My buddy, Doug, is friends with the band's chef.

Doug used to be my neighbor, but he sold one of his 2 houses here and used the 300k profit (he sold at the height of the boom) to buy land and build a house in NorCal.

Anywho... he's here right now, in his monster RV, cleaning up his rental after evicting a deadbeat.

So he says in December he wants me to fly up there and have dinner with the band before the show, go to the show and then backstage after the show.

Wow. Just, wow.

I realize this is still far away, but if he can pull this off, that'd be the coolest damn thing I ever did.

dinner with douchebags?

Yeah, but a band that I really like (musically). At least back in the day.

Very cool. As an amateur drummer, I really love Lars' work.

that’d be the coolest damn thing I ever did

Don't tell the wife that.

Sweet! Hope it works out for ya, that would rock.

I saw Metallica back in 1996 i believe...damn amazing concert in albuquerque...bands in order...

Suicidal Tendencies

Rob Haltfords "Flight"

Candlebox

Metallica

Wait...Metallica has a chef? Not very "metal", is it?

Man, whatever happened to the good ol' days, when rockers could survive off of a bottle of Jack and snorting lines off of groupies' assess.

*sigh*

Not gonna happen nowadays Pac...they have Chef's, trainers and assistants...there is no time for drinking or doing groupies..much less doing lines off groupies asses...

Best moment of a concert i went to...

Ozzy Ozbourne in El Paso...roughly 1998 also...a girl in front row has like 10 shirts she bought, and has this huge banner and a bouquet of roses...she gets to hand them to ozzy...ozzy looks at them and says, "i aint F___ing dying!" and throws the roses into the crowd...and the crowd goes wild...and the girl goes back to her seat in shock....ahhhh....

#9 I could see Ozzy doing that. The dude's act hasn't changed onstage in 35-40 years, can barely (if at all) be understood in real life...but he's still got a hilarious sense of humor. You should have seen Ozzfest 11 in the Seattle area...lost his voice 1/2 through the second song. After the band jammed 10-15 minutes without him, he came back on, finished the song, and apologized for losing his voice. He offered to keep trying if the fans wanted him to.

One of the loudest ovations I've ever witnessed for any event. Of course the fans wanted him to keep trying. He managed to get through the rest of the set pretty damned well, too.

I think the TV show "The Osbournes" had already pretty well jumped the shark by the end of the first season, but if anything, it just seemed to cement Ozzy's iconic status and earn him more fans. Oh, and I'm pretty sure the first time I saw him, when Motley Crue opened up, was the tour that someone caught him snorting a line of ants (I think it might have been on a dare).

Loudest i ever saw was The Black Crowes in the downtown el paso civic center...small venue and these guys rocked it...

Best show...hmm...have to say Pearl Jam...but The Ramones opening up had alot to do with it...U2 in phoenix was cool..but i was so drunk only remembered one song from whole show...good thing i saw them 2 days later in el paso...

I've seen a lot of really, really great shows. Crue and Ozzy is still one of the best.

I've mentioned this elsewhere...Terrible Ted is the loudest I've ever seen. Played the Paramount Theater in Seattle. Had enough sound to be loud in the Tacoma Dome. So loud that it took three full songs for my hearing to adjust. I still have no idea what the first three songs they played were...it was just this loud WAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHH noise. Saw him on a Wed., I believe. I couldn't even hear high notes on the stereo in my car until the following Saturday. I figure it took at least a week to regain the hearing I'd had before that.

Saw him once...and that was plenty.

That's gonna be awesome !

went to crue fest last weekend in dallas.

Godsmack stole the show.