Are any of you guys attending the Los Angeles Great Western Forum show on March 5th for the Metallica/Godsmack concert?

I checked ticketmaster for tickets, and apparently they sold out, which sucks because they possibly sold out in one day or something. Maybe tickets will pop up more as the weeks come.

yeah the first MOP solo was made by and played by james, and by my knowledge, that's the only solo he's got his hands on but it's illogical to think that they haven't influenced eachother on the riffs or solos somewhere along the line seeing as they are in the same band for more than 20years.

Whos going to see Metallica June 6 Download Festival? I know I am

i have one small question..

who writes the metallica solos? james or kirk?

[QUOTE=Distorted Vision]I saw them Saturday night at Earl's Court. It was [color=white]fuc[/color]king incredible, I was at the barrier and the feeling was great. My first time seeing Metallica and they didn't let me down![/QUOTE]
I thought they kicked *** on saturday but a lot of people said their was crap sound. I saw them at Reading and the sound was a lot better.

[QUOTE=SlaveToTheGrind]i have one small question..

who writes the metallica solos? james or kirk?[/QUOTE]

kirk...

james has written some. IE. Nothing Else Matter's solo.

Bump!!!!

this supprised me but in the one video kirk uses single coil pickups does ne one know if he did this in the studio

Is anyone stilll on this ne more or am I too late?

I'm going to the March 5th show. I got tickets during the presale. Good seats too! Can't wait 'til the show begins. I'm looking foward to seeing Kirk for the first time.

i got tix right when they came out 10 AM on saturday morning for the march 5th show, and they were balcony seats. (being the forum, thats not that bad, but still). apparently the show sold out EXTREMELY FAST! i dont think more will come, unless u get em through KROQ or scalpers at the show. best advice to see metallica live........JOIN THE METALLICA CLUB! u get presale tix, which guarantees pit seats (for the most part)

On the kirk writing solos thing also on and justice it says james does all melodies, harmonies, lyrics and the second solo on to live is to die. So either lars is a closet lead guitarist or kirk writes their solos.

kirk has a fender strat and a fernandes strat (thats in the one video) that he uses for studio work at times. Also on the unforgiven in san diego on binge and purge he uses a white fender strat with singles coils. Quality single coils are good for lead work (look at hendrix, blackmore, yngwie the list goes on), you only really need the hummers for that trademark tallica crunch in the rhythm sections.

Who wrote the second solo in MoP? That is some awsome song writing.

Alright, Alright! quit with the "who did what solos" because stupid fools like me and anyone else is gonna argue back and forth and its not worth it.

As far as I'm concerned nobody is right until somebody actually asks a member of Metallica who writes what solos.

Well, It's not very hard too hear who is playing what solos. You can definitly hear
Kirks mark on most of Metallicas solos. I belive he writes most of the solos.

I want to try and settle this solo argument once and for all. IMO to get writing credits surley that person has to have an intregal par in the song structe or lyrics. Just coming in and doing a solo over the top would probably not get you writing credits. Plus in a recent interview james said Kirk has always done ALL of the fast solos because he can't do them himself. And on the 14 or so songs kirk gets credited on (first Four albums) it probably means he did more than just the solo

[QUOTE=xtreme_skatah]Who wrote the second solo in MoP? That is some awsome song writing.[/QUOTE]


Kirk probably, but I would argue with the awesome song writing bit. The first one and the harmony interlude are genius, both written by James.

And the guy above me has it perfectly.

*pump*

[QUOTE=RockerGav]Kirk probably, but I would argue with the awesome song writing bit. The first one and the harmony interlude are genius, both written by James.

And the guy above me has it perfectly.[/QUOTE]

Why thank ye kindly

[QUOTE=RideTheSpiral]*pump*[/QUOTE]

you mean *bump*? LOL

Only 1 review of the London shows :eek: ?


Gimme a minute and I'll post mine, needless to say it kicked some ***.

[b]Short review[/b]

[u]Setlist as I remember it:[/u]
Battery
Four Horsemen
Ride The Lightning
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fight Fire With Fire
Harvester of Sorrow
Master of Puppets
Dirty Window (+ Solo :cool: )
Frantic

*Encore*
Nothing Else Matters
Creeping Death
Seek And Destroy

*Encore*
One
Enter Sandman

*Half-encore*
Disposable Heroes? 30 seconds of something, can't remember what it was, then:
Blitzkrieg


So I get there at 2:30pm (Doors open at 6), we get to queue inside. I guess there were already 100 people there. So we hang around in the queue, go off to Burger King to get takeaway Super Large XL Double Whopper's (Big hole in me wallet from that dinner), then we get to go in. So we run, and I mean ****in run so that we get stopped by the security guards. Anyway, we get there (standing, that is) and we have a lovely chat with these cool people around us, who hype us up for Godsmack, who weren't half bad.

So Godsmack play, they weren't terrible (OH MY GOD THAT LES PAUL!!!), and end their set with the infamous Drum Duel. And the vocal-type-dude from Godsmack kept reassuring us that they'd shut the **** up soon and let us listen to the Gods Of Metal.

So Metallica have the worst roadies ever who take 1/2 hour to set up their stuff, then finally Metallica break into Battery. As I said, there were two people between me and James (excluding the bouncer-dudes). I was getting ****ing crushed, so after a few songs I move back again (And start breathing again). So that was all cool, and it ****ing ruled. And I had a really cool mosh around me, but without those skinhead twats that were at the front.

*More to come in an eensey bit*

metallica are ****. i quit my last band cos they all bumed them you should find some real music like Misfits and murderdolls

You want fries with that deathwish?

I saw metallica 2 (on saturday) they were awsome

i wanna see them.

Arghh.. I couldn't get tickets. Did anyone see them at Earls Court? What did they play?

[QUOTE=richie_666]metallica are ****. i quit my last band cos they all bumed them you should find some real music like Misfits and murderdolls[/QUOTE]

dude, this is not the place for you to come and say what we should and shouldnt listen to, especially when ur saying not to listen to metallica. 1, we listen to whoever the fu(k we want. 2, who r u to say wats "real music". 3, i'm not gonna get into the punk vs metal argument, cause its pointless

SO....if u dont like metallica, dont post here. btw, misfits are awesome, but metallica is godly

I got a X-mas eve present known as "Ride the Lightning" tonight. The only song I've heard on it beforehand was "Fade to Black," and I really liked the rest of the album. Maybe I'll do a review someday after I get a better opinion of the songs.

Creeping Death=awesome
Escape= cheesy, but I still like

the best song on that album would have to be fight fire w/ fire, cuz its thrashy or call of ktulu cuz it just kicks ***