December 19, 2008

• My third and last Metallica concert of the year was this past Thursday night, and it was a great way to end this tour for me. Just like Wednesday night, it was still at “The Forum” in Inglewood, CA, but this time I actually showed up early enough to see the second opening act, “Machine Head.” They were not bad, but it’s not the kind of heavy metal I really listen to, as I prefer more guitars licks and “clean” vocals over what this band was offering. I was kinda hoping to show up early enough to see “The Sword” however, but traffic kind of killed that plan for me. BTW, before I go on, I forgot to mention yesterday that it’s a bit much, but parking was $20 (they must make a killing).

  So back to being next to the mosh pit again for me, seems to have been the general plan. My two friends who went with me were really into that, so I was once again part of “the wall” surrounding the mosh pit. I was near several cute girls, so that was a plus, especially in the typically male infested Metal concerts. For the most part, everybody was respectable in the pit and tried to keep things “civilized,” but I witnessed a fight break out in the mosh pit I was by (when Metallica was playing “All Nightmare Long” too, of all songs). These two shirtless guys just went at it, and got into a fight. Almost immediately right after it started, everybody around tried to break it up, but they got themselves on the ground which made it a little harder to separate them. I was actually right in the thick of things helping to break it up, and at one point right when I got the guy’s arm out of the rear naked choke, somebody behind me pulled me out! It was like that person wanted the fight to continue. A few seconds later, a few of the guys grabbed one of the guy’s legs and literally dragged him away from the other guy, while others did the same with the other one. Crazy.

  The whole concert was great, just like the previous night, and that other night last week. Unlike what I said in yesterday’s post, the “floating coffins” this time moved around a lot more than the night before. I wanted to finally get some of the pyro effects on camera this time, but unfortunately my camera-phone can only be so fast in taking pictures. Just like the last two times, those big black balloon balls fell from the ceiling during their last song, and while we wanted to make an attempt to keep one, we were not successful. We tried to catch some of the guitar picks that the band was throwing to the crowd, but we were not successful there either. Oh well, there’s always another attempt next time? Unfortunately, with Metallica’s touring schedule, I don’t think they’ll be performing nearby until a year from now at the earliest. Oh well, this has been a great concert filled seven days for me, and what a way to top it off.
  
  

  * click here for photos I took with my camera phone *

  

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