Okay, here we are with another Metal Tales from the Road. I'm sitting here, well, I'm sitting here alone, but I'm talking via Skype to our friend and patron, Thomas Mueller. Thomas Mueller, did you know that you share our last name with Eddie Vetter?

No, I didn't know that.

Eddie Vedder's Christian name, as we put it here in the States, is Mueller.

And look at that. You might be, you may even be his long-lost brother.

That would be a surprise for me, but...

You'll have to go to Ancestry.com and get your mouth swabbed and all that.

Well, do...

Maybe later tonight.

Thank you for coming on the show.

I love talking to people like you about the gigs.

You were at the Amsterdam show.

Now, to give us an idea of sort of where you sit in the Metallica world, what number of show is this for you?

It must have been 26 or 27. So I've been following the band for quite

quite some while now. Yeah. What was the first show you saw? It was a concert in Hamburg in 1997.

That was, they had, it must have been some kind of reload promotional tour.

And they played a really small club.

I was 15 in back of the day.

So it was a rather nice experience.

And I never lost the grip of the band.

So it was every time they played in Germany or

somewhere in Europe, I'd try to at least see one show at one of the tours. I'm looking at this

right now. They called it the Blitzkrieg 97 tour. Was this at Docks in Hamburg, Germany? Yeah, correct,

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