Honed by touring and high on the Billboard-charting success of the Elektra Records reissue of Ride the Lightning, Metallica headed home on August 31, 1985, to play the Day on the Green festival in Oakland, California. They shared the stage with former Bay Area hard rock champions Y&T, the Scorpions, and two fellow alumni of the first Metal Massacre: Ratt and Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force. Even as Metallica tackled the world, it was exhilarating to face a sold-out hometown crowd of 60,000. While the group played its usual set of raging songs, not just friends and family but an entire stadium of newcomers applauded the heavy metal band that still shunned radio ballads and MTV videos...