Wall of Mouths

As a drummer myself, I think Neil is the best drummer that Therapy? have had. He’s like a human dynamo, and I think his style is brilliant in terms of the music it’s being played to.

Back on topic though. I think Lars is a good drummer, I like his style of keeping cymbal hits out of time, and his ability to place fills in the right places.

Slayer drumming isn’t hard to be honest with you. It may sound immense, but all it really is is fast drumming, with toms thrown in here and there. Not rocket science. Don’t get me wrong, I dig Dave Lombardo, he’s a brilliant drummer too.

As for their diversification into Load, Reload and St Anger, I think they have made good records out of those, no matter what anyone else says. Firstly and most importantly, a band makes music for itself, they don’t need approval from anyone, apart from themselves.

I first heard snippets of St.Anger on the SKOM documentary, and I went out a bought it. What I heard was great, and I couldn’t understand why people felt it was so crap. Everyone goes on about the snare being too pingy, but to me, it sound perfect to the music it is being hit to.

/End of 2 pence.

Yep, Rush are very cool.

Neil Peart is also an amazing drummer. He’s one of my top 5 definetly.

Tubthumper: the man, the legend. Thanks for yuor post bro I was beginning to think that everybody in the world thought that Lars was a bad drummer. You made my night!
Yes, it’s true Metallica make music for themselves and I live for artists that fuc,mking do that. They are at least honest compared to bullshit manufactured crap like Britney Spears and Taproot. Hey, I think I’ll start a new thread on Taproot!
Keep drumming, and by the way Dave Lombardo I think is not as good as Paul Bostaph! Technically that is. And by the way Neil sucks compared to Graham he was the best drummer therapy ever had.

That’s the thing with drumming though. You CAN make up stuff differently to how you first recorded it.

You CAN change stuff throughout songs.

It doesn’t make you a crap drummer.

I think lars is a better business man than a drummer but whats wrong with that? He got Metallica where they are now so he’s a dude.

As for his drumming i think he’s really inventive on ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls and ‘Don’t tread On Me’ but a bit wooden on St Anger.

Who thinks Graham is better than Neil?! You are wrong with a capital ‘R’ sir!!! Graham’s drumming is crap and ploddy, it sounds like ‘typical’ rock drumming but he was only young so i’ll let him off. Fyfe and Neil especially are awesome!! Really inventive in a Stewart Copeland kind of way but never over the top and that snare sound is awesome!

Check out Last Blast!

Metaliica=Great
Lars=C*nt

fatboy wrote:

I still think Metallica are a good band, but always liked the albums that had the late Cliff Burton on them. If a time machine was ever invented, I’d go back to the time they played St David’s Hall in Cardiff, just to see them with the late bass master.

He ruled and agree that they weren’t the same band after he died.

Yeah, jason was cool but his basslines were completely lame!

I love Metallica even though Lars is a dick.

But as I have no intention at all to marry him, who gives a fuck?

Chances are almost 0 that I will ever meet him… damn’ Roxy I could still cry when I think of it that you met all 4 :(

Am I the only one who can’t hear left from right on a record? I mean I am half deaf but…

Really though, its all a load of subjective bollocks isn’t it? :D

Alan wrote:

Getting back to Metallica, why does James Hetfield say such cringe-inducing, corny drivel when on stage? Who knows :)

“Are you with us, Dublin? Hell yeahhh. Are you with us or against us, Dublin? Ooooooh! Hell yeeeeah!” …etc…

Yes,it is a bit but i bet it got the crowd screaming back at him didn’t it? Which is what its all about, agree? Oh and the music of course! Though i must admit it was really cheesy last year at Download when they didn’t have lars and to make up for a short, poor set James kept saying “Metallica loves you baby!”

er…!

Heysatan wrote:

Am I the only one who can’t hear left from right on a record?

No, there are loads more drummers out there. :p

:D

matthew wrote:

I don’t think Load a Reload were about pleasing other people, if anything they broke down boundaries and tested the metal crowd quite a bit. Metallica took a big risk with those records and I’m still amazed at easy Kirk and James moved over so smoothly into a blues based feel.

I agree that Load and Reload had some great songs on them.

For me, they are Metallica’s “Rock” albums, where the rest of their work has been “Metal”.

I like them, and I maintain that it wasn’t Metallica who significantly changed at that time, it was fashion.

Metal became considered cheesey and even Metallica, and Maiden were thought dead in the water.

Of course, time has shown that these things go around in circles and they are yet again two of the biggest bands in music right now…whatever u think of them personally.

I think if you go back to the Load LPs you’ll see how they are much more Metallica-ish than the eye-liner and (gasp) short hair may have suggested at the time.

Still, Lars is wank and Dave Lombardo and Joey Slipknot blew him away at Download

To compare Lars to these masters in their field (literally at Download…sorry, I am currently getting my coat as we speak…:D) is a joke, in my book. Sorry!

buffalo-boy wrote:

Yeah i agree but the thing I enjoy about some of my less talented favourites like Lars, Nicky from the Manics etc is that they LOVE music and especially the SPIRIT of what rock is supposed to be about. Thats as important i think. Lets face it, old Cairnsy isnt a GREAT guitarist but he LOVES music and cant live without it. Same with me, i have an HND in bass playing but when it comes down to it i just plug in my cheap piece of crap and just play LOUD cos it FEELS GOOD!!
Look at the new’punk’ bands in the charts. They are good musos but they MEAN absolutely nothing at all!

Lets plug in and Rock people!

Difference is Nicky Wire, despite hi sprotestations to the contrary, isn’t a bad bassist. Or to put it another way, what he does works within that context.

Lars, however, overplays and does spoil things.

But yeah, I appreciate that musical talent and just being a goddamned STAR are not the same thing.

For me, Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols is a real guitar hero, but he’ll never get accepted as a musician as much as he should

I’ve said the same a few times about Metallica.

I really dont think it is necessary to hear One, Nothing Else Matters, Fade to Black, Sad But True, Wherever I May Roam, ect every single time they play.

They have a massive back catalogue - They should chuck stuff like Dyers Eve, Blackened, Damage Inc, Bleeding Me, Wasting My Hate, Carpe Diem Baby, Prince Charming, Unnamed Feeling… anything of Garage Inc.