#31
White Psycho wrote:
allroy wrote:
but I understand that fans of Load and Reload and maybe even fans of the old stuff have their problems with it.
There are fans of Load? Its the most appropriately named album ever!
Posted on Tue, 12 August 2003 at 21:18
#32
Teethgrinder’s post on Tue, 12 August 2003 at 21:24 was deleted by a moderator
#33
dano wrote:
White Psycho wrote:
There are fans of Load? Its the most appropriately named album ever!
Wahey! Haven’t heard that in a couple of years! I didn’t mind some of the songs, if you combine Load and Load 2 together, you do get quite a decent album!
Posted on Tue, 12 August 2003 at 22:42
#34
Michael wrote:
RobbyVDH wrote:
I don’t think you ever met James Hetfield in person, if you did you would see that he could easily kick your ass :D
Yeah, I think he could easily break most of us with two hands tied on his back!
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 06:38
#35
dano wrote:
You lot keep him busy fighting, I’ll run in and nick off with his guitars!
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 07:25
#36
White Psycho wrote:
dano wrote:
You lot keep him busy fighting, I’ll run in and nick off with his guitars!
Then Lars will slap you with a lawsuit
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 11:09
#37
smurftastic wrote:
just to add my tuppence worth. I was really looking forward to St Anger after having had the pleasure of hearing some of the tracks live at the Download festival.
But the album is SO crap I haven’t yet managed to play it all the way to the end. I tried so hard to like it but the simple truth is, it sucks big time. It’s boring, repetitive, got bugger all emotion in it, the lyrics are crap, the drums sound like bean cans. The production makes it sound like a band in a bloody big posh studio trying to recreate that small band in a garage feel. Well, if they wanted that, they should have recorded it in a bloody garage! Instead it just makes them sound right up themselves - “look at us we can make any old crap and you suckers will like it just coz it’s got our name on it”.
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 12:35
#38
tk4two1 (Alan Benedict) wrote:
Title: This is complete BS, Metallica is over…
MONTREAL Metallica are taking legal action against independant Canadian rock band Unfaith over what they feel is unsanctioned usage of two chords the band has been using since 1982 : E and F.
“People are going to get on our case again for this, but try to see it from our point of view just once,” stated Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. “We’re not saying we own those two chords, individually - that would be ridiculous. We’re just saying that in that specific order, people have grown to associate E, F with our music.”
Metallica filed a trademark infringement suit against the indie group at the US district court for central California on Monday. According to the drummer, the continued use of the two chords causes “confusion, deception and mistake in the minds of the public”.
Metallica’s lawyer, Jill Pietrini, told us that the band decided to take legal action only after first sending a letter of complaint to the Canadian band’s singer/songwriter, Erik Ashley.
“We sent a demand letter and haven’t reached a resolution, so we had to sue,” she said. “They continue to shamelessly feature the two chords on their website song samples and we just can’t have that.”
Ashley, in the meantime, is still shocked by the entire story, and hasn’t yet decided how the band will respond.
“I thought it was a prank at first,” he told us. “Now I’m not sure what to think.”
Ulrich states that he’s not trying to prevent Unfaith from using the two chords, only that he feels Metallica should be credited for them whenever used, and is calling for 50% of all revenue generated from any song using them.
“It’s nothing personal against them,” he added. “We intend to enforce our rights with any band intending to use Metallica-branded chords in the future.”
This marks the first time anything of this kind has ever been tried in court, and it will be interesting to see how things develop.
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 17:41
#39
prisonbreaker wrote:
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 17:54
#40
dano wrote:
Deja Vu!
Smurf, I’m glad you mentioned the drums, I thought I was the only person who thought they sounded shit until I read your post!
I know what you mean about bands spending loads of money in order to sound “raw”. I remember Def Leopard doing something similar a while back!
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 18:36
#41
Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:
dano wrote:
Smurf, I’m glad you mentioned the drums, I thought I was the only person who thought they sounded shit until I read your post!
So you’re not paying attention to my posts then, dano? :D
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 19:50
#42
dano wrote:
Sorry, do I know you?!
Yes I was paying attention to your posts, which is why I mentioned about the drums on St Anger;), but the thing is I don’t want to disrupt the natural harmony of the boards and stay on topic! It would just feel wrong!
( Tongue firmly in cheek! )
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 21:27
#43
dano wrote:
And another thing..I think I misread your last comment!
Doh!
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 21:29
#44
Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:
Posted on Wed, 13 August 2003 at 21:44
#45
dano wrote:
See? Even when I read your posts I don’t!
Posted on Thu, 14 August 2003 at 07:36
#46
dano wrote:
OOPS! I appear to have killed this topic! Sorry Rene!
Just to recap then..ST Anger, missing out the HI!
Posted on Fri, 15 August 2003 at 00:55
#47
smurftastic wrote:
dano wrote:
I know what you mean about bands spending loads of money in order to sound “raw”. I remember Def Leopard doing something similar a while back!
Oh god all the “big names” seem to try it at some point in their career. Any album where the band tries to make it sound “raw” ends up sounding so artificial. They try too hard.
Posted on Fri, 15 August 2003 at 12:11
#48
dano wrote:
I think that the most stupid aspect of all is that a lot of these bands have already done the raw sound when they first started off, so surely there must be some point where they stop to think that all they have to do is book themselves into some cheapie little recording studio? I guess this is what we mean when we talk about forgetting their roots…
Posted on Fri, 15 August 2003 at 12:25
