Musicmetallica conquers and destroys the Hamptons at the smallest show in 10 years

Look, it’s not as if the Metallic had any resemblance to those adorable troublemakers in their early 20s who terrified the Bay area and beyond. Today, everyone is in the house of the sixties, calmer, more kind, and presumably absurdly rich – rock gods you would easily imagine as the eccentric neighbors and shifted in a ridiculously rich enclave like the haptons. Wikipedia even tries to disguise, describing the region’s 80 km 80 km as “a famous seaside resort and one of the Northeast Historical Summer Colonies.” Technically, this is right – just as saying that LeBron James It’s a “popular basketball player good at scoring points” is. But the signs of ostentation found in several areas here – such as the front, 100 dollar lobster salad for “here in Hamptons, these melons cost 400 dollars” – they reach a parody level that doesn’t even Christopher Guest I could imagine.

So when the band takes the stage of a giant tent behind the Stephen Talkhousein Amagansett, on Thursday night, 28, it is impossible not to imagine a parallel universe in which the pioneers of Thrash – who once kicked hotel doors – now pass the summers here, alongside famous residents like Billy Joel, Jay-z and Paul McCartney (the latter, even enjoying the show on the side of the stage). In this alternative world, you can imagine the Lars tasting a Chardonnay from the Wolffer Estate node Hampton Classic Horse Show. THE Roberta few meters, taking something called “Heavy metal detox smoothie”In a local Natureba restaurant (with barley -grass juice powder, organic Atlantic algae and Spirulina – the same“ fuels ”, which fed bands like Exodus and Venom). THE Kirkflipping through the magazine Modern Luxury Hamptons On the way to the twin clothing store Olsen. And the Jamescrossing the street to the charming Amagastet Squarebuying goat milk ghee ($ 19.95 the pot), acacia honey with organic white truffles ($ 18.95 the pot) and whatever, one of “Mushroom Mocha Milk” ($ 34.95 the package) in the local market. In their backyard, as it were, is the makeshift stage for 500 people – the smallest show the band did in almost a decade.

To find a show as small as this, it would be necessary to go back to 2016 or literally to Antarctica. They came to celebrate the Maximum metallicaa new 24-hour music channel dedicated to the band, which opens this Friday at Siriusxm. (The company has already made similar events here with Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Ed Sheeran and Mumford & Sons. All, clearly, with the same energy “Heavy metal detox smoothie“.)” The place of this show is not the typical show space of the Metallic”, Warns the band’s official website – and it’s not an exaggeration.

In front of me, hardcore fans traveling around the world to see as many performances as possible on the grid. Left, Howard and Beth Ostrosky Stern greet Michael J. Foxwhile the drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chad Smithand the fighter Chris Jericho circulate nearby. (Colin Jost, Sylvester Stallone and Andy Cohen They are also there, each in their own corner, although I prefer to imagine the three exchanging their favorite memories of Cliff ‘in all.)

On the right, the former member of the SNL Heidi Gardner Discreetly watches the show, while, behind me, three women in cocktail dresses – socialites of Hapton or cosplayers of Royal HousewivesIt is hard to say – stroll around, as this is “the show of the season.” Not to mention the appearance of Topper Mortimerex-husband of a Housewife in truth. But let’s go to the show.

It is definitely not a common place for the Metallic. But over 95 minutes, the band balances the surrealism of the occasion playing the classics – nine of the 13 songs on the set are among the most performed in their career, with “Whiskey in the jar“Being the only” side B “truly. And this is not a complaint: the guys seemed invigorated to play in such an intimate space.” It remembers the club days, when we were all sweaty and excited, “he said James Hetfieldpulling roars from the audience before amending the explosive “Fuel“.” Very close, personal. Everyone having fun. Super tall. Everyone feeling safe and as if they were part of it. ”

“In our time, we couldn’t see them at club shows,” he told Rolling Stone the superfan Austin Manningbefore the show. Next to dozens of fans who arrived at six in the morning to secure a good place, he commented: “We didn’t see them with [baixista] Cliff [Burton, que morreu em 1986]. Our experience has always been festival, arena, stadium. This is the closest that I will get from an Old School show. ” Manningwhich was already more than 80 performances and even appears in a documentary approved by the band itself, arrived in the city on Wednesday night – and, luckily, bumped with Hetfield in a local restaurant. According to him, the singer commented, laughing, about the surreal situation: “It’s good to see a face known here.”

On stage, however, Hetfield let the music talk louder, except for a fun provocation before “For Whom The Bell Tolls” -“ Today will be high. The neighbors will know who is here ” – and a funny introduction before“SAD But True”:“ I think you won’t like the next song very much, but we’ll play anyway. She is good. A little heavy, but good. ”

The guitarist Kirk Hammett and the bassist Robert Trujillo They made their traditional “Doodle” of the night, this time dedicating it to “Crazy Train”, From Ozzy Osbourne – One of the most applauded moments of the show. And the last four hymns – “Seek and Destroy”,“One”,“MASTER OF PUPPETS”And“ENTER SANDMAN” – They crushed the audience with the same intensity as when they were released decades ago.ENTER SANDMAN”: You two are amazing.)

Although the setlist may have been thought to a more casual audience, the superfan were happy. Camila Guerrero Diaz is known among the band’s devotees as one of the most dedicated fans of Metallichaving gone to about 180 shows, sporting several tattoos of the band and receiving personal compliments from Lars in most presentations. She works in a mining camp in southern Australia, “a remote place to which you can only get by plane.” When the band’s team invited her to the show three weeks ago, the decision was easy. She “returned to civilization” and took three more flights – from Adelaide to Auckland, from Auckland to Houston and Houston to New York – to be present. “The last 24 hours of my life were spent in the air,” he said. On Friday, she would do it all over again to return home. (By the way, this was not the greatest distance she traveled to see the band. This title goes to the 63 hours she spent on a boat to be one of the few lucky to watch the Metallic Touching Antarctica in 2013. “The smell that came out of the drain was horrible, because everyone was sick on the boat,” she remembers. “But it was worth it.”)

And where does the band go from here? Rumors circulate on the group’s interest in making a residence in the Las Vegas Spherebut it is not yet clear whether this is founded or if it is another desire for fans. For now, however, the unlikely marriage between the Thrash pioneers and the wealthy hapton elite happened perfectly. And perhaps, only perhaps, tomorrow a horseshoe shape rocker, hardened look and serious voice comes out discreetly from a local market carrying its Mushroom Mocha Milk home.

Below, see the setlist of Metallica on Stephen Talkhouse:

1.
2. “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
3. “Wherever I May Roam”
4. “Kirk and Rob Doodle” (Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”)
5. “Fuel”
6. “Fade to Black”
7. “SAD But True”
8. “The Unforgiven”
9. “Whiskey in the jar”
10. “Nothing Else Matters”
11. “Seek & Destroy”
12. “One”
13. “Master of Puppets”
14. “ENTER SANDMAN”

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