It doesn’t matter how many times you have played onstage, nor how many times you have played a song, sometimes you just get up there and the fingers desert you at the crucial moment, and so it was for Kirk Hammett at Metallica’s sold-out show at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Friday, 4 August.
The show was the first in the band’s US leg of their M72 Tour, a show that involves playing two entirely different sets, two nights apart. Even if you have been playing some of these songs since 1983, 30-plus tracks played in a stadium crowd is a big ask.
