same venue as coachella, 1 week later

first. that is all

Ticketmaster says its starting at 2pm. i think this will be an all day festival. tickets are $99.

its one date because all the bands have other obligations. They also want to see how much it will draw in the states. slayer/megadeth did the same thing with the carnage tour.
i think the full tour will be midjuly to sept at football stadiums (like summer sanitarium).

They don’t need to do a full tour, but one show is like a slap in the face. I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t do Chicago and New York in addition to California.

Big fucking woop…your playing one show that is within driving distance of 3 of the bands hometowns. Sure you’ll draw a nationwide audience of idiots with a disposable income but the majority of those that are there have seen these bands a gazillion times. At least do a small 4 – 6 show run that hits all parts of North America and allows all fans a chance to see it. I’ve been behind Metallica through all of it, but this is the most I feel they’ve let me down ever….same for the other bands on the bill. Big fucking let down.

Also, on one of the images for the show, it says the only time in the U.S….so this isn’t a test run, this is it.

I have two thoughts on this:

1) I am thinking that perhaps there is not a huge demand or at least not huge enough to fill arena’s across the nation. The reason being that Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer have all toured the US in the last year. Maybe not enough people will come out for a full tour in major markets?

2) More likely I think that their is a dispute regarding how the money gets split up. Metallica (and perhaps Slayer and Megadeth) can certainly make more money not having to split it with each other. Doing a whole tour would just end up making less money than if they just did the tour by themselves.

I assume this is because they are all at the end of or well into touring cycles and didn’t want to undertake a massive tour across the US, so opted for a few shows in Europe and one relatively close to home for three of the bands. Commercially, I think a gimmick like the Big 4 shows loses some of its appeal if repeated too often, but they’re underplaying it by not at least doing a New York show too.

For a while Rumors were going around that it’d just be a 6-10 date tour in cities that Mayhem is not hitting since Megadeth is apparently on this year’s mayhem tour.

But yeah…lame.

Metallica have been saying forever they want to take most of this year off, why would anyone think they’d do a major tour anytime soon? If they’re doing this tour it won’t be until 2012.

Two decades ago, I’d have gone cross-country for this. Now they’re playing at a venue I could almost walk to and I’m barely even acknowledging it. I’m sure this is great for some people but you’d be hard pressed to get me to care about the Big 4 today even if they were playing in my back yard, and I think there’s many who agree with me.

Also, why Indio? Why not go ~2 hours west for Los Angeles, or any number of other California cities that people actually care about?