November 27th, 2001 by Ken Megadeth concert review

This was quite possibly one of the greatest experiences in my life. I got to see one of the world's most solid metal bands, Megadeth. With a frontman that has a shrill voice and an even shriller guitar, Megadeth is one of the best metal bands left. I got to the venue about 2 hrs. before I was supposed to. I had to take a bus and I didn't know how long it would take. When I got there I was suprised to see there were people there before me. A great group of people, one of the guys bought me a t-shirt after I gave him the money and held his spot for him. We finally got into the venue at 7:30!!! We had to rush into the place to get a decent spot. After that it was all about the wait. Endo went on late (assholes) and they weren't even worth it. I mean, they put on an amazing show with 100% energy, but God help them their music was shitty. They got middle fingers and a "Meg-a-deth" chant almost the whole time. There were only 2 really memorable things that happened during their set. The first was the body language of the lead singer, he was all over the fucking place. It looked like he was power vogueing. The other more humorous part was one time that I looked away and back at the singer, he had a thick white substance on his cheek, you can imagine what was said after that......

Then came the moment we had all been waiting for..... The intro sounded and the band dove head first into a few of their many new tracks "Kill the King", and "Motopsycho". The crowd was going bezerk. All heads were banging just as they have been for the band since 1984. I myself was banging as hard and as fast as I could. One of the best things about this gig was tha Dave was very vocal about the situation in Afghanistan......

"Ok hold on I wanna say something, this isn't an Afghan thing, this is a fucking terrorist thing. Imagine you live in Afghanistan. You are in your little Afghan bed and you hear a knock on your little Afghan door. And you open your little Afghan door and you see this (The crowd went nuts). But just before he has a chance to say anything you hear "Hello me, meet the real me."

Then the crowd went ballistic as he launched into "Sweating Bullets." Then Megadeth went WAY back in their histroy and did "Hook In Mouth" and "Rust In Peace...Polaris." All in all it was the second best concert I had ever been to. Whats the first you ask? MetallicA 1/3/00. But that's another story.

Heres the full set-list in alomost perfect order....

1. Dread and The Fugitive Mind
2. Kill The King
3. Motopsycho
4. She Wolf (extended w/ jamming and soloing)
5. Reckoning Day
6. Angry Again
7. Sweating Bullets
8. In My Darkest Hour
9. Hangar 18
10. Return To Hangar
11. Hook In Mouth
12. Rust In Peace...Polaris
13. Burning Bridges
14. 1000 Times Goodbye
15. A Toute Le Monde
16. Symphony Of Destruction (Extended)
17. Trust (Dave used a Double-Neck Flying-V Very cool)
18. Peace Sells...But Whos Buyin?
19. Holy Wars...The Punishment Due

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