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
