New Year's Eve with Metallica

In the history of their performances Metallica had some special evenings. There were, of course, more than a few, but the coming end of the year prompted me to check my collection and discovered that the band gave several concerts on the last day of the year. From a fan perspective, is there anything cooler than spend New Year's Eve and start the new year with Your favorite band (of course it is ... .four concerts at the Fillmore in 2011). When it turned out that I have all the tickets I thought it might be cool material on the blog.

The first of the New Year's concert in 1985 is also a very special concert for several reasons. Firstly, that night at Civic Center in San Francisco the band first played live Master of Puppets from forthcoming album, which was released in a few months. New Year's concerts performed by Metallica had (probably except one concert) first part of the concert before midnight followed by a countdown at midnight and then they continued the concert. Fuckin cool.

The second New Year's concerts took place in Japan in 1991. The event advertised as The Final Countdown 1991 out of Metallica as the headliner attended also bands like Europe (certainly played The Final Countdown;)), Tesla and Thunder. Unfortunately, I know nothing about whether the band like in 1985 divided the concert on the part before and after midnight, but considering that it was not only the performance of Metallica might not be. 

Special program for New Year's Eve show

Looking at the program in the section on the Swedish band Europe invariably I cannot get over that bear the names of musicians: Joey, John, Mic ... and not, for example, Sigvard, Thor, Orvar or at least Ragnar;)) ... . but , they are just a hairmetal band ;).

After another five years, the band played in 1996 during the tour Load New Year's Eve in San Jose Arena, California.

The fourth New Year’s Eve concert was a famous Kickin 'in the new METlennium show in Detroit in 1999. Just before midnight there was live connection with New York Times Square and countdown from 10 to 0 to celebrate incoming new year 2000. One of the highlights of the show was when Metallica and Ted Nugent, Sevendust and Kid Rock played together on stage “Detroit Rock City”.

The last of the New Year's Eve concert was a concert in 2003 played by a band in Las Vegas at The Joint during Madly in Anger with the World Tour. Concert so much special that the band played it in a small club for just a couple hundreds of people. The special also because the nominal ticket price - $ 500 - which is probably to this day a record when it comes to ticket for Metallica concert (does not apply to the prices on the black market).

Happy New Year 2017