Episode 64 - Behind The Fire w/ Matt Thomas

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

This week we sit down with Matt Thomas, a pyro technician who recently worked on the U.S. Worldwired stadium tour. Matt gives us the details of what it takes to set up a pyro show for Metallica, the precautions taken, unpredictable weather, band involvement and so much more. Matt has become a good friend of ours and we can't thank him enough for taking time out of his busy schedule to chat with us. If you saw the Worldwired stadium tour, then you saw the result of Matt and his team's hard work day in and day out...with little sleep.

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0:00.0	What really gets my dick heart is...
0:03.0	So fucking what?
0:05.0	Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that what I desire.
0:24.6	Yeah, turn on. Welcome to Metal Up Your Podcast.
0:43.6	I'm Ethan Luck.
0:44.3	And this is episode 64.
0:46.6	And I got to point out right away, we're not at HQ1.
0:50.5	We're not at HQ2.
0:51.7	We're definitely not in my 4-winner right now.
0:53.9	We're what now is called HQ 4.
0:56.6	We're at the smokestack.
0:58.1	Paul Moak studio.
0:58.9	Paul?
0:59.4	Paul?
1:00.2	You know, it's funny.
1:01.1	Paul's not here.
1:01.7	I was really looking forward to pulling up and seeing Paul's truck.
1:04.6	And he's not here, but he has generously let us camp out at HQ 4.
1:08.7	Officially, so we dubbed the HQ4.
1:11.1	Yeah.
1:11.4	Well, Paul, when we first talked about it as a joke, Paul was like, it could be HQ4.
1:16.2	And you know what?
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