This is actually...fairly inaccurate.
Metallica play different setlists almost every night. They have a few songs that they play at the same point in the setlist, but in between you'll see a fair bit of variation.
Fair enough.
Also, Hardwired was a pretty damn good album. Spit Out The Bone in particular is a bitchin' song.
I'll take your word for it. Me and Metallica parted after Load came out. And the Napster incident.
That being said, the Prince cover is pretty appalling. I understand why they do it, but I wish they wouldn't.
I still think the cover itself is not that bad, kinda meh, but this whole doodle thing is a show stopper.
So because they eff around with a Prince song for shits and grins they have a plight? You're blowing this way out of proportion. Ease off on the caffeine.
I don't get paid millions to play because I'm a full time student. I never had the dream or intended to be in their shoes so I'm not tragically bitter about it.
I am not a multi-million earning rockstar, but I can recognize what works in a show and what not. I don't subscribe to the fanboy excuse that rockstars like Metallica know better what they're doing then us mere mortals. Because then please explain Jason's Mystery bass lines on In Justice, Load/Reload, Napster, St. Anger, Death Magnetic mastering or Lulu?
The way I see it a band which has reached the commercial levels of a Metallica is afforded some leeway in the stunts it can get away with. So Metallica can get away with this show stopping doodle, just like U2 can get away with yet another Bono lecture that lasts like
forever about whatever good cause/world problem grinds his gear at that moment. It's what audiences accept that they have to endure until the hits start coming again. Any normal band that still has to fight for audience recognition would never be able to do such a thing.
As for being bitter, who's bitter? Metallica worked very hard to get where they are right now, I'm perfectly fine with that. Incredibly hard even considering that they're a trash metal band, which wasn't exactly mainstream to start with. Kudos for that. If I'm bitter about anything its the Napster incident.
Hi, just to clarify La Macarena is a song by a spanish duo called Los del Rio, they're based in Dos Hermanas (Sevilla). I think the audience boos have to do more from the style of the song than from regionalisms. This latin mixed with flamenco pop-dance pachanga don't represent us at all (the dubious quality of the hit may be another factor), in my country we have an exciting catalog by many artists that would rise the bar.
In the stage some jokes go wrong!
I stand corrected. It was however as funny as hell to hear on the bootleg, as was Edge's reaction to the Dutch audience with Radar Love.
