Metallica

Saw Metallica in Philly tonight and was blown away! Wow. Just. Wow. Too tired to think straight really so just going to post an email the hubby wrote to a friend. Pretty much sums up my feelings too, his comments are below in bold:

Well when the first opening band came on I was disapointed right away. The sound was very hollow. The voices were distorted. Drowned out by the music. I leaned over to Sharon right away and told her "If the whole show sounds like this I am going to be royaly pissed off!". Well thankfully by the time the second opening band was finished my faith had been restored. The sound was much better. Now before I tell you what I thought of Metallica, I will say both the opening bands were decent. I would probably not pay to see them as main acts. After tonight's show (or last night since it is now Sunday) I have seen 81 different bands in concert. When I first saw ACDC 9 years ago, that was the best show I had ever seen. Even when we saw them in October it reaffirmed my opinion. ACDC is the measuring stick on how to put on a show. For 9 years that was my opinion. Metallica just knocked my fuckin socks off !!!!!!! They had the best pyro/laser/music performance of any show I have ever seen. I have never been a part of a more passionate audience then I was last night. 20,000 strong singing in unison to almost every song. I left there with a sore throat and a headache ( screaming , singing, and headbanging). The lead singer brought out his daughter. It was her 7th birthday. 20,000 of us singing happy birthday to her. Sharon is a huge Def Leppard fan. Ever since I have known her she said the first time she saw them in concert was the best show she had been to. Before I told her what I thought of Metallica's performance I asked her opinion of the show. She said by far the best she had ever been to. She didn't know but maybe about half of the songs they played. She was just so impressed with all of it. As was I. It was a wonderful evening.

Yup, I loved the singing happy birthday part. I loved loved loved loved the lazer show. I loved when they dropped the giant black beach balls during the Seek and Destroy encore. Going to try to post two crappy videos I took with the cell phone. First is the opening with the lazers! God that was soooo fricken awesome. Second video is the crowd singing along to Unforgiven my all time fav Metallica song. Hopefully the video files will work with blogger.