Tours General Discussion

Yeah agree completely.

It's like all the life and energy has been sucked out of their live shows. They're so overly choreographed, from song transitions to what James says to the crowd, to the practically identical set lists. It reminds me of the late 90s.

I was going to say that it's reminiscent of the Through The Never shows based on how they playing all sorts of songs in the tuning room, basically anything but the songs they play on stage.

They seem pretty bored, and fancy screens and pyro don't do well to hide it.

Blackened was horrible, battery much better, but still only decent. I can't understand how they are able to hold a song like Battery together so "well", throughout the entire song the guitars and drums are off. They readjust at every crash and 2 seconds later they are all way off again. I'm both impressed and disappointed at the same time.

And those of us who have tried playing in a band knows how fucking hard it is to keep everything together if one person goes off.
This sounds like they are playing the same song, but they are all playing at different tempos. I would have fucked either instrument up playing it like that. So yeah in a way it's impressive.
Try being Kirk, or doing vocals when Lars constantly just hits the crash halfway through a bar because he speeds up and down like a drunk Alan exiting the pub after 10 hours.

I know Hetfield has been out of rehab and has calmed down for the most part and got more chill, but his patience level with Lars when his tempo goes up and down every night is amazing. I really do think even though he tries to have good stamina, he tires out depending on the setlist. Like that Blackened video, I think at that point, even if it was early in the set, he seems either tired or he thought to himself "I need to relax here, I have like 10 more songs to go".

Funniest tuning room in a while. Everyone bashing on Lars.

The St. Anger comments. Just some simple jabs.

It's good to see them having fun. I wonder what the camera guy is doing there and why they were mentioning Spotify.

Fat? I weigh 175.

I'm gonna go cry now. Was it the jeans? Is my ass that big?

And of course, Rob is the only one who knows how to play Frantic!

So today I realized who SteelyC was...I'm slow apparently. Welcome back dude! : D

Same metro station, but, the old site where they were supposed to play, there seems to be construction going on. The entrance to the old site is steps away from the metro exit. I've seen Metallica there in 2014 and 2003 and its the go to location for all huge outdoor shows for the past 20 years or so.

Now because of construction, the show was relocated onto the adjacent island.

Now you need to walk a a good 35 minutes from the metro exit, over a bridge, past a casino, through a beautiful nature park, out onto the Circuit Jacques Villeneuve race track and out towards this man-made beach area.

The problem is, at all other events prior at the old location, the one and only metro station off the island has a 2 hour line up just to get in as 75000 people are all trying to get on. A lot of times it was a close call to missing that last train at 1:00 AM. A lot of people do.

Now add a 30-45 minute walk, maybe longer if your wasted and trying to find your way back through a maze of ponds and nature park paths. That's a lot more people, now kind of stuck on the island.there are ways off by foot if your smart and no where to grab some foot bridges. I plan on walking one of these routes for about 2 hours to get back to downtown on Montreal island. I'll be with my friends and it'll be an adventure.
I'll be in the Snakepit and apparently they don't let you out of it until like 15 minutes after the show has ended, there's no way I could catch that last train, so fuck it, I'll walk it.

The start of the day will have all these people showing up and being baffled by the big arrows pointing them down to what looks like nowhere and the wrong site.

People looking to show up for whatever time will now have 45 minutes extra of confusion and walking time.

At the new site, starting at 1 until 4, its the metal beach party on the man-made beach for all Metallica ticket holders. There will be wrestling, contests, bands playing, lots of beer etc.

What a weird place to have a concert.

Beautiful area though.

Sure looks like water?

Climb a tree and watch from there.

Sounds like a good time.

Harvester always has and always will be one of their greatest live songs, and one of my favourites. Could have done without the Kill Em All style squeal before the solo though.