Willing to bet a Metallica & Alice in Chains tour in 1991-1993 would've made a lot of money.
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Metallica wanted AIC to open for them on the Black Album tour but by the time they formally asked them AIC had already committed to opening up the Van Halen tour. There was nobody out there they wanted so they just didn't have any opener in America on the Black Album tour. I went to the Shreveport show & they just showed a video for about 20 minutes before they came out on stage.

AIC was set to open for Metallica on the 1994 Summer Tour but Layne of course had to go to rehab so they had to drop out of the tour right before it started. I went to that show in Houston(Baytown)& they had Candlebox replace AIC. It was Metallica, Candlebox, Suicidal Tendancies, & Fight(Rob Halford's band after leaving Priest). It was insane & everyone wishes AIC would have been there. I never got the see them with Layne.

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

Member since Dec 2013

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Posted on 5/28/23 at 11:54 am to Hetfield

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I went to that show in Houston(Baytown)& they had Candlebox replace AIC. It was Metallica, Candlebox, Suicidal Tendancies, & Fight(Rob Halford's band after leaving Priest). It was insane & everyone wishes AIC would have been there. I never got the see them with Layne.

At the motor speedway! I was there too! I really got into Fight after that. Both albums were great, but the 1st one is a classic.

Metallica opened with Breadfan and that was the most scared I've ever been at a concert. To this day, I'm still surprised people didn't die. The crush of the crowd was terrifying. I looked up, and they were already midway through the 2nd song (Puppets) and everyone was in a daze and like 200 feet from where they had started.

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Posted by Mandocello

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Member since Mar 2008

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Posted on 5/30/23 at 7:03 pm to Hetfield

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Metallica wanted AIC to open for them on the Black Album tour but by the time they formally asked them AIC had already committed to opening up the Van Halen tour. There was nobody out there they wanted so they just didn't have any opener in America on the Black Album tour. I went to the Shreveport show & they just showed a video for about 20 minutes before they came out on stage.

That part is not true.

Skid Row were asked to open the tour, and they declined because they wanted to do their own headline gigs at that point.

Mr. Ulrich's exact quote was, "Believe me, we wanted Skid Row real bad."

This post was edited on 5/30/23 at 7:24 pm

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Posted by deernaes

Member since Dec 2019

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Posted on 6/3/23 at 9:45 am to Hetfield

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I went to that show in Houston(Baytown)& they had Candlebox replace AIC. It was Metallica, Candlebox, Suicidal Tendancies, & Fight(Rob Halford's band after leaving Priest).

Where in Baytown did this show happen? I can't imagine any place in Baytown being big enough for that kind of show.
Great lineup though. I'm jealous that you got to see Fight...

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