"The idea for a free concert came from Garth Brooks. We sat down after[his] central park show and said, 'That is so cool -- what a cool thingto do.' We thought it would be a good way for us to shake some of thedust off.... We've been trying for the last two months to set up a freeconcert in Chicago, and we can't find a place to play. We went andlooked at Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, so on, and basically no one willhave us."

- Lars Ulrich, Metallica
Billboard Magazine, 1997