Metallica warmed up for the next leg of the World Magnetic tour with a concert in their backyard. Metallica played for the very first time in their home town of San Rafael, CA, just north of San Francisco.
Metallica’s Marin County debut at the Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium was an appearance as part of a fundraiser for the Marin Museum of History’s Marin Rocks exhibition slated to open in 2010. The Marin Rocks museum is set to open summer 2010 in downtown San Rafael, and will include exhibits celebrating Marin’s rock music heritage, performance spaces and educational programs for young people in music and the arts.
Metallica’s James Hetfield has lived in Marin since the mid-’80s. He bought a 500-acre spread in San Rafael, he lives there with his wife, Francesca, and three children, Cali, Castor and Marcella, ages 11, 9 and 7.
James Hetfield lives a quiet, low-key life in Marin County, and is always content to stay under the radar. But as the museum plans hit financial trouble, James Hetfield came to the rescue and offered to hold a Metallica concert with proceeds going to the museum. Tickets for the 2,000 seat Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium venue went between $100 and $350 and sold out in ten minutes.
“We’ve never done a public show. I don’t know why. Probably because there aren’t that many places to play in Marin that are large enough to satisfy enough people,” James Hetfield said to the Independent Journal. “But in the last few years, basically after ‘St. Anger’, we started getting more into public service, giving back to the community, discovering how good that feels.”
“Growing up struggling in a dysfunctional family and being able to turn to music as my escape and therapy and savior is dear to my heart,” James Hetfield of Metallica said. “So introducing kids to music and having a safe clean place for the youth of Marin to come in and jam, talk about their problems and write songs together really excites me.”
“It’s very easy in Marin. Most of the people who stop me are very polite, saying things like, ‘Hey, James, what’s up?’ That’s pretty much it. The people who get star struck or clingy are tourists, and they associate their trip to Marin with me. Everyone else sees me as a resident of this county. It’s very easy to kick back and be an equal.”
Moonalice, featuring Marin musicians Pete Sears and Barry Sless, opened the show. Metallica came out a little after 9:30 p.m., James Hetfield thanked the crowd, saying: “We appreciate you coming out to support the ancestry and the history of music in Marin County.”
The setlist of Metallica’s show:
Creeping Death
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fuel
Harvester of Sorrow
Fade to Black
Broken, Beat, and Scarred
Cyanide
Sad But True
One
Master of Puppets
Battery
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
Hit the Lights
Seek and Destroy
Metallica’s World Magnetic tour rolls on beginning in Nashville!
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Hey,this is Robert from Ohio.I went to the Cleveland show and I don’t know what they were thinking putting The Judas Kiss on the setlist instead of putting For Whom The Bell Tolls.And I don’t know what was going on with the PA,so I couldn’t hear an entire song.The concert was good but the setlist could have been better.
san antonio was the best concert ever 1st time i saw them i saw slayer and slayer puts on a good show but metallica blew me away icant wait till they come back METAllica rulz
san antonio was the best concert ever 1st time i saw them i saw slayer and slayer puts on a good show but metallica blew me away icant wait till they come back METAllica rulz the only thing tho i was mad they didnt play for whom the bell tolls or harvestor of sorrow but still metallica all the way
woooooooo metallica
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