Metallica is playing with Lady Gaga at the Grammys it seems!

I think at the start of this tour the band was on fire, and everything since the club gigs has just felt a little lifeless. I get the Copenhagen thing with the band being sick and even mentioned that in my first post, but go back and watch the videos for the Asian tour and then watch some videos of the early shows on the DM tour and tell me nothing is different.

I remember when DM was released everyone on the old boards was freaking out saying James was drinking again because he was so fucking fired up.

The Metontour stuff might have something to do with me feeling this way as that was a huge part of the St. Anger and DM era and this time around it's become so unpredictable that it's almost a non factor. I honestly think the best thing the band could have done was space out the release of the videos for Hardwired to cover these long periods of downtime to keep the hype up a little more and give them a little boost in energy. The Metontour vids did that in the past. Now that the sets are very similar and the MOT vids are just songs and not much else, it's just going to get stale. The debuts are cool but once that goes away there really isn't much of a reason for them anymore. That's one of the reasons the set thing has been so noticible to me. Most of us just watched the tuning room shit anyway.

Saying nothing is different is silly, we've all discussed the Metontour thing and whatever is going on with Kirk and pretty much all agree that it's weird. They changed lots of things this time around, and they can because it's their band. But it sucks as a fan because it really adds that unique aspect to this band. Call it bitching or whatever, but it's just because Metallica got me through a lot of shit in life and has a special place in my heart and I will always be passionate about them.

I give up.

The energy.

Yes. Which might have something to do with how the set list has been laid out for so long. Just mixing up the order or something is all I'm saying. It might just freshen things up a bit. That's all I'm saying y'all.

Variety is the spice of life. Just ask Smithers.

Yeah, just fucking with last few songs would be great. Although it's always funny in stream threads to watch everyone go to sleep when One starts. The club thing is what sparked this thing for me. They usually played cool shit for small gigs but have abandoned that for the most part.

Also you guys have to realize that the band hasn't played in my area since 09. The only way I can see them live is through streams and shit so it's a lot more noticeable.

Yeah I know, and I know I'm a blessed a hole on that account. Probably why we see stuff different too

Jesus H Christ that was fucking terrible. I knew it was going to be bad i actually feel embarrassed. 

That would be cool as well, but then they can't use their cool new intro 
I think they are too old for that stuff, they need certain safe conditions to get through the show without falling apart.
I do miss the days where things were more loose and not as tight.
Saw my favorite Danish band Dizzy Mizz Lizz perform Friday and it was so cool, a much more intimate venue and they just kinda played the songs as they went along, no setlist. They don't have a big production though so it's much easier to do stuff like that.

Yeah, it's was quite the shitter

Doing that would be a great move cause it will make people think of Live Shit (San Diego and Mexico City). Although they don't sound like that anymore, I think Sandman as an opener really gets the crowd going. Especially at festival shows for instance where you have many more casual fans who likes NEM, Master, Sandman, or a Metallica show in general. God knows how many of them there are at most shows.

Watching it for a third time. It is very good! Kirk is on point, everything is what it's supposed to be, except for the technical difficulties.

Still can't get over how she just almost lays on top of Lars while he is playing at one point. His reaction was funny as hell!

Also, anybody able to find this in higher resolution? What a pic!

http://instagram.com/p/BQdDQZJhBHt

So did James rant at the Palladium gig later that night? No way they would've just ignored that. I would suspect that show to be a bit move energetic after what transpired earlier.

Also, my two cents on their whole pattern. I believe that they will play other songs to change up the setlist, honestly I wasn't expecting them to play Whiplash in Copenhagen or in China. It's early in their tour, we'll see by the summer if they have put in some treats or not because I'm with you guys, the different setlists is one of the main factors for me to see them live. When I saw them in 2009, they pulled out Motorbreath and Harvester, my father was shocked when they started playing Harvester.

I have hope that they will change it up. I think so, because if what you guys suspect is true and they do seem to be a bit bored or a bit eh about these shows, maybe a change up would help that. The MetOnTour videos though are a kind of weird, don't know why they split them up like they did, also when they started this tour and even a bit before the tour in mid-2016 they did have the traditional tuning room stuff like we had in 2004 but it seems like they opted to go for the 360 degree thing in place of that and have a meet and greet as a separate video...sometimes. Maybe the band is tired of having a cameraman in the tuning room all the time lol. Maybe they'll have a drone next time around.

Damn, James was pissed.