Rock in Rio

Lá chegou finalmente o tão ansiado momento para o Déjan: a noite do Heavy Metal no “Rock in Rio”, e em que além de actuarem outras bandas, actuavam os “Metallica”, e principalmente ele iria concretizar um grande sonho, que era conhecer e conviver com os elementos da banda; isso aconteceu por ele ter tido a sorte de ser um dos seleccionados (apenas oito) para esse efeito.
Pela primeira vez, neste blog, o texto, as fotos e a música, não serão da minha autoria, será o Déjan, o dono do blog, para este post.

Wow…From where to start right now…
I have to say that the concert was after 2 wonderful days in Porto, where we met and had a dinner with some of good friends. Just as we returned, 10 minutes after we sat down in the car and went to the Rock in Rio.
I was pretty much tired but very excited cause after 20 years one of my dreams came true - to meet Metallica personally.
Something I was dreaming since was a kid , so in one way should happened 10,15 years ago, but of course it doesn’t mean that my heart wasn’t full of happiness (not sure about João ...)
Before we entered the concert I met with “Special K” and it was my pleasure to introduce such an expert of music and spend the rest of the day with him. As soon as we entered the concert area we have found a place where we had a good view of the stage.

Show was started exactly at 19:00 and was opened by Moonspell. I'm not a big fan of this group (like only a couple of songs) but I think they are very high quality and thay worth definitely better timing then the opening of the festival.

After them appeared Apocalyptica. This heavy/classic cello band from Finland reinforced by drums, once again showed (at least to me) that a combination of classical music and heavy metal can be a very good combination, in studio and live.

After that, it was a row of Machine Head, which I had to miss because I had a more important meeting - meeting with Metallica!

What to say ... Just to shake hands with them, take some pictures and exchange a few sentences was a real pleasure, and my heart was filled. An hour has passed as a minute, during which time they played Machine Head and how could I hear behind the stage, very brutal.

Metallica is came on the stage at midnight and played for 2 hours and 10 minutes. Setlist could be better but I am not really the right person to be sorry because my dream is fulfilled.

As much as “Special K” and me enjoyed so much, I am sure that João was suffering on the other side and counting song by song waiting for the end of the concert. When the gig was over we just hardly waited to take our bed because fatigue was a great so that I could not even talk.

Thanks Metallica, thanks “Special K”, thanks Portugal… and of course
mainly thanks to moe Chako Pako!