re: Metallica tonight at the BJCC

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Little Rock for Sunday’s show

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Drove from Monroe to LR for the show on Sunday.

Sold-out, or very very close to it, in the Verizon Arena.

Show advertised to begin at 7:30. A DJ came on the mic and started playing some tunes around 7:00. There is no opening band, but Jim Breuer sort of "hosts" the show/pre-show, for lack of a better term. Breuer was fine. His opening/the pre-show sort of dragged out a bit. He kept leaving the stage, then returning saying "it's just about time" or "you've waited long enough" more than once.

Metallica probably took the stage around 8:45. Like I said, Breuer was fine, and I get the band's argument for no opening act, as they feel the openers get overlooked or ignored or pissed on by the fans. But a band would work better in this slot, IMO.

Once they came on though, Metallica absolutely killed it. Any one who has checked out the previous set lists knows two things: 4-5 songs of the Hardwired album and usually 2-4 songs change or rotate in and out of the set list regularly.

For example, on 1/18 in Tulsa, the set list included Holier Than Thou, Halo on Fire, Head Injury (Soundgarden cover), The Memory Remains, and Blackened in the encore.

LR two nights later got Through the Never, Fade to Black, Hit the Lights, Fuel, and Spit Out the Bone in the encore. I preferred the LR setlist as this was my first Metallica show so getting Fade and Hit the Lights was tremendous and I love Spit Out the Bone.

Overall, great show, great crowd, and the band seemed into it. I'm sure they do sort of go through the motions on these shows, or large part of them, but they brought the energy for sure.

I am a bit jealous B-Ham got Battery though.