Metallica at KFMA Day in Tucson

I got tickets to see Metallica, Apocalyptica, and a couple more bands next month here in Tucson.

Normally I would not have cared, but my son has been getting into their early stuff, and he wanted to see them. Hopefully they will have a good amount of older songs mixed in.

Last time I saw them was when they opened up for Ozzy on their Master of Puppets tour.

That's cool. I hope you have a great time; and take lots of photos to share with the rest of us!

I agree

The show was fun

Tell us about it. What did they play? I heard they are mostly playing old stuff.

They started with Creeping Death, then played For Whom the
Bell Tolls.

Not in order, here are the rest of the songs, as far as I can remember:

Creeping Death
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sad But True
Master of Puppets
Fuel
Enter Sandman
And Justice For All
Fade to Black
Battery
Maybe one or two more songs from the Black album or later

1st encore
Something
One
Maybe one more

2nd Encore
Four Horsemen
Seek and Destroy

No new songs. They said a new album would be out in
September (I think).

Apparently it was the largest concert in Tucson in 30 years at 25,000 people.

I went with my brother-in-law.

During the band right before Metallica (Scars on Broadway, which is some
members from System of a Down, but not the main singer), we made our way
through the crowd and got to a reasonable spot, center stage and not too far
away. We probably waited close to an hour for Metallica to start. As soon as
they did we got separated, which is no biggie. I basically stayed where I was,
and slowly got closer as the crowd shifted around. I got into the older songs
(pre-black album) and stood there for the later songs. The crowd was a little
odd to me. Tons of people, but not a lot of headbanging or thrashing around.
Little pits opened up here and there, but nothing really big or full. Tons of
weed-smoke in the air. I got one elbow in the eye while trying to help someone
get up onto the crowd. It wasn’t a hard hit, but it was my eye, so that sucked.

Overall I had a good time and was happy about going.

One thing that struck me as odd was as soon as they
finished, the people started chanting “one, one, one”. I was like, “one?” I got
nothing against that song, and I like it, but I thought it was silly and
Metallin00bish. Maybe I am just old. I thought, “probably all these kids who have
Guitar Hero III”.

I was disappointed that they didn’t play Whiplash. My voice
got pretty thrashed, and part of the reason was me yelling “Whiplash”.

I was really disappointed at one point when James was
talking from stage. I think he was thanking or congratulating us (or whatever)
for supporting “Heavy Music”. I don’t remember exactly what the context was,
but as he was speaking I clearly expected him to say “…heavy metal”. To me it
almost seemed awkward and obviously deliberate. It’s sad when a band called METALlica
will not make reference to metal. Sad But True.

My wife and son came late, because he had a party for the 8^th
graders, since it’s their last year at the school. I didn’t see them. They left
early and avoided the horrible traffic. It took us 2 hours to get out of the
parking lot. I was so thirsty. That sucked.

The band lineup was:
Chiodos
Flowbots
Apocalyptica
Scars on Broadway
Metallica

I tried to get there for Apocalyptica, but the traffic arriving
was so bad that we missed their whole set.. Scars on Broadway might have been
ok, but they annoyed me with their left-wing liberal lyrics and frequent
reference to doing drugs in their lyrics and between songs. Their music is only
ok IMO, so I pretty much didn’t care.

I didn’t even investigate shirts, but my wife did, and tells
me they were like $35. Lame.

Glad they are playing a lot of older songs. Gives me hope for a future release.

I've always liked the song "Fuel".

Here is the actual setlist. Mine had some errors and ommisions:

01. Creeping Death
02. Fuel
03. For Whom The Bell Tolls
04. The Unforgiven
05. ...And Justice For All
06. Sad But True
07. The Memory Remians
08. Fade To Black
09. Master Of Puppets
10. Battery
- - - - -
11. Wherever I May Roam
12. One
13. Enter Sandman
- - - - -
14. The Four Horsemen
15. Seek and Destroy

Nice report! Great that they played mostly old material. Too bad they were PC about saying "Heavy Metal".

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I didn’t even investigate shirts, but my wife did, and tells
me they were like $35. Lame

Well, that makes me feel a little better about the $60 I spent on two shirts recently.

A word about "One". I was 14 when that came out and got massive MTV time. It was a "gateway" song for me (as concerns Metallica). Ironicallly, I don't care for most of the rest of AJFA but that song got me into Ride The Lightning and MOP. It's also now 20 year old song. Imagine that!!! How time flies.

That's actually a pretty decent set list for them these days...but why is "The Unforgiven" so high up in the running order? Gack! Talk about a momentum killer.

Fat Freddy wrote:

That's actually a pretty decent set list for them these days...but why is "The Unforgiven" so high up in the running order? Gack! Talk about a momentum killer.

Lars needed a rest after all 3 of those "fast" songs.

spectrefate wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

That's actually a pretty decent set list for them these days...but why is "The Unforgiven" so high up in the running order? Gack! Talk about a momentum killer.

Lars needed a rest after all 3 of those "fast" songs.

Good guess. That's probably not to far off the mark.

I guess One is a song that is special to a lot of fans. But to some of us old farts who started out with Kill Em All and were full on fans of what Metallica was, One was the beginning of the end. It's a good song on an ok album, but it became much more than that. They made a video, played that music awards show... they got the taste of wealth and fame, and just couldn't get past that. The Black album is the evidence for that theory.

I am not trying to whine about it. They can do as they please, and people can like their music. There are plenty of good metal bands out there for me to enjoy.

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I guess One is a song that is special to a lot of fans. But to some of us old farts who started out with Kill Em All and were full on fans of what Metallica was, One was the beginning of the end. It's a good song on an ok album, but it became much more than that. They made a video, played that music awards show... they got the taste of wealth and fame, and just couldn't get past that. The Black album is the evidence for that theory.

I am not trying to whine about it. They can do as they please, and people can like their music. There are plenty of good metal bands out there for me to enjoy.

I get everything you're saying, of course. It's hard for all of us when bands that we started out with change directions. Now that I'm older and can look back on things I can certainly see how all those One factors would create bad feelings. IN FACT, I remember distinctly the "water-cooler" talk in the hallway before homeroom bell rang as a High School Freshman. I heard the whispers of "they sold out" and "posuers" constantly when One came out. The older kids who'd been into metal longer had the exact experience you did. They didn't like the idea of their band getting so popular with us snot-nosed noobs. I thought they were foolish then. As I got older I started doing the same thing!!

Fat Freddy wrote:

That's actually a pretty decent set list for them these days...but why is "The Unforgiven" so high up in the running order? Gack! Talk about a momentum killer.

Truthfully, the whole setlist was somewhat momentum killing.

For me, the following section lacked excitement:

Fuel
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Unforgiven
AJFA
Sad but true
The Memory Remains

That's a long lack of momentum. Bell is an ok song, but weak when compared to most of their early stuff. AJFA is ok, but it's a long song with not much excitement. Still, I was thankful for those two songs.

Fade, Master and Battery was obviously a great stretch.

The first encore was ok. I like One, and Sandman is tolerable, but overall, meh.

The last encore was good, but those may be my two least favorite songs on Kill em all.

I wish they had played Whiplash.

AchrisK wrote:

05. ...And Justice For All

Wow! that is a good sign!

haha I just realizd somethin, saturday at gigantour somebody brought a kirk hamett signature esp backstage and megadeth autographed it..... and they didn't even realize it.