You might have heard that the Talica boys were going to play some heavy shit tonight.

No, yeah from the round.

No one from the round.

No one from the round. We're here with a good We're going to be a good friend of the show, Alex Finney.

We're continuing our Metal Tales from the Road series.

We're going to be talking about, of course, Lincoln, Nebraska in Nebraska real exciting set list and we'll of course get into that but first

how you doing Alex it's nice to finally talk to you on the phone yeah it's great man I

got to visit with Ethan a while back and now I'm getting to talk to you so it's cool man

yeah well you've been a supporter.

I know you're a patron from early days, so we, of course, really appreciate all your support,

and I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

I've heard you on Tom's Alpha Metallica show, and you've got some pretty serious Metallica credentials.

Would you describe yourself as a diehard?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, never fail, diehard. When did you get on the train? When did you get on the

train? When did you get on the Metallica train, as it were? You know, I was a big rush and deep

purple fan, and I just had people had told me about Metallica and I was hanging out at this

record store and the day Justice came out, the guy who owned the record store, someone came in

and said the CD didn't work in his car so he exchanged it and he handed me the old CD and said,

take this home and listen to it. If you like it, come back and pay me Monday. If not, just bring

the CD back.

And that was the first I heard was when I put on Black End.

And I would just, I didn't, I was totally blown away.

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