Random Metallica/Megadeth news

[Rock Bodom]

Metallica was my gateway into playing metal, and Ride the Lightning is still one of my all time favorite albums. But then they became my gateway into Megadeth when I learned the guy who got fired from Metallica had his own band, and Megadeth quickly became my favorite.

I know Rust in Peace has become this huge defining moment of Megadeth's history (and no argument on how awesome it is), but honestly the overall 80's era I kinda like best. Hearing Killing is My Business for the first time, as raw as it was, it was just like "wow, this makes Metallica seem tame". I think Chris Poland was a great fit for the band despite the bad blood between them, and I think Peace Sells is overall the masterpiece.

So Far So Good So What is highly underrated too IMO, if you took out Anarchy in the UK (biggest mistake was releasing that as a single) the album is crazy good even without Poland. I wish they played more cuts live from that like Hook in Mouth.

Dave needs to play a Rich Bich or a King V...he looked the most, well, "Dave" with those.

 

[Purpleibby]

Metallica was my gateway into playing metal, and Ride the Lightning is still one of my all time favorite albums. But then they became my gateway into Megadeth when I learned the guy who got fired from Metallica had his own band, and Megadeth quickly became my favorite.

I know Rust in Peace has become this huge defining moment of Megadeth's history (and no argument on how awesome it is), but honestly the overall 80's era I kinda like best. Hearing Killing is My Business for the first time, as raw as it was, it was just like "wow, this makes Metallica seem tame". I think Chris Poland was a great fit for the band despite the bad blood between them, and I think Peace Sells is overall the masterpiece.

So Far So Good So What is highly underrated too IMO, if you took out Anarchy in the USA (biggest mistake was releasing that as a single) the album is crazy good even without Poland. I wish they played more cuts live from that like Hook in Mouth.

Dave needs to play a Rich Bich or a King V...he looked the most, well, "Dave" with those.

YES, I very much love So Far So Good So What, I agree highly underrated. Love everything about it(except Anarchy in the UK)...the spacey mix/production, the feel of the album, they still sounded evil and I like the melodics...the guitar work from Jeff Young I very much liked. Sounded huge.

Fucking Mean!


Forever awesome:

 

[thegame]

Mustaine deserves to be heavily critized for a lot of things...but not for the 2004 partial re-recordings when he re-did some selected vocal, guitar and bass tracks on all the 80's albums (and 1990's RIP). He had to out of necessesity because the original master tapes deteriorated and some tracks were lost forever. The albums couldn't be re-released with missing tracks, so the next best thing was to re-do (re-record) what was lost.

 

[311boogieman]

Marty on Metallica's early days:

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/new...lica_shares_feelings_on_band_selling_out.html
"The album opens with 'Fight Fire With Fire,' there's nothing heavier at the time, so you got to allow them a ballad somewhere in there. "It was by far the heaviest, it was Elektra [Records], it was by far the heaviest thing Elektra had ever considered releasing, so it was a major, major cool thing.

 

[Nigel]

I've been listening to "Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?"a lot lately, what a classic album. So many killer riffs on there.

Wake up dead is the absolute definition of thrash riffing imho.

 

[Purpleibby]

SO COOL, great interview with Randy Burns on recording Peace Sells

 

[311boogieman]

I enjoyed this article with Dave Ellefson as well. Good stuff.

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/new...hes_treated_by_people_at_jackson_guitars.html

"Well, I’m lucky with Jackson because they're owned by Fender and the headquarters is 10 minutes from my house here in Scottsdale. They bought the brand back in - I don't know, 2002 or so, so that's great. "The R&D is up here, they've got a little custom shop... So we R&D, we do all the design work, everything here. "First, we sort of draw graphics computer-generated, and then they usually if it's a USA Custom Shop, that's over in Corona, CA, out by San Bernardino, so they'll cut down a tree and make a bass out of it. "And then they usually make two samples and they'll send the samples over for me to approve - yay/nay - we've gotten pretty good at nailing them right out of the gate. "Like this one here for instance, which is the new 'Rust in Peace,' 30th anniversary, which is an exact replica of the one that I made to go on tour to play 'Hangar 18,' ironically, on the 'Rust in Peace' tour... "And with the amp stuff, amps are a little harder to do custom things with because there's a lot of engineering. With Hartke - I didn't do this with Peavey - but with Hartke, they actually had some combo amps. "They had a model that had run its course, so it was a good little amp, and they said, 'Hey, can we throw your name on this? We want to sell off the rest of them, and we figure if we put your name on it...' "And I said yeah. Look, first of all, the brand's great; I play the amps, and rockstars played the big eight-tens. They don't make any money for the companies, all bass-amp companies make all their money in combos. "Because when you go to Guitar Center if you're playing in a cabaret, or a church band, or a Saturday night country band, or whatever - like the little combo amps keep the lights on. "So that's the only time I’ve ever done kind of a signature thing. I was already there, I'm well-known, so they knew that if they put my name on it they could have a marketing strategy around it. "Doing a famous guy with a product is all about one thing - marketing to help sell the stuff to someone like you who says, 'Hey, I play what David plays, pay attention to what he plays.' "The same way as with KISS - on the back of KISS' 'Alive' said, 'KISS use Gibson guitars and Pearl drums because they want the best.' "And I'm like, 'Well, I want to play like KISS!' That's why I begged my mom to buy me a Gibson only to find out it didn't sound at all like KISS' 'Alive' but that's because Gene Simmons wasn't playing it.

 

[Nigel]

Metallica tab books was a rite of passage for me.

Nailing the final solo of “Fade to Black”
through a Digitech GSP 21 Legend was the day I realized “I have it too, I can be pro.” 2 years playing, like 15 years old. God that was a glorious feeling.

I think we all here have had that day. Kirk was big brother for my initiation into being a solist. Played my first gig on Beale St. to like 400 kids shortly thereafter.

 

[311boogieman]

SO COOL, great interview with Randy Burns on recording Peace Sells

Love it!

 

[Juggernaut]

A new sig with a different company at this stage in his life is pretty hilarious. Especially a company he’s not even known for playing, during the entirety of Megadeth. One last money deal I guess before Mega is no more. I can see it being Mega-expensive and the customers being the folks who treat against Deth. Lol

At one point, he was never known to play Jackson, ESP or Dean either....

 

[legend71]

As I have gotten older I grew to like Megadeth more - even more as Metallica sold out with the Black album and became more of a rock band and less of a thrash band. Their earlier run was iconic and I love those records. I think Megadeth were better players as well. Vocally I think Metallica were better though

 

[311boogieman]

Metallica gets a lot of crap for the Black album but I think it was still a good album and also helped usher in modern metal.

Looking forward to checking these out. Just came in the mail.

 

[Jon BCN]

As I have gotten older I grew to like Megadeth more - even more as Metallica sold out with the Black album and became more of a rock band and less of a thrash band. Their earlier run was iconic and I love those records. I think Megadeth were better players as well. Vocally I think Metallica were better though

If Metallica sold out with the Black Album, what did Megadeth with Cryptic Writings?

 

[Exo-metal]

Experiment?

 

[Jon BCN]

So when they did three consecutive records with more radio friendly music, it was experimentation.

Nice to know.

 

[311boogieman]

Interesting stories from Hetfield's guitar tech Chad Zaemisch

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/new...ow_talks_working_on_bands_antarctica_gig.html

We have two sets of backline that are fairly identical and a third smaller system we keep in The States. The sheer amount of band equipment we no longer need to ship [ DUE TO THE FRACTAL AXEFX ] is very helpful, not to mention we can now get the exact same sounds between all the rigs, which makes this practical and a financially sound decision. In the past, we have had two systems in Europe, and we leapfrogged between them flying only personnel items overnight from one country to the next.

This is a good lead-in from the last question. Our last outdoor stage walker was 180 feet wide and fairly deep with the Snake Pit. Different wireless antennas and their placement had to be experimented with in order to cover that much stage. We had very large video walls that we stood behind which produce a lot of noise for the RF systems, not to mention we often couldn't see where band members were between songs for guitar changes until we popped up out in front of them. Having no roof to protect from the rain and weather wasn't helpful either.

Running cable around a stage that large is a feat in itself. This challenge caused me to build my own wireless MIDI system. It works far better than anything else I could buy so I'm making them available to other techs/bands. That's been a fun endeavor that has expanded to wireless expression pedals and a wireless controller for the Dunlop DCR rack wah that I'm about to release.

 

[BrandonTMX]

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