i didnt think much of the song– no melody, no dynamics. but it sounded like the band wasnt well-rehearsed in it yet. also, the current band lineup is not very impressive. second guitar broderick only shone when playing simultaneously with mustaine– the on-stage mentoring was very visible, which i found strange.

mustaine himself was awesome in pretty much every way. this gig was all about guitar theatrics, and mustaine is king. you cant see it, but hes wearing a shirt that displays the face of einstein with crossed bones behind it.

araya, by contrast, was wearing his own bands shirt. boo. but slayer is far and away the better band. even though i only know their early albums, and they didnt touch on them much, they pretty much held my full attention for the entire set. they can do whatever they want and it sounds great because theyve been playing together for 25 years. nowhere near enough soloing, though.

i dont think mustaine will ever be able to assemble a real band, just because he has socially alienated too many people. he needs to lock up dave grohl in a basement and make him play everything like probot.

rob flynn wins the crowd pleaser award. he kept trying to throw cups of beer at the crowd, but he couldnt get it beyond the front of the pit. ‘fail,’ he said, ‘epic fail’. much laughter. eventually someone threw one back. ‘you threw it back without drinking it?’ he said, ‘thats alcohol abuse’. more laughter, ftw.

As far as live goes, I’ll take Megadeth over Metallica any day of the week, mainly since the second half of the Metallica catalog blows. However, up until Black came out my answer would’ve been more difficult as then both threw great shows.

And you can’t really complain much about mentioning Metallica with Megadeth, they are so tied together given their history that its to be expected.

Actually I like em’ both, but live Metallica wins no contest!

sounds like it would hurt.