In reply to Phantom Disliker:
I bunked off school once and went up to London to see my then favourite band Metal Church play at the Marquee. Queuing up, the poster on the wall had a sticker on it saying "Support band Vertigo"
None of us had heard of them. And as it happens, Metal Church were not exactly hitting the big time so there were only about 200 of us in there. As we were at the front of the queue, we lined up right at the center stage and waited for Vertigo to come on. Then my sharp eyed mate noticed the drum kit had two tiny Danish flags hanging on tiny flag poles on top of both bass drums. Hhmmm. Then a rumour went around the 50 or so of us who were hanging around in front of the stage that Metallicas record label is vertigo...could this be a warm up gig for their Black tour? Nah...no way. BUT, Metal Church's guitarist used to be a roadie for Kirk Hammett?? No chance
Lights dim....Mike Howe comes on stage (MC lead singer) , grabs mic and screams "let me welcome onto the stage our support act VERTIGOOOO" and walked off.
And then it happened. James Hetfield standing right in front of me, I can touch his ESP Snakebite he almost stands on my hand in his black converse...He growls something into the microphone but i'm still trying to digest it all as he rips into Creeping Death.
It would be an understatement to say we.lost.our.sh1t
They played their whole set for the forthcoming tour, I got backstage between sets and met them all... including Jaff Waters of Annihilator quite randomly...and Kirk Hammett was naked, lounged on a filthy sofa smoking a spliff.
One of the most amazing days of my life