The wife and I had a great time at the Metallica concert last night. Sure, fighting rush-hour traffic sucked (especially since we live so close to the Forum), but we had no problems parking or getting to our seats.
We missed the opening band, but we saw the second one, Machine Head. With a name like that, you'd think they'd be doing Deep Purple covers, but they didn't. They did a great job with the crowd and got people into their set. My primary complaint with them, and this current wave of metal bands, is the CONSTANT screaming by the lead singer. And this guy could really sing, as evidenced by their version of Iron Maiden's Hallowed by Thy Name.
The stage setup was very cool. It was a large rectangle in the middle of the floor with mics at each corner and the in between them. The drum setup was in the middle and rotated. There were lights in coffins, per the Death Magnetic motif. They also had both lasers and pyrotechnics (insert WATCH OUT JAMES joke here) in the stage.
What I still love about seeing Metallica is how well they play and control tempo. Speed metal bands tend to want to play even faster live. Except for on Master of Puppets, they avoided that trap. And when they played fast, like on Fight Fire With Fire, they were tight.
The set list covered a big chunk of their career and had plenty of new songs. I like Death Magnetic, so I was cool with that. The wife's not as big on the record, so she would have preferred more older stuff.
There was some of the usual concert experience. A bunch of military dudes in front of us in the "I love you man" stage of drunkenness. The woman sitting next to me puked (but, fortunately, not on me). But, we got out of the parking lot in a jiffy, so we got home at a reasonable hour so I could write about it to y'all.
Have a great Friday.
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