Ultimate Met Set

Year ya "discovered" Metallica?
I first "discovered" them in 1985 in the back of a discarded Playboy magazine, it's that two-page section in the back where all the pics are in black and white and it was them in sweaty post-gig glory holding up the movie billboard letters "F U C K" except I think the "F" was backwards. I remember the text pointed out how the groupies were called "Ednas" and that they predicted that this band would go from up and coming to miles beyond the competition. I never heard them, but I liked how they had on no spandex or make-up and they were happy looking drunks. Unlike most of the popular bands at the time. Alas, they didn't surpass Van Halen as my favorite band for a long time.

Unfortunately, I didn't really listen to MetallicA until 1988. Blame it on the guys who always wore their back-patches that couldn't get girlfriends or good grades and got high before school every day. I just didn't want to have anything to do with anything they had anything to do with. (Those guys STILL haven't amounted to shit). I finally got into Metallica during one summer job while painting boiler rooms. I brought Jimi Hendrix tapes to work and this other kid brought Metallica tapes to work. Pretty soon it was obvious that I only wanted to hear his tapes, and he only wanted to hear mine. I never looked back.

Guestimate how many Met shows you’ve seen.
Maybe 30. No number is worth mentioning after Michellica's Hank Aaron-like total, but I did answer this question.

List the setlist (no more than 18 songs) that YOU would like to see Metallica play:

Don't laugh; I would love to see this! I mean seriously. If they're playing, that's good for me.

1. Ecstasy Of Gold (does this count as a song?)
2. Blackened
3. Four Horsemen
4. Master of Puppets
5. Fade To Black
6. Harvester of Sorrow (which fades right into...)
7. Shortest Straw
8. Seek and Destroy
9. Whiplash
10. Helpless
11. Fight Fire With Fire
12. Bleeding Me
13. Creeping Death (Joanna would kill me if I didn't request it)
14. Orion (which fades right into...)
15. Damage Inc.
16. No Remorse
17. Am I Evil/Last Caress/Battery (just like at the Moscow gig)
18. Dyer's Eve (Lars had better play it with TWO kicks drums)

List YOUR favorite venue that YOU would like to see Metallica play in:
The Fillmore in San Francisco. Great sound, great venue.

What is YOUR favorite stage setup?
As I've gotten older, I've become more and more disenchanted with arenas and stadiums. I like the club size stuff. The sound is better, you can see the bands and it cuts down on a lot of the stadium crowd violence. I do wish that during a show they would project a big photo of Cliff onto a backdrop during Orion or Whiplash. That would own.