The Urban Berserker
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Age : 51
Location : New York, New York
Registration date : 2011-01-19
 |  Subject: The Big Four to play in California, one day only  Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:45 pm | |
| From the New York Times - Quote :
- January 25, 2011, 11:42 am
Bang Your Head and Protect Your Ears: The Big Four Are Coming to California
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Big 4
If the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., isn’t completely resodded and picked clean of trash immediately after this year’s Coachella festival wraps up on April 17, we’re guessing the field’s next major occupants won’t mind too much. The following Saturday, April 23, those same fairgrounds will be home to the one-day festival the Big 4, which apparently aspires to be the heaviest heavy-metal show that ever tested the mettle of metalheads.
The only acts appearing on the bill, which was announced on Tuesday morning by the concert promoter Goldenvoice, are the high-volume bands Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, and if you need more musicians than that, your eardrums are made from sterner stuff than ours. It will be the first time all four acts appear on the same bill in the United States, and the first time they will have played together since a series of European dates last summer. (Don’t blame them for the Icelandic volcano eruption, which happened in the spring.)
Tickets for the Big 4 festival are $99 for general admission and $199 for “V.I.P.” tickets, and will go on sale through Ticketmaster on Friday. The conscientious metalheads had better have the Empire Polo Club cleaned up by April 30, when it hosts the Stagecoach country music festival.
I just can't believe they're not going to do a full tour  It would be the promotion of a lifetime. | |
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Mash
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Age : 181
Location : Canada
Registration date : 2009-03-07
| | Subject: Re: The Big Four to play in California, one day only Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:15 am | |
| I saw 2 out of 4 at a festival last summer (Slayer and Megadeth). To tell you the truth, I'm good with that  | |
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ostler
Number of posts : 197
Location : England
Registration date : 2010-03-06
| | Subject: Re: The Big Four to play in California, one day only Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:32 pm | |
| This would have been awesome if it were still 1991! | |
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wingkon
Number of posts : 12
Location : Honolulu, Hawaii
Registration date : 2011-01-21
| | Subject: Re: The Big Four to play in California, one day only Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:25 pm | |
| The Big 4 originated in California. I don't see why they'd only play there for a day. | |
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The Urban Berserker
Number of posts : 227
Age : 51
Location : New York, New York
Registration date : 2011-01-19
| | Subject: Re: The Big Four to play in California, one day only Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:03 am | |
| Well 3/4 of them did anyway, remember Anthrax represents the East coast | |
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UponDoom
Number of posts : 56
Age : 29
Location : Georgia, USA
Registration date : 2011-01-13
| | Subject: Re: The Big Four to play in California, one day only Fri Jan 28, 2011 6:46 pm | |
| I live in Georgia and I'm only 15 so I can say goodbye to going. | |
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