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Old 03-09-2013, 01:42 AM   #2 (permalink)
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To put my reasoning in perspective: to this day almost nine million people claim to have attended Woodstock in 1969. When in reality only half a million people attended. Why would so many people lie? For the "wow, how cool!" factor. Maybe something similar happened with Metallica. Even if I underestimated the number of fans they had in the 80's surely there are a lot of people who falsely claim that they were at their concerts back in the old days, when the band was still “hardcore” and known by only the selected few.
But hey ,mine is just a theory..I never said that I was 100% certain!
I'm not sure if you're making this 9 million up but the Woodstock comparison with Metallica is not a good one really. The selected few would only really apply to the first two albums and even then Metallica were hardly an unknown band.

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True ...and justice for all sold relatively well,and the track "One" won a Grammy.
So I guess I must push back the clock more or less to the first three albums.
If anything you need to go back to the first two albums, as Master of Puppets put them on the map and when that came out they were one of the bigger metal acts.
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