Chocklit_Thunda
I really hate these guys (I mean I even said no to 2 complimentary tickets ???) but I'm actually glad they put on a great show!
Nothing grates me more than when a world renowned band comes along and play a rubbish show.
It's good to know that these ooms really brought it ?
symbolofmylife
Chocklit_Thunda wrote
Nothing grates me more than when a world renowned band comes along and play a rubbish show.
Man, last night was awe-inspiring. I saw them in 2006 when they were here and honestly left feeling a tad disappointed. But last night was beyond words! They brought it BIG TIME!!!!
aubs1
Joe Moore wrote
I got asked by a young lass behind me "Hoekom is jy hier oom ?".....lol. :-[ true story ?
"Om daai ooms te kom sien wie jy kom sien het .... " ?
ZarK
I had the time of my life on the 25th... Awesome line-up. Absolutely LOVE Metallica! Caught a plectrum as well. Nice souvenir. Saw them at Cokefest a few years back. These guys have an on-stage presence like no other, imho.
msch997
Epic show (FNB Saturday)
Was in golden circle right up front, caught a plectrum as well, and just like Joe I am a "oom" I am 57
Was good to see Justin on base with Chromium opening the bill.
Regards
Mike
Hammeron
Now wasn't that just brill! Had a great view of the proceedings from a slightly elevated position, what a sight! They played some interesting stuff - Orion, The Memory Remains and Blackened. Pyro was great. ? ? Just trying to figure out how Pestroy fitted into the process. :-\
Jacques_nasi
Wow and now I'm really bummed that I missed them..... :'(. at least I saw them last time they were here.
flatfourfan
Seen them 3 times and this honestly was the best show..........what a freaking setlist.
With the exception of 2 songs from the newer stuff it was all old skool. I mean common, opening up with hit the lights?
I didn't stop headbanging till the end of seek and destroy.........this is the first live show of anything where I have been totally dry and 100% sober and damn it was the best by far.
Kudos to symbol...................lucky sod.
flatfourfan
Joe Moore wrote
:-[ I was there 8) , Great show ! Saw a fair number of people absolutely motherlessly drunk and passed out by 6.30 pm :-\ wtf ? ... I supposed they recovered by the time Metallica played .
I got asked by a young lass behind me "Hoekom is jy hier oom ?".....lol. :-[ true story ?
I blame it on the long lines for the beer as well as those cups that have handles, guys were buying 10 pints at a time......The same cups that were being thrown around in the general standing area.
coynegfsa
flatfourfan wrote
.....The same cups that were being thrown around in the general standing area.
Guess who had one of those cups fly a few mm from his head. ??? Might've started in the general standing area but eventually the others decided to join in. Narrow escape, haha!
IceCreamMan
Sadly I did not attend ..but dayum I would of loved to watch Justin and support him and his band....one of those things hey...
joe - damn, u the same age as those ooomies on stage man ?
symbolofmylife - nice man , real nice and sweet t shirt too..... sacrifist proper cool za band .... I voted for sacrifist to open for metallica on some website as requested by shelly..
next time I go ....
dee
It was a really good show, we were right in front, just to the left.
My girlfriend caught me one of Hetfield's picks he used during the night ? Yes, that is why I love her...
I also caught a few other unused ones (bass + guitar) that they threw into the crowd at the end of the
show, but that one is different from the rest.
Explorerlover
Loved the show and the chance to again see a bunch of cool guitars....
The "chrome boy" snakebite played by Hetfield was a disappointment, but man seeing that Kenny Lawrence Explorer again in real life was awesome. That, the Flying V's, the Jackson Rhoads and the black LP custom made me remember why I am such a Metallica fanboy..
flatfourfan
Explorerlover wrote
Loved the show and the chance to again see a bunch of cool guitars....
The "chrome boy" snakebite played by Hetfield was a disappointment, but man seeing that Kenny Lawrence Explorer again in real life was awesome. That, the Flying V's, the Jackson Rhoads and the black LP custom made me remember why I am such a Metallica fanboy..
The KL totally did it for me as well......
LooneyAtTheGate
Yes seeing the guitars in real life was really awesome.
My back is still sore after coming short in the mosh pit.. Totally worth it! ?
Battery, Master of Puppets, Am I Evil, Fight Fire With Fire, Creeping Death, Sad But True were the highlights for me!
flatfourfan
Julian Emdon (LooneyAtTheGate) wrote
Yes seeing the guitars in real life was really awesome.
My back is still sore after coming short in the mosh pit.. Totally worth it! ?
Battery, Master of Puppets, Am I Evil, Fight Fire With Fire, Creeping Death, Sad But True were the highlights for me!
Jhb setlist was
Hit the Lights
Master of Puppets
Ride the Lightning
Harvester of Sorrow
Fade to Black
The Memory Remains
Cyanide
Sad but True
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Orion
One
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Blackened
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Encore:
Creeping Death
Battery
Seek & Destroy
The highlights for me was all of the above.....minus the two that are obvious even to a blind man.
symbolofmylife
It truly rocked!!!!
But one thing I cannot possibly grasp (and it's not the first time this has happened) is when some concert goer(s) try to make trouble. Jeesh!!! Some people should just understand that they're a menace to society and crawl into a hole!
Case in point: 3 songs into Metallica's set some shirtless backwards-nike-cap wearing douche squeezes his way in front of us (middle of an already cramped of GC). Tried to get a mosh going. First he bumped my wife, and eventually me and another friend. I decided F this guy and shoved him as hard as I could forward and shouted "F-off!!!!" to make a point for his tiny brain to grasp we were not "down with that, yo!". But, cease he would not. So upon his personal one-man mosh coming our way again, spilling my cherished beer all over the place, my buddy grabbed the guy and politely asked him to please stop, or take his "mosh" somewhere else.
So, "Fred Durst" starts his crap. "So what you gonna do?!", "Do you think you're tough?!"...you get it....
My friend kept being polite telling the guy he's stepping on our feet, bumping our wives around and just overall killing the vibe in our section. But cap-boy kept at his shit. Now, "Fred" is a short guy. Me and my buddy, around 6 feet. My buddy ended up telling the guy to bugger off as well, before I saw "Freddy" getting really agro and was getting ready for this to turn bad, so I stepped in and told him if he keeps up his shit all of us in that section will commence beating the living shit out of him. Then, another random dude and his buddies chimed in and told him the same. HAHAHAHAHA!! "Cappie" was standing in front of us for the remainder of the show, completely static and not even clapping slightly. Get some, a$$hole!
Friends in the general standing area also told me two dudes went at it badly, and one dude messed a drunk annoying dude up badly....knocked him out and just left him there lying on the floor. LEKKER!
Anyway, still, Metallica rocked!!!
Here's a video someone took (sadly from afar) for One and Bells. Check the pyros!!!!
Stubbs
I saw them on the 25th too - absolutely epic show! Was worried about James's voice but I reckon he pulled it off. Van Coke Kartel were good too! Wish I had bought general standing :/
PS: Marshall Music has those Black Fang picks ?
el-guapo
Saw them the second night in Cape Town. What an a-fking-mazing show. I must add that it was one of the first concerts I've been to where I haven't had a single complaint about ANYTHING organisation-wise: I'm sure there were hassles, but I sure didn't experience any. And the crowd where I was was just a joy. I was the annoying one: three separate times I managed to step/jump (didn't seem to land too hard) on the same guy's foot as I got too excited, but even he kept a cool head about it (I moved away after hit number three, probably should have done so earlier...)
ANYWAY. The point of this was to give the hugest thumbs up to Kirk for the strap he wore on his black Randy Rhodes: in big red letters it said "R R 1 9 8 2". I thought it was an awesome, understated (ie no-one but guitarists would spot it) tribute to a genius we lost far too early. Diss Kirk all you want for his wah and pentatonics, but I loved that.
Cleric
Absolutely amazing show, and I echo all the good things said above. But tell me that someone else noticed that Kirk has gotten a bit... sloppy? And relying on his Wah as a crutch WAY too much?
James is god-sized though. What a frontman!
