I know it will sound "cliché" and "cheesy"...but you have no idea how much the next record I'm playing had an impact on my life. I still remember the day that my friend brought his walkman in high school... and came to me saying..."Man, you have to listen to this. The bassist of that band died last week while he was on tour..that's a shame because this band is AMAZING". It was the first week of October 1986 and Cliff Burton had passed away the week before. In fact, yesterday was the 28th anniversary of its death.
The first song I heard was Welcome Home (Sanitarium)... and I was immediately hooked! Needless to say that I wanted to listen more... The second song I heard was "Battery"... I still have a hard time believing what I heard at the time...and I'm sill amazed today when I hear that song. Metallica became my favourite band ever...and it has been my favourite band ever since.
Fast forward a little less than 28 years later, after what seems to be a sequence of very surrealistic events, I had the chance to watch Metallica...on their stage...and I've had the opportunity to introduce a song...in front of 45000 people. That song was... "Battery". All I have to say is that life can be so amazing! Some people says that I was lucky...but I like to think that luck didn't have anything to do with this
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