“Dude, Metallica is coming to India..start saving money for the gig.” I got a message from my friend. It was more than a message to me. I surfed a bit on the net and verified that the message was not fake at all. I was counting days for the ticket to be made available.After a long wait I finally got the ticket and what a beauty it was!
30th Oct, finally the day came. After much ruckus and turmoil in the previous venue, Bangalore was all set to host perhaps the biggest concert in the history of India. More than 40000 fans from all parts of the country gathered at Palace Ground, Bangalore.There were fans ranging from 15 to 55 years and some even more. In fact there were fans from Jordan, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Saudi whose flag were seen waving. Everyone was pushing their way through the narrow entrance inside the ground. The set up was insane with a massive stage and three giant LED screens!
The very moment we entered, Inner Sanctum was on stage and they were killing it intensely. Their setlist was brief but heavy enough to roll the crowd for the big thing that was coming. Next up was Guillotine a Delhi based band. I found them rather disappointing (blame it on the sound) and ordinary. The disappointment continued when they showed Ranbir Kapoor and Sharukh Khan on the big LED screen for some lame promo and stuff, it went on till Biffy Clyro called it off.
It was 8:17 pm when we heard the instrumental of the ecstasy of gold and we were thrilled already and suddenly Lars showed up and eventually James, Robert and Kirk. The crowd went wild the moment they saw the big four on the stage. They started playing their set which initially had creeping death, for whom the bell tolls, fuel..and it didn’t take them long to realise that they had really kept this audience waiting for 20 years and they should have been here long back. They were amazed to see the crowd singing not only the chorus but the whole of the song especially when they sung the memory remains, master of puppets, enter sandman..They also sung cyanide and all nightmare long from their latest album Death Magnetic. The pyros were heavily awesome and added the ‘killer factor’ in the gig. But for me the most emotional part was when they started playing nothing else matters. I recalled the day when I first heard that song in a tape recorder and very soon my eyes were heavy. They were actually playing live in front of me and the moment was hard to believe and describe in words. They were the One. There were some killer solos by Kirk and a pounding bass solo by Robert and hell aint he the best thing that happened to Metallica off late? Time passed by very fast when they came to an end of their setlist.
But it was fun when James kept on teasing us whether he gonna play few more songs or not. And hell the crowd were up on their feet again when he got his guitar back from the crew and finished three more songs which was closed by seek n destroy and what a finish it was! We all were overwhelmed and so were they. They promised they will come back very soon. It was 10.30 pm and the show was over and suddenly it was all blackened. We all wanted some more but I guess all good things come to an end so was this. Sad but true.
The 2 hours that we spent with the God of metals recharged our battery for life. The words fall short to explain how those 2 hours passed by and what each and everyone of us felt. The concert was more of an emotional drive than an exciting one. They made us ride the lightning. But more importantly balls to the Bangalorean crowd, for making this concert a memorable one in my life.
Do come back Metallica as you promised and till then let the memory remain!!!
But it was fun when James kept on teasing us whether he gonna play few more songs or not. And hell the crowd were up on their feet again when he got his guitar back from the crew and finished three more songs which was closed by seek n destroy and what a finish it was! We all were overwhelmed and so were they. They promised they will come back very soon. It was 10.30 pm and the show was over and suddenly it was all blackened. We all wanted some more but I guess all good things come to an end so was this. Sad but true.The 2 hours that we spent with the God of metals recharged our battery for life. The words fall short to explain how those 2 hours passed by and what each and everyone of us felt. The concert was more of an emotional drive than an exciting one. They made us ride the lightning. But more importantly balls to the Bangalorean crowd, for making this concert a memorable one in my life.
Do come back Metallica as you promised and till then let the memory remain!!!
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