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All of their shows are available to their fan club members (pay subscription) if not live, near live in 4k.
Love the throne. Welcome aboard!
My only thought on a clear miss is they should have arranged for the concert to be a live broadcast, even if Metallica got all the revenue from it. An opportunity to get Virginia Tech in the news and add a buzz. Should also have set up as many official visits for sports to link in for concert.
"Metallica playing their most popular song " - outside of VT it is most certainly not their most popular song. In fact among many hard corps metallica fans its a punchline and cliche
Babcock repeatedly gets his ass kicked by an online christian school 50 miles away that was a nothing school 15 years ago. Great fucking job Whit bringing VT athletics to liberty's level - if that- in record time. Fucking great job.
Committed to Liberty. Another one we will have to watch in our own backyard
Would not be surprised if they decide to do a doubleheader today
Personally, I like both Lux Æterna and Hardwired from their last couple albums. They don't get the radio play they used to just because metal isn't 'in' anymore, but those songs fit nicely with their usual rotation.
Scrolling through that twitter page, pretty crazy to see the amount of work going in to getting the field ready for the concert, then imagining the amount of work that it will require to get it back ready for football. Metallica ought to be paying VT to come play there
Hope we get them in, but the weather doesn't look promising after today.
Any successful band that's as big and old as Metallica is run like a business. That's not news.
It follows that Metallica playing their most popular song in front of a stadium full of people that mostly only know that song would be good business.
Playing it last would be great business.
I mean I thought Spit Out the Bone went pretty hard. The title track to their most recent album did as well.
Comparing Metallica to Godsmack in any capacity is certainly one of the takes of all time. If anything, late 90s/early 2000s butt rock vocals evolved out of a bunch of guys all trying to sound like James Hetfield on Load and Reload.
Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is up for debate, I'm not going to pretend like it's high art or anything. But just going off timelines of when they became widely known, Godsmack and their ilk showed up later and were clearly influenced by Papa Het at least to my ears. While I Disappear might sound very much like a product of the time it was made in, I would have to disagree that it could've been done by anyone else. At least, that anyone else could've done it half as well.
When I was applying to colleges the fact that Dave Matthew's Band played there was huge for lots of people. Not necessarily the band itself but such a huge act came there, the issues was it wasn't a big act when booked. It's been like 18 years since we had anything like that. Metallica come is a once in a generation thing, it shouldn't be.
I wonder if that was part of a marketing campaign...like hey I never ordered one and then maybe I do want one now lol.
Don't tempt me...
Serious question:
What was the last good single Metallica put out?
I can't think of one since I Disappear. And that could have been by anyone else. Throw Godsmack's name on there instead, and few regular radio listeners are the wiser.
We need to make this kid (grown-ass man) a cult hero. Everytime he gets on the field crowd goes crazy (I like the O'Doyle Rules line).
Same. Just got email.
Well, if you want to swing by the office, I can get you some lunch.
I got the email, it is a QR code getting emailed that we need to print.
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# | Sorta OT: Stephen Curry Named Asst. GM of Davidson Basketball, Leading Eight-Figure NIL Fundraising Effort Agreed....I just don't know any of those alumni from VT. If it was me I'd gladly donate.
Marching Virginian...whoever you are, we thank you for being cold and jumping!
Per Virginia Tech, the jumping began in December 2001 when the Hokies hosted No. 1 Miami. It started when one member of The Marching Virginians started jumping because it was cold. Then other members of the band started to join in, and it evolved into the legendary entrance it is today.
In a September 26, 2009, article by the Washington Post, David McKee, the director of the Marching Virginians (1986-2018), stated, "The next thing you know, the whole band is jumping up and down, and then next thing you know, the whole stadium is jumping up and down. It was one of those accidental traditions."
Good question - I'm in the same boat.
Atlas Rise, Moth into flame, Lux eterna, shadows follow- all great songs