30 Years Ago: Flashback To Epic Metallica Concert In Middletown

Metallica played the Orange County Fairgrounds in Middletown, NY on their '94 S**t Hits the Sheds Tour.

I remember it like it was yesterday, it was me and a bunch of my headbanger friends taking final exams in our junior year of high school at Dover Jr/Senior High School in Dover Plains, NY, just waiting to get through so we can get on the road to see Metallica!

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You know it's Summer When They're Rockin' in Middletown

My original ticket stub from Metallica concert in 1994 at the Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, NY.

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It was June 17th, 1994 and we had a convoy of several cars heading out on I84. You knew it was summertime when they were rockin' in Middletown, and it was a hot summer day at the Orange County Fair Speedway. The Concert: Metallica with special guests Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies will forever be in my memory as one of the greatest concerts I have ever attended.

Metallica was on their S**t Hits the Sheds Tour which would see the band playing 51 dates across North America. This would be my first time seeing Metallica live, and I would go on to attend many more Metallica shows over the years, but none of them will ever compare to the show I attended on this day back in 1994.

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I'll always remember my buddy Brian getting his glasses busted in the mosh pit during Suicidal Tendencies' set, and poor Brian wasn't able to see a thing the rest of the night. :( Were you at the show?

Metallica Setlist (Orange County Fairgrounds in Middletown, NY June 17, 1994)

SETLIST

Bread Fan
Master of Puppets (Short Version)
Wherever I May Roam
Harvester of Sorrow
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
The God That Failed
Kill/Ride Medley
includes excerpts of "Ride the Lightning", "No Remorse", The Four Horsemen". "Phantom Lord", and Fight Fire With Fire.
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Disposable Heroes"
Seek & Destroy
Nothing Else Matters
Creeping Death
Fade to Black
Whiplash