Metallica 89!!!!!!

[BrentSSL]

Let's make this a little easier shall we?

lol I love you

 

[mdc1mdc11]

always wondered why they quickly the fell off after Cliff was gone and AJFA. How much influence did Mustaine really have on the songs on those albums although kicked out of the band? Somehow have never reconciled that Hammett could have written some of that material.

 

[Dopethrone]

If the black album itself wasn't enough to destroy the Metallica vibe, then the supporting tour surely did. My beefs :

- black album tour featured a LARS ULRICH DRUM SOLO ?!? Enough said.
- a 30 minute audience sing-a-long circus sideshow to Seek'n'Destroy
- Kirk actually played his guitar during previous solo spots. Here he wiped his ass with it (literally) and dragged it up and down the risers.
- only played 1/3rd of Master of Puppets, infuriatingly sequeing into Wherever I may roam.
- arenas were packed with jocks and others who wouldn't be caught dead seeing them 2 years earlier on AJFA tour. I saw both tours and the vibe was 100 % different.

yep.

 

[rottingcorpse]

I only saw them once, on the "Kill 'em All for One" tour with Raven in Tyler,Texas. Pretty sure there were only 45 people at that show. James and Lars were snot-slinging drunk as soon as they came offstage to hang with the crowd.

 

[155]

I saw that tour and it was awesome and it was the last time that band was worth a shit it was all downhill after that....

 

[HanJolo]

I've always considered myself a Metallica fan. Although MoP and RTL are my 2 favourites, I'll always have the first four albums in my rotation of what I'm listening to. After that it's just songs here and there, but I still appreciate them (God that failed/Unforgiven on black album, Outlaw torn on Load, Fixxxer on Reload, etc).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjjCp_QU5Qk

 

[BrentSSL]

Can't we just be happy with Metallica lol

 

[rottingcorpse]

It's hard to sound truly angry and hungry when your are no longer angry or hungry.

Before the black album they were still a cult. After the black album, they became gods.

For me, it was the LOAD album that made me stop buying. But I still loose my mind every time I hear damage inc., battery, fight fire with fire...any of the fast stuff from the thrash heyday. Everything else stops, and I am lost in my own little world. I will always love and thank them for that.

 

[Dopethrone]

It's hard to sound truly angry and hungry when your are no longer angry or hungry.

Before the black album they were still a cult. After the black album, they became gods.

For me, it was the LOAD album that made me stop buying. But I still loose my mind every time I hear damage inc., battery, fight fire with fire...any of the fast stuff from the thrash heyday. Everything else stops, and I am lost in my own little world. I will always love and thank them for that.

yep again!

 

[skoora]

It's hard to sound truly angry and hungry when your are no longer angry or hungry.

Before the black album they were still a cult. After the black album, they became gods.

For me, it was the LOAD album that made me stop buying. But I still loose my mind every time I hear damage inc., battery, fight fire with fire...any of the fast stuff from the thrash heyday. Everything else stops, and I am lost in my own little world. I will always love and thank them for that.

yep again!

and again!

 

[rupe]

The first time I ever saw them was when they opened for Ozzy on the ultimate sin tour here in New York. I was very fortunate to see Cliff that night and I remember it well still.

The odd transition was when they went off stage and blew the place down, to then having Ozzy come out in his corny silvery glittered overcoat..

Needless to say they completely blew him away imo and I also think they were at the top of their game then. I know everyone considers the black album the top of their game, but to me that was their decline. I'll go as far as justice but it ends for me there. There is that footage from Long Island two days prior that I often watch because it takes me back to that night. Man they kicked all kinds of ass back then, that's the Metallica I'll always remember.

I saw that tour as well in Johnstown, PA. Metallica were outclassed in every meaningful way by Ozzy's band. I was hoping they would blow me away, but all they did was blow.
They were light years better two years later when I saw them on the Monsters of Rock tour.

 

[El Mariachi]

It's hard to sound truly angry and hungry when your are no longer angry or hungry.

Before the black album they were still a cult. After the black album, they became gods.

For me, it was the LOAD album that made me stop buying. But I still loose my mind every time I hear damage inc., battery, fight fire with fire...any of the fast stuff from the thrash heyday. Everything else stops, and I am lost in my own little world. I will always love and thank them for that.

yep again!

and again!

and yet again!

 

[skoora]

It's hard to sound truly angry and hungry when your are no longer angry or hungry.

Before the black album they were still a cult. After the black album, they became gods.

For me, it was the LOAD album that made me stop buying. But I still loose my mind every time I hear damage inc., battery, fight fire with fire...any of the fast stuff from the thrash heyday. Everything else stops, and I am lost in my own little world. I will always love and thank them for that.

yep again!

and again!

and yet again!