Metallica

Haha

http://www.nme.com/news/music/man-arrested-for-allegedly-urinating-on-a-family-at-metallica-concert-2122836

One lone man's protest against the gentrification of Metallica concerts.

I see his point, tried to get a ticket for one of their London gigs and it was £130.

"Daddio"

Hetfield's move around the 2:40 mark in this video is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdlQyNe_9tE

plus that sweet ass

Cliff's fingers are so long it always looks like he's using all of them at once.

Haha, Jaymz does that all throughout the Cliff 'Em All tape.

My favorite part of Cliff Em all is Kirk deciding to put the beer back

Cliff Burton dressing like he got kicked outta Wishbone Ash in the mid-80s was one of the coolest things

I really, really, really wonder how Cliff would've turned out. It's impossible to see him selling out, but I would've said the same thing about James had he died 31 years ago.

He probably would've joined Les Claypool's Frog Brigade or something.

i went to the same community college as cliff

no statue, sadly

was not there when cliff is there

i am younger than him

when cliff WAS there

not drunk, honest

Heineken huh

sadly no clip on youtube of james opining on jagermeister

here's a good article:
https://www.redbull.com/au-en/metallica-st-anger-15-years-on

hopefully someday an equally compelling defense will be made for Lulu

well that was a lot of words

listening to the album while reading it and it's not as bad as I remembered thinking it was but it's also not a stealth masterpiece

Dirty Window would sound pretty cool if you did a Diamond Head style cover of it and ignored the lyrics

I’ll happily defend Lulu, but St Anger no way.

I no longer hate St. Anger the way I did in 2003, and I get why they made it, but I don't want or need to listen to it. Lulu I'll never listen to again.

I think he makes a compelling argument (though personally I cannot listen to st anger in its entirety without going crazy) and I remember feeling something similar when listening to Lulu in one sitting (which I think I've done 4-5 times) that it's excrutiating but somehow it works, it makes sense, and with the Junior Dad ending it's ultimately v rewarding

this mtv performance is hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5Av9ShZyI

Off topic....episode of the 'Dead Rock Stars' podcast focusing on Cliff Burton: https://www.acast.com/deadrockstars/deadrockstars-cliffburton

Might not to be everyone's taste but I enjoyed it.

been meaning to read richard's piece but i've kinda already made up my mind about st. anger bc i listened to it so much when i was writing about lulu: it's interesting, and there are a few good songs/ideas buried in it, but it's not good

say what you will about lulu but it's a much more dynamic record

no doubt about that

Off to see them in Manchester next month, looking forward to some carefully managed traffic flow

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— Subprime (@sbprme) May 30, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0irY0Osz9Q

shudder

https://magazine.uc.edu/content/dam/magazine/images/famous/famousTV/lucky.jpg

The crowd aren't even remotely into it either

They did something like that when they played here last -- picked out a few local bands from the early 90s and played a medley of their songs. A few people in the crowd might've recognized their names, but even I couldn't figure out what songs they were supposed to be playing when I watched the YouTube video.

Most of the audience – who were most definitely more fans of Metallica fans in 1990 than they were of the Little Rock punk scene – just kinda stood there and went Ohhh-kay?

man, scalping tickets for your own fucking band is so shitty

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8521538/live-nation-resale-market-secretly-recorded-phone-calls-concert-tickets

Kirk Is so boring
Imagine what could have been

all of us
can now
be metallica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urqO95exaIE