Thread 127631907

you might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

>>127631907 (OP)
It takes a mighty man to strap a guitar that low.

>>127631949
Het didn't solo much though. He's the riffmeister.

>>127631907 (OP)
honestly yeah, whatever you think abt the black album you gotta give it to metallica: they really went for it with that massive tour. can't knock the hustle

>>127631945
does murder on your wrists though. it's a wonder he never got carpal tunnel

>>127632052
>>127631907 (OP)
Selling out and becoming a normie radio rock band for jocks and middle aged car mechanics is not really peak performance.

>>127632428
I always pictured it as neo biker music desu. Not car mechanics, unless you mean Orange County choppers.

Metallica really was the greatest band on Earth for 10 years man. sometimes I wish they disbanded by the end of the Black Album tour, just to keep their legacy intact.

>>127632632
They made even cool guys like Danny Way even cooler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_oy3SaexyU

>>127632311
By keeping his outer fingers splayed out like that, there was a less severe wrist bend employed. If he was a paw grasper, he would have had to curl his wrist in at much more severe angle, possibly leading to repetitive stress injuries.

>>127632428
They paid their dues with 5 standout albums in the prior 10 years, not to mention carrying the torch farther than anyone. You go right ahead and form a band and show 'em how it's done!

>>127631960
His solos are better than Kirk's
>>127632800
He held the plectrum like a pen, giving him superhuman downpicking strength. Probably the only mvp in the band now, though his age caught up with him and alternate picks Puppets and Creeping Death now.
1989-1993 was peak, what a time to be alive.

>>127632836
>His solos are better than Kirk's
This. The first time I really stood up and listened to a Met solo was the outro solo on Nothing Else Matters. Then the video comes out and turns out it wasn't the lead guitarist. The only solos I remember liking were Creeping Death and the outro solo for Whiplash.

>>127632632
but then we wouldn't have gotten the best metallica album

>>127632428
>metallica BAD for maturing as musicians, adapting to the ever-changing music landscape and still making good music in the process
come back when you're 18

>>127633099
>solo on Nothing Else Matters.
yeah i fucking love that solo. the last part that is just hammer ons. i actually didn't realize until recently that the album version has that too, it's just really quiet compared to kirk's rhythm part. i thought he was taking creative liberty for the live version.

how do you drop 4 legendary classics in the 80s and release nothing but garbage since?

>>127633099
Nothing Else Matters is a fantastic sweet little solo. Het usually does all harmony guitar solos on all album recordings as well, and at least half of the guitar solos on Load & Reload.

Check out this version of Suicide & Redemption from Death Magnets. Complete unedited long JH & KH solos. Hetfield is streets ahead in terms of melody and phrasing and articulation compared to Kirk. You know when James ends and Kirk begins because of the fucking wah and atonal out-of-tune playing Kirk seems to enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1ZC8pJKfU

Also, this version has the completed bookends start and finish. Why they edited it for the album is just insane and probably a Lars thing.

>>127633222
yeah, truly bewildering
but why are you posting this in a Metallica thread?

>>127633200
Kirk does not appear on the album version of Nothing Else Matters. All guitars by James. But I understand what you mean however that's more of a mixing thing.

>>127633250
I don't know why they never at least once in a while did twin lead stuff like Mercyful Fate or Thin Lizzy, Wishbone Ash, etc. A little variety every now & then ffs.

>>127631907 (OP)
>be metallica
>have it all
>the image
>the energy
>still have youth on your side for quite a bit longer
>finally break out with your signature sound

>"hay dudes, what if we like, pulled a complete 180, cut our hair, started dressing like mexican pimps and writing twangy country tunes and tryhard "alt rock"?"

yeh-heeeyuh...

>>127633254
SNARE SNARE SNARE SNARE SNARE SNARE SNARE.

>>127633367
Be fair. It was almost 15 years by then. Hair metal was long in the grave. It's like saying Sabbath didn't find their stride until Born Again or 7th Star.

>>127633342
Live, yes, but in the studio all guitars by James (save for Load, Reload & St Anger Kirk does rhythm on the right channel & overdubs).

That twin guitar harmony would have been great on recordings but James & Lars run the band; Kirk & Rob take a back seat in creative process.

>>127633419
That's why they'll never be the greatest band ever. Lars in particular has a head too big and since he's in charge his stupid ideas can't be shut down. Like the whole fagging out in the 90s with eye liners and shit.

>>127632632
S&m has some cool moments

>>127636273
Cliff had some leverage but once he was gone there was nobody to challenge Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum there.

>>127633367
The funny thing is, the next album could have been just fine. If they condensed their best material from Load and Reload into a single, 60-minute album, it would have been no less weird, but a solid follow-up. Instead of that, they went along and released TWO 80-MINUTE LONG ALBUMS with a dozen undercooked songs. It's like they forgot they had to write and flesh out actual songs and not just jam this time around. Just about every dumb fucking idea they got, they half-assed into a "song", it's bewildering. I guess it was the coke?

>>127636476
just typical 90s CD bloat when bands felt compelled to use up all the space on an 80 minute disc

>>127636358
Yup. Cliff, and Dave before he got kicked, were the reason Metallica was a band. Once they were gone it became Lars, James and hired guns.

>>127631907 (OP)
but I do like it

>>127633342
the have done several songs with lead harmonies/dual leads, if that’s what you meant

>>127637040
Which?

>>127633419
>the founders of the band run the band
whoa

>>127638267
Yes, but this is exactly why Hardwired and 72 Seasons are mid at best: the guitarist and the drummer write the same E minor songs over and over again ad nauseum.

Cliff was the guy who liked all the epic horror and sci fi themes, without him James and Lars could only do very dry songs about their feels (AJFA had war/political themes probably because they still had unused material from the Cliff era).

>>127639147
So would you say the founder walk the band rather than run it?

>EET FUK MUTHAFUCKAHS
>OOO JEHEAH
>*burps loudly into mic*
>*spits*
Justice era was peak. it's hard to watch him live these days.

>>127639351
also forgot when he'd take the obligatory shots at Motley Crue and Bon Jovi

>>127639182
Precisely.

>>127639384
It was the best of times.

>>127639384
that was always half a wink wink nudge nudge similar to Cobain's beef with GNR as they were label mates on Elektra

>>127637573
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=metallica+songs+with+lead+harmonies

>>127641175
Results?

>>127643799
May vary.