Metallica sold out the audience that originally made them famous.
the album "Master of Puppets" went gold with no radio play, on the
strength of word of mouth, vicious live shows and quality song writing.
they swore they'd never do a video
''..and Justice For All" goes multi platinum, they headline a world tour,
with little air play and one video.. the core audience of metalheads has
grown and is rabidly supporting the band
"Metallica" goes platinum, signifcant airplay, more commercial sound,
weakest album to date, still good, but weak after the experimental
"Justice" album. the tide is turning
"Load" comes out, the core audience is dissapointed as Metallica has
abandoned the raw thrash/speed metal that had gotten them this far, James
hetfield is quoted in an interview with MTV: "We're not a metal band,
metal is for guys that hang out in 7-11 parking lots" With this quote
James and metallica dimiss the audience that made the band what they were
.. Signifcant radio play with three singles from the album.
"re-load" the new mainstrream audience demands a new album, so Metallica
issues ''re-load" which is all the tracks that didn't make "Load" sales
are strong, album is weak.
The great download debate begins. Metallica in their early days encouraged
the recording of their live shows, tape trading is one of the reasons that
puppets and justice did as well as they did. Suddenly with dollar signs in
their eyes, they turn a 180 and threaten anyone who downloads a Metallica
song with legal action, they have also place specific clauses in their
concert rider that under no circumstances would nay recording devices be
aloud. Lars Ulrich becomes the band spokesman, and appears to be in
charge. He's all about making money and makes no bones about it.
The recording sessions for "St. Anger" are filmed and released as "Some
Kind of Monster", James is in rehab, and we realize exactly how much of a
tyrannical prick Lars is, as he almost fires james several times, as James
is "letting his family and rehab get in the way fo recording"
Metallica releases "St. Anger", the biggest piece of shit ever recorded
(imo). Recorded with primitive technology, St Anger sounds horrible and is
the single weakest songwriting effort , and recorded performance by
Metallica. The band that used to pride itself on being underground and
just plain good songwriters have come full circle, they are now totally
corporate.
This in my mind is selling out. They could have continued to put out
quality albums of good heavy metal and lived very well off of the
proceeds, and have been legendary. Instead they've made their millions off
of commericalization and letting the corporation dictate the path that hey
take, they're rapidly falling into obscurity.
Yes this is very opinionated, because I was once part of that core
audience, I'd seen Metallica on club tours, when they were on the
Megaforce lable, in the "Ride the Lightning era". i was part of the reason
that Master of Puppets went gold. They sold all of their coref ans down
the river.
Scott A. Stewart
REAC/PASS-IT
(202)-475-8875
"Crow T Robot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
01/26/2007 08:48 AM
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Not attacking you here Scott, but I've often wondered what the deal is
with
the term "sellout"?
I mean, if you get offered a job for 5X your current pay, are you going to
refuse it, especially if you're getting paid to do something that you
love?
Who can blame guys for not refusing millions of dollars to play music?
Sellout always sounds like a resentment statement more than an insult to
me.
But maybe you guys can enlighten me.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:39 AM
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> How 'bout...
>
> Metallica = sellouts
>
> Scott A. Stewart
> REAC/PASS-IT
> (202)-475-8875
>
>
>
>
> "Charlie Griefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 01/25/2007 07:32 PM
> Please respond to cf-community
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>
> To: CF-Community <[email protected]>
> cc: (bcc: Scott A. Stewart/REAC/HHQ/HUD)
> Subject: metallica lullabyes
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>
> http://www.babyrockrecords.com/web/page.asp?pgs=products
>
> .....i have...no words.
>
> --
> Charlie Griefer
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> "...All the world shall be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies,
> and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must
catch
> you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning.
> Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."
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