End Of The Load
The Blindman's Ball Festival
Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Germany, Aug. 23, 1997
Ready Go! RG005
65:23
Given tracklisting: Correct tracklisting:
1. So What 1. So What (Anti-Nowhere League cover)
2. Master Of Puppets 2. Master Of Puppets
3. King Of Nothing 3. King Nothing
4. Sad But True 4. Sad But True
5. Fuel 5. Fuel
6. Hero Of The Day 6. Hero Of The Day
7. Ain't My Bitch 7. Ain't My Bitch
8. One 8. One
9. Until It Sleep 9. Until It Sleeps
10. Nothing Else Matters 10. Guitar/drum intro
11. Enter Sandman 11. Stone Cold Crazy (Queen cover)
12. Stone Cold Crazy 12. Creeping Death
13. Creeping Death 13. Battery
14. Battery 14. Last Caress (Misfits cover)
15. Last Caress -- --

The disc itself is marked "Fuel." Soundboard quality, but that hardly helps them at this point.

There are breaks between tracks 9/10 and 13/14. Apparently between "Until It Sleeps" and "Stone Cold Crazy," the band played "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Wherever I May Roam," "Nothing Else Matters," and "Enter Sandman." The other boots of this gig I've seen that include these tracks seem to leave off some of the songs from the end of the show.

I'm not sure whether track 10 is really a proper intro to "Stone Cold Crazy," or whether it's some spontaneous guitar/drum jam. "Creeping Death" begins with Hetfield leading the crowd on the "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" intro chant (the flying monkeys' march from The Wizard of Oz).

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