Metallica sets up self-important Marshall stacks on all 7 continents.

So.. can I just turn down the volume every time they play something post-Ride the Lightning?

Boo, infinite zest, boooo! Master of Puppets was awesome! Turn the volume down on everything post-Master.

It's worth spending the insultingly large price to get some good, custom fit earplugs. I got mine 15 years ago, keep them in a waterproof tube on my key ring and still use them every show I see, and most that I play. They actually make things sound BETTER and you get about 30db reduction with the most aggressive filters installed.

Oh, I have a wonderful pair of earplugs that I use all the time, when I go to live show, at rehearsals, and when I perform (I call them the 'poor man's monitor' because of how easily I can hear my own voice in my head with them in, no matter how loud everyone else is playing). it's just, given the choice, i'd rather be wearing headphones for 2 hours than earplugs.

where did ya'll get the headphones and what kind?

He has "studio" in his name so he probably means cans. Cans are professional headphones that cost hundreds, even thousands of bucks, because you can wear them all day and sit on them occasionally and they'll still be comfy and operational.

Most people'd balk at laying down 0 for home use headphones that sound about as good as ones, but the Koss cans my dad bought in 1972 are still excellent headphones and work fine even though my sisters and I chewed on them when we was teething. You can beat someone to death with a good pair of cans, which probably crossed his mind more than once.

Oh and "And Justice for All" isn't too bad if you can find the "And Justice for Jason" mix that actually has the bass player on it.

They lived in Antarctica for millions of years, but to the best of my knowledge the first time they actually played a show there (for someone other than the Penguin Army) was in 1990, when they recorded Live from Antarctica. I'm also not sure about their concerts on other planets - sources conflict as to whether they were a band during their Scumdog years, or whether they only became a band after Sleazy found them during the 1980s.