Brian checks in with Lars at Metallica‘s secret underground lair in San Rafael California, and gets a tour of the compound before sitting down to talk in the main rehearsal room. Much like The Who, Metallica went from playing in front of a couple of hundred metalheads at the Stone in San Francisco in the early 80s to rocking with an estimated 1.5 million fans at Tushino Airfield in Moscow in the early 90s. That Moscow show was one of the stops on the band's Wherever We May Roam tour, which saw them on the road from 1991 until 1993. By the time it wrapped, Metallica had cemented their reputation as one of the most successful full tilt rock outfits on the planet.