Metallica Week on Maidenfans (June 29-July 5, 2009)
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right !! Mustane named it Metalix
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Ancient Mariner
Perun said:
Are you talking about Metallica songs or Asterix characters?
Are you suggesting James Hetfield was once in Asterix.
Invader said:
You've heard at least one. Everyone has heard at least one...
James plays the first guitar solo in "Master Of Puppets" (the slow one between two harmony solos, after the 2nd chorus).
He also has a solo in "Orion", but I don't remember which one it is.
And with that, Metallica Week is closed. Please join us for Queensryche Week!
And as usual, you can keep on discussing Metallica in this thread if you are so inclined. Metallica Week may be over, but the memory remains.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
SinisterMinisterX said:
Hetfield plays the last solo in Orion, I think. Isn't the solo in Nothing Else Matters also played by Hetfield? By the way, today I got my ticket for the first Metallica show I'll ever be attending, in Oslo in April. Looking forward to that.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Metallica, Oslo, April 14 - 2010.
Finally I got my ass out of the armchair and got to a Metallica show. They played two nights in Oslo this week, I attended the first one (on Tuesday).
Got to Oslo a few hours before the show, found a place where I could get beer, and enjoyed the (feckin' expensive) beer out in the sunshine. Had a chat with a couple of other guys who were also going. After having a pizza and a couple of beers with a friend I caught a bus out to the venue, which is an indoor arena usually used for football. When used for concerts, with a center stage as Metallica use, it can fit about 25000 people.
Got in half-way into the first warm-up band, Gojira. They were nothing special in my ears, so I went for more beer. The same with the second warm-up act, Fear Factory, who were not my cup of tea either.
Metallica came on at about 21:45, and opened with a couple of songs from Death Magnetic: That Was Just Your Life (which I have been told has been their regular opening song on the entire tour) and The End Of The Line. I haven't listened too much to the album, so I didn't know these two good enough to sing along all the time.
That improved when the third song started: Creeping Death! That was the first song that really shook the house and had everyone headbanging.
The complete setlist:
That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
Creeping Death
Through The Never
Fade To Black
Broken, Beat And Scarred
Wherever I May Roam
Sad But True
The Unforgiven
All Nightmare Long
One
Master Of Puppets
Blackened
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
For the encores they played:
Am I Evil?
Hit The Lights
Seek and Destroy
Personally I thought the old songs were the highlights, but I also enjoyed All Nightmare Long a lot, as well as a couple of the songs from the "black" album. I have read they replaced a few of the Black Album songs for the second night, and played a couple more songs from AJFA instead. But as they didn't play Creeping Death the second night, I'm glad I attended the first
All in all, I had a really good time. The band was energetic and interacted well with the crowd. The sound wasn't that good where I was placed (in the stands, quite far from the stage), but that's a minor thing.
If one was looking for something to be annoyed by, I'd rather pick on all those who were just sitting there during songs like Creeping Death and Blackened, but were on their feet for Nothing Else Matters ...
Finally I got my ass out of the armchair and got to a Metallica show. They played two nights in Oslo this week, I attended the first one (on Tuesday).
Got to Oslo a few hours before the show, found a place where I could get beer, and enjoyed the (feckin' expensive) beer out in the sunshine. Had a chat with a couple of other guys who were also going. After having a pizza and a couple of beers with a friend I caught a bus out to the venue, which is an indoor arena usually used for football. When used for concerts, with a center stage as Metallica use, it can fit about 25000 people.
Got in half-way into the first warm-up band, Gojira. They were nothing special in my ears, so I went for more beer. The same with the second warm-up act, Fear Factory, who were not my cup of tea either.
Metallica came on at about 21:45, and opened with a couple of songs from Death Magnetic: That Was Just Your Life (which I have been told has been their regular opening song on the entire tour) and The End Of The Line. I haven't listened too much to the album, so I didn't know these two good enough to sing along all the time.
That improved when the third song started: Creeping Death! That was the first song that really shook the house and had everyone headbanging.
The complete setlist:
That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
Creeping Death
Through The Never
Fade To Black
Broken, Beat And Scarred
Wherever I May Roam
Sad But True
The Unforgiven
All Nightmare Long
One
Master Of Puppets
Blackened
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
For the encores they played:
Am I Evil?
Hit The Lights
Seek and Destroy
Personally I thought the old songs were the highlights, but I also enjoyed All Nightmare Long a lot, as well as a couple of the songs from the "black" album. I have read they replaced a few of the Black Album songs for the second night, and played a couple more songs from AJFA instead. But as they didn't play Creeping Death the second night, I'm glad I attended the first
All in all, I had a really good time. The band was energetic and interacted well with the crowd. The sound wasn't that good where I was placed (in the stands, quite far from the stage), but that's a minor thing.
If one was looking for something to be annoyed by, I'd rather pick on all those who were just sitting there during songs like Creeping Death and Blackened, but were on their feet for Nothing Else Matters ...
Unknown One
I see the ghost of navigators.
Just thought I'd compare my concert experience with Wingman's.
Metallica, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Nov 20 2010.
Rod Laver Arena is where they hold the Australian Open (Tennis) every year. Full capacity is about 20,000, but obviously there would have been a couple thousand people or so in the mosh. Got there at about 7:30pm and apparently missed the first band (Baroness which tbh, I have never heard of) because Lamb of God came on about 15 mins later and played about half a dozen songs. Was in the front rows of the upper tier, so the distance to the stage was a bit more than I would have liked, but sound quality was still quite good.
When Metallica came on at about 9:10pm or so, the crowd went wild, but ended up being quite subdued for That Was Just Your Life and Cyanide, and didn't really start headbanging until the 3rd song, Ride the Lightning
. Large amounts of headbanging were also present for Sad But True, One, Master of Puppets and the encores, but the largest amounts of headbanging seen were for Enter Sandman! 
Was also fairly surprised at some of the setlist choices. Didn't see Ride the Lightning, No Leaf Clover, The Outlaw Torn, Dyers' Eve or Phantom Lord coming. Was disappointed that they didn't play Creeping Death or Fade to Black, and I also think that they played too many songs from the Black album. Kill 'em All got 2, Ride the Lightning only got 1, Master of Puppets got 2, ...And Justice For All got 2, Black Album got 5, Load got 1, S&M got 1, Death Magnetic got 4 (well 3 and a fifth, because they only played the first 2mins of Suicide and Redemption, a song I would have liked to have seen in it's entirety).
The structure of the setlist seems fairly similar to Wingman's, even if some of the songs are different.
Setlist
That Was Just Your Life
Cyanide
Ride The Lightning
Through The Never
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
The God That Failed
My Apocalypse
Sad But True
No Leaf Clover
The Outlaw Torn
One
Master Of Puppets
Dyers' Eve
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Encore:
Suicide and Redemption (first 2 mins)
Stone Cold Crazy
Phantom Lord
Seek and Destroy
Metallica, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Nov 20 2010.
Rod Laver Arena is where they hold the Australian Open (Tennis) every year. Full capacity is about 20,000, but obviously there would have been a couple thousand people or so in the mosh. Got there at about 7:30pm and apparently missed the first band (Baroness which tbh, I have never heard of) because Lamb of God came on about 15 mins later and played about half a dozen songs. Was in the front rows of the upper tier, so the distance to the stage was a bit more than I would have liked, but sound quality was still quite good.
When Metallica came on at about 9:10pm or so, the crowd went wild, but ended up being quite subdued for That Was Just Your Life and Cyanide, and didn't really start headbanging until the 3rd song, Ride the Lightning
. Large amounts of headbanging were also present for Sad But True, One, Master of Puppets and the encores, but the largest amounts of headbanging seen were for Enter Sandman! Was also fairly surprised at some of the setlist choices. Didn't see Ride the Lightning, No Leaf Clover, The Outlaw Torn, Dyers' Eve or Phantom Lord coming. Was disappointed that they didn't play Creeping Death or Fade to Black, and I also think that they played too many songs from the Black album. Kill 'em All got 2, Ride the Lightning only got 1, Master of Puppets got 2, ...And Justice For All got 2, Black Album got 5, Load got 1, S&M got 1, Death Magnetic got 4 (well 3 and a fifth, because they only played the first 2mins of Suicide and Redemption, a song I would have liked to have seen in it's entirety).
The structure of the setlist seems fairly similar to Wingman's, even if some of the songs are different.
Setlist
That Was Just Your Life
Cyanide
Ride The Lightning
Through The Never
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
The God That Failed
My Apocalypse
Sad But True
No Leaf Clover
The Outlaw Torn
One
Master Of Puppets
Dyers' Eve
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Encore:
Suicide and Redemption (first 2 mins)
Stone Cold Crazy
Phantom Lord
Seek and Destroy