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How 11 Metallica Shows Transformed One Fan’s Perspective on Time, Family, and Unstoppable Change — A Journey You Can’t Miss

How 11 Metallica Shows Transformed One Fan’s Perspective on Time, Family, and Unstoppable Change — A Journey You Can’t Miss

It’s one of the few albums for which I’ve purchased a full-on Deluxe Edition — on the 30th anniversary of the album in 2018. It’s in a fancy box in my living room. I don’t play the album much anymore — only when that rare mood strikes to feel its force again.

The song “One”, so foundational in my interest in the band, the very basis of the eleven shows — was also the song we left partway through at the Syracuse show. As the show was rounding its final turn and James Hetfield played the opening notes of the song, my son, tapped out after a long day and all the excitement, was ready to head back to the hotel. He didn’t know enough songs. And that’s OK, another Metallica show — another season of life.

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