Summer Tour: Wheeeee!
So it's old news now: Metallica is back on the road on Escape from the Studio 2006, and they are commemorating the 20th anniversary of Master of Puppets by playing the entire albuim in concert.
No, I don't mean they're playing the whole CD before the concert starts. I mean they're playing all 8 songs live, in order, from start to finish. We get the missing middle portion of "Battery", the full "Orion", and both taped intros to "Battery" and "Damage, Inc." And we get this every night of the tour, with a grab bag of random songs to complete the set, plus mainstays like "Fuel", "Enter Sandman", "One", "Sad But True", and "Seek and Destroy". It looks wierd, since Dream Theater already played the whole album in concert as a tribute, but it makes sense. I mean, the guys released the St. Anger Rehearsals DVD, where they were filmed playing the whole album with their live rigs. This is a band that likes to play full albums, and while it would have been "convenient" to do this during the South African leg of the Escape from the Studio Tour (shorter tour, tour occured in March, the same month Puppets was released, first time ever going to South Africa), this feels much better. Puppets was born in Europe, and the first headlining Met tour was the European Damage, Inc. tour in 1986, so it fits better. It sucks they're not going to play a Danish festival and truly bring MOP home (I think the Danish festival is Roskilde?), but the lucky fuckers who go to the Download Festival at Castle Donington and the Imola Jamming Festival will be in for a treat.
Speaking of lucky fuckers, those assholes in Berlin got to hear a new song! Yes, a brand new song was played at the Waldbuhne in Berlin, which is where Hitler used to address his generals during WWII. (A "different" history than most rock venues, but all that matters is the size of the stage when you rock, not who has been there before.) It is so new, they don't even have a title, and I'm going to return to the Metboards just to see if lyrics exist yet. I'm willing to bet that there is only one verse, or they used the lyrics from "Fuel" so no one bootlegs it.
No, I don't mean they're playing the whole CD before the concert starts. I mean they're playing all 8 songs live, in order, from start to finish. We get the missing middle portion of "Battery", the full "Orion", and both taped intros to "Battery" and "Damage, Inc." And we get this every night of the tour, with a grab bag of random songs to complete the set, plus mainstays like "Fuel", "Enter Sandman", "One", "Sad But True", and "Seek and Destroy". It looks wierd, since Dream Theater already played the whole album in concert as a tribute, but it makes sense. I mean, the guys released the St. Anger Rehearsals DVD, where they were filmed playing the whole album with their live rigs. This is a band that likes to play full albums, and while it would have been "convenient" to do this during the South African leg of the Escape from the Studio Tour (shorter tour, tour occured in March, the same month Puppets was released, first time ever going to South Africa), this feels much better. Puppets was born in Europe, and the first headlining Met tour was the European Damage, Inc. tour in 1986, so it fits better. It sucks they're not going to play a Danish festival and truly bring MOP home (I think the Danish festival is Roskilde?), but the lucky fuckers who go to the Download Festival at Castle Donington and the Imola Jamming Festival will be in for a treat.
Speaking of lucky fuckers, those assholes in Berlin got to hear a new song! Yes, a brand new song was played at the Waldbuhne in Berlin, which is where Hitler used to address his generals during WWII. (A "different" history than most rock venues, but all that matters is the size of the stage when you rock, not who has been there before.) It is so new, they don't even have a title, and I'm going to return to the Metboards just to see if lyrics exist yet. I'm willing to bet that there is only one verse, or they used the lyrics from "Fuel" so no one bootlegs it.