The band that got me into metal many moons ago, the band that inspired the way I look and dress like I do now, the band that lead me to picking up my first guitar and the band that initially changed my life for the greater good.
It's been a couple of years since I've voluntarily listened to Metallica. I used to play their albums on a daily basis on repeat. Back in High school, I was obsessed.
I eventually opened my eyes to other lesser known music and evolved as a metalhead to the point where Metallica albums were becoming a bit repetitive and couldn't hold my attention as well as other lesser known bands and sub genres as I started listening to less mainstream, more talented bands (Not saying Metallica weren't talented)
But In saying that, I was pretty excited to see them and it was a pretty solid gig.
When tickets went on sale I asked Squidy to grab me a presale ticket when he got his. He bought Gold standing for himself and his lady, but for whatever reason he got me a single gold seating ticket. Like fuck I was going to sit/stand by myself when I knew my pals and lovely lady would be down in the pit. But at the last minute Squidy helped me acquire a decent ticket for the first show and away I went.
Some thoughts, recollections and a couple of photos I took.
- Great stage, the band members were walking around the stage in the middle so I could cop a half decent view of each of them. Great light show and cool pyrotechnics
- Pathetic crowd. These days metallica appeal to pretty much everyone, including Dbags covered in trendy shirts and tribal tats, and just general lame cunts. Noone was moving in the crowd. The majority stood there with their arms crossed. Everyone was sitting (apart from marko and Lee who received and gave out some shit for standing, ha!) But yes, no movement, until fuckin' enter sandman came on, then everyone got into it, Apart from myself. Then it went dead again once
they played their older stuff. Leesy and I had a rad time headbanging and air guitaring throughout the set, my neck got a solid workout. Some dumbslut im heels was giving Leesy some trouble by grabbing her hair as she was headbanging and telling her to stop. Lee called a woman a mangy cunt and had biers thrown him for standing up. At a Metallica concert....
Fer fucks sake, we were in the mosh section of a goddamn Metallica concert. I was sorta hoping someone would tell me off as I just wanted to give those boring lame cunts a peice of my mind. If you don't want to move, just buy a seating ticket, thus freeing up mosh tickets for Lee and Marko to come have a good time.
- Good choice of songs for the most part. Bunch of rad oldies I didn't expect - Ride the lightning, Fight fire with fiyah, hit the lights. The Death Magnetic songs were boring az hell.
- Overall the gig was pretty mad, there was no atmosphere or great vibes generated by the crowd like Maiden had going, but I'm glad I went and can now cross them off my list of things to do before I die.
Next weekend, Overkill :D
Thrashing speed metal maniaxx dunununun
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