ZitatAlles anzeigenThe Official WorldWired 2017 Asian Tour Wrap-Up
BY STEFFAN CHIRAZI, SO WHAT! EDITOR
And so it began just over two weeks ago.
The first part of WorldWired 2017 kicked off in Asia – Seoul, South Korea to be precise – where the bright lights are plenty, the toilets perform wizardry, make cups of tea plus play symphonies, and the Metallica family filled the Gocheok Sky Dome to usher in the New Year. The tour was always going to be not only a valuable reconnection with fans and friends in Asia who Metallica has seen before but also a chance to break bread in that most wonderful way with NEW cities and thus NEW experiences. It was also a chance to work through HTSD material for the stage, as well as tweak and tuck elements of the live production. So yeah, the ‘Tallica Gang hit the Gangnam ‘hood hard, before making its way to China – a fascinating and exciting experience which truly showed how the juxtaposition of cultures made such synergetic sense.
In the last two decades, Shanghai has willfully (and successfully) elevated itself to being a city which can go toe-to-toe with the likes of Dubai, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. It courts the best of European culture; its British ex-pat roots informing many of the buildings along its world famous riverfront road The Bund, whilst the other side of the Huangpu River shows the explosive modern architecture which sees building such as The Shanghai Tower soar higher than most buildings in the world. In every sense, Shanghai is an east-meets-west blender, a place where the cultures mix and sometimes match but always successfully mingle. Q Prime, and especially Peter Mensch with Tony DiCioccio, had long-talked of the potential fan-base in China, and as such, the brace of Shanghai shows last time around in 2013 had broken important ground. So Shanghai offered the security of knowing what was coming in a country not well-traveled. Everyone knew of its world-class cuisine and cultural pockets, its European-influenced neighborhoods and magnificent temples, and critically, everyone knew the Mercedes-Benz Arena, thus there was perhaps always an air of comfort and even familiarity for Metallica in Shanghai.
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Quelle: https://metallica.com/blog/new…d-2017-asian-tour-wrap-up
Fotos: Ross Halfin (Mehr hier: https://metallica.com/media/ph…/asia-2017-by-ross-halfin )