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Lithium93_

Just looking at that 1985 photo of Metallica @ Donington made me think, they were 4 teenagers with a dream........ 32 years later said dream has come through, despite a few rocky patches.

MagicMarker

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Just looking at that 1985 photo of Metallica @ Donington made me think, they were 4 teenagers with a dream........ 32 years later said dream has come through, despite a few rocky patches.

Well, came true for 3 of them anyway...

Lithium93_

MagicMarker wrote: »

Well, came true for 3 of them anyway...

That's what i meant by ''despite a few rocky patches''.

Lithium93_

sugarman wrote: »

Just had a listen of Lords of Summer, not too shabby. Tho it sounds like something left over that didnt make the cut of Death Magnetic, possibly reworked.

Doubt it will make the album anyways, prob similar to the 2 new songs they toured prior to the last album. One of which also sounded like a st anger rework.

When are we expecting to see a new album? Another year?

I'm guessing the new Metallica album will be released towards the tailend of 2014..... Or sometime early 2015

King George VI

Lithium93_ wrote: »

I'm guessing the new Metallica album will be released towards the tailend of 2014..... Or sometime early 2015

And that's being optimistic I reckon.

bockeys jollocks

Just saw through the never, I thought it was a good movie, they sounded fantastic. Robert Trujillo really kicked ass with Orion at the end. I liked the way he used Cliffs signature bass for the song.

As Kirk would say " it hasn't been played that way since Cliff!"

ush

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Just looking at that 1985 photo of Metallica @ Donington made me think, they were 4 teenagers with a dream........ 32 years later said dream has come through, despite a few rocky patches.

:eek:

seachto7

I think it came through in 1983 when they released their first album.

Lithium93_

St. Jimmy wrote: »

And that's being optimistic I reckon.

Nope!, it's being realistic...... Though if Metallica release studio album #10 before year's end i'll be surprised

Motley Crue

bockeys jollocks wrote: »

As Kirk would say " it hasn't been played that way since Cliff!"

Don't believe Jason ever attempted to play it during his time in the band, or wasn't allowed (who know's) while I'll also doubt that neither Rodrigo Y Gabriella nor any other artist who covered the song lived up to the performance paved by its creator....essentially that comment from Kirk just diminishes his band mates actual performance

bockeys jollocks

Motley Crue wrote: »

Don't believe Jason ever attempted to play it during his time in the band, or wasn't allowed (who know's) while I'll also doubt that neither Rodrigo Y Gabriella nor any other artist who covered the song lived up to the performance paved by its creator....essentially that comment from Kirk just diminishes his band mates actual performance

I don't know weather you've seen the movie or not, but I think Trujillo nailed it.

Motley Crue

bockeys jollocks wrote: »

I don't know weather you've seen the movie or not, but I think Trujillo nailed it.

Oh I've seen it, and he did, I just think Kirk's comment was ill advised IMO - or at best a band choice of words

Lithium93_

Could be looking at sometime during 2015 before Metallica release Death Magnetic's follow up, according to Lars Ulrich

The last, I don't know, six months, we finished our movie, we went to the Antarctic, we played the Grammys again, which was nice. We've started writing songs and preparing for the next record, so that's very exciting. We're down here among all of you beautiful people and playing the 'By Request' setlist and going to new places. We were in Quito two days ago, where we'd never been before. We're playing a new song The Lords Of Summer on stage, which people seem to be very receptive to. We're writing away. We've got some good ideas. Our biggest problem is not the ideas, our biggest problem is time. Metallica is busier than ever, and it just seems like there's more and more going on and the days get shorter and shorter. But, hopefully, we will be done writing this year and next year we should record and hopefully have a new record out maybe next year. We'll see. Hopefully next year.

http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/metallica-isnt-even-planning-on-hitting-the-studio-until-2015

jack presley

With all their talk of the album hopefully coming out next year and that it could be the year after, any chance they're trying to put us off the scent and are actually going to do a 'Beyonce' and spring a surprise release on us later this year?

devildriver

jack presley wrote: »

With all their talk of the album hopefully coming out next year and that it could be the year after, any chance they're trying to put us off the scent and are actually going to do a 'Beyonce' and spring a surprise release on us later this year?

No.

bockeys jollocks

devildriver wrote: »

No.

Agreed, there's no holes in their runners anymore.

Sugarlumps

Lombardo on Lars, starts at 2.23.

Ash.J.Williams

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Lombardo on Lars, starts at 2.23.

Diplomatic dave!

nyarlothothep

Just to pinpoint Lars's abilities more accurately I thought it might be useful to pit him against hard rock/rock drummers rather than just uber technical metal drummers.

Lars Vs John Bonham?
Lars Vs Keith Moon?
Lars Vs Roger Taylor?
Lars Vs Nick Mason?
Lars Vs David Grohl?
Lars Vs Bill Ward?
Lars Vs Ian Paice?
Lars Vs Sean Kinney?
Lars Vs Ringo Starr (I see a lot of similarities between these two, both use loose timing and a lot of unnecessary fills).

The reason I ask is that Kirk Hammet gets a lot of flack as a guitarist and I feel that this is because he's constantly evaluated against the technique end of metal guitar playing, while his technique isn't anything spectacular in that arena he's technically on par if not better than most 70s guitarists who are venerated as guitar heroes. Also my personal opinion, his guitar solos on the early albums are incredibly imaginative and melodic and not just pentatonic runs, eg Disposable Heroes, Fight Fire with Fire etc.

D.Q

Lars vs anyone makes no sense though. Its not like there is a particular thing that makes him a better drummer, it cant be quantified. after a certain level of technical proficiency, it all just comes down to taste. You get left with endless loops of "x is definitely better than y" without any actual way to back it up other than "I think..". Music isn't like sports, there aren't winners and losers.

seachto7

D.Q wrote: »

Lars vs anyone makes no sense though. Its not like there is a particular thing that makes him a better drummer, it cant be quantified. after a certain level of technical proficiency, it all just comes down to taste. You get left with endless loops of "x is definitely better than y" without any actual way to back it up other than "I think..". Music isn't like sports, there aren't winners and losers.

This should be posted as a reply to every other thread about who is good, better, best, as well as any top 10 type music list.

Ash.J.Williams

lars is lars

nyarlothothep

D.Q wrote: »

Lars vs anyone makes no sense though. Its not like there is a particular thing that makes him a better drummer, it cant be quantified. after a certain level of technical proficiency, it all just comes down to taste. You get left with endless loops of "x is definitely better than y" without any actual way to back it up other than "I think..". Music isn't like sports, there aren't winners and losers.

I agree completely but just in terms of technique you can say one drummer is better than another, like Lars is definately a better drummer than Ringo in terms of technique. But I'm not a drummer so it would be difficult for me to gauge how much better or worse he is than the 70s drummers for example.

bockeys jollocks

nyarlothothep wrote: »

I agree completely but just in terms of technique you can say one drummer is better than another, like Lars is definately a better drummer than Ringo in terms of technique. But I'm not a drummer so it would be difficult for me to gauge how much better or worse he is than the 70s drummers for example.

Lars should be compared to metal drummers, as I posted earlier, Will Carroll playing trapped under ice is a good comparison. He played it better than Lars at 22 years of age.

lord lucan

bockeys jollocks wrote: »

Will Carroll playing trapped under ice is a good comparison. He played it better than Lars at 22 years of age.

He may have played it better now,but it was Lars who came up with the arrangement originally. Anyone can improve on the original,even some of Metallica's covers are arguably better than the original songs.

The Lars thing has been done to death at this stage. He was pretty good in his younger days and can still come up with some great stuff when it comes to new material but he's said himself that he's lazy and never practices and it often shows in is live performances in recent years.

Motley Crue

It's amazing how many arguments have been on this thread every couple of weeks about Lars drumming lol - it's almost hilarious

hidinginthebush

Motley Crue wrote: »

It's amazing how many arguments have been on this thread every couple of weeks about Lars drumming lol - it's almost hilarious

Its sad but true :pac:

bockeys jollocks

hidinginthebush wrote: »

Its sad but true :pac:

Can't we just have justice for all...

King George VI

bockeys jollocks wrote: »

Can't we just have justice for all...

We can't Escape this argument.

StaticAge11

I really think it's time we stopped this Hate Train dead in its tracks