Funkstation777 needs to get a grip, with a side of perspective. How many shows has he done at a camp site?
It's funny to blame "bad circumstances" for the bad playin' of Metallica. In Summer two years ago, I played on an open Air Festival in a region in Austria, where it even snows in summer sometimes. We played our Set at + 6 ° Celsius, and the people could see our breath coming out of our mouth's. After the gig I had to stay in bed for 3 days. I haven't seen any breath comin' out of James Hetfield's mouth or the Audience inside the bubble.
And, by the way, what is so cruel about criticizing millionaires, that have enough money to play everywhere on the world, cause they just CAN??? Metallica stopped writing good songs after the Black Album. Ok, that's my own opinion as a formerly Metallica-Fan, so don't take that for serious.
Infraret lamps (you don't see them, but feel them, solar panels, Headphone mixes for the audience, Multi-thousand-Dollar-Systems for Mixing and Monitoring, and not talking about special Clothing for bad weather . What the fu**. They can afford all of this to
create their own envirionment at this gig.... and they fu**ed it up several times...
If you want to do such a PR-Thing (and it's what they did and nothing else) You should be able not only to expect best from the technican's and the gear, but also you should be "fit" for what you do... it reminds me on the Queen-Set on the Live-Aid in Wembley Stadium in the 80s: they were the only Band that rehearsed their setlist before their set.... (and we are talking about a Band that had played many more gigs than Metallica in their carreer) and they blew them all away. And the absolute opposite happend now
with Metallica. They have technologies available that we all can only dream of (we poor hobby musicians) and they just play like a bad Metallica-Cover-Band)
So, you may say: Oh, they are Metallica, they played their songs a thousand times... they don't need to rehearse... You know, that it isn't true (Especially if you have an inconsistent Drummer like Lars Ulrich in the Band) They just meet each other at the concerts, the got flight in by their private Jet, and they meet each other just 10 minutes before stage time, otherwise Lars and James would get into a fight....I don't call this a BAND. It's a bunch of millionaires that made great music in the past, and the have
to start such PR-Actions like the Antarctica-Gig just to cover the truth, that they should have stopped 10 years ago...
