Metallica 30th Anniversary concerts!! Wow..

Jeremys Spoken

NOW THIS IS SICK! That's how you do it folks.

Thirty Years...
July 27, 2011
Thirty years of Metallica... can you believe it? We think it's cause for a major celebration! You've been asking for a while now "just what the hell are you going to do to mark 30 years as a band?" closely followed by "why don't we have more exclusive shows for Fan Club members?" We've heard you loud and clear and are beyond psyched to announce that the week of December 5, 2011 will be a full on Metallica week in the Bay Area, more specifically we will be playing four shows for Met Club members only at the historic Fillmore in San Francisco on December 5, 7, 9, and 10 to celebrate our 30th anniversary. These unique shows will include special guests and events, rare songs, varied set lists, odds and ends, and all the nutty stuff you expect from Metallica... fun for the entire family! Come to the Bay Area and spend the week with us to not only close out 2011 out with a bang, but to celebrate over three decades worth of craziness.

Participate in the entire week of festivities with special four pack tickets (one ticket for each of the four shows) and automatic entry into the contests for various other special events, available for the clever price of $19.81 (get it??). If you can't join us for the full week, we'll have individual show tickets too and as you can see we're going back to early '80's ticket pricing (but not the hair!)... single show tickets will be just $6.00 each. Both four packs and individual show tickets will be available for Fan Club members only through a reservation system and we do have to add facility fees, blah, blah. Clubbers can log in for all the details... we're taking reservations through August 8.

Hope to see you for a week of madness in December!

capthowdy1027

Holy shit, that is insane!

Jeremys Spoken

capthowdy1027 wrote:

Holy shit, that is insane!

Absolutely.


I wish I lived out there.


4 shows for under 20 bucks.

Ledbetterman10

That's awesome.

capthowdy1027

A huge amount of kudos to them. That's just amazing.

stipe19

At least I will get to see them at Yankee Stadium in September.

nothing_man_92

That's crazy!!! I just spent $150 to see one of their shows :x

SVRDhand13

Too bad most people who try to go to these shows will not be able to get in. The Fillmore does not hold many people.

red mos

wow, that is totally bad ass. 19.81 for 4 shows and 6 bucks for single tix! I saw Metallica on the Death Magnetic tour, and it got me back into them. Think my Respect and love went up a few more notches. That is truly bad ass. Wish I could go, may talk to my cousin. Edit: just read it's for fanclub members, but still that is f*cking awesome!

Gary Carter

venue only holds 1200 people

really cool thing metallica is doing

:roll: :roll:


much respect to them but they couldn't have held this at att park or golden gate park?

foriginalsin

Metallica is too big to do a small show like that. Do you know how many people on this board would complain if pj20 was held in a small venue? I like metallica a lot. I have also seen them recently and their show was kinda lame. They're phenomenal musicians, and all the songs were unbelievably tight but there was something missing that made the show feel disingenuous. (I mean they dropped huge beach balls over the crowd at the end of the show. My buddy who was with me was like "They're a metal band right?") It would be cool if they did a bigger show to accommodate their enormous fan-base in addition to these small shows. The price is obviously awesome but I cant help but wonder if that is a result of the tiny venue.

Pearl Jam should have tix prices at $19.91. Just make that shit happen, logistics need not apply.

WhyNotSweden

I truly love METALLICA, I've seen them 8 times, but this isnt kind to all their fans, they could do this at Alpine so more fans could go.

Ok, I had to pay more for my PJ20 tickets, but I got tickets. I'm gonna spend a weekend with 40000 other crazy fuckers.

titchinello

wow thats amazing, now if i had the money, to afford this sort of shit, i'd fly over in a second.

ilockyer

titchinello wrote:

wow thats amazing, now if i had the money, to afford this sort of shit, i'd fly over in a second.

Same as.

Thoughts_Arrive

30 yrs? time flies. :shock:

intodeep

I am not always a fan of how they conduct their business but that is fucking killer.

Wish i lived out there.

hostis

brilliant. they were my first ever gig at 16 in London in 1990....

titchinello

hostis wrote:

brilliant. they were my first ever gig at 16 in London in 1990....

my 3rd ever in 1989. and i think they're the band i've seen the most times

titchinello

oh and i meant to also say, hope that they release a 4pack cd and or dvd package.

Empty Glass

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

30 yrs? time flies. :shock:

Agree. I can remember being a punk 13 year old jamming Kill'em All that a friend recorded for me.

Ledbetterman10

foriginalsin wrote:

Metallica is too big to do a small show like that. Do you know how many people on this board would complain if pj20 was held in a small venue?

That's cause PJ fans can be whiny little bitches.

ComeToTX

Very cool idea. Metallica also tours EVERYWHERE, which PJ quit doing years ago.

capthowdy1027

hostis wrote:

brilliant. they were my first ever gig at 16 in London in 1990....

They were my first show as well, in 1997.

Gary Carter

titchinello wrote:

oh and i meant to also say, hope that they release a 4pack cd and or dvd package.

i'm sure they will. seems like a huge cash grab.

Gary Carter

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

foriginalsin wrote:

Metallica is too big to do a small show like that. Do you know how many people on this board would complain if pj20 was held in a small venue?

That's cause PJ fans can be whiny little bitches.

so true. fans are bitching bout the 10c selling the pj20 book and soundtrack a bit higher than amazon.com.

Flagg

Wow, yet again another band shows PJ up. That is incredible!

eeriepadave

I would def. be there if i lived in San Fran.

red mos

eeriepadave wrote:

I would def. be there if i lived in San Fran.

I hear ya man, not a Metallica club member, so I'd probably get screwed, but this is awesome.

Gary Carter

Flagg wrote:

Wow, yet again another band shows PJ up. That is incredible!

so playing 4 nights at a venue the holds 1200 people ups pj, really now?

Flagg

metsfan wrote:

Flagg wrote:

Wow, yet again another band shows PJ up. That is incredible!

so playing 4 nights at a venue the holds 1200 people ups pj, really now?

They could have picked a bigger place, but $20 for 4 shows? That's ridiculous. Also if you can't make those shows it isn't as if you can't catch them at one of the 100s of others they play every year when PJ basically refuses to do a real tour. So yeah, I think it does. PJ could have charged 1991 prices for PJ20 but they chose not to. Yes, I know it is a festival with lots of other bands so that is more expensive, but honestly I could care less about those other bands and they could have just done it themselves.

My other fav band, The Black Crowes, chose to celebrate their 20th year by doing a double acoustic CD and playing 75+ shows to celebrate.

PJ decides to do a movie, which is an awesome idea, and then throw a shin dig in the middle of cow country.

And go Cowboys. You know I can't argue with you!

Flagg

Oh don't get me wrong though I am really looking forward to PJ20 and I think it will be an incredible weekend. But what Metallica did was pretty outstanding.