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Member since December 25, 2001

First Metallica experience
The first time I laid my eyes on Metallica was April 20, 1992. Freddie Mercury Tribute concert, Wembley Stadium, England. My step-father was a huge Queen fan and in turn I became one too. So we're watching the Tribute concert honoring Freddie Mercury's life & death, it was broadcasted nationally on FOX. Metallica comes out and plays Enter Sandman, Sad But True and Nothing Else Matters. The way Jason was waving his hair around stage and Lars jammin away at the drums and James and Kirk just being themselves. I was amazed. I took my mother and step-father out and they bought me The Black Album that week. Not too soon after that I bought Kill'em All and Ride the Lightning. I was on my way to an obsession I couldn't have dreamed of. 

Which Metallica member you identify with most. (Past, present, living, dead...)
I idolize Lars with a passion. His movements & his style behind a drumset are what got me interested in playing. He is the man, even if he talks too damn much!

Favorite Metallica album

    

does it get any heavier than AJFA?? not in my opinion.

Interests
play instruments?
I try to play the drums in my spare time. I really want to make it a hobby once I get finished with school.

favorite movie
Pulp Fiction, far and away this is my favorite movie. The way it goes back and forth between scenes with no order is what makes it so appealing to me. Just a great flick.

sports
When I'm not listening to Metallica or in school I am watching, playing or following sports in some facet.  I want to be a Sports Broadcaster one day. It has been my dream since I was about 9 or 10 years old. I love the New York Yankees, New York Knicks, New York Rangers and New York Giants. I attend their games whenever money and time is possible. My whole day (sometimes even week, month or year) is based on whether my teams win or lose.  Sounds sick and twisted, but it's true. I am a sports nut!

other bands you like
Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Godsmack, Drowning Pool (R.I.P Dave Williams), Adema, Creed, KoRn, Ozzy, Rob Zombie, Systematic, Black Label Society, Bare Naked Ladies, Queen, The Doors, The Beatles, Rush, basically I like anything with at least 1 guitar (preferably 2), a bass guitar, drums and a lead singer who can actually sing! Let's just say I like Rock'n'Roll.
 

Favorite Metallica quote
Lars- "I'm just asking for one chorus"
 James- "I wouldn't ask you to do a drum solo if your arm fell off. My throat is really fucked up right now. You want vocals, go sing it."
                                             -From A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica when Lars is asking James to sing Unforgiven while laying down the drum tracks for The Black Album.

 

Metallica Shows

July 15, 1998-Camden, NJ, Sony Blockbuster Entertainment Center, Poor Re-Touring Me
      My father got me tickets from 94 WYSP and surprised me for my birthday. This is the summer I became obsessed with the band and it all started with this show. At the time I didn't even have the albums 'Master of Puppets' or '...And Justice For All' nor had I heard the songs from those albums. I laugh at that now, just 4+ years later. Our seats were in the center right behind the soundboard. They played my favorites, Of Wolf and Man and Fight Fire with Fire, plus countless others including a very cool acoustic set (Last Caress, Four Horsemen and Low Man's Lyric). They ended with Enter Sandman and Creeping Death. Walking back to the car my dad talked a girl, who was selling t-shirts, from $10 to $5. We then listened to the radio playback of the setlist on the way home. It was almost like driving on into the sunset. What a night that was. Memories for a lifetime.
a Ticket stub from the 7/15/98 show (not mine)

November 23, 1998- Philadelphia, PA, The Electric Factory, Garage Barage
     More luck struck for me in order to go this show. For those of you who don't know, The Electric Factory only holds about 3,000 people and it's general admission. The show sold out in 11 minutes about a month and a half earlier. I did not have tickets after those 11 minutes so I decided to enter my mother's name in a contest on WYSP. Low and behold she won!!! She got $300 and I got two tickets to the sold out show!!! Nobody was happier then me it seemed. My friend picked me up that evening and we were on our way to the show. A Metallica tribute band named Battery were jamming on some Tallica tunes as we arrived. We stood about half way to the back of the factory, probably 150 or so feet from the stage. The boyz came out and played a blistering set of all the new, and old, covers they were about to release on Garage, Inc. The album wasn't due out until the next morning, but they were doing an autograph signing at a nearby gas station after their show. So my friend and I decided to head out of the show an encore early to get in line for the autographs. As we were walking out you could still hear the music about 3 blocks away! When we go to the line it was already about 2 blocks deep. We moved a half block in the first 30 minutes of waiting and then didn't move 2 feet, or so it seemed, in the next 3 hours. I'd say we were about 20 people from the cut off of line and band when they said we had to go home. I was really upset cause everybody that would walk out after meeting the guyz had this breathtaking look on their faces. but all-in-all the experience was awesome. It was cool to hang out with so many Metallica fans on the streets during the wee hours of the morning. And surprisingly, for late-November, it wasn't that cold. Another night of rockin, rollin and headbangin!!

November 23, 1999- New York City, NY, Madison Square Garden, S&M Tour
     Exactly a year to the day from my last Tallica show. S&M had just been released worldwide and I was the first one to get it at my local record store the night before, along with a free t-shirt and poster. I went with a friend from my high school, Alex,  who I converted into a Metallica fan only a year before. It was a Tuesday so school was in but we had different lunch periods so we took turns listening to the new album out in the parking lot in our cars. We were raring to go. This was the most excited I had been for anything in my life. Everybody I came in contact with for the past month knew I was going to this show. We took the train in (about an hour ride) to Penn Station. Directly above the train station (for those of you who don't know) is the 'World's Most Famous Arena' Madison Square Garden. We were one of the first hundred or so people to enter the arena and find our seats. I just kept staring at the clock and waited for it to hit 8pm. 'The minutes seemed like hours'. The electricity was unbelieveable in the arena that night. The only thing that comes close to it for me was Game 6 of the 1996 World Series when the Yankees beat the Braves for the championship for their 1st title in 18 years at Yankee Stadium. The orchestra were all in their seats and ready and out walked Michael Kamen. The place went into a frenzy! The band wasn't even out on stage yet and it seemed as though the roof was gonna cave in. Finally the band came out one at a time while they started playing The Call of Ktulu. And on the set went. The 2nd half of the show kept getting better and better with every song. I got chills up and down my spine when the lights went out during For Whom The Bell Tolls. I couldn't wait for One to be played. I really hurt my hand bangin it on the metal seat when the intro was playing. I was so pumped. It seemed the crowd was louder than the PA sometimes. I think they had the sound down because of the symphony, but it still fuckin rocked! After One came Enter Sandman and they finished up with Battery. A fan jumped on the stage during Battery and quickly jumped off but not before security got to him. At the conclusion of the show I just sat in my seat trying to heal my wounds from the almost 3 hours of symphony metal! We sat for about 15 minutes, then we made our way to the train station to go home. I was so dehyrated from yelling, screaming and jumping around that I chugged two bottles of apple juice in about 30 seconds. To top it off, the train was so packed on the way home that they didn't check for our tickets and we stood up the whole way home. It's safe to say I slept good that night...with a smile on my face as I went 'off to never-never land...'

                 MSG Show program

July 4, 2000- Baltimore, MD, PSINet Stadium, Summer Sanitarium Tour
    Hot as hell that day.

Ticket stub from the 7/4/00 show (not mine)