UPDATE: The Metallica concert was awesome. My ears will be ringing for days. How do these musicians prevent themselves from going deaf?

I tend not to blog about non-tech stuff but today is an exception. Tonight, I am going to the Metallica concert at the HSBC arena in Buffalo NY. This will be my fourth time seeing Metallica and hopefully not the last!

I started listening to Metallica in high school. During those 4 years, I had a 30 minute walk and I needed something to kill the time. In the old days we did not have iPods, we had portable cassette players. In any case, I remember listening to the Master of Puppets cassette so many times that I actually wore out the tape. Eventually I repurchased all of my Metallica music on CDs and nowadays they reside on my IPod. There aren't too many bands that made the transition from my cassette player to my IPod. Metallica is definitely an icon and I will never get tired of listening to their music. I wonder if 30 years from now if Metallica will still be touring, it would be hard to play a guitar while holding a cane. The Rolling Stones seem to manage though....