 It's on set list dot FM. That's like the holy grail. Yeah, no, but you here we go guys actually, you know what? Let me just record this here recording in progress Live on the metal voice. Wow. What a night We had to a shake and throw some water on Stefan to get him out of bed to talk about what happened last night in Montreal, Canada, Quebec At the Olympic Stadium night one of Metallica No repeat weekend guys. What's going on bon matin Stefan? Bon matin Perrin and Jimmy and if the hundred thousand fans are of tickets for the weekend Boy, that was ah, you know, it's not just a concert. Hey, we went to a metal show. No, no this was an event an event and Look, this is different from the metal shows The three of us are custom because it's no longer, you know One of those Intimate bands were accustomed to one of those underground. It is the biggest name in heavy metal after 40 years You can't deny that. This is a band. We've always loved and last night musically Wait pause. I want you to pause right there. We're gonna get to that right in like in a few minutes Let's just build this up We had sword. We had mammoth. We had pantera and then of course metallica You know a headlining. So I'm not sure if you were there Stefan for sword That was a little earlier in the day. So Perrin just give us like a 30 seconds of a sword and what was that like? Well, first of all, so obviously there's tailgate parties at every show on this north american tour Usually local bands overkill and pronged in new york Sword and anonymous are here in montreal You know, so i'm a big sword fan You know friendly with rick and then the guys for a long time a big supporter So I wanted to get there early and I was able to manage myself so I could get there early I thought there's gonna be me and 100 200 people there because you know, it's a friday afternoon people are still working whatever is going on I get there and there must have been 2000 people there To see sword if you kind of look at some of the pictures The band's management took a great picture from the stage and the entire Esplanade and walkway of the olympic stadium was filled. So first of all I'm just really really proud of the guys and really really proud that montreal showed up to support a local band And I think we've talked about sword enough on this show and our followers know the band pretty well They were fantastic and when we saw them at the corona theater In january, you know, they were just starting the tour. They're always well rehearsed. So they were good But now that they've been, you know, doing a fair amount of dates Around cobec in different places for the last six months in support of the new record They were just really really on and they were clearly happy to be playing in front of a big crowd And kind of they took it as warming up for metallica and they certainly warmed up the crowd for metallica So it was one of the tick one of the major highlights of the of the day and that was at 230 Just everybody knows that was at 230 stafan after sword Mammoth comes on were you there for mammoth because they're coming on at six a lot of people were there So a lot of people weren't did you see mammoth? I uh, I arrived about halfway through mammoth I mean, I finished work at 5 30 and I did my Clark Kent thing and rusted the stadium And but the Look I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you mammoth is not my favorite band. I Look, I don't like it. I gave it a bad review last year When I saw them in concert last night, I thought oh, okay, usually a concert By an artist is what does it for me more than the record? Right sometimes the flaw in the record in the recording in the approach is easily made up once the band hit the stage What I saw yesterday is Uh, is wolfie van halen Well in control of his craft Well in control of his stage presence. I mean he does have experience. He started at 17 on stage with with his dad and uncle But The sound was so bad So bad for more. I was section 102 in the lower bowl that I just couldn't make up the songs And I couldn't make up the guitar solos. I it sounded like That's actually that's a very good. That's a very good imitation of what it sounded like Oh And and after like I was disappointed I'm looking forward for so at the core at the corona this fall But last night was not the time to discover Mammoth I It was just not the time the place was full the reception was great But the sound it was the sound of an opening act unfortunately And put it at the olympic stadium, which is which sounds terrible under the best circumstances Uh, it as far as I'm concerned mammoth did not come through Gotcha. All right. So parent. Okay. You're you're there a little bit earlier. You saw a sword You walk in how many people were there for mammoth? Would you say it was 50 capacity 75 capacity? Uh, you know, look, I would say there was 50 capacity watching the band And another 25 to 30 out in the hallway trying to get a t-shirt trying to get food Kind of, you know, you got to prepare when you go to a show like this So I mean there's choices to make right? Do I watch? Do I try and discover a new band that I might be interested in opening or do I want to make sure? I've eaten drank gone to the bathroom got in my t-shirt because I don't want to miss any of pantera And I don't want to miss any of metallica. So I would say about half the crowd watched mammoth I think the most the biggest fans were probably down in the pits right in front of where they were playing I think everyone else was kind of in the stands Again, it was the stephands point. It was so hard to hear them You could be in the stands and hear any number of conversations going on around you better than you can hear the band and that's just An opening act in a stadium show. You don't have full stage. You don't have full lights. You don't have full And I think and here's another point I want to ask you There's there's daylight and then there's night with lights Did the daylight sort of affect the performance because it was so bright That you know, he kind of doesn't work in his favor, especially at such a distance See sword was during the day, right? And it's a little more up and close because it's sort of outside of the stadium But because of the distance because of the daylight did that affect the sort of the performance? from a visual perspective Well, I'll I'll start first because look I'm going to get to the heart of my issue with the stage Because I cannot go around this The staging Like I get the concept for Metallica But it did not work for Wolfie or Pantera because It is so humongous You can't follow What's on stage The rounded towers don't give you an idea of where the person is on stage Add the fact that the daylight is on still Add the fact that half the people around you are just chatting among themselves The thing I hate the most about concerts now is people chatting like shut the fuck up Don't spend the money to go to a concert. If all you're gonna do is talk And so you put that all together and you find yourself Underwhelmed You know, you're not focused no matter how much you want you're not focused on the artist And I think Wolfgang Unfortunately Was in a lose lose situation trying to grab attention On a stage that it's hard to focus on Look, I'll just say the only good thing in this for Wolfgang is that Probably like 35 or 40,000 people are now maybe aware of the his band and the name If they didn't know what was going on before and they're playing a 900 cedar here in november And you know, if you go about how to build brand awareness and build your career It's not a bad move just in terms of creating awareness But it's obviously not the venue to experience a new band and you know, even faith no more was a more developed band When they opened from italica and guns and roses at the stadium in 92 And they went over terribly as well because they were just lost I saw the black crows at c&e stadium in toronto with metallica aerosmith and warrant And I think it was an 89 or 90 And they were a new band and it wasn't a venue to see them either But if you had seen them down the street at rock and roll heaven, I guarantee you it would have been fantastic So I have no doubt that wolfie with nita strauss will do some great stuff at the now theater beamfield in november But this wasn't no matter who The first band was going to be they were going to be the sacrificial lamb And wolfgang was the sacrificial lamb and ice nine kills will be the sacrificial lamb tomorrow I don't even think i'm going to go watch that to be honest with you All right, so let's let's go to the stage itself though. Stefan talked about the stage Um Actually, sorry, let's go to pantera first So now pantera hits the stage the the nice thing about pantera was They started off with the daylight as it sort of transitioned into the night So things kind of got a little more dynamic and intense As their their performance You know sort of progressed What I saw in terms of the and this is when I arrived by the way right before pantera went on What I saw was a huge reaction from Maybe 40 to 50 000 people at the time And you know, I was I was completely impressed that a band of Sort of like I would call them an arena band was so well received in a stadium So, uh, Stefan, what are your sort of your thoughts about pantera? The sound was again a massive problem Because the bite of the guitar work Just in pantera sound in general was lost in that audio in the olympic stadium And you know, we're not speaking about all stadiums We're just talking about specifically about the munch y'all olympic stadium because we don't know What the sound is like everywhere else Well, you you can't fight Of the olympic stadium no matter how great And we'll get to that later no matter how great your sound system is And the technology has improved a lot Since the stadium first opened for concerts with pink floyd in 77 That's true and uh But unfortunately You cannot defy the science of acoustics It's reverberating you got this low end rumble Echo there is so much echo so, uh Once again pantera suffered immensely Because of that and what's Like people understand the the the politics of of of concerts is that The main artist gets All the sound and all the control over sound And opening acts are allowed less power Which they compensate by making it louder, right two different things being loud Powerful two different things try it on your 20 dollar sound system Versus your 2 000 dollar sound system, you'll know what i'm talking about and so That for me Sacrific like pantera was also a sacrificial lamb to Metallica, I find that A double headliner so you do not Cut down on the power for the for the other band on the set But pantera got the sound of an opening band And it affected The enjoyment of the show Terribly i'm not a huge Pantera fan. I this is a band I skipped During my you know while I was a family man away from the scene, but Yeah, I thought This is not the legend First of all, well, we'll get to that later. Well, I'm gonna get to that right after what you're gonna say like but the fact is for A pantera fan who had never seen them before and all of that. He didn't care about the short The the sound shortfall. I'm sure it was a great show You know what? Okay, so let's talk about hold on. We're gonna talk about pantera 2.0 now. Okay parent um charlie and zach for to me charlie and zach you could not pick two better artists musicians To replace the brothers, right? Absolutely the these guys charlie to me. He could you could put him in any major band He will fit like a glove not only is he a phenomenal drummer. He could play guitar. He can write music zack wild We know same thing these guys are You know, these guys are probably the best of the best in what they do Putting them in pantera. I thought it was wow, man, this is like Enhanced pantera. This is pantera 2.0 and all those people that say that it's not pantera. I know stefan saying that but To me, I thought this was an improved I hate to say that I know people can hate me for this, but I think it was an improved pantera parent. What are your thoughts? I i'm only a casual pantera fan or maybe casual a bit more than that I was blown away by the performance yesterday blown away and you know the sound of the stadium and the echo didn't bother me And I do want to say we were sitting in three different places and in a building like that You can have a different sonic experience in different places It won't be good anywhere, but there will be better moments and worse moments. So pantera didn't have full pa And the echo bothered me a bit, but I don't think the sound took away from their performance too much I think I agree that Zach and charlie are such pros like if you would have just taken phil anselmo and rex brown And taken two unknowns, you know, and that's the way they wanted the interview. It would not work Zach while different from uh darrell abbott Has such a reverence for dinebag darrell. He's such a fan and a friend That you just kind of feel the emotion and what he's playing And charlie banante is a clinician like you said he could play anything and you know what Charlie is not too showy. He knows his job here is to stay in the background and play the parts And he does it so well that I thought the bands sounded great They left me wanting to hope they come back next year headlining and I want to see them headline even though I'm only a casual fan and You know, sometimes the vibe and the audience makes the show also And there was just so much excitement when pantera came on stage Pantera has not played in this city in a very long time now because even on their last couple of albums, right? they were very big for For uh cowboys from hell vulgar display of power and far beyond driven But then on their later albums, which did okay in the states They played here, but they didn't play here as extensively as they did in the u.s So there was a built up demand For people who saw pantera a long time ago who really wanted to welcome them back and there were also kids there You'll remember there was a moment in the show where phil said hey Who for who is this the first pantera show and a lot of people went nuts Well, you heard that I didn't know what he was saying the whole time all I heard was I heard it well where I was and there were a lot of kids around me who were like excited to see pantera So everyone understands this isn't the classic version of pantera But it's the best possible version of pantera you can get in 2023. I agree. You know, I'm not even a pantera fan I'm not even a pantera fan like you guys But I saw that They've elevated what pantera is with the loss of what they had they brought it back up again I'm gonna tell you I'm worried about If I was a big black label society or anthrax fan I would worry about the future plans a very very much so because there's no doubts to me That zach and charlie are are doing quite well Doing these stadium shows but also on off nights like they're in toronto tonight doing a full Kind of most an amphitheater big show So There there is gold in them to our hills So I think I think based on what I saw yesterday I think this version of pantera. I don't know if they'll record new material Maybe down the road, but even if they didn't I think there's a good two more years of touring They could do with this. Oh boy, and they're still they're all young enough. That's the thing Okay, let's let's flip over to distance. So okay the olympic stadium as everybody knows it's a big dome like most stadiums We were all at the 100 levels, which means we were on the first sort of level. We were not on the floor We are on the first level so stafan There the the band was this size literally literally like each member was walking around if anybody could figure that out This size we're not even high, you know, we're low now. We're low We're not on the floor if the floor would be this much, but we're like this much Did it bother you? Even if it was a it was a round stage did the distance bother you like did you find yourself looking more at the the the sort of the big screens Or more of what's going on on stage because I was just looking at the screens the whole time I it's kind of like I was watching a video the whole time Stefan what are your thoughts on the distance of a stadium and now we're talking about, you know, just in general Yeah, I've seen my share of stadium shows in my life and unfortunately This type of setup a 360 stage First of all, I've never been a fan of 360 stage because the band is never focused on the audience It's focused on parts of the audience they turn around And you're never watching a full band That's my issue to start with all right and yesterday I was in a lower bowl I was trying to pay attention to those circular Screens, yeah, could you all picture those again? Yeah, what these screens Could not do Is give a real impression of what was going on stage? Like normally, you know, you're you're at a stadium show and there's always this giant screen behind the band It focuses on You know the singer on the guitars and all of that, but you know where they are With the last night's concept is yes, you can watch the band on the giant screens But you do not know where they are on the stage I mean, I had one of those columns tower columns completely blocking the the left microphone, which means I missed I missed a lot by a quarter of the show. I just couldn't see the end of rest were tiny little dots It didn't do it for me. It did not do it for me and I had what are considered premium seats So no, I think that The only people who got a great view were those in the middle in that pit in the middle At five hundred dollars a seat or whatever it was, right? Yeah, but the floor I think was the place to be but From my perspective interesting concept, but uh, no, I I'd like to have my band in front of me Flipping parent flipping to merch. Okay. Just so everybody I have some pictures of merch. I'll show everyone There you go. What did you think of the merch overall? I mean, there was many many merch stands It wasn't as bad the lineups because I went in between songs to look at the merch Um, what did you think about it was it too much? I don't have my shirts because they're in the wash But what did you think of the yellow the yellow as the concept the main concept of most of the shirts Well, again, so this comes to my retail and my branding background But you know, I love the fact that metallica have kind of expropriated the color yellow for this album and touring cycle and I think it's a really smart thing that That they've done that they've just they've you can just tell with the 72 seasons album Whether it's musically or artistically and I when I say artistically I mean like creative arts They've just they have a theme the album cover is yellow and black Uh, you know, you were able to buy yellow and black splattered vinyl posters and Pretty much most of the merchandise Has some combination of yellow and black maybe some white and I think that's a good idea I think I think it's really cool that they've kind of established the 72 seasons Metallica sub brand as you know, if we had the black album back then we have the black and yellow album now So I I kind of like what they've done You know too much yellow isn't for me But I think and I kind of like that it's you know, if I look at most of the t-shirts in my collection Most of them are black with white or black with red or black of something I can't say other than a striper shirt. I have from the old days. Striper was on to something. That's what we're saying I don't have too much black. I don't have too much black and yellow So I kind of like that and look I I always like when there's a lot of options Metallica probably had about 12 at least if not more t-shirt options, you know one thing I didn't like about the merch Lena my wife is a big pantera fan and They had 14 boots around the stadium people were complaining that they couldn't get merch by the way You gotta do your research if enko communicated Where the merch boots would be there were 14 boots around the stadium And if you went to a booth in the basement or off to the sides, there was no weight for merch But if you wanted a pantera or a mammoth shirt, they only had them on sale And that's also the stephands point about being part of an opening act You could only get pantera or mammoth merch at one stand the main one when you came in main one Yeah, the other 15 stands because so lina bought a pantera. I knew this. I knew this. I just know how it works So I took lina there and you do your homework. You're a good boy. You're a good boy A for excellent, but I will say lina must have got stopped in the hallway 10 I'm like I'm like that kind of guy. I didn't even know where my seat was for the first 20 minutes I'm a I'm a VP director of operations in my regular life. So I don't do anything without a plan I don't wake up in the morning for it to do the Stefan Stefan Yeah, I'm gonna pause you right there parent. Hold on Stefan and it's sort of again. It goes segues into this Before we get into metallica Attention to detail what I was really blown away is the attention to detail which goes into the yellow which goes into You know welcome to the olympic stadium in yellow and there's metallica and and the security guys had all this yellow everything was sort of Planned perfectly attention to detail What'd you think about even even those big sort of a tv screens, right? They had like kewbek sort of pictures. They didn't just have generic pictures They had kewbek munch it all pictures back in the day Everything was detail so much detail. What'd you think about that? It was well done. I mean, obviously they know their market. They know their city. They know their fans You know, I'm sure they did the same thing in the east rudderford new jersey a couple of weeks ago And they'll do the same at the next venue. The fact is Metallica is known for their proximity to their fans in the cities where they built their career Look the signs the yellow and all of that for me. It's it's all marketing. They have an album to sell They have a tour to sell merchandise Concept and the more you splash it everywhere the more you will Sell it. I did not buy it because I refused to pay 65 dollars for a t-shirt but um, I told to get the The concept it's it's a band that can afford to do that canister a lot a lot of bands don't do that This is very detailed, but let's get into metallica, right? Let's get into metallica. Let's I mean, that's what the whole show's about Anyways, yeah, we're a half hour in we haven't talked about All right, but you got to build it up you got to build it up All right, let's go metallica. I mean, you know quick thoughts parent I mean, there's a lot of things here. There's distance. There's sound. There's set list Just 30 seconds of your overall impressions of let's just go quickly your overall impressions of metallica's performance last night Uh, I had a great time. Okay, so i'm not saying great performance great venue I'm saying I had a great time. I had a great time because I've been a metallica fan since 1980s Well since the beginning I first saw them at the verdana auditorium in 1986 I also enjoy unlike other people their current music. I'm not saying it's as good as their early music But I enjoy it So I really appreciate when a band puts together a tour or a set list where I can hear the hits I can hear deep cuts and hearing Lepper messiah and orion almost brought tears to my eyes Wow, but at the same time I like when I can hear new songs And what I love is there was a lot of 20 year olds sitting around me and they were singing the word singing the words to 72 seasons and uh and uh Pair and pair and just to interject here You just interject I this is what I saw when they were playing the classic albums will call them the ones the first five or plus black right or with black Everybody was you know pump fist pump and standing up and as soon as they played the new stuff Everybody sat down and went for a beer. So but jimmy you were in a section that only went on sale yesterday You had casual fans in your section. I will say and you know what hold on hold on hold on I moved around So what I did is I sat there and then I started moving around the whole stadium Just to get the different sound a different angle just to get a different perspective But I was really impressed jimmy. I'm telling you in my section. I saw the same thing There were younger fans around me who clearly Weren't born when I saw Metallica at for done. Yeah. Yeah, and and they were singing If darkness had a son, they were singing for 72 seasons Wrath of man. They were singing You know and and I think they didn't know what leper messiah was but they knew 72 seasons So it was I also find concerts to be interesting cultural experiences. Just I like observing who's around me and how old they are and what they what they seem to be You know a father and son in front of me and you can tell one was into the new one was into the old And it was a discovery moment for the young guy. So Anyway, I had a great time My expectations in a stadium are are measured. I was I was expecting bad sound and I got bad sound I actually liked I thought the big video towers they had was new and different. We haven't seen a lot of bands do that I will say the place to be for a stadium show is on the floor But when I'm going at 2 30 in the afternoon when I'm going with my wife I need a reserved seat if I was going alone if I was going with a buddy Maybe I would have gone for a floor seat because in a stadium and it's a known thing Uh, I saw ecdc twice on the floor at the olympic stadium last year in toronto I saw the stadium tour of motley crew and deff leopard and poison on the floor If you want a better experience for a stadium show, you've got to be on the floor, but that aside Those were my expectations. Anyway, I enjoyed watching so you overall enjoyed the experience despite the poor audio and the distance I had a great time. I can't wait until tomorrow to see part two of the seven Wow, you even you want it. You're even looking forward to tomorrow I heard people say they're they're not looking forward to tomorrow But go ahead stafan. Give us your overall summary of your experience last night Okay, after wolfgang and after Pantera I was starting to regret my choice of coming On both nights. Okay Uh, I got a comp last night at the last minute And I was not planning to go until uh sunday night uh when the lights turned off and we got the You know ecstasy of gold intro All of a sudden my body and my mind started transforming synopsis in his brain started going The it was it was just starting to Oh my god, maybe I will enjoy my night after all And then as soon as they hit the stage creeping death Like forget everything forget about all the bad press on metallica forget about They're too old. No, no, no That was my band the band. I first saw opening for wasp in 1985 at the spectrum They were back and I loved it. I loved it and Creeping death is one of their most Powerful meaningful songs when you have 60,000 people with her fist in the air Die, die, die, die by my hand For me It's it's when you see that metallica is in pure communication Would it would it's fan base? This is where you capture them and you keep them to the end And I find that once again metallica did it and and That's the other thing the set list I I sort of Yeah, I looked at what was done in other CDs where they've performed so far and Okay, I tried to go with an open mind. Where are they going to go with this set list? Uh, I was actually a bit disappointed. They only played three songs from 72 seasons, I think But hey, there's still tomorrow night because I do like the new album, I think it's the best they've done in many years The new songs performed at concert. I thought were fantastic. There was this right amount of You know getting the new song getting in the spirit of the new song, but also They do some jamming. They you know, they don't play exactly like the album. They expand they You know, uh, I was watching Kirk Hammett. I was most fascinated by Kirk last night and He takes control of the songs a lot more than we give him credit for on stage and I thought that All the songs without exceptions went along very well. Yeah, some people did sit down in my section But never for long. I stood up for most of the show uh And when they got into like leper messiah and oh my god fate to black fate to black You know, don't forget fate to black is that song that they were playing in 1992 at the stadium when when uh James You know when a fire the the the the firework went off and They had to send to stop the show suddenly So they hear that song at the stadium. No fireworks this time Uh, and they played it so well I thought oh my god. These guys are taking me back right back to the spectrum and uh for me Fate to black was a highlight My other highlight orion I just like orion way. We I think it's the greatest song they ever done It's funny because hard wire to sub destruction. I I thought was a lesser metallica song That did okay, but when they played it last night apparently a tour debut Uh, it went across perfectly perfectly. I thought it was the best performance ever and following up with fuel was even Smarter like they did the two songs. They're the post black album. They just merged Perfectly perfectly perfectly Seek and destroy that was a crowd pleaser obviously and I was glad to hear master of puppets because had I not gone last night. I would not have heard it on sunday closing the show with master of puppets Was essential you cannot have a metallica show without master of puppets And I feel sorry for those who will only see it sunday because they won't get it and stephan Let me say most shows on this tour They've been closing one show of seek and destroy and one show of master of puppets. It's rare They've been played the same night So a big question to ask for sunday is what will be the big moment to close the show on sunday Sandman if it's it might be or they could enter they could open event their sandman for all we know Guys, I don't want to be that I don't want to rain on everybody's parade, but I'm gonna say it, you know, I was disappointed Like I love metallica I love the set list. I truly love the set list I thought it was a great set list But because the audio was so poor and again, I'm just speaking for the olympic stadium here I can't speak what happened in new jersey what happened in sweden or wherever any other place in the world The audio was so poor The distance was so far And I ended up watching a tv screen, which I couldn't even really hear with songs or metal what When you have this much muddy Muddy sound in the the sort of the the performance it takes away from the spirit of metal for me The distance is completely unmetal for me I think metal is meant to be played either in an arena or in a theater or in a small club I don't know I and this It just didn't do it for me. I didn't they're playing creeping death. I don't even know what part they're at I don't even know what part they're at So what I did is I started moving around the stadium and yeah sound was a little bit better in different sections But I don't know it because of the poor sound of the olympic stadium It just took away the the balloon deflated very quickly for me And I do love metallica and I do love the band and I thought they looked like they're performing great It's just once the audio sucks It's kind of like having a new album and the audio is so poor on that new album. You're like, uh, you're so turned off That's how I felt I wouldn't I wouldn't go to sunday. I wouldn't go to sunday But then again, it's just i'm one out of 55,000 people and people love the performance People love being there. So I'm in the minority here. I'm in the minority look, uh jimmy This is what's disappointing about the stadium is that the sound quality varies according to where you are Where I was in section 102 lower bowl The section the sound that sucked so much with the opening acts suddenly became grandiose powerful and directed at me once metallica hit the stage but You know Because the sound was powerful and let's face it metallica does have a sound system that is Way above And many other acts who do stadium shows So the quality of their sound system sort of made up For some of the flaws from the olympic stadium But all you had to do is wait for a quieter moment Or just banter from the stage to realize that the echo and the low end Was destroying it. Unfortunately The olympic stadium is not a place for concert For me this the the sound was good Well enough that I could hear in details every instrument and the The the interplay. Uh, I remember how leper messiah I had I kept my eyes on the screen so I could see all four musicians And they've never played together so well But again ruined by the fact that a you're looking for the musicians on stage and b the sound It's not what we've heard before the many many many times If they would have played the bell center and arena, I think everybody would it would have just taken it to another level Oh, but I think the olympic stadium brought it down. It's just the fact that they played there Ruin for me for me not for the 55,000 people that were there But I was sitting next to Orlando and he was he wasn't too happy about the sound either and neither was Mihai who was sitting right after him. I mean no one could have been happy about the sound It's just what are you ready to live with, you know and actually lina said to me when metallica played She said hey, actually, it's pretty good now. We were probably closer to Stefan than you were So we thought it wasn't too bad But it's just the nature of the beast if you want to play stadiums You're playing places not just olympic stadium, which is particularly bad But stadiums were conceived for football games and for baseball games and for the olympic games They weren't conceived for rock concerts. It's just with Certain acts getting so big, you know, yesterday there were 55,000 people yesterday That's three to four arena shows on sunday. There will be probably the same amount of people Three or four arena shows are metallica gonna play the bell center for eight nights I don't know and do one set list four nights and another set list the other four nights It's just the concept of what this is And and who knows maybe next tour they go back to just doing arenas And but because of that people are going to get mad because it's an intimate metallica show in an arena So it's going to cost 750 dollars because you're getting an intimate show not a stadium show They there's there's there's something about Metal and the distance and the sound that metal needs to be sort of there's got to be a nice mix between the guitars You got to hear the guitars. There's no crunch There's no dynamics in the guitars. It disappears there It just disappears and you know, maybe for a pop artist that works They could have been limp sinking the whole night. We would have never known they probably weren't But if they were we would have never known that never and let me tell you they were spectacular All four of them were spectacular, you know as musicians as artists as a band as a collective They were fantastic great set list. I love the band I was only hoping that the sound And the distance was a little better and the distance was a little closer, but there's nothing you could do about that, right? Yeah, but I ultimately I thought Just the set list made me a very happy man. Uh, I know You know, I sort of lost interest in metallica after the black album And my favorites remain the first three. I'm one of those very old school metallica guy But I accept that musically They've evolved. They're no longer The trash metal scene band from the early 80s. They evolved and that's what musicians do You know, you're you might be a great player at 20 at 21 But play for 40 years and you'll be even better, you know so Metallica is not as it is certainly more polished musically than it ever was but the The interpretation of the songs last night was just as strong meaningful and powerful as they ever were and and and I think we need to to keep that in mind because It has an impact, you know fans could have gone to a show that could have been, you know 90% hits, you know, let's play the whole black album and but I'm okay with the new songs I like the new songs Integrated in the set. I do like I love the set. I'm more I'm more of the I didn't like the distance and I didn't like the sound and it kind of ruined it for me But I love the set list. I love the band. I thought they played great. It's just Yeah, I would tell anyone if if if if distance If proximity and sound is of the utmost importance to you You probably shouldn't go to stadium shows anywhere is what I would tell people I ended up watching the show on the video screens And it's not much of a live show if you're going to spend your whole time just watching a video Uh, it's cool. It's nice I don't know that's just me But then again The 55 000 people who are there love the show They're on their feet almost the whole time singing every word singing every word and I mean, you know what? Hey, I'm in the minority here But that's just how I felt and I'll I'll just close and saying this Stefan because jimmy won't be there But Stefan why I'm so excited about sunday is because we still have Fight uh, we have we have for whom the bell tolls to look forward to we have Battery to look forward to we have one to look forward to one man to look forward to We have we have we have whiplash. We have we have Yes, it was a great set list But I can build and I know we're going to see a pretty great set list on sunday and that's What's exciting is usually if a band plays two nights, it's more or less the same show and they change three songs We're getting Half a show a classic still on sunday plus there'll be three more new songs And there'll be some surprises. I'm sure and there you go parin Anyways next metallica show go ahead Stefan before I cut you I'm gonna be there sunday I I will be there for Five finger death punch not my band, but my I'm going with my steps on any really likes them I wish I could have gone on on the floor. I'm tall enough, but He's not so I'm just hoping that I Will be able to focus more on the band my tickets are Slightly different angle slightly higher. I might get a better angle because last night Like I said, I kept searching for the band members on stage And you know by the time I find kirk The guitar solo I was into he's done playing it, you know the camera's back on lars or Or robert, you know, so That that's my problem that's right There you go Focus because of stages just way too humongous All over the place the four the 360 thing it doesn't do it for me I hope that their next door whatever they do They'll go back to having one single stage Facing everyone at the same time. That's how you communicate with an audience All right, august the 13th. That's sunday at the olympic stadium You have metallica part two on the no repeat weekend There's still some few tickets left. So go out and check them out. Thanks guys. Have yourself a nice sunday Thank you. Thanks everybody