As you all know, Metallica recently toured and primarily played setlists consisting of songs from their first four albums only. OK, there might be one from St Anger or whatever, but nothing of any significance...
Now I would guess that 80% of Metallica fans in the 90's were sold on the band from "Enter Sandman" onwards. That means, they probably owned Load and Reload before Ride the Lightning.
So are those fans gone now? I mean, why did Metallica change their setlists to only include good old songs all of a sudden? Weren't the NEW fans expecting to hear "Aint my Bitch" and "King Nothing", etc?
Was the change because:
(a) they wanted to sell more of their old albums to their NEW found fans, who had yet to buy Kill 'em All, etc.?
or,
(b) They realized that the NEW fans had all fucked off to some rave party with trendy chicks and that only the OLD fans remained wanting to hear the classics only?
Finally, who do you think will be going to see "Some Kind of Monster"? What kind of audience is that?
Now I would guess that 80% of Metallica fans in the 90's were sold on the band from "Enter Sandman" onwards. That means, they probably owned Load and Reload before Ride the Lightning.
So are those fans gone now? I mean, why did Metallica change their setlists to only include good old songs all of a sudden? Weren't the NEW fans expecting to hear "Aint my Bitch" and "King Nothing", etc?
Was the change because:
(a) they wanted to sell more of their old albums to their NEW found fans, who had yet to buy Kill 'em All, etc.?
or,
(b) They realized that the NEW fans had all fucked off to some rave party with trendy chicks and that only the OLD fans remained wanting to hear the classics only?
Finally, who do you think will be going to see "Some Kind of Monster"? What kind of audience is that?