not Be from Master Of Puppets album.

Premiere of The Thing That Should Not Be - April 20' 1986

 

 

Next two are tickets from concerts held in Portland (Oregon). First of them is from The Summer Shit Tour ’94, when Metallica were supported by Alice In Chains. Second is from 1997 American leg of Poor Touring Me Tour where as a support played Corrosion Of Conformity. Despite the fact that both tickets are typical “ticketmaster’s” they are interesting due to location – You can’t find too often tickets from Oregon.

 

Portland 1994

Portland 1997

 

The last ticket today is from trade with another collector. Unused ticket from the concert at  Allstate Arena (Chicago) during Madly In Anger With The World Tour.

Chicago 2004

 

 

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.

 

In the pursuit of Metallica

Today’s post is not directly about Metallica tickets but don’t worry ….tickets will also be. I have great pleasure to inform You, that yesterday was the premiere of Piotr and Kasia Kowieski book  “In the pursuit of Metallica” (original title “W pogoni za Metallicą”).

 In the pursuit of Metallica

It’s groundbreaking book on the market because for the first time we can see the band with eyes of the fan not the journalist. I must immediately add, that Piotr and Kasia are not ordinary fans ….they are a Metallica maniacs!!!. This is not another boring book describing history of the band having its own beginning  in the garage in El Cerrito. This is collection of stories about how Piotr and Kasia follow in the footsteps of Metallica around the world – to the present day both have behind the belt 64 concerts on 6 continents. Both they belong to this small group of fans for which borders do not exist and surely many of You saw them on some concerts ....as a rule in front row. Is extremely probable that you will find yourselves on one of photos which are placed in the book (I found many members of TMCC on the photos). Then photos. There are hundreds of them in the book. Not only from concerts or meetings with band members but also from places they visited, t-shirts, posters, tickets, guitar picks …and Metallica clothes – simply tour stuff.

Record Store Day

 

El Arsenal Completo

 

The book does the very good impression. You do not get 50 page booklet on shitty paper but 450 pages in full color and hard cover. I am pleased with this book twice. Firstly, this is fantastic book for Metallica fan and secondly I am glad that I had my little contribution to the book. At the request of Piotr lent from my collection a few tickets of concerts in which the author was but did not have them. It is also an opportunity for me to big thank Piotr and Kasia for the fact that being on the following Metallica concert they always remember about my passion and enrich my collection with new tickets. Thank You very much.

 

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PS. The book is in Polish, but if anyone would like to get copy please contact me and I will try to help You get Your copy.