I’m back from Metallica live in Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur! They had the two-layer stage with incorporated screen, obviously brought for their tour. It’s the one you know with the upper stage having an acoustic guitar on a stand. You’ve seen the videos.

Notable instruments were Kirk’s many guitars:
1) Boris Karloff’s Mummy
2) 2014 LTD Kirk Hammett White Zombie
3) Gibson Les Paul Custom Black
4) Jackson Randy Rhoads RR1T with RR 1980 written on the guitar strap

I’ve mixed the official set list with my own notes.

Main Set

1. Hit the Lights
2. Master of Puppets
3. Fuel
4. Harvester of Sorrow

Kirk Hammett guitar solo

5. Fade to Black
6. Ride the Lightning
7. Cyanide

Robert Trujillo bass solo

8. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
9. Sad But True
10. Orion
11. One
12. For Whom the Bell Tolls
13. Blackened

Kirk Hammett guitar solo (sounding a bit like Motley Crue – Home Sweet Home)

14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman

Encore!

16. Creeping Death
17. Battery
18. Seek & Destroy (ending with Through The Never riff)

So that makes, from albums, in order:
1. Kill ‘Em All (2)
2. Ride The Lightning (4)
3. Master Of Puppets (4)
4. …And Justice For All (3)
5. Metallica/The Black Album (3)
6. Load (0, yay!)
7. Reload (1)
8. St. Anger (0, yay!)
9. Death Magnetic (1)
10. Lulu (0, yay!)

I’ll also be catching them in Singapore on the 24th of August 2013, so I’ll be in Singapore from 22nd to 25th! Those of you who know my number and are down there, holla!