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jack presley

happyoutscan wrote: »

My favorite Metallica tshirt ever. Would love to find where I could get it again but I can only find vintage prices. I want something I can where daily!

I had that In my teens. It has the first four album covers on the back too. It was a favourite of mine back then.

seachto7

Just got an email to say my AJFA vinyl now won't be ready until May due to the remasters! I ordered before the Christmas mind!
I used to have the AJFA tshirt too. Dog jumped up and rippeda hole in it, then I ended up wearing it in bed. Cool tshirt.

Lithium93_

Nicked this from The New Album Thread on the Metallica Forum, make of it what ye will..

There's an interview (probably held in Dec or Jan) with Lars in the new German Rock Hard magazine. Nice read...

A few tidbits (but nothing too exciting or new):

• no short songs (very vague here, though)
• still not decided if LOS will make the album
• they record more songs than just for the album
• 2016 release looks very good
• from AJFA on studio outtakes, similar to the Zepplin re-releases, exist
• Presidio stuff will most likely be part of SA re-release
• they were a little disappointed that there were not more obscure choices at the Request-shows...will probably do something similar again in smaller venues
• Full Arsenal stage will be used again in the future

Lithium93_

scudzilla

That picture/sign just sums up Metallica for me now, big red letters 'RECORDING IN PROGRESS, DO NOT ENTER', like a big fcuk off, don't come in.


Then a little 'THANKS' at the end for fear of offending anyone

Mental Mickey

scudzilla wrote: »

That picture/sign just sums up Metallica for me now, big red letters 'RECORDING IN PROGRESS, DO NOT ENTER', like a big fcuk off, don't come in.


Then a little 'THANKS' at the end for fear of offending anyone

Well they don't want their new material leaked beforehand

Anesthetize

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Well they don't want their new material leaked beforehand

I really hope someone does leak something. Just to piss off Lars.

jack presley

At least the sign said 'recording' and not 'f*&k acting about' with the 1001 ideas they said they have for the album.

King George VI

Anesthetize wrote: »

I really hope someone does leak something. Just to piss off Lars.

Death Magnetic leaked a few days it was released and Lars was pretty ok with that at the time. I think he was just happy the album was out there. Also It's been 16 years since the napster thing. I reckon he's mellowed out about the whole file sharing thing by now.

PTH2009

Johnny Carson wrote: »

Death Magnetic leaked a few days it was released and Lars was pretty ok with that at the time. I think he was just happy the album was out there. Also It's been 16 years since the napster thing. I reckon he's mellowed out about the whole file sharing thing by now.

Different age and with things like spotify and google music etc it's much easier to listen to new songs

...And Justice

Has anyone seen anything from Jason?, it's like he paid Google to remove him from the internet, I mean not even a photo of him after the scuzz interview.

scudzilla

...And Justice wrote: »

Has anyone seen anything from Jason?, it's like he paid Google to remove him from the internet, I mean not even a photo of him after the scuzz interview.

I've asked this here many times, seems there's quite a few rumours flying about the web and a few of them aint good.

I really hope he's well and in a good place as he's by far my fav member of the band of all time.

Lithium93_

Jason re-appeared last month talking about Lemmy

http://loudwire.com/jason-newsted-lemmy-kilmister-savior/

Lithium93_

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/metallica-talk-30-years-of-master-of-puppets-we-were-just-kids-20160302?page=4

lord lucan

Lithium93_ wrote: »

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/metallica-talk-30-years-of-master-of-puppets-we-were-just-kids-20160302?page=4

Great read,the ghost of Cliff still looms large over them,even 30 years on.

jack presley

Lithium93_ wrote: »

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/metallica-talk-30-years-of-master-of-puppets-we-were-just-kids-20160302?page=4

Cool article. As was the one about RTL from a couple of years back that I hadn't seen before that was linked within it

Lithium93_

Gave Master Of Puppets a spin today, 30 years after it being originally released, it's held up amazingly well.

...And Justice

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Gave Master Of Puppets a spin today, 30 years after it being originally released, it's held up amazingly well.

It's an absolute smasher, I first heard it in 1987, having had it on the original LP, cassette tape and CD and now digitally from iTunes, I can safely say it's best played on a technics 1210 on vinyl.

Lithium93_

...And Justice wrote: »

It's an absolute smasher, I first heard it in 1987, having had it on the original LP, cassette tape and CD and now digitally from iTunes, I can safely say it's best played on a technics 1210 on vinyl.

It's the first ever Metallica album I brought with my own money a decade ago.. Was the cover that got my attention..

I've heard it on vinyl before, and wowza's it was amazing, puts the cd version to shame..

And before anyone says it/digs up my post from a few months back, I was given a copy of St. Anger on a blank cd by a friend.

Lithium93_

And while we patiently wait on the new album, found this on Facebook earlier today..

...And Justice

How the fcuk you bang out master of puppets in four months and then justice a year later I'll never know, very Fcuking talented, there's not an sliver of that these day's.

Hal1

So all in all they spent 5.2 years in the recording studio making albums. (not including GD if that can be called an album since it's a cover album).

Lithium93_

...And Justice wrote: »

How the fcuk you bang out master of puppets in four months and then justice a year later I'll never know, very Fcuking talented, there's not an sliver of that these day's.

Would imagine an "Us against the world /Everything to prove" attitude was a key factor in making those albums and they probably lost said attitudes once they made it so to speak..

...And Justice

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Would imagine an "Us against the world /Everything to prove" attitude was a key factor in making those albums and they probably lost said attitudes once they made it so to speak..

And James terrible childhood.

Lithium93_

...And Justice wrote: »

And James terrible childhood.

And the fact that they had no one to tie them down.. It's a shame they don't have that spark anymore, but such is this game called life I suppose.

AllGunsBlazing

One of the main reasons for Metallica albums taking so long to record is, and always has been, Lars. More specifically his inability to get anything done in a couple of takes.

The documentary of the black album sessions made him into a laughing stock amongst his peers at the time. The drum tracks on that album are pretty basic but he literally could not keep a steady beat for even a couple of minutes so various takes had to be razorblade edited together. You'd have thought the advent of pro tools in the years since would have sped the process up, but no.

Roanmore

Just reading the first part of Birth, School, Metallica, Death. Reading about Cliff's death. I remember it at the time but had forgotten at how fast they replaced him with Jason (something like 3 weeks after Cliff was buried).
Got to admit I had a tear in the eye reading it. What a waste.

Lithium93_

Roanmore wrote: »

Just reading the first part of Birth, School, Metallica, Death. Reading about Cliff's death. I remember it at the time but had forgotten at how fast they replaced him with Jason (something like 3 weeks after Cliff was buried).
Got to admit I had a tear in the eye reading it. What a waste.

Was actually a month after Cliff had been buried that Jason was drafted in.

That's actually a book I need to pick up.

...And Justice

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Jason re-appeared last month talking about Lemmy

http://loudwire.com/jason-newsted-lemmy-kilmister-savior/

Yeah after reading that, it's like he told the reporter not to ask him what he was up to, why wouldn't you ask? I mean this was an exclusive, to interview Jason and all the obvious questions were avoided. Totally controlled interview by Jason. Bummer interview totally boring.

Ash.J.Williams

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

One of the main reasons for Metallica albums taking so long to record is, and always has been, Lars. More specifically his inability to get anything done in a couple of takes.

The documentary of the black album sessions made him into a laughing stock amongst his peers at the time. The drum tracks on that album are pretty basic but he literally could not keep a steady beat for even a couple of minutes so various takes had to be razorblade edited together. You'd have thought the advent of pro tools in the years since would have sped the process up, but no.

justice is their most technical album, lars struggled with that one agreed, but i think the main reason it takes so long nowadays is they can afford the studio time and essentially write and record in the stuudio, rather than what normal bands do, write at home and record in the studio, process is probably slower now due to them owning it.