As Metallica kicked off their Summer Sanitarium Tour 2000 Friday in Foxboro, Mass., Lars Ulrich is rehearsing more than his drum fills - he's got a speech to prepare. I believe that the reason people are saying what they're saying is only out of sheer ignorance. There is no argument here. All we want as an artist is a choice. There's nothing to argue about that.
Nobody has the right to do with our music whatever they want.
Baltimore stop on the Summer Sanitarium 2000 tour, which featured performances by Kid Rock, Korn, and headliners Metallica. The victim, identified as Martin Muscheet of Connecticut, fell from the upper deck of Psinet Stadium on to the pavement outside the venue. The concert continued despite Muscheet's death. Our sincere thoughts and prayers go out to the victim's family and friends in their time of grief. We have been told that the police are still investigating the situation, and until we know all of the facts surrounding this unfortunate death, and further comment would be purely speculative.