Metallica Live

[pacmania_2001]

Has anyone here seen Metallica in concert?

I just came back from a musical festival (the Big Day Out for you Australian users playing along at home) where they were the head lining act and all I can say is they were awesome.

I've never seen a band so in sync with one another and the stage setup they had was great, perfectly choreographed with the lights and pyrotechnics.

They played around 70% old stuff which went off and their new St Anger stuff never sounded better with them playing it the way it was meant to be heard, with bass.

Anyway, thats my rant/review of one of the best bands I've seen live. Now I've just got to get tickets to tomorrow nights gig.

[Hatz]

Yes Pacmania I have seen them on their Summer Sanitarium Tour. It was back when Jason Newsted was part of their group. They are unbelieveable live. I have seen a few concerts but they put on the best show I have seen yet.

Then again I might be biased because they are my favorite group. However, they do sound awesome and put on a great show. Glad to hear you had a good time. Even after the Napster ordeal, you still gotta hand it to them......they are still a great band.

Hatz

[stiltman]

My favorite group too. I've seen them 5 times in concert. The best is when they were headlining with GnR. GnR was really late and Metallica played an extra set. I was in the mosh pit at one of the concerts, the one with the pit in the middle of the stage with the bridge over it..Think it was a snake's head.

[housepig]

I saw them back on the And Justice For All tour in '88 or '89, they were pretty good. I'm just not a fan of large concerts - once it gets bigger than maybe a 3,000-seat club, I might as well be watching it on video - it loses the intimacy.

I was also kind of bummed when I got a bootleg of the show from another venue the week after I saw them, and it was the same show, note for note... kind of a drag.

I noticed when they played here last summer, I live about 15 blocks away from the Metrodome, and I could hear them from my house... can't imagine how loud they must have been inside the dome...

[lordsmurf]

Front row, '96 "Reloaded" tour in Ft Worth, went both nights in a row (free tickets for 2nd show), even made it onto the "Cunning Stunts" video... can see myself as the camera pans during a song.

The video was cool, I saw other people I knew in it, in addition to it being a live recording of the very show I attended. I've actually met others since that time that were in the video and were in the front. Small world. It's funny trying to point yourself out as being the guy/gal at xx minutes and xx seconds.

NOTHING beats a Metallica concert live. The energy... WOW!

Given that I'm part deaf now, I tend to avoid concerts though. I want to keep the rest of my hearing, thanks.

[pacmania_2001]

It was back when Jason Newsted was part of their group.

I was a bit worried about what Rob was going to be like compared to Jason before I went but he was just as good in my opinion and seemed like he had been in the band for years with how well he went with the others.

I saw them back on the And Justice For All tour in '88 or '89, they were pretty good. I'm just not a fan of large concerts - once it gets bigger than maybe a 3,000-seat club, I might as well be watching it on video - it loses the intimacy.

The concert I saw them at had around 50,000 people according to the news article I saw and it seemed like that when I was there. I know what you mean about it losing the intimacy but I still thought they were killer. I'd love to see them in a small venue but I don't think that is going to happen with how big they are these days or the cost involved in bringing them out to Australia.

I noticed when they played here last summer, I live about 15 blocks away from the Metrodome, and I could hear them from my house... can't imagine how loud they must have been inside the dome...

The venue they where at for this concert was like a parklands / showgrounds and all the bands before them you would have trouble hearing them from like the pavillon across the field but for them you could still hear them clear as.

The video was cool, I saw other people I knew in it, in addition to it being a live recording of the very show I attended. I've actually met others since that time that were in the video and were in the front. Small world. It's funny trying to point yourself out as being the guy/gal at xx minutes and xx seconds.

Haha, that might be me soon, apparently they were filming a live video clip of a couple of their new St Anger songs to use as the videos for them so I might be in future going to my friends "look, just at the camera pans around I am the one standing on the tipped over wheelie bin".