Metallica's 'The Day That Never Comes'cover from 'Death Magnetic'

I am proud to say that Metallica was the reason for me to like music and start playing guitar. Here I am posting a cover of 'The Day That Never Comes'. I know it sounds bad and I was needing more practice, but you know all of us guitar amateurs and metallica fans would like to play even a hundredth of what Kirk Hammet plays, it just makes me happy to be able to play the song and post it.

Metallica St Louis 11/17/08 @ Scot Trade Center: Review and my comparison with past concerts

A little of background first, this was my 4th Metallica's concert, and it was absolutely amazing, I am already looking forward for another opportunity to see the four horsemen again. It was of course very different compared to my first concert, that one was on my early 20's in Buenos Aires, with no doubt, the crowd was much more energetic and at that place usually they are hungrier for heavy metal concerts as they don't have a lot of concerts year round. But being a grown-up now, it let me appreciate this concert, in other ways. All of my other 3 Metallica concerts were here in St Louis. The first one was really special since I was on the floor and really close to the stage. In this very last one I was able to squeeze on a section about 50 feet away from the stage, and in front of one of the wide sides of the rectangular stage, but could not get to the floor which would had been incredible.
The last 2 concert tours I would say were pretty similar. Both in the St Anger's 2004 and now, they used similar stage layout where they are moving around all the time so at some point you will have them in front of you, also both were in the Scott Trade Center.
Disagreeing with several reviews from people that loathed the 04 tour, I would say that in terms of the set list, if you switch the 'St Anger' songs for the 'Death Magnetic' songs, the concert was the same. And that is the thing about Metallica concerts, discarding the songs from their last release, they will play the same incredible songs that made them who they are and that the fans want to enjoy when going to their concerts.
Other than the music, the lasers were pretty cool, the pyros on One warmed my face even being 50 feet away from the stage. Giant coffins were hanging similar to the ones on the Death Magnetic CD cover. And what about James asking to turn the lights on before the last song which was 'Seek and Destroy', so he could see us singing, while several black inflatable balls were falling.
I have to say the devotion they showed for their fans is not the norm coming from super stars at their level. I mean, who stays for minutes after the show is finished, greeting and shaking hands with their fans, and throwing them absolutely all of the picks not used by them, which by the way on both last concerts I was lucky to pick one of them.
I think throughout the show, they were really enjoying as much as the crowd, you could see that on their faces, they playing, and us banging our heads, singing along and making the "horns" in the air most of the time, not to mention the air guitar.
To sum up, 14000 people enjoyed on a Monday night two plus hours of the best thrash metal and live band in the world, not bad at all for 4 guys in their middle 40's.

I think that even they had a pretty bad run of releases, from 'Load' to 'St. Anger', considered the experimental or concept era of them, they have proven with this last release 'Death Magnetic', they still got it. I also like more the old stuff, but you can not pretend them to have out of their 9 studio records, all of them heavy metal jewels. They deserve all the respect, and the ones complaining about them at that time, must be eating their words now.

SetList

That Was Just Your Life

The End Of The Line

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Memory Remains

One

Broken, Beat And Scarred

Cyanide

Sad But True

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Wherever I May Roam

The Day That Never Comes

Master Of Puppets

Fight Fire With Fire

Nothing Else Matters

Enter Sandman

Last Caress

Whiplash

Seek and Destroy

Festival de globos aerostáticos

El sábado pasado disfrutamos de un espectáculo ya clasico en el área de St. Louis, el cual sucede anualmente cuando el verano esta finalizando. Me refiero al St. Louis Baloon Race, en el cual se hace un despliegue espectacular de decenas de globos aerostáticos, y posteriormente la carrera que consiste en la salida de un primer globo y a los minutos salen todos los globos participantes en busca del primero. El ganador es el que alcanza al primer globo ... o algo parecido :)

Lo vistoso no es seguir la carrera, ya que sería muy dificil seguir a los globos desde tierra firme, por lo tanto el espectáculo se da en la salida de los globos, que ocurre en el Forest Park, un parque muy extenso comparable al Central Park de New York.

Otros años pudimos ver los globos desde el lugar que estuvieramos en la ciudad, ya que se pueden apreciar desde prácticamente cualquier lugar, pero esta vez fuimos a ver la salida. El espectáculo fue único, poblado de bebes y niños, y muy recomendable para toda la familia.

Aqui les dejo algunos fotos y el link oficial a este magnífico evento.

http://www.greatforestparkballoonrace.com/

Salimos a la cancha y de paso mostramos la casa

Asi es, despues de tanto tiempo planeando comenzar nuestro propio blog, a las 2 am de este sabado es que me puse las pilas y lanzo este blog familiar.
Si bien las tecnologias de la informacion son mi fuente de trabajo y tambien estan entre mis principales intereses, recien hace pocos meses me surgio la idea de escribir un blog, al estar leyendo un libro sobre las diferentes vias de publicitar una empresa. Por eso, he decidido comenzar a experimentar en la blogosphera con un blog personal contando historias y vivencias de nuestro nucleo familiar conformado por mi esposa Carmen y quien escribe Claudio.
Importante recalcar que lo mio nunca fueron las letras, sino los numeros, por lo tanto la forma de escribir y de expresion va a ser completamente informal pero espero entendible y amena para quien llegue a leerla. Tambien apunto que el idioma sera el espaniol pero con teclado en ingles, por lo tanto las enies y los tildes se los debo, espero que esto sea entendible, o por lo menos hasta que aprenda a usar el corrector ortografico en espaniol.

Entre mi interes principal esta la musica rock y conciertos, por lo tanto espero publicar videos y fotos que pueda sacar en conciertos que permitan camara.

Aca va nuestro primer videito como para que se vea donde vivimos, totalmente dedicado a la familia y a algun curioso que le puede llegar a interesar.