You might have heard that the Talica boys were going to play some heavy shit tonight. Welcome to Metal Up Your Podcast. Welcome to Metal Up Your Podcast. I'm Ethan Luck, and this is another edition of Metal Tales from the Road.

This is the last one before the boys in the band take a little bit

of a break for November through Thanksgiving. But fortunately, we had the Albany show last night,

and our friend, longtime listener, Will Valor, was at the show, and we are actually video chatting

on Skype right now. You can't see us, but we look great for the morning. But yeah, this is Will Valor. What's up, Ethan?

Dude, thank you so much for doing this and for giving us the full report of the Albany show, man.

It's great to be here, man. Well, let's, before we get into the show, let's take a trip down

your memory lane and let our fans know.

You live in New York, obviously, but let's find out when you came online with Metallica,

when that all started for you.

You know, the day that, you know, you wouldn't know it, but probably changed your life.

I would say, well, it was around 1986 that i uh i was thinking

about this because i knew this question was coming but i don't know for sure which was the first

metallica record i got it was either puppets or kill them all um but i got the you know the first three very quickly one after the other.

Right.

Me and my friend Brian were like way into heavy metal and Black Sabbath.

And I guess at some point we discovered Metallica.

And we accumulated all those albums very quickly one after the other.

Right, yeah.

That seems like a...

It was around the top that Puppets came out, whether it was before or after, I can't really remember, but I was young.

I was like 11, 10 or 11 years old.

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