Wall of Mouths

:eek: hell, now metalica definatly own the title “biggest wankers in musicbiz!”. who the hell do they think they are? if they be victorius on this one, many old and broke popstars have a new way to get money. imagine michael jackson suing all the popacts that had dance coreographys like him:rolleyes:

saw this yesterday…

very funny but its definetly a fake, notice how the link to the offical metallica website doesn’t infact go there at all!

If this IS real, I’m gonna throw away all my metallica cds. :D

Don’t think they even use E and F major chords much. Mostly power-chords. :D

opalmantra wrote:

Don’t think they even use E and F major chords much. Mostly power-chords. :D

They have names too you know :)

Whether you fell for it or not, I think that the worst part in all of this is the fact that it did actually sound like the sort of thing they would do. I lost my patience with Metallicash after the Napster incident. I understand that you would be concerned if people were getting your music for free, and if it had been actioned by a band who had way lower record sales, I believe that there would have been nowhere near as much flak thrown at them as Metallicash got.

The thing that really annoyed me about the whole Napster incident was the following a) you could download tracks from bootlegs that you would otherwise get ripped off for big time ( something Metallica said theyw ere dead against ) b) rare B-sides that you’d never stand a chance in hell of getting and c) I’ve never bought as many albums as I did when I was downloading tracks and checking out bands I wouldn’t otherwise hear. The whole Napster situation was handled terribly, far from it being a huge revenue loss to millionaire rock bands ( and why the hell aren’t they getting at their paymasters for the ridiculous amounts they charge for the discs anyway? ), if handled correctly it could have been the biggest free music advertisement ever.

To be honest I wouldn’t even bother downloading any Metallica songs from now on, that’s how much I feel they’ve gone up their own arses.

just have to say something, cause of my musicsociologystudy i get to know some new studies about that whole discussion …

a view points:

1. the music industire does not include economic stagnations in their point of view, although any economic development has his stagantions, when you see the development over the years
2. people who download stuff and like it, buy the album afterwards or spend their money for a concert (some people don´t have the money to get both but without downloading they wouldn´t buy the album or go to the concert) so this is a good merchandising for new bands and also any band really …
3. when you look at the past … as the music audio tape arised … the music industrie cried out loud … as today .. the development surely was not like they thought … the sellings were not going little, than before …
4. the music industire as in point1 only sees there seelings … the have to rise and rise each year, but fact is nowadays are more bands then ever. so more bands suck (music industrie wants to make money with the sucking bands too, but does not include some intelligenc by public listeners) … i think its better for artists and for the people who want to buy their recort (and like you all said and like in point2 people buy it when they like it, even they had downloaded it before) that you can download it for free …

things i said, are science and studies over the past few years … perhaps metallica should read some of the stuff and not listen so much to their managment …

How long before Metallicash try suing the hoaxers then?!

It makes me laugh, you are in what is probably the most recognised brand name in metal, you freely admit that you took the name you so furiously protect from a fanzine..in your own words, you “stole” it, you started off by playing obscure english metal bands songs fast so nobody recognised them, you even reworked one of those band’s riffs for what is one of your most popular songs, you relied heavily in your earlier days on people copying your songs to pass to others to get you recognised further. You are constantly going on about staying true to the spirit of your earlier days, yet you do not seem to realise how far you have sunk into the corporate world.

And Mr Ulrich really seems to have a problem understanding why so many people have turned against them?

What amazed me was how “official” sources ran the story as fact, I mean..what the hell do their researchers get paid for if they don’t even attempt to verify the story as being correct or not?!

dano wrote:

What amazed me was how “official” sources ran the story as fact, I mean..what the hell do their researchers get paid for if they don’t even attempt to verify the story as being correct or not?!

That’s a general problem with most things on the internet. Most info is never verified and pranksters rely on the fact that people take everything they read as fact with no question (journalists/researchers included).

We all fall for it, and it’s all very funny (eventually - once you get over the “I am a prat” feeling).

And in my opinion, it’s just the kind of daft thing Metallica would do so it makes seem even more plausible.

Sabotage wrote:

I don’t think that is how Metallica got their name.
The version I heard was that Lars was in a meeting of some kind, and this guy was trying to think of a good name for his fanzine. Someone said Metallica. Lars said “No”. He then used the name for his band. Which isn’t stealing it. He put the other guy off the name, then had it for himself. Smart move I reckon.
I could be wrong though. That’s just what I heard once.

They got it from some music encyclopedia called Metallica-something.