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Hey guys, just stepped in to say hi and give you my review of Metallica's concert. So here it goes.
It was very hot and sunny Tuesday. I went to the train station after the second Estonian JCF member Oliver (JC_Denton) he was with his drummer Kaido. They came from Tartu. We hang out in Tallinn, drank and ate and then went to the concert ground wich is near by the beach and while we were going to the concert place we were checkin' out girls' asses who were tanning.
So we entered to the Song Festival Ground wich is a huge place. No cameras and shit wasn't allowed. Luckly my brother sold official Merch. (shirts etc.) there so he took the camera and gave to me when I was in.
Saw tons of old friends there, tons of chicks too.
There was 78000 people wich is the solo concert (non-festival) record in Estonia. 30000 of them were from the other countries because it was the only Metallica's gig in North Europe. There were people from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania etc.
The foreign fans were hittin' on Estonian girls very intensly
When the show started everyone split up and rushed to the front of the stage.
The first opening bands were local.
The first one was Pedigree who are industrial metal pioneers here, and also huge thrash fans. The were pretty ok.
The second one was one of the biggest local rock bands The Sun, they are decent but I don't really dig 'em and they didn't fit to that concert.
The last opener was Bullet For My Valentine from Wales (UK). The lead guitar player was playing with Dave Mustaine's signature ESP V8 and two Mesa Boogie 3 channel rectifiers (Triples I think) with two Mesa traditional size straight cabs. The lead singer/rhythm player was using a white reverse headstock Jackson Rhoads and a black Rhoads, both with string-thru bridge. He was using two Peavey 6505 heads and two Mesa traditional straight cabs. The sound was pretty good, drums were pretty massive too (some kind of white Pearl kit).
Their playing was pretty clean. But the band is booring as hell, some kind of modern thrash/heavy/metalcore metal stuff, I would never listen to them on a record. Riffs, leads and songwriting is booring. Their cookie monster vocals are horrible and when they sing clean parts, then they suck even more. But I could bare them in live, I even moshed a little bit to warm up.
I give them credit for being fans of 80's rock (Motley Crue, G'N'R etc.).
Now the main thing.
First I gotta say that the crowd was very wild in front of the stage. There were a lot of wrestling, beating, fist fights etc. People threw each other with water cups. I was so fucking wet. Some folks were beaten pretty badly, they were bleeding on the other people.
Luckly there was a cool "system", the security guards gave a lot of water to the people to drink and hosed us too. Also when somone couldn't bare all that rumble anymore, the others carried them to the security guards and they led them to more quieter place. It was pretty cool.
I was one of the very few who could take pictures of the show (thanks to my brother) but it was a very difficult job because of the rumble. Some pictures are kinda foggy because of that.
Ok, Metallica was FUCKING AWSOME!!! I think they practiced very hard before the tour. They nailed everything PERFECTLY. And they did it with EASE. Even Kirk was dead on when he was playing solos, his vibrato is still out of tune tho. Lars was a monster, he has so much power. And Rob is easily the best bass player Metallica ever had as far as skill and stage presence is concerned. He was cool as hell. I think Metallica's gig is too easy for him tho. He is used to play some crazy funk slapping stuff with Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Groove. All the band members are great showmen, they were all over the stage. And they had so much fun too. I was amazed that James' voice was pretty good.
Here is the setlist:
Creeping Death
Fuel
Wherever I May Room
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fade To Black
Battery
Master Of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Disposable Heroes
Leper Messiah
Orion
Damage Inc.
Sad But True
Nothing Else Matters
One
Enter Sandman
So What
Seek & Destroy
Since when they had such a badass set? Since when they played the WHOLE Master Of Puppets album live? Unbelieavable.
I think it's pretty hard to nail all the riffs down stroking exlusively on tempos 200 bpm and up.
When they played Nothing Else Matters, half of the crowd was in tears and there were A LOT of people who light their lighters. It was beautiful.
Durning So What, all the opening bands' members were on the stage with Metallica and sang along.
The concert ended with the classic Seek & Destroy.
The band was very happy and threw a lot of picks and sticks to the crowd.
The sound was probably the best I've ever heard in a rock concert. Metallica is the best sounding metal band live and in the studio in my opinion. Lars' drum sound was godlike, specially his kick drums. So powerful and yet dynamical and warm.
Rob used 3 vintage SVT type ampeg heads with eight 4x10 cabs. Also there was a Mesa Boogie Recto stack in his rig.
His sound was very distorted, in a good way, great tube overdrive sound wich would probably suck for jazz but in Metallica it sounds powerfull. I think some of the distortion came from the Boogie head.
James was using two Triple Rectifiers with two Mesa traditional straight cabs and a Roland Jazz Chorus for cleans. Kirk was using three Triple Rectifiers with four Mesa traditional straight cabs. Their tone was AWSOME. Probably the best metal tone I've heard in a concert. It was powerfull, clear and crunchy.
I didn't see mics on the cabs, maybe they used some special Direct systems.
The sound was amazing but in some places directly in front of the speakers, the sound was muddy and the bass was too loud according to the people who were there.
JC had a micro heart attack beacuse of the monstrous bass range. The doctors wanted to give him an electric shock or something, but he luckly woke up before. He can tell about what happened himself, I didn't see him when the bands were playing. He is ok now, but after the show he was feeling pretty sick.
When the concert was over, tens of thousands walked together to the center of the city. It was amazing.
I hooked up with some chicks from Finland, went to their hotel room and got laid. Then went to home.
Here are my pics:
http://www.hot.ee/metallica06tallinn/
On the first pic is JC (left), with drummer Raido (right)
On the 4th and 5th pic from below, JC is recovering from the micro heart attack and his girlfriend is comforting him.
The first time Metallica was here in 1998, they were awsome then, but now they just destroyed.
It was one of the best shows I've ever seen
It was very hot and sunny Tuesday. I went to the train station after the second Estonian JCF member Oliver (JC_Denton) he was with his drummer Kaido. They came from Tartu. We hang out in Tallinn, drank and ate and then went to the concert ground wich is near by the beach and while we were going to the concert place we were checkin' out girls' asses who were tanning.
So we entered to the Song Festival Ground wich is a huge place. No cameras and shit wasn't allowed. Luckly my brother sold official Merch. (shirts etc.) there so he took the camera and gave to me when I was in.
Saw tons of old friends there, tons of chicks too.
There was 78000 people wich is the solo concert (non-festival) record in Estonia. 30000 of them were from the other countries because it was the only Metallica's gig in North Europe. There were people from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania etc.
The foreign fans were hittin' on Estonian girls very intensly
When the show started everyone split up and rushed to the front of the stage.
The first opening bands were local.
The first one was Pedigree who are industrial metal pioneers here, and also huge thrash fans. The were pretty ok.
The second one was one of the biggest local rock bands The Sun, they are decent but I don't really dig 'em and they didn't fit to that concert.
The last opener was Bullet For My Valentine from Wales (UK). The lead guitar player was playing with Dave Mustaine's signature ESP V8 and two Mesa Boogie 3 channel rectifiers (Triples I think) with two Mesa traditional size straight cabs. The lead singer/rhythm player was using a white reverse headstock Jackson Rhoads and a black Rhoads, both with string-thru bridge. He was using two Peavey 6505 heads and two Mesa traditional straight cabs. The sound was pretty good, drums were pretty massive too (some kind of white Pearl kit).
Their playing was pretty clean. But the band is booring as hell, some kind of modern thrash/heavy/metalcore metal stuff, I would never listen to them on a record. Riffs, leads and songwriting is booring. Their cookie monster vocals are horrible and when they sing clean parts, then they suck even more. But I could bare them in live, I even moshed a little bit to warm up.
I give them credit for being fans of 80's rock (Motley Crue, G'N'R etc.).
Now the main thing.
First I gotta say that the crowd was very wild in front of the stage. There were a lot of wrestling, beating, fist fights etc. People threw each other with water cups. I was so fucking wet. Some folks were beaten pretty badly, they were bleeding on the other people.
Luckly there was a cool "system", the security guards gave a lot of water to the people to drink and hosed us too. Also when somone couldn't bare all that rumble anymore, the others carried them to the security guards and they led them to more quieter place. It was pretty cool.
I was one of the very few who could take pictures of the show (thanks to my brother) but it was a very difficult job because of the rumble. Some pictures are kinda foggy because of that.
Ok, Metallica was FUCKING AWSOME!!! I think they practiced very hard before the tour. They nailed everything PERFECTLY. And they did it with EASE. Even Kirk was dead on when he was playing solos, his vibrato is still out of tune tho. Lars was a monster, he has so much power. And Rob is easily the best bass player Metallica ever had as far as skill and stage presence is concerned. He was cool as hell. I think Metallica's gig is too easy for him tho. He is used to play some crazy funk slapping stuff with Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Groove. All the band members are great showmen, they were all over the stage. And they had so much fun too. I was amazed that James' voice was pretty good.
Here is the setlist:
Creeping Death
Fuel
Wherever I May Room
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fade To Black
Battery
Master Of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Disposable Heroes
Leper Messiah
Orion
Damage Inc.
Sad But True
Nothing Else Matters
One
Enter Sandman
So What
Seek & Destroy
Since when they had such a badass set? Since when they played the WHOLE Master Of Puppets album live? Unbelieavable.
I think it's pretty hard to nail all the riffs down stroking exlusively on tempos 200 bpm and up.
When they played Nothing Else Matters, half of the crowd was in tears and there were A LOT of people who light their lighters. It was beautiful.
Durning So What, all the opening bands' members were on the stage with Metallica and sang along.
The concert ended with the classic Seek & Destroy.
The band was very happy and threw a lot of picks and sticks to the crowd.
The sound was probably the best I've ever heard in a rock concert. Metallica is the best sounding metal band live and in the studio in my opinion. Lars' drum sound was godlike, specially his kick drums. So powerful and yet dynamical and warm.
Rob used 3 vintage SVT type ampeg heads with eight 4x10 cabs. Also there was a Mesa Boogie Recto stack in his rig.
His sound was very distorted, in a good way, great tube overdrive sound wich would probably suck for jazz but in Metallica it sounds powerfull. I think some of the distortion came from the Boogie head.
James was using two Triple Rectifiers with two Mesa traditional straight cabs and a Roland Jazz Chorus for cleans. Kirk was using three Triple Rectifiers with four Mesa traditional straight cabs. Their tone was AWSOME. Probably the best metal tone I've heard in a concert. It was powerfull, clear and crunchy.
I didn't see mics on the cabs, maybe they used some special Direct systems.
The sound was amazing but in some places directly in front of the speakers, the sound was muddy and the bass was too loud according to the people who were there.
JC had a micro heart attack beacuse of the monstrous bass range. The doctors wanted to give him an electric shock or something, but he luckly woke up before. He can tell about what happened himself, I didn't see him when the bands were playing. He is ok now, but after the show he was feeling pretty sick.
When the concert was over, tens of thousands walked together to the center of the city. It was amazing.
I hooked up with some chicks from Finland, went to their hotel room and got laid. Then went to home.
Here are my pics:
http://www.hot.ee/metallica06tallinn/
On the first pic is JC (left), with drummer Raido (right)
On the 4th and 5th pic from below, JC is recovering from the micro heart attack and his girlfriend is comforting him.
The first time Metallica was here in 1998, they were awsome then, but now they just destroyed.
It was one of the best shows I've ever seen
Where are all the great tunes off of St. Anger on the set list?
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