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                  THE ENCYCLOPEDIA METALLICA NEWSLETTER
                          ISSUE #46, 7 June 1999
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EDITORIAL. We're 20.000! Yepp, 20.000 subscribers to this newsletter, and
we are getting 100s of new members each week. Thanks to you all for making
the list such a success, I'll do my best to make it as good as possible.
Don't forget to visit my site at http://www.encycmet.com as well

                                           Sem Hadland (Editor)
                                           http://www.encycmet.com



==== MERCYFUL METALLICA ============================================
Metallica had a nice surprise in Milan, Italy june the 5th. They invited
King Diamond and Hank Sherman from Mercyful Fate for the 12 minute long
Mercyful Fate medley!




==== FREE METALLICA GUITAR LESSONS =================================
Riff interactive is currently running a series of free guitar lessons with
Kirk Hammets style in mind. The fist lesson was last week, but you can
still see it in their archives. The next lesson (You are invited) will be
on Thursday at 8pm - US west coast time. The lessons have soundfiles,
videos and a teacher answearing questions. To go to their site, click on
the link on the bottom of my main page. http://www.encycmet.com

 


==== GIG REPORT ====================================================
Date:    June 3
City:    Budapest, Hungary
Venue:   MTK Stadium
Att:     15 000
Support: Mercyful Fate and Monster Magnet.
By:      Adam Szeleczky

Hey !I've just seen the gig ! Here's my review !!  1999.06.03.MTK
StadiumBudapestHungary. After years of long waiting, today it finally
happened ! Metallica played in Budapest, Hungary. The fans (we) were
already there, when the gates opened at 16:00 just to get a good place
near the stage. At about 6 o'clock the first opening act, Mercyful Fate
entered the stage in funny makeup, but with great songs. They played about
45 minutes. 30 minutes later Monster Magnet tried to please the crowd, but
they weren't as good as MF. At the end of their set the singer said: "Viva
Hungary!" and "You're the best looking crowd I've seen in a long time!"
That's because Hungarian chicks are cool and beautiful and they were all
in the first row around me !!

After one hour of waiting the lights went out and Ecstasy Of Gold, the
intro music started. For the first time I really wanted that music to
be over as soon as it was possible. James started the riff of
BREADFAN. Yeah ! Kirk walked in from the other side of the stage,
Jason as well. Lars was the last to come in and sit down to play his
well known stomach-killer, ass-kicker rhythms. MASTER Of PUPPETS was
the second song. The full version. When James sang
"Master...Master" Between the two "Master's
you could drop a penny and hear it ! The contrast of the band with the
crowd and the silence was awesome!! After James greeted the fans, came
WOLF and THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE. The first pyro came at the
start of FUEL, with flames all over the stage, and a big boom with
Lars's first beat. "Do you wanna sing? Well, on the next
song you'll get your chance!" said James before THE MEMORY
REMAINS. At the end, Jason conducted and we were singing the Marianne
Faithful part. BLEEDING ME and Jason's bass solo was next. Kirk
later joined to play the SANITARIUM intro, which was a little rest for
everyone in the first two rows, but only to save some energy for THE
FOUR HORSEMEN. Most of the girls were pulled out from the crowd while
Kirk played the famous horsemen-riff, so they missed the next song (my
all time favorite) FOR WHOM THE BELL TOOLS ! KING NOTHING was cool and
ROAM prepared everyone for the peak of the show: ONE. The war-pyro was
great ! For the first time, there were little rockets starting from
the two wings of the stage. James's guitar was a little out of
key, but no one really cared. The song was amazing! After a little
intro from the RIDE THE LIGHTNING album the band started to play FIGHT
FIRE WITH FIRE. At the third part of the song one pyro-boom came a
little late, and Kirk was a bit angry. The pyro-guy was sleepin';
or something. It was time to say goodbye for the first time. The crowd
screamed and screamed and screamed...

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. Orgasm. After SAD and CREEP the band left the
stage for the second time.

When they returned to play the last 3 songs a little incident came,
which was funny to the crowd but not for Lars. He accidentally hit his
fingers with his own drumsticks! Hehehe ! He was angry but OK. DIE,
DIE, DIE MY DARLING and SANDMAN was great with the big end-explosion,
and after a few minutes of drum stick give-aways (my lucky friend got
one) and big waves to the crowd, they played BATTERY, the last song.

The concert was huge ! It was the third time I saw Metallica live and
I still say, that they are the best live band in the world. Everyone
must see this show, so don't sit in front of your computer, move
you're ass and get the tickets ! It's an experience for
life!
      Adam Szeleczky
      Budapest, Hungary




==== BOOTLEG REVIEW ================================================
My name is Justin Griffin and I have a bootleg which is previously
unlisted on your site.  it is in a two CD set and judging from the look of
the CD's themselves (not the case), I'd say they were burned onto the CD's
from a tape or other CD. 

The title is "Poor Re Touring Me 1998" and it was made at the Osaka Castle
Hall in Osaka Japan on April 30, 1998.  the sound quality is good for it
being a bootleg. The cover has the (reload and load versions of the)
Metallica logo at the top.  The letters M,E,T and A (1st 4 letters) have
the "blood and Semen II" from the load cover inside the letters and
L,L,I,C, and A have the fire that's on the Re-load cover inside them.  And
it has the title (poor Re touring me 1998) on the cover and silhouettes of
the 4 band members.

The track listing is as follows:

Disc I:                             Disc II:
  -Intro                              -One
  -So what                            -Seek and Destroy/Fight Fire
  -Master of Puppets                  -Low Man's Lyric-Acoustic
  -King Nothing                       -The Four Horseman-Acoustic
  -Sad but True                       -Motorbreath-acoustic
  -Fuel                               -Creeping Death
  -The Memory Remains                 -Enter Sandman
  -Whiplash                           -Damage, Inc.
  -Bass doodle
  -Nothing Else Matters
  -Until It Sleeps
  -For Whom the Bell tolls
  -Wherever I may roam

Bells and Wherever I may roam are all on one track
  By: Griffin McGee




==== TOURDATES =====================================================
Here are the latest updated tourdates
     6/5 - Milan, ITALY (Gods of Metal Festival)
     6/7 - Ljubljana, SLOVENIA 
     6/9 - Bucharest, ROMANIA (National Stadium)
     6/11 - Plovdiv, BULGARIA (Plovdiv Stadium)
     6/12 - Athens, GREECE (Apollo Stadium)
     6/13 - Istanbul, TURKEY (Ali Sami Yen Stadium)
     6/19 - Irvine, CA (Irvine Meadows)
     6/25 - St. Gasllen, SWITZERLAND (Open Air)(3 Day Festival) 
     6/26 - Hildesheim, GERMANY (Weserufer)
     6/27 - Kiev, UKRAINE (RockKiev)
     6/29 - Tallin, ESTONIA (Song Festival Ground)
     7/1 - Roskilde, DENMARK (Roskilde Festival)(4 Day Festival)
     7/2- Turku, FINLAND (Turku Festival)
     7/3 - Werchter, BELGIUM (Werchter Festival)
     7/5 - Dublin, IRELAND (The Point)
     7/7 - Paris, FRANCE (Omnisports Bercy)
     7/8 - Eurockeennes, FRANCE (Eurockeennes de Belfort)
     7/10 - Milton Keynes, ENGLAND (Milton Keynes Bowl)
     7/12 - Barcelona, SPAIN (Paualau St. Jordi)
     7/14 - Gijon, SPAIN (Hippodromo Las Mestas)
     7/15 - Madrid, SPAIN (Festinad)(2 Day Festival)
     7/16 - Lisbon, PORTUGAL (T99 Festival -3 Day Festival)
     7/18 - Vienna, AUSTRIA (Neustadt Flugfeld)
     7/20 - Tel Aviv, ISRAEL (Rishon Le Zion)
     7/24 - New York, USA (Woodstock Festival)
     12/31 - Pontiac, MICHIGAN (Siverdome) 



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