[QUOTE=Virus278;13492008]oh ok, cool. So they've never been on a hiatus then?[/QUOTE]

Nah, although you could've called it a Hiatus when James left for a brief period to go to rehab before St Anger.

I have the KH2 and it is phat.

long live metallica!

btw, I just joined this site because the other Music site I was on sucked donkey ***. later

[QUOTE=MrSigma;13493098]when they toured for load and reload they were still a good band. even if they did stop metal for 2 albums, so what? they just dug a huge hole for themselfs by lars sueing napster and then them trying to win their fans back with st anger which turned out completely bad. (though it did get them in the spotlight agian)[/QUOTE]

I don't know where this came from, but okay :thumb:

[QUOTE=Happy;13493807]Nah, although you could've called it a Hiatus when James left for a brief period to go to rehab before St Anger.[/QUOTE]

He had a drug problem?

[QUOTE=Virus278;13494218]He had a drug problem?[/QUOTE]
Among other things. Like alcohol abuse, being the most important.

[QUOTE=MrSigma;13485421]james hetfield = a$$hole

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG29qdDAzYk[/url][/QUOTE]

I dont know I thought that was pretty funny when I first saw it in my bootleg. Who cares anyway?

[QUOTE=Virus278;13493709]That reminds me, why do a lot of people accuse metallica of selling out because they cut their hair? I mean maybe they just felt like getting a hair cut after 20 years or something lol. (I know that that's not the only reason people accuse them of selling out)[/QUOTE]

Because people are afraid of change.

[QUOTE=Virus278;13494218]He had a drug problem?[/QUOTE]
Mor alcohol. He was always against drug use in the band I believe.

wether or not he took drugs, I don't know.

[QUOTE=Happy;13495348]Mor alcohol. He was always against drug use in the band I believe.

wether or not he took drugs, I don't know.[/QUOTE]

yea, i'm pretty sure metallica is pretty clean overall (after kicking out Mustaine), besides the slight alcoholism

Lars and Cliff were both pot heads. I believe until Cliff's death.

When Cliff Burton died he was replaced by Jason Newsted right? Also, Newsted isn't in the band anymore right?

[QUOTE=Virus278;13499435]When Cliff Burton died he was replaced by Jason Newsted right? Also, Newsted isn't in the band anymore right?[/QUOTE]

Yeah Newsted quit sometime ago before St Anger was released. They now have ex Ozzy bassist Rob Trujillo (sp?) who looks somewhat like a monkey when hes playing.

My mum said I looked like Rob before I shaved off my beard. :lol:
I have the same features.

[QUOTE=Chu;13497378]Lars and Cliff were both pot heads. I believe until Cliff's death.[/QUOTE]

I think they both did Cocaine too.

[QUOTE]My mum said I looked like Rob before I shaved off my beard.
I have the same features.[/QUOTE]
:eek:
Picsplz

Trujillo plays more like a spider than monkey

lol, how is that?

He does some trippy walk on stage where he sort of just walks like a caveman :p

I think it's called a crab walk or something?

If you check YouTube you might be able to find some videos..

I'm getting more excited about a new album (In particular [b]with[/b] Rob!), been listening to Self-titled lately. I'm hooked on My Friend of Misery, the vocals, the bass, the drums, the guitar.. Holy **** perfection.

[QUOTE=Chu;13502698]He does some trippy walk on stage where he sort of just walks like a caveman :p

I think it's called a crab walk or something?

If you check YouTube you might be able to find some videos..

I'm getting more excited about a new album (In particular [b]with[/b] Rob!), been listening to Self-titled lately. I'm hooked on My Friend of Misery, the vocals, the bass, the drums, the guitar.. Holy **** perfection.[/QUOTE]

I learned the bass intro to that song not long ago. Very cool indeed.:chug:

[QUOTE=Virus278;13502530]lol, how is that?[/QUOTE]

He plays bass whilst crouching almost.

I dunno how he manages, after a minute of that stuff my legs kill.

[quote=Chu;13502698]He does some trippy walk on stage where he sort of just walks like a caveman :p

I think it's called a crab walk or something?

If you check YouTube you might be able to find some videos..

I'm getting more excited about a new album (In particular [B]with[/B] Rob!), been listening to Self-titled lately. I'm hooked on My Friend of Misery, the vocals, the bass, the drums, the guitar.. Holy **** perfection.[/quote]

My mum notices he walks like a monkey. She says he looks a little bit like one too. :smash:

I love that song too, one of my favs from that album along with The God That Failed.

[QUOTE=lightningmetal666;13502886]I learned the bass intro to that song not long ago. Very cool indeed.:chug:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I've got two basses at my place at the moment (Both belonging to mates :p), my brother is playing bass these days too, which is cool (His snare is still broken :smash: ), for some reason he's adapted to bass faster then I have, I dunno, his fingers or something, but he's been playing the intro to My Friend of Misery, he gets it so good, I could kill him with envy :(

That bass intro isn't hard...:confused:

I dunno, tbh I haven't looked at it, I'm too busy playing Battery :p

Actually, I have a gp4 file called 'The Art of Cliff Burton', as the title suggests it's just ****en pro Burton lines, even has the solo for Creeping Death, on bass! I'm nowhere near playing that though.

It's easy enough for me to be able to play it and I'm a guitarist. I thought you were too? Or do you just play bass when there's one around?

And did you check out the backing tracks? There's drums and bass and they sound pretty good. Obviously noone from the drum forum are good enough to play them so no recordings from them.

I'm a guitarist, but I have weakness in my playing. I can do triplets and multiple string alt. pick runs fairly well, but most other things I seem to struggle with, the bass is for the left hand fingers (I figure if I can legato half as good on bass I'll be double as good on guitar, but haven't actually proven that theory yet :upset: ), and just things like right hand finger picking I find is easier on bass.

I'm not very good at chords either, not that a bass will help with that...

Well I noticed learning practically every Metallica song boosted my abilities when I'd been playing a year and a half so give that a shot lol

[QUOTE=Hate Crew Deathroll;13503596]Well I noticed learning practically every Metallica song boosted my abilities when I'd been playing a year and a half so give that a shot lol[/QUOTE]

Really? U mean just the intros or the whole songs? If it really does boost your abilities like u say it does i'll learn some Metallica too i guess.

[quote=Virus278]Really? U mean just the intros or the whole songs? If it really does boost your abilities like u say it does i'll learn some Metallica too i guess.[/quote]

Every single note.

I have all the tab books and I was a Metallica [B]FREAK[/B] back then. I also had all the time in the world and a huge desire to play guitar for as long as possible and I did just that by learning all their songs, covers included.

Some songs it was note for note, others I just learnt the basic framework and sight read them from the book when I played along with the cd's.

Obviously, I couldn't play it as well as them or anything but I still actually knew [B]how[/B] to play each part, even if it was a little bit sloppy.

And yeah, it really did boost my ability a whole lot. I went from playing drop D stuff like Papa Roch mostly. Also Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock to playing Metallica stuff. By the time I'd been playing 2 years, Satriani stuff was kinda easy for me which is obviously a good thing. Then I moved onto Steve Vai, then Malmsteen, then Paul Gilbert blah blah blah.

[QUOTE=Hate Crew Deathroll;13503950]

Obviously, I couldn't play it as well as them or anything but I still actually knew [B]how[/B] to play each part, even if it was a little bit sloppy.

I went from playing drop D stuff like Papa Roch mostly. Also Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock to playing Metallica stuff. By the time I'd been playing 2 years, Satriani stuff was kinda easy for me which is obviously a good thing. Then I moved onto Steve Vai, then Malmsteen, then Paul Gilbert blah blah blah.[/QUOTE]


:lol: you are jokeing about compareing yourself to those guitarists, right?



[QUOTE=Chu;13502698]He does some trippy walk on stage where he sort of just walks like a caveman :p

I think it's called a crab walk or something?

If you check YouTube you might be able to find some videos..

I'm getting more excited about a new album (In particular [b]with[/b] Rob!), been listening to Self-titled lately. I'm hooked on My Friend of Misery, the vocals, the bass, the drums, the guitar.. Holy **** perfection.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlW0gGsSPsU[/url]

rob + bass solo (he turns into a monkey)

How is he comparing himself?

[quote=MrSigma]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlW0gGsSPsU[/quote]That's a wicked intro.