Episode 172 - Michael Alago Returns!

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Michael Alago is an author, photographer and former A&R executive for Elektra records. He is mostly known for hanging out with Metallica to their first major label record deal in 1984. In addition to working with Metallica, Alago has worked closely with Nina Simone, White Zombie, The Dead Boys, The Misfits, Cyndi Lauper, and John Lydon. In this episode we catch up with Michael who is promoting his new book, "I Am Michael Alago: Breathing Music. Signing Metallica. Beating Death." We talk about his early days as a music lover in Brooklyn, his love for art, the profession of A&R, signing Metallica, meeting Bruce Springsteen, Meatloaf, Tim Curry and more. You can still catch Alago's documentary, "Who the F*ck Is That Guy? The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago" on Netflix. We also play our collaborative Quarantine Cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish you Were Here."

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal!
0:04.0	Oh, nah not bird!
0:23.4	Hey, this is Michael O'Lago from Who the F is That Guy documentary, and you're listening to Metal Up Your Podcast.
0:31.3	I'm going to Metal Up Your Podcast. Welcome to the
0:51.2	Welcome to the podcast. I'm Ethan Luck.
0:56.5	And I'm Clint Wells.
0:57.7	This is episode 172. And guess what, everybody? Michael Alago has returned.
1:03.2	So good to talk to Michael again. He's promoting a new book, a memoir called I am Michael
1:08.1	Alago, breeding music, signing Metallica, beating death.
1:12.1	Now, some of our astute listeners will remember that early on, really our first real guest about episode 40,
1:18.2	it's in the early 40s, which we're on 172 now. It's crazy. Michael came on to talk about his
1:22.9	documentary, which is still on Netflix. Who the fuck is that guy, the fabulous journey of Michael
1:26.9	Alago? If you don't know,
1:29.2	which first of all,
1:30.1	we're an All Metallica podcast.
1:31.2	Thanks for coming.
1:31.8	We don't know where you've come from
1:33.0	or why you haven't heard us before now,
1:35.0	but we're glad you're here.
1:35.9	We're an All Metallica podcast.
1:37.1	As I just said, that, buses, and hotels.
1:48.4	And we make time once a week to talk about our favorite metal band, The Mighty Metallica.
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