ok so julia from uranium earned a bit of respect from me last night

[Baliset]

she interviewed metallica and didn't pull any punches she got into it with them on why they are coming under criticism for their album's production. and every time they rebutted with something stupid she would bring up a counter argument to it from the perspective of the fans.

the main things i got out of it were that kirk needs to shut up in interviews. he took pretty much every question and gave these long-winded responses that made him sound like a dick.

James was actually pretty intelligent i thought.

Metallica criticized metal fans for being too narrow and that the scene was always like that and they have worked since kill 'em all to open the minds of metal fans.

kirk believes Sum 41 has a similar attitude to early Metallica.

rob trujillo says he really likes candiria and meshuggah and radiohead.

kirk and lars apparently shave and wax their legs.

 

[FuSoYa]

What were some of the things she was bringing up about the album's production and what were their rebuttals and what were her counterarguments to their rebuttals?

 

[azal]

<3 rob trujillo.

 

[avi]

I've never really listened to Sum42, but a friend of mine roadies for them and says good things about them and their work ethic fwiw

 

[Absolut Jim Varney]

Yeah, I saw that.
James Hetfield actually seems like a cool guy, but Lars is kind of in his own version of the world, and Kirk is way too talkative.

 

[Baliset]

What were some of the things she was bringing up about the album's production and what were their rebuttals and what were her counterarguments to their rebuttals?

well she asked why they felt the album came under fire and kirk or lars said something along the lines of:

"we do this for ourselves. people need to remember that. they criticize it without investing the time in listening to it because the production doesn't matter as much because the songs are so good. "

and then they also said "people listen to demos all the time that have terrible sound quality and the production on our albums blows them all away" to which julia responded with "yeah but people don't want to hear metallica using garage band production value." and i can't remember their response to that.

also lars wanted to remind everyone that metallica are "wacky" and if you listen to an album and feel they are doing something weird its because you have to remember that they are "wacky" and to expect them to do weird things on their albums because they have been doing it since kill 'em all.

 

[azal]

"we'll never stop, we'll never quit, cuz we're Metallica!"

 

[xfer]

Kirk is my favourite Metallica.

 

[azal]

mustachophile.

 

[Baliset]

xfer just likes that he waxes his legs.

 

[xfer]

lovecraft-loving, D&D-playing, guitar-owning guy who waxes his legs! could he be any more perfect?

(if you remove the whole mustache thing)

 

[Baliset]

i would also like to add that they interspersed footage of a club gig metallica did this year and they only showed them playing songs that were from the first three albums.

 

[Demonspell]

Kirk is a pioneer in the field of metrosexuality.

 

[lizard]

especially when they were all into their goatee/oily phase.

 

[mindspell]

Kirk is also a surfer-dude, and is quite de metrosexual I think

 

[Firedwarf]

Was the lack of guitar solos thing addressed?

 

[Baliset]

a little bit but not much.