Metallica didn't accomplish an ad-lib parking lot set as some had hoped they would Saturday during the aboriginal anniversary Almanac Abundance Day, yet acclaim rang out, tears fell and metal reigned during an ballsy six-hour chase of autograph-signing, chatting and pictures.
Ending a grubby, shivering, boozy three-day parking lot camp-out for 400 fans, Rasputin Music and DVDs in Mountain View, CA abreast San Jose opened its doors at 10:30 a.m. to accord abroad hundreds of RSD commemorative posters, T-shirts, and CDs. Songs from Master of Puppets, Kill Em All and Ride the Lightning played. James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and 2003 accession on bass Robert Trujillo accustomed alone by atramentous towncar at 2 p.m. to collective with the black-clad throng, accumulated from as far abroad as Australia and Japan. The screaming, bird-flipping hordes chased anniversary car into Rasputin's loading area, and amidst the strip-mall building, apprehension a adventitious to asked their idols about American bout dates ("September," said Hetfield) and vocals on the new anthology ("I'm alive on 'em," Hetfield promised). Others asked if they could apprehend the aboriginal new Metallica anthology in 5 years, produced by Rick Rubin ("This fall," said Trujillo).
Ulrich sat at the foreground of the greeting table, the aboriginal to assurance hundreds of Lightning vinyl records, Hetfield signature ESP Truckster guitars and added than a dozen artificial Guitar Hero controllers from the multiplatinum-selling video game. Lars laughed and commented, "I can alone play one song, [Black Sabbath's] "Paranoid" on 'Expert'." Meanwhile, Hetfield marveled as he active sepia-toned, twenty-two-year-old Master of Puppets bout posters, or a full-sized aback boom of the band's logo, now adorned with four signatures the cool fan advised to get anon inked. "I couldn't even speak," said twenty-year-old San Jose, CA citizen Ken Sapp."It was the best acquaintance of my life."
Record Abundance Day co-founder Michael Kurtz of Los Angeles, CA. said about 600 food internationally were hosting agnate contest in affiliation with bands like Björk, Vampire Weekend, A-Trak and Thrice. The Comic Book Abundance Day-inspired accident came calm backward endure year, and has hit a pop ability nerve, he said. RSD's Web website afresh surged to prominence, constant a crippling hacker advance and hundreds of bags of page appearance this month. "It's been affectionate of abominable for us," says Kurtz. "It's just snowballed to the point area the Governor of Maine proclaims April 19th Almanac Abundance Day. Same with the Scottish Parliament. It feels like the alpha of something. Rumors of the afterlife of the absolute almanac abundance accept been awful exaggerated."
Metallica play European dates this summer afterwards a one-off appearance in Tuscon, AZ, May 16th, and are accepted to bout North America in the fall.
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