i´ve been to one this year.
i got no pass. i´ve spent some time aroud the backstage door, untill i heard a guy talking in english (i live in brazil). it was their tour manager, Rick. I told him i was from the brazilian website (i am indeed) and he asked me to wait.
while he was gone i was booted by the security staff but i met Rick later at a t-shirt stand. i called his attention and he took me to the backstage.
the band received me and a friend who was there with me before everybody who was already in line waiting (even before Paulo Jr from sepultura).
too bad that like 5 other guys got to enter with us... so i guess the band got a little surprised when they saw a bunch of people.
but they were real nice, charlie and john autographed almost my whole colection of cds...
we were there for about 5, 10 minutes, hard to tell.
it was quick but was a dream come true.
here is the only pic i have of me with the guys (i´m the big headed guy in front of scott)