Metallica
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- ismith0
I just think that present judgements are usually limited to liking, loving, or hating with some objective critique scattered throughout. Terms like genious, seminal, etc may be casually thrown around but are rather meaningless until time has proved it so (or not).
- blaw0
My first real show: 1984, Metallica (on "Master of Puppets" tour) opening for Ozzy (on "The Ultimate Sin" tour) at a venue that held about 4,000. Pretty great show for a thirteen-year-old.
- Can I kiss your feet? :P that must've been just frickin insane...ismith
- Hahaha... it was the one and only time I was star-struck.blaw
- It really taught me what real music/live performance is all about.blaw
- I caught em later that year when they headlined with Loudness opening for them..at Madison Square GardenTheBlueOne
- Ooopps...no wait...I got that confused with Motlry Crue..oh god..my memory is shot..TheBlueOne
- ismith0
To me it almost seems that a current band is more likely to live on the quicker you dismiss them... 60s-80s were about how many stadiums you could sell out, and I just think that doesn't translates. I bet there were just as many empty-headed fools joining a crowd of millions to see the Beatles just to be cool without ever really listening to or caring about the music as there are people now who download all the albums and simply leave them on in the background...
I think our measurement of how popular bands were then is distorted by the fact that we're very inclusive when talking about them (what VJ doesn't like to point out the most obscure reference to a modern band taking the smallest influence possible from a band just to show their depth in the music industry...). We're very willing to glorify every inane detail of their existence, which gives us a false sense of status while also giving us a weird feeling of security (if all of the modern bands you like now end up sucking, it doesn't matter because you didn't care about them really! you really only deeply respected the classic bands!).
I would sell my soul for Pink Floyd, but if I were my age when they released Dark Side I'm sure it would be no different than the first time I heard the Strokes' Is This It, Rage Against the Machine's eponymous debut, John Frusciante's Shadows Collide With People, or Massive Attack's Mezzanine among many others. In 20 years, if the masses favor Rage and everyone forgets Shadows Collide (more than probable) then who knows– I might suddenly start calling Rage a classic band and not Frusciante/RHCP.
- benfal990
THIS IS A BUMP : :: : : : : :: : : : :
- - - - - - - - - - - -vv - - - - - -Sorry to bump that thread, just wanted to know... is there a good version of the last album of Metallica available? (you know the compression ussues when it came out)
- benfal990
... because iam going to see them in concert tomorrow and iam now listening to the last album to know the new songs a bit before the show. And, well, Death magnetic isn't bad... some good parts. But god it sounds awful.
- ismith0
There is a 24/96 45rpm (5xLP) vinyl rip of it on what... but it's almost two gigs, and I don't have it so no idea if it's a better master.
- jfletcher0
Last weekend I put the entire Metallica catalogue I have (all albums and most singles/B-sides) on random. Damn there was a variety in there. Poeple grow up and change. I'd be bored if they did more of the same for 20 years. Load and Reload weren't that bad (although did have some bombs). They were just really different. I'm not as big of a fan of any recent stuff, but it's not as terrible as so many people say. I'd go see them live again if they came back around.
- benfal990
Fans Complain After “Death Magnetic” Sounds Better On “Guitar Hero” Than CD:
http://www.rollingstone.com/rock…
- benfal990
- Do you have an account on what? Or, would you like one?ismith
- dont have, would like, what is it ?benfal99
- bittorrent. email in your profile good?ismith
- thank you ismith! :Dbenfal99
- you have an affinity for the number 99 I see :D check your benoitfal inbox again, I sent a quick mssgismith
- and you're welcome! enjoy the musicismith
- GeorgesII0
what a fuckn douche, from napster to torture, fuck metallica
Metallica frontman James Hetfield recently told German-language TV network 3sat that part of him was proud the U.S. military chose the band’s music to torture prisoners at U.S. detention centers in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay. “It’s strong; it’s music that’s powerful,” Hetfield says. “It represents something that they don’t like—maybe freedom, aggression... I don’t know... Freedom of speech. And then part of me is kind of bummed about it that people worry about us being attached to some political statement because of that. We’ve got nothing to do with this and we’re trying to be as apolitical as possible, ’cause I think politics and music, at least for us, don’t mix.”
http://www.revolvermag.com/conte…- yet they have army and war themes to so many of their songs...Projectile
- elahon0
She was at the last Metallica concert:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10…
- Projectile0
saw 'em two months ago for the first time at Sonisphere. Best fucking gig i've been to in a long time!! Suffice to say they blew limp bizkit, NIN and Alice in Chains out the water. Also saw Bloc party, marilyn manson and Korn earlier this yr and none of them compared either. I mean who else regularly plays 2.5 hour sets?!! Gives you enough time to listen, have a mosh, go for a pee, and still have another good mosh
- boobs0
Took my nephew to see them about 15 years ago. They were just unbelievably boring. Then at the end, they had a fake fire onstage, and it was just unrelievedly lame.
- raf0
I hate them. It is personal, however.
I went to their concert in San Jose Arena and soon went in the stage area with my balcony ticket – balcony acoustic sucked bad. The first time they approached me under the stage telling me to get back to the balcony, so I did and came back to the stage on its other side. That time the guy took my ticket, led me outside the main gate and closed it behind me. There were guys in SJPD uniforms standing out there, waiting to pacify someone, so I didn't try to argue..
It was 11pm and I just got kicked out of a New Year's Eve Metallica gig.
It all ended well though once I hit the city bars I must say.