Metallica on Tour with 'Motley Crue for the '90s'

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tallica_dc&e=2

Back in 1999, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich confessed to feeling "a tremendous amount of hatred toward Limp Bizkit."

Now Metallica is hitting the road with Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park for the second Summer Sanitarium tour, which will hit at least 18 U.S. markets this year, beginning July 4.

All three bands will play headline-length sets. Tickets for most of the shows will be going on sale Feb. 22. Mudvayne and the Deftones will be the opening acts.

"We want to play stadiums in the summer, and we need more than just Metallica to fill the seats," Metallica singer-guitarist James Hetfield told Daily Variety.

Filling out the bill are "bands who are available, coming out with records and who want to do this type of show. The whole reason (behind Metallica) is to play live, and I think that's a common thread among all the bands."

There appears to be little in common between Metallica and Limp Bizkit. Ulrich and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst took opposing views in the Napster debate -- Ulrich opposed the song-swapping site, Durst took Napster's sponsorship money.

In a 1999 interview with Metallica's "So What!" fan club magazine, Ulrich said: "All I gotta think of is Fred Durst's red baseball cap and I get very hostile."

He also described Limp Bizkit as "a Motley Crue for the '90s" and claimed that Durst was "so f---ing contrived and I hate people who are contrived."

A Metallica spokesman said the rift was "ancient history," and the band has much respect for the acts on the bill.

The ink is not yet dry on some contracts so routing has not been finalized. It is expected that the tour will begin in a Midwestern city -- Minneapolis or St. Louis are the likely starters -- and then go from the East Coast to the West.

The three acts will be touring in support of new albums. Metallica's "St. Anger," its first studio disc in five years, will hit stores June 10; Limp Bizkit's "Lessismore" is slated for May; and Linkin Park, whose "Hybrid Nation" was the biggest seller of 2001, has "Meteora" on the March 25 release slate.

"St. Anger" is Metallica's first album without bassist Jason Newsted, who replaced the late Cliff Burton in 1986. Metallica producer Bob Rock plays bass on the new album but won't be touring with the band. Hetfield, Ulrich and guitarist Kirk Hammett continue to interview and jam with potential replacements; there are eight bassists the band members will be meeting with soon.

Metallica's inaugural Summer Sanitarium tour, in 2000, featured Korn, Kid Rock and System of a Down and was one of the year's biggest grossers. The San Francisco band, now in its 22nd year of existence, has been a mainstay of multigroup shows, having toured separately with Van Halen and Guns N' Roses and headlining 1996's Lollapalooza tour.

"I think we're a little more comfortable this time out, but we won't be resting on our laurels," Hetfield said.

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Whoopdedoo. And Hetfield you've been resting on your fat, $ellout of an arse for years now.

[sonaboy]

metallica has done NOTHING in the last 6 years that merit a solo tour, and this is the news that they have figured it out.
What does it take to get metallica a sold out road tour after pissing off music fans, and being hypocritical* ?
Only a tour latched on to the largest grossing metal act of the last two years - Linkin Park.


* - Am i the only one that remembers Metallica's policy of setting up a "recording/bootleg" area at their stage in the round tour a few years back where fans were permitted, and encouraged to make recordings of live shows (even off of stereo feeds from the board, in some cases) and distribute them in any means they felt reasonable?
Yet a few years later, they're all card carrying multi-millionaires and suddenly, recognition and underground music distribution isn't so high on their lists anymore. They want every red cent that's coming to them and they dont' care who they incriminate...even their own fans.
I went to and enjoyed many Metallica shows, but these guys have pissed me off several times in the last few years, and it's clear they're unable to write as strong material as they were once capable of doing...screw em. Let them move back to their mansions, and leave the roadshows up to the younger bands that can do it right.

[intercede007]

I cannot believe Mudvayne and Deftones only get a passing mention in this tour. Un-freaking believable.

[-=Gib-McFragger=-]

Originally posted by intercede007
I cannot believe Mudvayne and Deftones only get a passing mention in this tour. Un-freaking believable.

I know man, WTF is up with that??!!! Alcoholica has done NOTHING in the last few years except piss off several million MP3 downloaders such as myself.

I loved them back in the day of Ride the Lightning, Justice, and Master of Puppets. Now, the are just a bunch of aging, whiny biznitches.

I am planning on going to that show, but NOT for them. MuDvAyNe walked off the stage 7 minutes into the show last time they played here, so they owe me a show, dammit!!

[intercede007]

Really? Why'd they leave?

I caught them in Orlando a few months back. My first Mudvayne show and I was blown away. They did Dig in two versions. Album and one using this INSANE tempo.

Blown away!!!!

Mudvayne rocks it..hard.

[-=Gib-McFragger=-]

They just started swearing and stormed off the stage. Chüd claimed later that he had lost his voice. That was 2 years ago. They hadn't been here before that, and haven't returned since. They were touring with Disturbed so we didn't get our money back because Disturbed still played. Blah.... suck....

[ASCI Blue]

Woah..Did Pantera change names? Mudvayne sounds a lot like them.

[-=Gib-McFragger=-]

Originally posted by ASCI Blue
Woah..Did Pantera change names? Mudvayne sounds a lot like them.

hehehe You have a point there!

[Matthyahuw]

KILL EM ALL!

[intercede007]

Huh?

[-=Gib-McFragger=-]

Originally posted by Matthyahuw
KILL EM ALL!

Ah yes, another fine album.

[AngelGraves13]

all these bands suck!!!