OK, so the audience recording here isn’t *great* — but the very fact that we can hear such an early recording of Metallica playing in Cleveland is awesome. Dec. 18, 1983: Ride the Lightning was still a almost year away, but several songs from that album show up here.
Setlist:
The Ecstasy of Gold (Ennio Morricone song)
Hit the Lights
The Four Horsemen
Jump in the Fire
Fight Fire With Fire
Ride the Lightning
Phantom Lord
The Call of Ktulu (Early version called “When Hell Freezes Over”)
No Remorse
Seek & Destroy
(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth
Whiplash
Encore:
Creeping Death
(Guitar Solo)
Metal Militia
Motorbreath
Here’s our roundup of other vintage audio/video from around Cleveland:
AC/DC at World Series of Rock at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1979
Smashing Pumpkins in Tremont in 1991
Queens of the Stone Age at Euclid Tavern in 1999
Warren Zevon at the Odeon in 2000
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Agora in 1978
The Grateful Dead at Richfield Coliseum in 1990
Peter Frampton at the Agora, 1974
Bob Marley at the Agora in 1975
Kiss at the Agora in 1974
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Richfield Coliseum in 1978
This article appears in Nov 12-18, 2014.
