Metallica

I first saw Metallica as an opening act in June 1988 on the Van Halen’s Monsters of Rock tour. They were fucking brilliant. Check out this setlist, wow.
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Metallica Setlist at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford

Get the Metallica Setlist of the concert at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, USA on June 27, 1988 from the Monsters of Rock 1988 Tour and other Metallica Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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Scorpions kicked ass that day too. Unfortunately Van Hagar sounded tired and lame.
Also saw them on the On Justice for All tour but I just never liked that album.
 
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el diablo said:
I first saw Metallica as an opening act in June 1988 on the Van Halen’s Monsters of Rock tour. They were fucking brilliant.
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Me too, in my own hometown.

el diablo said:
Scorpions kicked ass that day too.
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Mine as well. And Dokken!

el diablo said:
Unfortunately Van Hagar sounded tired and lame.
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I didn’t stick around for Van Hagar’s headlining set.

el diablo said:
Also saw them on the On Justice for All tour
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Me too! Also a great show.

Never saw another Metallica show after those, because they were unlikely to top themselves. Almost went to M72 as a farewell performance, but I balked at the ticket price.
 
I saw Tullica only once, in 2012 on the Entire Black Album tour (which I could definitely live without; funnily enough, the only time I saw Peter Gabriel live he was doing the So album in its entirety, which I could also live without, apart from Red Rain, lol) and I must say that they were great. Yeah, Lars is Lars (and I don't think he deserves to be allowed to repeatedly fill his mouth with water and literally spit at the front row fans, that's just ... disgusting), but they were on fire, which they often seem to be, and they made even stuff like Struggle Within and Sheep Shit work for me.

Also, Gojira and Machine Head were playing before that, which was the first time I heard the former and they were absolutely great, it was my biggest discovery of the year... and the crowd that mainly came to hear Nothing Else Matters was booing and whistling. Machine Head had absolutely shitty sound and when Tullica came on, they actually also got some boos from .... the crowd that mainly came to hear Nothing Else Matters. Yeah.
 
I (silly me) missed the opportunity to see Metallica in the Black Album tour in 1993 and had to wait until 1999 to experience their great live show.

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Metallica Setlist at T99 1999

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I kind of lost interest after that (I was never a big fan), but having really enjoyed their last two albums, the opportunity to see them play two completely different setlists next year is too good to miss.
 
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