Balls out METAL. the wa it damned well should be!!
ngon master
Last night i took my younger brother, his mother, my best friend steve, and a friend of ours, Alexia to see Metallica at Wembley Stadium.
the line up:
Mastodon
Bullet For My Valentine
HIM
Metallica
the event:
well, first about a week ago i found out Bullet had pulled out... bit bummed at that, but thought "oh well they will probably let the other bands play longer... but EW at HIM".
and then we arrive, and Machine ****ING head have taken over the bullet slot. JOY!!!
Mastodon opened up real good, and while the EQ in the stadium (we were up at the top) wasn't that great, they set the mood and played their nuts off, no mosh pits at that time... but it was only 4pm lol.
then Machine Head took the stage, and with some tweaking of the EQ, the sound was crisp, clear, and LOUD. they were ****ing insane, real hard playing, mosh pits starting everywhere, and people piling into the stadium. the band left to a large applause.
HIM.... were booed off, 13 minutes into their set (BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA) after watching people throw cups of beer at them (waste of good beer?) a large portion of the crowd on the ground, and in the seated area (where i was) doing the YMCA, and then i whitnessed the largest conga line EVER, there must have been about 200 people involved, it was of epic proportions.
i also got to giggle when two emo girls (one was "male") started crying and being all upset when the band took off.
and then it happened, after making us wait an extra 10 minutes... extacy of gold started playing with the intro video for metallica... they came out... the intro for Creeping Death sounds out through the stadium, the crowd goes wild, and then just as all 70,000 people sing in unision with James "FLAME! hebrews born to serve!" they crank up the volume, the speakers sound like they might explode, the crowd goes nuts, and i started headbanging for what lasted about 2 1/2 hours. my god, it was the best show i've EVER seen, even better than download festival last year....
if anyone gets the chance to see them, take it. no one should go through life without seeing metallica at least once (Steve is a house/trance/electro DJ. and he came out sayng "**** me that was amazing").
the line up:
Mastodon
Bullet For My Valentine
HIM
Metallica
the event:
well, first about a week ago i found out Bullet had pulled out... bit bummed at that, but thought "oh well they will probably let the other bands play longer... but EW at HIM".
and then we arrive, and Machine ****ING head have taken over the bullet slot. JOY!!!
Mastodon opened up real good, and while the EQ in the stadium (we were up at the top) wasn't that great, they set the mood and played their nuts off, no mosh pits at that time... but it was only 4pm lol.
then Machine Head took the stage, and with some tweaking of the EQ, the sound was crisp, clear, and LOUD. they were ****ing insane, real hard playing, mosh pits starting everywhere, and people piling into the stadium. the band left to a large applause.
HIM.... were booed off, 13 minutes into their set (BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA) after watching people throw cups of beer at them (waste of good beer?) a large portion of the crowd on the ground, and in the seated area (where i was) doing the YMCA, and then i whitnessed the largest conga line EVER, there must have been about 200 people involved, it was of epic proportions.
i also got to giggle when two emo girls (one was "male") started crying and being all upset when the band took off.
and then it happened, after making us wait an extra 10 minutes... extacy of gold started playing with the intro video for metallica... they came out... the intro for Creeping Death sounds out through the stadium, the crowd goes wild, and then just as all 70,000 people sing in unision with James "FLAME! hebrews born to serve!" they crank up the volume, the speakers sound like they might explode, the crowd goes nuts, and i started headbanging for what lasted about 2 1/2 hours. my god, it was the best show i've EVER seen, even better than download festival last year....
if anyone gets the chance to see them, take it. no one should go through life without seeing metallica at least once (Steve is a house/trance/electro DJ. and he came out sayng "**** me that was amazing").
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Just kidding, sounds like you had a lot of fun!
Mastodon, though, are fscking amazing.
I have no use for HIM (wtf? why are they on stage with good acts?) or even Metallica.
Mastodon, though, are fscking amazing.
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Agreed. Metallica bores me. So do all the other bands mentioned, with the exception of mastodawn.
Glad you had a good time though, sounds like it was a blast. (Gotta feel a bit bad for the HIM guys though. I mean, I don't enjoy their music, but it's gotta be tough getting boo'd off a stage like that).
/jealous
i feel i may not have given enough props to mastodon, who were great, it's just that being the first band on, and not having the eq right threw me off a bit. i'd much rather HIM played first so they could get booed off and i could have listened to 20 more minutes of each of the next bands.
they played the night before too, for the live earth show. apparently twice as many people showed up to the actual metallica concert though... shows how much people give a crap about energy haha.
With Machine Head taking Bullets place, and HIM getting boo'ed, that must have been a great concert. Those two sissy bands don't belong on that stage.
ps. grow up.
i can't get over how much better they are live than everyone else i've ever been to see. i'm not talking about technical skill... we all know there are better bands out there (but to be fair... the speeds they play some of the tracks is pretty gnarly). i mean the atmosphere they generate, the energy, and the overall show... just wow.
anyway, i met some really cool people there, kept in touch, slept with one of them, and went to download festival with one of the guys later that year, who was a legend, and convinced me that at festivals, Pear Cider is gods gift to the thirsty