Heroes Are Mortal

James & Kirk in Metallica were interviewed and one of the takeaways is that "Metallica Won't Play More Than Fifty Shows In A Single Year." Of course, that got all the Lars haters going in the comments, although some people thought this section of the interview was reason to not be so down on Lars:

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On whether METALLICA changes up its setlist regularly...

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James: "I'll tell you, we have a lot of songs now. It's a great gold-plated problem to have. What songs are you gonna play? What songs work best here or there? Lars [Ulrich, METALLICA drummer] has his own method of [choosing which songs to play]. 'Last time we played 'Hit The Lights' here was in 1997 on the blah blah tour.' 'Oh, okay.' Do you think anyone remembers that but you and your computer? But he's very into that. He doesn't want to rehash and rehash. So we've got a lot of good songs on this record too. We'll be trying all those out live. And hopefully we get doubles or multiples in cities, and that's even easier to come up with a different setlist, you know, if people are seeing multiple shows. And people do travel. Our fans are crazy enough to stalk us around the country, or even to different continents, which is unbelievable."

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My heavy metal heroes are mortal. I'm okay with that...
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