Well, there you go. Ask for an answer, and you'll get one. Well said.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:19 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: metallica lullabyes > > Metallica sold out the audience that originally made them famous.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 > Please respond to cf-community > > > To: CF-Community <[email protected]> > cc: (bcc: Scott A. Stewart/REAC/HHQ/HUD) > Subject: RE: metallica lullabyes > > > 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 > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: metallica lullabyes > > > > 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 > > > > > > To: CF-Community <[email protected]> > > cc: (bcc: Scott A. Stewart/REAC/HHQ/HUD) > > Subject: metallica lullabyes > > > > > > http://www.babyrockrecords.com/web/page.asp?pgs=products > > > > .....i have...no words. > > > > -- > > Charlie Griefer > > > > ================================================ > > "...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." > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225800 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
