We are SO there.

[gridlore]

We have the line-up for the 21st Bridge School Benefit Concert.

Neil Young
Metallica
Jerry Lee Lewis
Eddie Vedder with Flea & Jack Irons
Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet
John Mayer
Tegan & Sara
Regina Spektor

Very cool over all, but note that second listed act. Metallica. The Bridge School is an acoustic show. Hard rock acts have played it before, usually with great success. However, I'm wracking my brains to figure out what the loudest garage band in world will play when the guitars are unplugged. The "headliners" get 3-5 songs.

Enter Sandman is a given. Nothing Else Matters would lend itself to the setting, I think. kshandra suggested The Memory Remains (and wouldn't it be cool to get Marianne Faithfull out to do the "na-na-na" parts?) I'd love to hear them pull out a speed metal classic like Hit The Lights or For Whom The Bell Tolls.

So, fellow metalheads.. what would you like to hear Metallica play acoustic?

Comments

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Twelve possibilities from their KSJO acoustic bootleg:

1. Low Mans Lyric 7:16
2. Helpless 4:19
3. Four Horsemen 5:08
4. Poor Twisted Me 3:38
5. Nothing Else Matters 6:36
6. Creeping Death 4:42
7. Tuesdays Gone 8:51
8. Last Caress 4:24
9. Nothing Else Matters 7:00
10. Bleeding Me 8:10
11. Seek And Destroy / Fight Fire With Fire 10:15

So they have some experience with this.

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

One.
King Nothing.

[dalen-talas.livejournal.com]

Also, Sanitarium.

[jarlsberg71.livejournal.com]

The last two would be awesome. Tegan and Sarah are cool, but Regina Spektor is REALLY good, and borrows a good portion of her lyrics from russian poetry (as my Georgian co-worker pointed out) On top of lyrics, she's an amazing vocalist with a neat staccato trick in one of her songs that is great to listen to and almost impossible to sing along for (that song is stricken from my Karaoke list permanently)