Megadeth’s cover of Ride the Lightning leaked

[Jakem]

Well,
https://metaladdicts.com/megadeths-...ide-the-lightning-leaks-ahead-of-final-album/

 

[cardinal]

Shows how great Hetfield's voice is for those songs I guess.

 

[Jakem]

Shows how great Hetfield's voice is for those songs I guess.

Metallica’s original crushes.

 

[101B /^/]

Coming from a staunch Mustaine fan of many years - I don’t get it, at all.

C’mon Dave, gimme a break. .

 

[ners]

Broken link, guess they took it down?

 

[cardinal]

Guitars sounded good. Seemed to follow Kirk's solo. The vocals were just jarring to me. Mustaine was just being Mustaine, which obviously is fine but was strange to listen to for this song.

 

[BABMusic]

I like how Dave just takes back his songs.

 

[Speeddemon]

C’mon Dave, gimme a break. .

I see what you did there!

 

[311boogieman]

I like how Dave just takes back his songs.

Broken link, guess they took it down?

Didn't he do this some weeks back. I remember seeing a thread on here about that. Assuming it was the same thing? Talking about how he wrote all these old classic Metallica songs?

Guitars sounded good. Seemed to follow Kirk's solo. The vocals were just jarring to me. Mustaine was just being Mustaine, which obviously is fine but was strange to listen to for this song.

Yep. Dave's voice is great for Megadeth, but not much more imo. And I love Dave and Megadeth.

 

[BABMusic]

Dave definitely at least partially wrote many of the early Metallica songs. They did give him writing credit on some of the songs. Ride the Lightning (the song) was one of these examples. How much of it he wrote, I have no idea.

 

[311boogieman]

Dave definitely at least partially wrote many of the early Metallica songs. They did give him writing credit on some of the songs. Ride the Lightning (the song) was one of these examples. How much of it he wrote, I have no idea.

Yep. I should have emphasized 'all'. He did not write all of them.

 

[angelspade]

The further Metallica got away from Dave's influence musically, the better off they were. Dave has no fingerprints (regardless of what he claims) on their strongest material...almost all of RTL, along MOP, AJFA and the Black were all Burton, Hetfield and Ulrich.

 

[skoora]

I bet Dave soothed his bitterness with the publishing royalties when The Black Album got a few million people buying the back catalog.

 

[romanianreaper]

I like Dave, and Megadeth, and they have never hid the fact that he wrote a lot of those songs. I'm sure he did a bunch of the arrangement and riffs, etc.

I just don't understand why he has to be a dick 24/7 and seems so miserable. He has a winery and horses and is in one of the biggest bands in metal ever. I watched the Nick Menza documentary and seems like he was just a pain in the ass.

 

[thiscalltoarms]

I like Dave, and Megadeth, and they have never hid the fact that he wrote a lot of those songs. I'm sure he did a bunch of the arrangement and riffs, etc.

I just don't understand why he has to be a dick 24/7 and seems so miserable. He has a winery and horses and is in one of the biggest bands in metal ever. I watched the Nick Menza documentary and seems like he was just a pain in the ass.

This is pretty close to my take as well. Returning to Ride The Lightning as a cover that isn’t a radical departure genre wise or technically feels so petty. It’s been over 40 years and even with all of his success, he’s still just the jilted lover that never got over it. What a bummer, I’d have loved a high quality reimagining of RTL.

 

[thegame]

The further Metallica got away from Dave's influence musically, the better off they were. Dave has no fingerprints (regardless of what he claims) on their strongest material...almost all of RTL, along MOP, AJFA and the Black were all Burton, Hetfield and Ulrich.

That bus you’re throwing Kirk under, simply by omission, was it the same one Mustaine took back home in ‘83?

 

[angelspade]

That bus you’re throwing Kirk under, simply by omission, was it the same one Mustaine took back home in ‘83?

Haaaa...hilarious. your absolutely...Kirk wrote some of their biggest riffs. I stand corrected.

 

[BABMusic]

Dave does seem a bit stuck in the past, and I'm not sure what it will take to convince him that he shouldn't waste his energy on that. He's had his own thing going for decades. I guess it proves that you can be super successful yet still let something like this bother you. And also, RTL the song, is my least favorite on that album.

 

[thiscalltoarms]

Dave does seem a bit stuck in the past, and I'm not sure what it will take to convince him that he shouldn't waste his energy on that. He's had his own thing going for decades. I guess it proves that you can be super successful yet still let something like this bother you. And also, RTL the song, is my least favorite on that album.

I agree with you about RTL the song. But Dave also co wrote Call- and the S&M version of Call is one of my absolute favs. Call into Master with that orchestra… might be my favorite 20 mins of rock ever.

 

[BABMusic]

I agree with you about RTL the song. But Dave also co wrote Call- and the S&M version of Call is one of my absolute favs. Call into Master with that orchestra… might be my favorite 20 mins of rock ever.

That is my favorite instrumental they ever recorded. It wouldn't surprise me if Dave wrote a lot of it.