December 18, 2008
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This past Wednesday night was my second of three Metallica concerts for this month, and this time it was at “The Forum” in Inglewood, CA. It was similar and at the same time a little different to last Friday’s show at the Citizens Business Bank Arena. First and foremost, the floor area was definitely bigger than the other venue, which allowed for more room. This helps because you can easily avoid being “smooshed” with everybody else in what I called “a tidal wave of people.” However, unlike last Friday, I was for some reason immediately next to one of the mosh pit areas. There is a “no moshing or crowd surfing” policy here, but the security detail was there pretty much to make sure that it doesn’t get out of hand. I think I’ve only seen them try to stop the mosh pit a couple of times. Speaking of which, I did see somebody jump down from their sectioned off seat area, on to the floor, and security immediately caught and ejected him from the arena (tough luck buddy).
Metallica themselves performed as well as they always do. They still play the standard six songs off the Death Magnetic album, as well as the other regularly played songs, but there’s at least six songs different from the previous set list. The laser show and the pyros are all still great, although this time around the “floating coffins” seemed to be a little less active than last time I saw them. Those big balloon balls still falls from the ceiling at their very last song, but unlike last time I wasn’t going to bother trying to get one.
Well as I’m typing this, I’ll be leaving to go back to the same place, seeing the same band two hours from now. It’s always fun going to a Metallica concert, so here’s looking forward to my last show of theirs for the year.
