LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 24, 2019- ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ WERE RECURRING BIG FESTIVAL CONCERTS PRESENTED BY BILL GRAHAM AND HIS COMPANY BILL GRAHAM PRESENTS(BGP). THEY STARTED IN 1973 AND CONTINUED INTO THE EARLY 1990’S. THE LAST ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ THAT WAS OVERSEEN BY GRAHAM WAS IN OCTOBER 1991, JUST BEFORE HE DIED IN A HELICOPTER CRASH. SUBSEQUENT SHOWS WERE HELD IN 1992 AND AGAIN BETWEEN 1994-1997. THE SECOND ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ TO BE HELD AFTER GRAHAM’S DEATH WAS ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1992 FEATURING GUNS ‘N ROSES AND METALLICA. FOR G N’R IT WAS PART OF THE GROUP’S ‘USE YOUR ILLUSION’ TOUR. METALLICA WAS ON THEIR “1992 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR.” IT TRULY WAS A HEADBANGER’S WET DREAM.
HERE’S THE SETLIST FROM GUNS AND ROSES:
Welcome to the Jungle
Mr. Brownstone
Live and Let Die
Attitude
Bad Obsession
It’s So Easy
Double Talkin’ Jive
Civil War
Patience
Matt Sorum Drum Solo
You Could Be Mine
Slash Guitar Solo
Speak Softly Love
November Rain
Sweet Child O’ Mine
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Encore:
Don’t Cry
Paradise City
THIS IS FANTASTIC CONCERT FOOTAGE FROM G N’R
AND NOW THE SETLIST FROM OUR HOMETOWN HEROES METALLICA:
The Ecstasy of Gold (Taped intro)
Creeping Death
Harvester of Sorrow
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Sad but True
Wherever I May Roam
Of Wolf and Man
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Unforgiven
The Shortest Straw
Bass Solo
Guitar Solo
Fade to Black
Master of Puppets
Seek & Destroy
Whiplash
Encore:
Nothing Else Matters
Am I Evil?
Last Caress
One
Encore 2:
Enter Sandman
AS AN ADDED TREAT, HERE’S THE FULL METALLICA SET