The long expected, hugely awaited and the biggest rock show of my life was here. I was getting so eager for the day to come. And it when it finally did, it was oh so grrrrrreat!
The stadium where the show was held looked like the amphitheatre. It was big, rectangular and very very steep. We (myself and five of my friends) were at the top of the stadium, so far that the bandmembers of Godsmack looked like puppets. The seats were pretty small, and the rows were very close to each other. Headbanging seemed an impossibility. And the crowd around us seemed really depressing. Their expressions were similar to those of a bunch of desis listening to a really boring spanish opera. In 5 mintues I had the same expression on my face (whoops), coz I hardly knew a single song of the band. The band was playing well, but it got really boring to listen to some songs I didn't know at all.
But finally they played something really well: the singer got onto a second set of drums and started playing amazingly with the main drummer. Both the drummers synchronized their music, and then played drums in style. Both guys played, one paused and the other continued the beat, and then he paused and the other continued. They were just incredible!!! It was the best part of the Godsmack show, and you had to be there to realize how great they were.
The end of Godsmack did not mean the start of Metallica: it only meant the end of selling beer. So we all went to get as much beer as possible and we were sitting with 2 beers under each seat.
Metallica entered after testing our patience. They entered in a BIG way. There were fireworks all around the stage and the music of Good Bad Ugly was giving me the goosebumps. It was the same exact peice I used to see again and again and again... and again in Chundu's room with the rest of the sixth wingers (they even showed the exact video that we used to repeatedly see).
Metallica kicked off the show with "Fuel" and we kicked off the headbanging. They were playing just awesome, and we were banging (our heads, obviously) so very hard. The james and robert were kickass. Lars was amazing! (need I say all this?) We couldn't hear much of kirk as the acoustics were very bad, but he seemed to play just great! They followed up with sad but true, sanitarium, memory remains, the god that failed and one. Then robert went ahead and played solo. He was pretty good, although I couldn't get the tune he was playing. Metallica came back to play nothing else matters, and beleive me, I was so crazy that I banged even on this one! The way they played Unforgiven was amazing: james was playing the starting slow tune with an acoustic guitar attached to the mike, and then switched to the electric guitar (kept a feet away from the mike) to play the main tune. The guitar playing went more interesting when kirk started playing solo, and put the guitar at the back of his neck and played an almost unbeleivably fast lead! The whole phenomenon became aweome!
Metallica then played some St. Anger songs, when we gave our heads and necks some rest, and then they continued with master of puppets, seek n destroy, holier than thou, etc etc. We were dead tired when they announced that they were gonna end the show. They started playing a song from St. Anger, but I continued my head banging, just convincing myself that I should enjoy the show to the very end. And then the Metallicans started throwing the guitar picks and drum sticks to the crowd. We waited for metallica to leave, but they came back and started playing another song: motorbreath. They were playing great: they were fast and furious. I couldn't help myself from head banging. My last ounce of energy was used up by the time I finished. It was very hard leaving the stadium and reaching home. We just hoped the show would go on and on, but alll things must come to an end!
On the whole, the hugeness and awesomeness of the Metallica show brings out the limitations in the adjectives of the English vocabulary. There are so few words in the language to describe the event, but I'll use just one: AWEfuckingSOME!
