Roskilde Festival 2003

There are funny differences around the world that you notice at shows and or music festivals. In Miami, I have been to a show where they throw their plastic beer bottles and full cups of beer as a sign of affection for the band performing. And now I have been to Roskilde Festival, where 100k Scandinavians and Germans assemble for 5 days of non-stop music on 10 stages. And all I know is that funny things come down through history and through people that are evident in the way people party and rock. I witnessed 100K people set up for Metallica like a battlefield out of “Braveheart.” The flags went up on 30’ fishing rods that we would have never gotten by security in the U.S., and were held high in the sun at 10:30 PM where Metallica tore into Battery, Master of Puppets, Harvester of Sorrow, then, Sanitarium in Lars’ homeland. 100k people from I don’t know how many countries singing “Seek and Destroy” at midnight. It was awesome! Lars even broke into some Danish for the natives and believe it or not he speaks his native perfectly without a hint of that shitty Californian accent we have come to hate since that Napster back-stabbing when he wouldn’t shut the fuck up. So in all the fun I had, I realized 3 things:

1. There is White Trash all over the world.
2. No matter what show you go to for 5 days you cannot keep your feet clean in sandals or flips flops, which further helps the Dirty White in you come out.
3. The problem with the new Metallica record is you just can’t come out with Battery, Master, Harvester, and Sanitarium.

Skål!