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Poll Question: It's 2009/2010 and both are coming near your home, who do you go see?
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DT, because they can actually pull off their material live. 

Metallica was just atrocious when I saw them.  There was one track, Fade to Black I think, where the band was about 1-2 mins into the song before anyone even realize what it was.  Very sloppy playing, but maybe they were just drunk that night.  It was the 80s.  Justice Tour.  They were still partying a lot at that time I would imagine. 
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I've seen both and neither are so great live, so I think I'll stay home and eat cheerios while relaxing in my underwear. Wink
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Originally posted by Jake Kobrin Jake Kobrin wrote:

I've seen both and neither are so great live, so I think I'll stay home and eat cheerios while relaxing in my underwear. Wink


Ya can't beat a DVD on a great home theater.  The beer is cheaper, you can smoke (if you smoke), the sound is better, no parking hassles, and no a****les.  Plus the DVD is less money than the tickets, and you can enjoy it again and again. 

I used to think nothing beat the live experience.  I was wrong.  My living room does.  And by a damn long shot. Wink
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Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

Metallica, cause I haven't seen them live yet.. Tongue
 
 
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Originally posted by Rune2000 Rune2000 wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Metallica, but at one condition: if they only play material from the 1983-1991 era. No "Load" admitted.

Sorry, but that's like wishing for Banks/Collins/Rutherford to only play Gabriel-era material during their tour, King Crimson playing a set from the '70s or Yes with Jon Anderson playing material from Drama.
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Uh, I saw them a couple years ago, and they only did 3 or 4 post-black-album songs in a 3 hour set. These guys know where their audience is.
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Well, as I said, both bands came to Mexico, and while I didn't consider too seriously going to see Metallica (and didn't), at the moment I foud DT were coming I made up my mind to go see them. As a matter of fact, later on I was wishing I could have gone to see Metallica too, but in the end I couldn't have afforded to see both of them, and still prefered to see DT. I just got a DVD from Metallica, and even though I was gladly surprised, I think a whole Metallica concert would be harder to digest for me: too raw most of the time (except for the songs that I like), while the Dream Theater concert was ALL of it an enjoyment, even the songs that I don't like so much, and there's more variaty in their music such as not to make it so tedious. And even the "showing off" solos are entertaining to see being performed, even if they are a bit boring on the CD.
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If you can't enjoy DT or Metallica live just friggin quit going to concerts.
 
I say DT during the Awake tour and the recent Black Clouds tour and both were great. I saw Metallica during a legendary concert with fireworks so crazy they were banned from the venue. Hetfield was burned to a crisp not long after with the same pyrotechnics.
 
I'm not voting. Both great live acts.
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I have seen both once, both great - but being a die-hard Metallica fan, I would prefer to watch them
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I have seen both many times and, while I love both bands almost equally, I think Metallica are a better live act. There is no one in DT who is even remotely comparable to Hetfield as to charisma and presence on stage. 
This said, I think DT are still one of the best bands to see live. 
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Dream Theater is the best band I've seen live. That may no be saying much but, back when they had there 3 hour concerts with no supporting acts they were amazing. 
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I haven't seen Metallica live but I would still choose DT.  Metallica are good, no question, but I don't quite think that they could top the shear epicness of a DT concert.  
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For me it is two very different ways of attending a concert. DT I really listen to- the way they (try to) change the songs and never play the same set two nights in a row. On top of this they are far more technical and invites the listener to "dwell" in the music - for lack of a better word...
Metallica on the other hand is a giant wrestling match that leaves you with a broken jar, shattered clothes, sweating like a racehorse and with 500 different kinds of dna on your body - and I wouldnīt have it any other way. Metallica this time - maybe itīs DT when Iīm 70 and Iīve lost all of my muscle strenght... 
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Shoot me down, but i actually hate Metallica!
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Haven't seen either live, unfortunately. 
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Originally posted by Pimpernal Pimpernal wrote:

Shoot me down, but i actually hate Metallica!
Nah, no violence here, you can love or hate whomever you want. And my vote goes to DT, by the way.
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"i hope metallica make a good new album"
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Black Sabbath
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Originally posted by Abstrakt Abstrakt wrote:

Black Sabbath
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everybody check this out on the real
my brother Tommy Arevalo went to Brea-Olinda High School with Hatfield in Brea, ca. He told me that James would ask tommy what he should do with his life /music or work for his dads car building shop.
he ask tommy if he wanted to play drums in his band. Tommy said they reheared9not together Tommy never rehearsed but when he overheard them playing in a garage and were lousy. anyway they grouped up and went to the hollywood clubs and tommy said one day he heard enter sandman. also went to school with that punk James Cameron

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Thanx for the info
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