Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night, and played two songs as a five-piece, with two bassists: Jason Newsted and Robert Trujillo. Below is the video of “Master of Puppets”; they also played “Enter Sandman”.
My observations:
It was cool that they played one pre-black song.
Flea inducted the band, and [...]
So the Garage Days Re-Revisited EP is long out of print, and is going for a bajillion dollars a bootlegged copy on eBay ten years later. The band decided it would be a good idea to re-issue the record, but add some new stuff to force both new and old fans to buy the [...]
Here’s an interesting interview with Robert Trukillo, bassist for Metallica (and previously Suicidal Tendencies.) What’s interesting about it, to me anyway, is that it was conducted on 103.9 in South Bend, Indiana, which was one of the only radio stations in my area as a child. (Or at least the only one that [...]
I will get a lot of flak about this, but I’m not a big fan of this album. It’s not horrible, but to me, it’s nothing more than a mid-point between the near-perfect Kill ‘Em All and the completely perfect Master of Puppets. It doesn’t have any of the raw aggression of the [...]
There’s a rumor that this album was going to be called Metal Up Your Ass until their label’s legal team got a little concerned, and I wonder if Metallica would have become the era’s first and biggest thrash metal band if this record were not injected into every mall and record shop across the country. [...]
After assuring their fans that they were alive and kicking with Jason Newsted on the bass, the remaining three horsemen plus newkid went into the studio with Flemming Rasmussen for the first five months of 1988 to record the successor to Master of Puppets. What came out was something that people either considered a [...]
When this 1987 EP came out, every Metallifan immediately rushed to the store to pick it up, because it was the first release from the band since the death of bassist and mastermind Cliff Burton. It was also proof that the band could go on after the loss of their best member, because many [...]
