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I saw them at the Summit in Houston as well. It is odd driving by that building nowadays and remembering the smell of weed wafting up from the crowd.

I also saw them at Circuit of the Americas last year.

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Was the Summit show the one where the stage collapsed (on purpose) and that stagehand guy got lit on fire (also on purpose)? Man, that was cool. My girlfriend at the time didn't know that was intentional and she was freaking out.

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The played summit several times in Houston, but yes the '97 tour that produced the DVD Cunning Stunts (which was Ft. worth believe) had the mock disaster during enter sandman. COC opened.


I can't say I remember for sure, but considering it was before wide use of internet, I probably didn't know either.

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Cunning Stunts was indeed recorded in FTW on my birthday and the day after. Pretty sure you can see my hand at one point.

Of course I did blow my chance to go backstage that night as we were late and I was not aware that I had a PRE-SHOW pass waiting for me at will call.

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This review is almost enough to make me want to drop 100$ on a ticket. Almost...

https://theringer.com/rebooting-axl-rose-2089c11efce5#.np8v9z1mn

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I saw them at the Summit in Houston as well. It is odd driving by that building nowadays and remembering the smell of weed wafting up from the crowd.

I also saw them at Circuit of the Americas last year.

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Was the Summit show the one where the stage collapsed (on purpose) and that stagehand guy got lit on fire (also on purpose)? Man, that was cool. My girlfriend at the time didn't know that was intentional and she was freaking out.

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No, the show at the Summit I attended had GNR open.

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See my reply above you.. Metallica played the summit many times. But not with GnR. That was astrodome. in Sept. 92.

86 opening for ozzy
89 with cult opening
92 on their own. (Jan)
97 with COC opening, and the show referenced above with the mock disaster.

They also played Toyota twice. (one with Down and the sword, the other with Godsmack)

Man, I must have inhaled a little too deeply. I would swear that show did not happen at the Astrodome.

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I also saw them at Circuit of the Americas last year.

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Was the Summit show the one where the stage collapsed (on purpose) and that stagehand guy got lit on fire (also on purpose)? Man, that was cool. My girlfriend at the time didn't know that was intentional and she was freaking out.

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See my reply above you.. Metallica played the summit many times. But not with GnR. That was astrodome. in Sept. 92.

86 opening for ozzy
89 with cult opening
92 on their own. (Jan)
97 with COC opening, and the show referenced above with the mock disaster.

They also played Toyota twice. (one with Down and the sword, the other with Godsmack)

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I saw them at the Summit in Houston as well. It is odd driving by that building nowadays and remembering the smell of weed wafting up from the crowd.

I also saw them at Circuit of the Americas last year.

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Was the Summit show the one where the stage collapsed (on purpose) and that stagehand guy got lit on fire (also on purpose)? Man, that was cool. My girlfriend at the time didn't know that was intentional and she was freaking out.

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See my reply above you.. Metallica played the summit many times. But not with GnR. That was astrodome. in Sept. 92.

86 opening for ozzy
89 with cult opening
92 on their own. (Jan)
97 with COC opening, and the show referenced above with the mock disaster.

They also played Toyota twice. (one with Down and the sword, the other with Godsmack)

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Yes with Down, was 2008. 04 for godsmack. And they had reliant stadium in 03 and woodlands in 98.

I went to all of them 94 and later!

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It happens. In fact, it's happened to me more than once.

I saw Metallica at Texas Stadium in 2003. They weren't allowing in any type of lighters but when we got to the top of the stadium the cloud of smoke was crazy. I don't (and didn't smoke pot) but I had a crazy contact high that day. It was wild!

I've been to many concerts over the yearsummer and have never experienced a contact high except for that show.

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It happens. In fact, it's happened to me more than once.

I saw Metallica at Texas Stadium in 2003. They weren't allowing in any type of lighters but when we got to the top of the stadium the cloud of smoke was crazy. I don't (and didn't smoke pot) but I had a crazy contact high that day. It was wild!

I've been to many concerts over the yearsummer and have never experienced a contact high except for that show.

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I saw Pink Floyd at Texas Stadium. That was an amazing "contact high".

August 2013 in Singapore, two hours of sheer awesomeness for me and an estimated 39,999+ other fans... and a less than entertained wife (bless her for putting up with me and making beer runs).

The Ecstasy of Gold (Intro by Ennio Morricone)
Hit The Lights
Master of Puppets
The Shortest Straw
Ride The Lightning
Fade to Black
The Memory Remains
Broken, Beat & Scarred
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Sad But True
And Justice for All
One
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Blackened
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman

Encore:
Creeping Death
Battery
Seek & Destroy

1st time at the astrodome w GnR. Neighbors brother couldn't make it and sold me ticket. Last summer in Austin at X games. Still bringing it.

Went with a friend from high school, my big brother, and one of his coworkers to see Iron Maiden at W.A.S.P. at the Summit in Houston in 1985. I was 16 or 17.

Between bands, they made an announcement that Metallica and Armored Saint were playing later at Cardi's club and it was an all-ages show and you could get in for maybe $5 with your Maiden ticket stub.

Anybody that lived in the Houston area then remembers the radio ads, "It's ladies night at Cardi's!" It was always ladies night at Cardi's.

It was a school night, but we went to Cardi's anyway. My friend called his dad from a pay phone and told him we were going and he had to go since we were his ride and he would be really late. His dad was not thrilled.

The Maiden show was allsome. Powerslave tour. Loudest tour of 1985.

We went to Cardi's and got in as Armored Saint was finishing their set. They had a wall of Marshall cabinets behind them. Those got rolled off to reveal a larger wall of Marshall cabinets for Metallica.

Understand that Metallica didn't get played on mainstream radio back then. I could catch them late at night on the weekend on KLOL when Linda Silk had her Metal Shop program. Everything they played was 100mph and screaming and they just didn't play it during normal hours.

Metallica in that club was the loudest show I've been to, and that was after being at Maiden. It was nuts. Their songs were so fast that I couldn't understand how they were making the chord changes.

"Fight Fire With Fire" is the song I remember most. And Cliff Burton's solo.

We got home after 3am and I was late for algebra the next morning and walked in with about two minutes left, wearing a Maiden shirt that I got for my cousin, two huge black x's on my hand from the club, and a bad case of bed head.

When I opened the classroom door the teacher started griping at me and shaking her finger. I had not stopped at the attendance office to get an admit slip. All the kids in the class were pointing and laughing. I couldn't hear anything over the ringing in my ears.

I said "I CAN'T HEAR YOU! I SAW IRON MAIDEN AND METALLICA LAST NIGHT! IT WAS LOUD!"

I got detention hall.

It was worth it.

Saw Metallica again on Monsters of Rock and they were great.


tl;dr I saw Metallica in a club.

DAMN! That is an amazing story.

https://metallica.com/tour/9312

Random Metallica Generator:
http://djen.co/#/

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I lived an hour from Houston and it was tradition at my high school (and probably lots of others) to wear your concert jersey or tee the next day to let everybody know you had been to a show the night before.

Being somewhat removed from the hard rock crowd at our school, at least in terms of look and dress, I earned some credibility with people I had never talked to before when they heard I had seen Metallica in a club, and on a school night.

My big brother is allsome. He took me to Van Halen when I was a freshman on the Diver Down tour. He had gone the night before and decided to go again the next. If the and scalp tickets and take me because "you just have to see Eddie live!!! Dude!!"

We found one scalper with a crowd around him. No other scalpers anywhere. VH was freaking huge that year.

My brother pushes through the crowd and the scalper was saying "$45 per ticket! I want $45 per ticket!"

People were yelling at my brother for butting in while continuing to yell at the scalper about charging so much for tickets that were $12.50 or $15 or something.

My brother is saying "$30 each! I'll give you $30 each right now! Listen! The opening band is almost done! You are about to eat these tickets!"

Opener was After The Fire. Their one hit was Der Kommisar. VH always picked crap opening bands for the most part. We could hear muffled sounds of Der Kommisar coming out of the Summit.

My brother walked away with two tickets at $30 each and we got the hell out of their while that big fruit that was scalping was looking at the $60 like "wtf just happened here?" and the crowd around him yelled at him for being stupid.

Our seats were 9th row on the floor. When the show started a bunch of people rushed the stage. They let you get away with that in '82. We walked on the chairs up to the 5th row. We stood the whole show on our chairs, as did everybody else except the wasted guy in front of us who never got up or even opened his eyes.

DLR actually sang most of the lyrics back then instead of talking them.

My big brother is the ****.

Clicking through a pointless slideshow on chron.com, which is mostly what they offer anymore, and looked at which bands performed at which locations for their first show in Houston.

Amazing that GnR opened for The Cult in 1987. Almost seems impossible.

Some other huge names caught in clubs (although I don't remember Rockefeller's ever being on Richmond).

To bump the Metallica story from high school, I didn't realize that was the first time they had ever played Houston.

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/When-did-your-favorite-band-first-play-Houston-9134119.php#photo-10726947

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Also, they played Ride the Lightning.

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God, just a bunch of 23 year olds on that stage.. that is so f-in impressive.

I saw them in 1998 in the woodlands. I wasn't much of a drinker at 18 but I can remember having to sit down and keep from puking in the middle of the set. Enter Sandman or something was playing. I just remember being disappointed that I felt sick and couldn't stand up and watch the song.

Was at the 2003 show. Had gotten pit tickets a ways back and then got diagnosed with a herniated disk about 2 weeks before.....didn't give a **** and still went.

The order for the show was: Mudvayne, Deftones, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Metallica.

Mudvayne was a great opening show. I remember the lead singer coming out chugging 2 bottles of beer at once with a Texas flag shirt and then going ****ing crazy.

Deftones sucked.....next......thought it was hilarious when the mic kept cutting out on him during one song and he slammed it on the stage clearly frustrated after it was over.

Linkin Park wasn't bad. This was right after their 2nd album so the music they played fit in a little better. Also fun fact, it was this show they used for their video for the Live in Texas DVD. Oddly enough though it's dubbed with the audio from the Dallas show.....

Limp Bizkit was a big surprise. The show they put on was insane. Keep in mind this was soon after they covered Sanitarium on MTV and got every Metallica fan appreciating them for that. They also did that song live there as well as either MOP or Battery (can't remember). But damn they put on a kick ass show that day.

Seeing Metallica live for the first time and in the pit......man......couldn't have been happier......most favorite song of that night was Creeping Death. And they started hard opening with Battery and we went ****ing crazy from there! So awesome!