So last week I listened to this Nerdist Interview with Metallica.
Worth your time, and that’s coming from a fair weather Metallica fan. Now one thing alluded to was that Lars was NOT there, and Chris several times wishes he was because evidently Jonah had cracked a joke about Lars in his Comedy Central special.
I decided to look it up: **UPDATE** Looks like the video is auto-play so here’s a page break to keep it from playing on you:
BTW I just so happened to have a copy of “Enter Sandman” on my computer during the whole Napster flap. Again, fair weather fan, booted off Napster. We can talk the morality of that some other time.
Still I’m deeply amused that I don’t have cable, I can’t watch Comedy Central in my house, and maybe you can’t either, but Comedy Central is nice enough to let anybody embed clips from their network!
That’s some double plus irony!
I’ve played in bands long enough to know that when you let the drummer speak to anybody, you’re doomed. Every one that I’ve ever played with has had a screw loose.
God bless ’em, they’re crazy, horny, and can be best friends. But for the love of Mike, shut the fu(k up and hit the skins. If you can hold your tongue, keep your suspenders up for four sets, and know the difference between 3/4 and 4/4, then we have something to work with. I’d take advice from Gene Krupa, but Ulrich can suck an unwashed egg. Lars Ono…sounds about right.
With a shout-out to the best ever…”Crazy” Craig Demarest. (sp?)
I was a hard-corps Metallica fan until the Napster flap.
I was around for the “No Life ‘Til Leather” pass this tape around days.
They very definitely bought into the idea that every single download was a lost sale, forgetting that a large hunk of downloads are no-sale regardless. If it wasn’t available for free, the person would go without. The RIAA is fundamentally wrong about it and Lars became their spokesman (yes never let the drummer speak to the public).
Which was base hypocrisy! They advocated people making and passing out copies of their work for at least the first two albums. A distribution model that, by the way, made them famous and rich somehow.
I laughed my head off at their claims to integrity. They’ve clearly forgotten about how they fired Dave Mustaine and how Kirk really did accept accolades for his work from Kill ‘Em All.
Yep after I got the notice that I was suspended from Napster (and again I thought I had nothing from them) I deleted that copy of Enter Sandman, and have never felt the need to ever own a Metallica album.
Of course that’s also because Mrs. Weer’d has most of the good ones anyway.
Yeah Napster made many small bands HUGE because of the free distribution. Plus bands NEVER make money off of albums if they are traditionally studio produced. They make all their money from TOURS, and nothing brings people to tours than people who know and love the music.
A sales receipt for the music is NOT required.