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Metallica hard-wires a different set list every night

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As much hate as Lars gets he is a big part of Metallica's success.

Is it because of the Napster thing? Or there's more to it.

If you have any musician friends who are into metal, ask them what they think of Lars as a drummer. :)

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As much hate as Lars gets he is a big part of Metallica's success.

Is it because of the Napster thing? Or there's more to it.

That’s why he’s a big part of their success. He understands business. He wasn’t going to stand by and watch his legacy squandered by hippies.

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As much hate as Lars gets he is a big part of Metallica's success.

Is it because of the Napster thing? Or there's more to it.

This video explains it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbAKqREg9g

the meme is that he's a bad drummer, but even Hetfield said that he thought of kicking Lars before but realized later that he's an essential part of the band, after all, he's the one that founded the band - if it weren't for him putting out an ad on a newspaper in the US, Metallica might've not existed.

he's not a great drummer, but he's an essential part of the band, remove him and the band is no longer the same. I'd say he keeps the band together.

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> you play on the doughnut itself and then the fans are in the doughnut hole. And then, well, where do the drums go? Then the concept of the four drum kits — one drum kit in each of the four different directions — came up, and then it sort of went from there.

Er, how does this work in a stadium? Some stadium concerts already have premium prices for the area closer to the stage, but the others can at least see the same thing, albeit from further away. If the "donut hole" is the premium area, what do the people outside the donut get to see? Guess I'll have to wait for a video of this. But this whole "360° stage" thing smacks of "using the stadium capacity as efficiently as possible to make moar money"...

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> you play on the doughnut itself and then the fans are in the doughnut hole. And then, well, where do the drums go? Then the concept of the four drum kits — one drum kit in each of the four different directions — came up, and then it sort of went from there. Er, how does this work in a stadium? Some stadium concerts already have premium prices for the area closer to the stage, but the others can at least see the sam…

There's some videos up:

https://youtu.be/yY4w-bIH3X4

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