Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire Recorded Live: 7/24/1999 - Woodstock 99 East Stage - Rome, NY More Metallica at Music Vault: www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault on RU-vid: goo.gl/DUzpUF
1999 was an interesting time. james started growing his hair back and looking like AJFA era. He also seemed more pissed off at this time. This was right before Jason's split.
I agree, and Woodstock 99 had some heavy bands on the bill. Korn, Rage Against The Machine, Limp Bizkit, Godsmack, Sevendust and Megadeth were all there, but they didn't play as fast as Metallica.
3:05 Kirk improvised the solo there, and I fucking love that little lick he changed. Kirk may not be the best guitarist out there, but he sure as hell can improvise.
zdechlaczek521 Yes i do play guitar... Do you..? All i'm saying is the little lick he changed, it made the solo just a lot better for me. I can't find any other performance where he plays the same lick that he played here.
Kirk is one of the best guitar players ever existed not for his technique, but for his music. What you were trying to say is that Kirk is not the best virtuoso guitarrist out there. Which is very different than a great musician/guitar player
I noticed it too right off. Fade to Black is the real one when he just goes straight crazy off the charts sometimes it works sometimes it sounds sloppy but when it works (like Moscow ‘91) it’s fucking amazing
holy shit 3:16 - first time i've ever seen them nail that harmonised section. I Know it's not hard to play but live they usually fuck it up somehow. that was note for note perfect.
InvisibleYetVisible when your playing something like that its easy but to be in time with someone at that speed and having to concentrate on getting the right note it can be a challenge
I have been listening to this album for like 35 years now and it is still one of the best metal albums ever made. As far as I am concerned, the best metal was from the 80's and 90's, and Metallica is still king.
Yea Im not sure what happened in 99, but this exact year they seemed to be getting the load/reload tempos out of their system and if you check out every show this year, all of their tempos got faster and the guitar tones were rougher and abrasive as fuck. The show in santiago chile was amazing too this year
@@u.s.m.c.fewproudthemarines2987 as a drummer myself, YES, the tempo is still off quite a bit. But tempo is not the same as being tight. They know each other so well, that they can still sound incredibly tight even if a certain member isnt keeping great tempo.
Best performance of the harmony to date. It sounded fast, they played it flawlessly. And this song in particular sounds better tuned down a half step anyway.
Hammett is a master. Only people started to shit on him in late 90s because he eas not satisfying everybody and afyer so many years on top he didnt have to prove anything. You know people....
***** Not if you say so without any context, but when you think this song is downpicked... Then it's one of the fastest indeed since downpicking at this speed requires you to be a beast.
2 things: 1. Best performance of Fight Fire with Fire I've ever watched. 2. This is the exact show where Lars used up all of his giveafuck for drumming. #facts
I will never, ever forgot Metallica. This might even be my favorite song. And yet, how you beat "Battery?" They have a handful of greats and to me this is one of them.
Jason was metallica. His aoura, his performance, his stage presence, his tone and power. He was the perfect man to fill Cliffs shoes, and they fucking blew it. what a shame.
Pretty nice angles and shots, and to see the difference in James and Kirk playing so clearly (Intro riff, and the Harmony section especially) is really great Just look at Kirk effortlesly swing through the notes and then James just killing them with downpicking
This entire concert was mindblowing, my favorite from the late 90's. I saw it like a million times. The audio it's pretty shitty though, I wish it could be remastered somehow.
Metallicas performance was amazing at Woodstock99, I know I was not there when it happened and I know that their were a lot of issues with the festival but Metallica still played a great show and I love it
Back when Lars used both kicks and didn't use the other as a cake stand.. Love Metallica...drummer myself...but I bet Tama rolled their eyes whenever Lars rolls up..
It's so crazy how much faster all of their songs sound when they play them live compared to the studio versions of each song. I was watching "fight fire with fire" from Guitar Hero Metallica right before I clicked on this and this live performance is almost twice as fucking fast as the original studio master. The majority of Metallica's faster songs (fight fire with fire, disposable heroes, whiplash, and even Battery) blew people away when Metallica first started in the 80's because there were not a whole lot of bands out there who played as blisteringly fast as Metallica did, so people would be blown the fuck away when they saw Metallica live for the first time and hearing them play already crazy fast songs even faster. I was born in '86 so I obviously didn't know about Metallica until the black album. Metallica was definitely my favorite band growing up and were the band who turned me into a metal head, and because I was just starting to discover music when I was 8 or 9 and the biggest album of that time was Metallica's black album, so I was introduced to metallica with "Sandman" and "Sad but true" and " where ever I may roam", I had never even heard of or was aware of "Kill 'em all", "Master of Puppets", "Ride the Lightning", or "Justice." After I got the black album for my 8 or 9th birthday (I got a walkman with the black album cassette, lol) I would listen to the album from start to finish repeatedly and eventually I got tired of listening to it over and over so I went to to Tower records every Friday for a month to buy each of their albums with my weekly allowance. There was a legitimate 3 or 4 month stretch where I didn't listen to anything but Metallica, and after I spent a month's allowance to get all of their albums, on cassette with my portable walkman, I proceeded to spend the overwhelming majority of my allowance buying AA fucking batteries because my walkman needed 4 AA's and it would burn through 4 fresh batteries in a matter of 3 or 4 days, so I was constantly taking batteries out of remotes and toys and flashlights because if I ran out of batteries in the middle of the week before my Friday night allowance then I was screwed and couldn't use my walkman, so I would take batteries out of every fucking thing. After listening to the black album and all of it's radio friendly songs for months I thought I knew what to expect with their previous albums, but god damn I was wrong, lol. As soon as I put "Kill 'em all" in my walkman in and was introduced to the real Metallica I pretty much retired the black album once and for all, lol. I listened to Kill 'em all, Master of Puppets, and ride the lightning over and over again. As far as "and Justice for all" goes it is an excellent album and is still one of my all time favorite albums by any band, but it just couldn't compete with the sheer speed and aggression of the other 3 albums, plus you could kind of tell while listening to "Justice" that it was the album where they started to become a little more radio friendly and were trying to branch out and pull in some new fans who weren't into the pure fucking metal of their first three albums, and they definitely had some great songs on the album there were also a few songs that they wrote specifically to be a radio hit for a wider audience than the denim jeaned, ripped up black band T-Shirt, long haired, sweaty aggressive metal heads that made up their fan base. Anyways what I was getting at originally before I got side tracked was that I didn't think there was anyway they could play any faster than they did on their records. I used to think the engineers had sped up the guitars during the mixing of the album and there was no way anyone can play that fast. (Keep in mind I was a 9 year old kid who's only previous knowledge of metal was the black album). So cut forward a few years to my 16th birthday and Metallica and godsmack are in town, so I got tickets to the show and had never been so excited because I was actually going to see motherfucking metallica live after almost 10 years of listening to them over and over. When they first came out on stage playing "Disposable Heroes" my jaw was floored because of how much faster James and Kirk were playing the riff. They proceeded to put on a 3 hour show and instead of wearing down and slowing down over the course of the show, those fucking legends actually started getting faster. I thought hearing them play these songs I know so well faster than what I had been hearing for years would throw me off, but it was actually fucking amazing.
Tl, dr. But "almost twice as fast" is a hilarious exaggeration, that would put the song at 368 bpm 😂 Pretty sure the whole band and their instruments would catch on fire 😜
kashsoldier of course not. But for example fade to black has an amazing last solo but live kirk destoroys most of it with pointless one-string shredding up and down.
Do unto others as they have done unto you But what in the hell is this world coming to? Blow the universe into nothingness Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest Fight fire with fire Ending is near Fight fire with fire Bursting with fear We shall die Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast Armageddon is here, like said in the past Fight fire with fire Ending is near Fight fire with fire Bursting with fear Soon to fill our lungs the hot winds of death The gods are laughing, so take your last breath Fight fire…
