![]() Young bands Powerman 5000 and System of a Down warmed the assembling crowd starting just after 4 p.m. brought their unique talents to the sordid affair. Two strippers in cages and the “vertically challenged” rapper Joe C. An over-the-top take on older tune “Blind” and a fun cover of Slayer’s evil “South of Heaven” were the exceptions.ĭetroit braggart Kid Rock, brought out into the afternoon sun by porn star Ron Jeremy, delivered his usual hip-rock mix of weak originals and overplayed cover tunes by AC/DC and Joe Walsh. ![]() Robert Trujillos first tour with the band. Such well-received entries as “A.D.I.D.A.S.,” “Freak on a Leash” and “Falling Away From Me” tended to blend too easily one into the next, with little (beyond the nightmarish lyrics) to separate them. Metallica announce Summer Sanitarium tour 2003 w/ Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Deftones, and Mudvayne. ![]() Listed second on the program was Bakersfield’s sludge-metal merchant Korn, whose mediocre hourlong entry reflected the group’s severe scarcity of dynamic variety from song to song. The band’s five-song encore, around 11 p.m., also included the war horror story “One,” complete with lots of loud explosions and other crowd-approved pyrotechnics, as well as a mellow take on Bob Seger’s “Turn the Page” and closer “Enter Sandman,” an appropriate musical capper for the long and draining day. The 2003 Summer Sanitarium Tour featuring Metallica, limpbizkit, Linkin Park, Deftones and Mudvayne will be in concert on Saturday, July 19th at Ohio. He left frontman duties temporarily to bassist Jason Newsted, who led the rowdy throng through its paces during a furious version of 1983’s “Whiplash.” “I gotta go lay down,” groaned singer and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield after five songs, alluding to his recent back injury that forced him to cancel some East Coast shows. The Atlanta date has been rescheduled for August. ![]() Seen as a follow-up to Metallica's inaugural Summer Sanitarium tour - which trekked across the U.S. Metallica plans to perform make-up shows in the three cities after the completion of the Summer Sanitarium tour on July 16 in Queen Creek, Arizona. Metallica’s 17-song production touched on all phases of its Elektra catalog, from such early-period faves as “Seek and Destroy” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” –songs that in the early ’80s set the standard for speed and thrash metal - through 1991’s “Sad But True” and encore entry “Nothing Else Matters” (both from the band’s 7 million-selling self-named album) and up to less impressive recent tracks like the bland “I Disappear,” from the “Mission: Impossible 2” soundtrack. The Summer Sanitarium Tour is slated to officially begin on July 4th. ![]()
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