INILAH.COM, Bogota - The noise in the show "Rock" again occurs. This time when Metallica concert in Bogota, Colombia, last weekend. Around 160 fans were arrested after the Metallica riots outside the concert hall.
Hundreds of fans came without tickets to come to the concert from legendary metal group the U.S. was in the Simón Bolívar Park, and tried to break the police barricades. Sky News reported, some 1,500 police were present outside the concert area seemed to have expected the riots to happen. A number of tanks and trucks were deployed police prepared to block the raging mass motion.
Riots took place throughout the 45 minutes. A total of four fans and four members of the police were injured, one of them being treated for knife stab wounds. A total of 170 people arrested for rioting, vandalism, and destruction of such property in Bogota. But they were later released for lack of evidence.
Police are investigating a group of fans on facebook that encourages the fans causing trouble if they could not get tickets for the concert in Bogota, which was attended by 35,000 spectators are.
Police Chief Ruben Castillo said, "The presence of riot police and a team was needed because the appearance of these rioters. They destroy several windows in the surrounding area."
But Metallica concert undisturbed and running smoothly. That's not the first incident in the Latin American tour the band. In January 2010 at Santiago, Chile, a riot occurred during their concert, forcing police to use water cannon and arrested 120 people.
Metallica's concert will be a first for Colombia in the last 11 years from four companions James Hetfield (vocals and guitar), Kirk Hammett (guitar), Lars Ulrich (drums), and Robert Trujillo (bass).
The concert is the last part of their Latin American tour in Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. On Saturday local time, Metallica also performed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
After that, the band will continue their Death Magnetic Tour to Europe. They will perform in Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Northern Ireland, Hungary, Croatia, Portugal, France, Spain, Poland, Switzerland, Czechna, Bulgaria, Greece, and Rumania. They will also visit to Israel and Turkey.
In every concert, any music genre prone to violence if the committee is not a professional concert management. The public generally only assess the performing arts, especially music concert as an entertainment only. The actual phase is less favorable for the development of musical art. people tend to lazy or reluctant to explore or understand about what is the value of aesthetics in a song at a concert.
Fifteen years ago, James Hetfield of Metallica et al had a concert at Lebak Bulus Stadium, Jakarta, for two days, 10-11 April 1993, exactly, in the Metallica world tour series called Nowhere Else To Roam. This supergroup came at the right time. Because when it was victorious pascarilis Metallica Black Album.
Indonesian music society at that time also was 'hot-hot' appreciates rock / metal. The show was finally really become history, in a positive connotation or negative. Tens of thousands of masses of fun in the arena, while outside the stadium riot and fury of the masses.
Since then the Indonesian government began to trauma in rock bands, and forbids all kinds of loud music performances. [mor]
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