![]() ![]() The first half of the album was 10 new covers that were more exploratory than anything they had attempted in the past. These are some of the most influential bands in Metallica’s career.” By listening to this album, you can tell where we got a lot of our ideas really. “This album’s a bit autobiographical in a musical sense, ‘cause these are all bands that have been such a huge inspiration to us and a huge influence on us. “We’re definitely wearing our influences on our sleeves with this one … again,” Hammett added. But no one knew and they didn’t care and we didn’t tell ‘em. “’Metallica Live Tonight at the Troubadour,” – half the set is Diamond Head. “We took their songs and called them ours,” Hetfield said, laughing. The songs they’d chosen over the years, in one respect, were a way to pay back the artists whose coattails Metallica had ridden in their club days, when they were filling out their sets with covers of obscure British bands the audience likely didn’t know, passing them off as their own compositions. The idea was to blend an album’s worth of new covers with all those that had been released previously on B-sides, and the Garage Days Re-Revisited EP, making for a double album that effectively spanned Metallica’s career. “It was a lot more spur of the moment stuff, a lot more vibe,” frontman James Hetfield added. It’s very much rock and roll, that’s the cool thing.” This thing gets to be raw and rough and fun…sloppy like it should be – like rock and roll should be. “Not having to get, like, in the Metallica recording mode of everything has to be under such a huge microscope and everything has to be so perfect. “The most important thing about this, really, is the ‘fun’ factor,” bassist Jason Newsted said. ![]() One goal was to keep the sessions loose, they also wanted to retain a level of enjoyment in recording the music. They would figure out what songs each member was going to bring in and work on three or four each day. Metallica had been talking about doing another Garage Days album for some time, and decamped to guitarist Kirk Hammett’s basement less than two days after the final show of the Reload tour that September. There was just a renewed interest in fucking with some other stuff." Just shake that off a little bit and come back to something a little looser and a little kind of sillier. “But we just did the two Load albums more or less back to back, so it just seemed like a good time to do some, from both a time point of view and a creative point of view. “We haven't really fucked with cover songs for a while,” drummer Lars Ulrich told Metal Hammer. ![]()
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