You might have heard that the Talica boys were going to play some heavy shit tonight. Never you are from the river Never are from here Welcome to Metal Up Your Podcast, I'm Ethan Luck, and this is another edition of Metal Tales from The Road,

and we're finally talking to people over there in Europa, going to all these European shows. We're all

extremely jealous of the set list and what's happening over there. But anyways, enough of that,

on the phone via Skype all the way in London, England is Tom Dean.

Hi, how are you doing? I'm well, man. How are you doing these days?

Very good, very good.

Kind of getting at the start of what's going to be an awesome summer of just, yeah, just

Metallica shows and going to lots of cool places.

Yeah, man.

So, let me get this out of the way first.

Are you a black ticket holder?

I am, yeah.

Yeah, I bit the bullet as soon as that offer came up.

Yeah.

Checked with the wife, got the permission, and yeah, just went for it.

I mean, it's a smart move, especially if you can get to enough shows to kind of pay for it, then it's great, you know. flight or whatever. If I was able to do it and I wasn't on the road touring and doing all that stuff,

then I would have probably done what I could to get a black ticket for the US shows.

Exactly.

Once you saw how much the black ticket was compared to just a general ticket for a one-off show,

I think I really had to be able to get to about four before it made kind of financial sense.

Yeah. And it was just kind of a great incentive to try and get to about four before it made kind of financial sense. Yeah.

And it was just kind of a great incentive to try and get to as many.

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