The metal icons continue to offer goodies to their fans: from pre-show meet & greets, to pro-shot footage of their shows, they understand and celebrate the artist/fan relationship.
Take the latest offering from Metallica: pro-shot footage of some of the band’s day at the first Big 4 show on U.S. soil, this past Saturday in California.
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax rocked more than 50,000 fans at the Empire Polo Grounds to its core, just a week after the Coachella Festival took place on the same site in Indio.
Official Metallica.com footage of Metallica's pre-show meet-and-greet, tuning-room jam and performance at the show has now surfaced….check it out below.
Metallica
Big 4 - Empire Polo Grounds – Indio, CA – April 23, 2011
01. Creeping Death
02. For Whom the Bell Tolls
03. Fuel
04. Ride the Lightning
05. Fade to Black
06. Cyanide
07. All Nightmare Long
08. Sad But True
09. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
10. Orion
11. One
12. Master of Puppets
13. Blackened
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
Encore:
16. Am I Evil? (Diamond Head cover) (with all 4 bands)
17. Hit The Lights
18. Seek And Destroy
Big 4 – Am I Evil?
Empire Polo Grounds – Indio, CA – April 23, 2011

Metallica – Orion
Empire Polo Grounds – Indio, CA – April 23, 2011
Metallica – meet & greet
Empire Polo Grounds – Indio, CA – April 23, 2011
Metallica – tuning room
Empire Polo Grounds – Indio, CA – April 23, 2011
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