- Battery
- Creeping Death
- Seek and Destroy
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
- The Thing That Should Not Be
- Frantic
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- Dirty Window
- One
- Blackened
- Harvester Of Sorrow
- Nothing Else Matters
- Master Of Puppets
- St. Anger
- Enter Sandman
- Blitzkrieg
- Breadfan
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Dancerz
This show was the 4th Metallica show in Paris in 2003, after the 3 clubs played in 1 day in June.
The venue
was packed, and the band was greated a huge welcome.
Unlike a few weeks earlier with Marylin Manson, the organisators had a
great idea and built a closed Front Of Stage area, in which they only let
the first fans in. The floor was cut in 2 and the pressure from the fans
against the barriers seemed more supportable.
After the classical intro, Bercy was shaken by a great version of Battery,
followed by other great classics.
I was pleased to notice that only 3 new songs were played that night.
I was standing on the left tier, and I had a good view on what going on
backstage. I could see James and Roberto greeting all the staff members a
few minutes before show start, and I also could see the crew leaving the
sides of the backstage area before the massive explosions announcing One.
The band was in excellent mood and shape. Roberto is definitely part of
the band, and the audience cheered as he was introduced by James.
His presence on stage is great, and he obviously has a lot of fun playing
in his new band.
The first encore started with St.
Anger, a song that I
really like.
After playing Enter
Sandman (great
version), the band left and came back for a second encore, amde of 2
killer versions of Blitzkrieg
and Breadfan.
The show
ended by long minutes of salute and give aways from the band to the fans :
drumsticks, guitar picks, they threw away everything they had.
Lars went to do his favorite joke : sitting down on stage and spitting
some orange juice in the face of the fans in the front row before giving
them some drum sticks.
He finally stood up, and left the stage a while after the others did.
Right before disappearing, he took the microphone, and announced what he
introduced as an early Christmas gift : a new Metallica concert in Paris :
June 23 at the Parc des Princes.
This show in Bercy was so great that I'll be there for sure !!!!