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Zakk does overplay a lot of stuff, but Dimebag also did a lot of extra divebombs and pinch harmonics live too so probably isn't too far of the mark.

Had a look at the merch as I was coming in - €80 for a hoodie and €45 for a shirt must be a new record.

You can thank the greedy pricks from live nation aka ticketmaster for that since they demand a cut of every single piece of merch sold by bands in the venue same with the Olympia and plenty of other venues around Dublin. Prices were the same at the Wu-Tang and the Ice Cube / Cypress Hill gigs in 2023. I am nearly sure hoodies were even 80 at the Unholy alliance tour back in 06. I remember being shocked by the merch prices back then.

Wanted to see KP but had to wait for one of my mates who was working since I couldn't transfer the ticket and no ins / outs once you get inside. Got in about 15 mins before Pantera started and all the merch was gone every single Pantera item was sold out. Don't really care as I remember the merch all being shite at the 2023 shows stupid block capital back prints on everything "for the fans and the brothers" etc.

Good show but some amount of pricks in the crowd mainly people constantly pushing trying to get further up in the crowd when clearly there was no room. So annoying and it's why smaller shows are so much better. Great to hear Floods as they only added that to set after the last time I saw them.

I think Phil got mixed up saying the show was the first to sell out as I don't think the Dublin show ever actually did sell out it just got fucked by the dynamic pricing. That's the biggest crowd I have ever seen in the 3 arena for a show that wasn't sold out. Once you hit past as far as the seats went out it was almost impossible to get any closer to the stage.

Correct about the pricks in the crowd. Never felt as wedged in there and there was some clown trying to push through every 2 minutes. We weren't even near the front.

Thought Pantera were grand. Cowboys is the only album I really love so setlist wasn't ideal for me, more of a box ticking exercise as I was minus 1 years old the last time they were here. 

Just reading on another forum, a lad was in the queue for 90 minutes for presale tickets this morning, all that was left was "Ultimate side stage experience" tickets at £2932.50... each

It looked like that but if you kept refreshing the page after you got in, random seats would pop up. None of them cheap mind you.

I got 2 on Tuesday with a hotel package, wasn't cheap but overall very little more than people were paying for tickets alone. I managed to get 2 more for my Dad in the Download presale yesterday but when I went to checkout it must have cross referenced phone numbers to the other account I used and failed to checkout saying I had already bought the maximum amount of tickets for the event.

Don't have time to get to many gigs, just nice to say you were at this, hopefully

If it's not a cheeky question what did that skin you?

€1700 for 2 decent enough seated tickets & 2 nights in a 4 star in Birmingham.

Not cheap but people have given that and more for tickets alone.

Just reading on another forum, a lad was in the queue for 90 minutes for presale tickets this morning, all that was left was "Ultimate side stage experience" tickets at £2932.50... each

It looked like that but if you kept refreshing the page after you got in, random seats would pop up. None of them cheap mind you.

I got 2 on Tuesday with a hotel package, wasn't cheap but overall very little more than people were paying for tickets alone. I managed to get 2 more for my Dad in the Download presale yesterday but when I went to checkout it must have cross referenced phone numbers to the other account I used and failed to checkout saying I had already bought the maximum amount of tickets for the event.

Don't have time to get to many gigs, just nice to say you were at this, hopefully

Page is a bit embarrassing all right. No discussion allowed just "positivity".

I expected an hour from Behemoth. Setlist wasn't great & either was the sound. Overall they were OK but expected more.

Slipknot sounded great. Sic was probably the highlight of the night. Crowd seemed very into it all night, but there seemed to a lot of arseholes about.

I've seen a few clips now, apparently everyone was monged off their faces on coke.

You've seen the ball punching video.

There's another clip of a lad riding a supervisor in the jacks, he actually looks at the camera a few times but is so out of it doesn't cop it.

I've seen this video and it's not from this party. It's actual from last year in a pub local to me here.

Slayers output until 1990 was pure gold. Every right to be there.

They never had a major record the way Megadeth did but they never lost their fan base either. Slayer are definitely a bigger draw live and that's exemplified by the running order on the Big 4 shows

It's certainly close, but considering Slayer are more extreme, it's impressive that they would even have as much of a draw.

I would say Megadeth would have weathered the storm better with the Rust in Peace lineup as opposed to the circus it turned into.

Don't think so. They were playing Dyers Eve in 09 but replaced it with Fight Fire for Dublin.

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You're right it was 2004. Fucking hell.

A bit off topic, but how about this for a setlist. From Peru in 2014

Battery
Master of Puppets
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Disposable Heroes
The Unforgiven
Lords of Summer
...And Justice for All
The Four Horsemen
Whiplash
Orion
One
Ride the Lightning
Fight Fire With Fire
Fade to Black
Enter Sandman
Creeping Death
Hit the Lights
Seek & Destroy

Did Hetfield acknowledge the shit setlist at one point? Did he say something like "We're playing what we wanna play"?
And then they left the stage for about 5 mins, and came back not to play another song, but to say goodnight.

I'm not sure what he meant by this but it seems it came across wrong as the setlist was exactly what it was supposed to be.

Did anyone else see Kirk falling early on? Took a good old dive across a wire

Alot  of wank in the setlist.
Memory remains? Who would actually suggest that if a fan was picking a set list.trujillo might aswell have had a pint of Guinness and a gaa jersey on for the wild rover.As others mentioned there was far too much hardwired material.

Thought Ghost were great and hopefully will be 3arena bound soon for their own full show.

3 Arena? I highly doubt that. I could not see anyone who seemed to know a single Ghost song in the section I was in

I'd say if the weather had to have been better it would have been completely full. It was pretty packed as it was.

Setlist was dire. 5 from Hardwired, Whiskey, Frantic & Memory. It hasn't been this great on this leg in general but most other nights had 4 from Hardwired and no cover. Still enjoyed it and had a residents pass so I was in the car and on the road home at 11.40

Just reading that thread on boards, fuck me lost for words : this is the topic of conversation! gonna be a long day 

But for something different I'd love to hear them do a cover of " brewing up a storm" by the stunning.

Just imagine what a Metallica version of it would be like and it's frickin awesome rockin
That would be brilliant! I saw The Stunning play that live at the Féile last September and the place was vibing!

Just went on for the craic aswell

"Frantic, one of their better songs in fairness."

The original Facebook event was also marked as cancelled today so obviously theres some plan in place.