Lars Ulrich misses UK concert

Oh those poor little millionaires! Thanks... I needed a good laugh. By the way, I've been in "the Business" myself for a while now but hey... nice try.

Questionable on the latter.

yes, Im sure you can relate to Metallica. and since when is it a crime to have huge finacial gain from something you've worked your whole life for?

and hey, Im glad i could supply you with a laugh, but there are people out there who are sick of Met being the most scrutinized band on the internet.

Well, theres you and the 2 other people in your Metallica group.

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[Edited on Jun 08, 2004 by JumpinJackShit]

A) I CAN'T relate to Metallica. Never claimed I did... nor would I want to.

B) I never once thought it was a "crime" to reap financial success from your given artform. The Rolling Stones are one of my favorite bands so that kills your point there. It's just the way an artist HANDLES their success that I was referring to.

C) I dunno... call me crazy, but maybe the reason they're the most scrutinized band on the net might have something to do with their witch-hunt on file sharing? And don't lecture me about how bad the "artist" gets ripped off by file sharing. I know better.

Does no one else wonder why their best loved songs are all covers????? and for the record-they all gave cliff burton loads of shit for blasting the misfits on the tour that killed him....but then-walla....made a shit load of money of recording the garage days set.......

their best loved songs are not covers.

the statement that they gave Cliff shit for blasting Misfits is so rediculous that it does not justify response.

I'm done with this thread. metallica bash ad nasium. they're playing Dyers Eve live again, and I'm going in October for the 12th time.

I. Fucking. Love. You.

It certainly seems fashionable to bash Metallica these days, it seems that happens to a lot of bands. Wait for it and people will start loving them again.

Glad there's a few people here that see it my way, I know that there are some people that genuinely don't like Metallica. But there are a hell of a lot that slag them because it's the cool thing to do.

which, i feel, speaks volumes about the utter lack of quality in thrash metal over the last 10 years...

I won't delve into why I think Metallica's become a parady of the band the used to be (everyone's done that already). Rather, I'm going to say something positive.

I disagree, some of Metallica's best loved cover songs are just great songs -- its just that Metallica had the resources to make that stuff sound good.

Using your example of the Misfits ...

Danzig wrote some brilliant stuff with the Misfits -- and recorded it on a boom box with some make-shift equipment they were using. The Misfits didn't have the money, or the knowledge to make their stuff sound good in the late 70's. Then Metallica came along with that huge massively produced sound they had, which sonically did a lot of justice to the Misfits and a lot of the other bands they covered.

To continue on saying some positive about Metallica, in light of all this negative.

I will give Metallica snaps for in the 80's is they went out of their way to try to bring the bands they worshipped to the mainstream too.

Its no secret, who some of their favorite then unknown bands were in the 80's. In any given group picture of them pre-1990 you'll see one of them wearing a shirt of some (then) obscure punk / metal band.

When they first started to play huge shows, they let Samhain open for them so they can share some of their success. Its no secret the whole band worshiped Danzig (not just Cliff and James), they wanted to see Danzig's then band "make it" too (and I'm sure Danzig is not complaining about the royaltee checks he's getting for all Misfits covers they did).

They made it a point to tour with bands they liked and respected. Not to dwell on Danzig, but Metallica without question helped bring him into the spotlight.

Even after they stopped playing thrash metal in the early 1990's, they convinced the Anti-Nowhere League to come out of retirement to open for their stadium tours in Europe. I'm sure at the time they could have had any of those big at the time grunge bands play with them, they wanted to see a band they liked get some recognition too.

But yeah -- even though I'm not a big supporter of Metallica's music and new image these days. I do think they did do some good with their success.

I thought Cliff made the band.. and the band I loved pretty much died when he did......

METAL UP YOUR ASS...


"FUCK YOU,PUSS,FAG,SLUT".....----CLIFF BURTON


TO LIVE IS TO DIE...

The snare drum on that album is by itself enough to qualify the whole thing as their most heinous abortion to date. I've yet to meet the drummer who doesn't want to cry when they hear the sound of that gawd-awful pingy assed drum with the snare disengaged. Plus every song was a stinker. Sorry, that's just how I feel about it.

I still love metallica.
That said, damn I wish I was at that show Dave & Joey filling in on drums