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METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Episode 227 - Interview with Mike Gillies (Pt. 2)

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

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

4.9787 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We're back with part two of our interview with Mike Gillies. Mike is a producer, engineer and digital editor who worked with Metallica for twenty two years. He recorded eight albums with the band and spear-headed the multi-track live recordings and the tuning room from 2004 - 2018. Here are the topics discussed: - the Presidio Sessions - using bob Rock’s gear - Bob Rock’s feelings about St. Anger - Bob Rock on bass - leftover Presidio material - engineering St. Anger - recording James’ vocals - working with Phil Towle - the Some Kind of Monster remix - autotune - studio version of No Leaf Clover - Load/Reload leftovers - live Metallica recording - the tuning room - mixing live Metallica - live amps vs. fractals - Vulturus and Death Is Not The End - recording Death Magnetic - Bob Rock and Rick Rubin - tuning back up to E standard - Greg Fidelman - Beyond Magnetic - Live From the Basement - James going solo - brick walling on Death Magnetic - recording Kirk Hammett’s solos - working with DJ Ashba

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0:00.0

Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal.

0:23.2

This is Ray Burton. This is Ray Burton

0:24.8

and you're listening to Metal Up Your Podcast

0:28.3

You're listening to Metal Up Your Podcast The Welcome to Nelp your podcast. I'm Ethan Luck.

1:03.9

And I'm Clint Wells.

1:04.8

This is episode 227. And Clint, my friend, it's about time we listen to part two of Mike Gillies interview.

1:11.7

I know everyone's very excited to hear part two from Mike. It's part of our initial

1:16.4

conversation. We did a part one a couple of weeks ago. And this is going to cover, I mean,

1:21.0

we kind of left off with I Disappear, St. Eric, getting into the St. Anger era with Mike.

1:26.9

And so we're going to talk about all that all the way through hardwired. And it's as interesting as the first part. I mean, we talk about all the stuff that you can imagine. It's interesting to talk to when you have an engineer to talk about St. Anger, a lot of the Bob Rock stuff, the Presidio. We talk about Phil Tal, of course. We talk about, you know, him doing

1:47.6

the live Metallica, the tuning room. We get into Death Magnetic with Voltruist. Death is not the end.

1:53.0

Rick Rubin, Greg Fiddleman, you know, live from the basement, the brick walling on Death Magnetic,

1:59.5

comping Kirk Hammett solos.

2:01.4

So much stuff.

2:02.4

Just so much stuff.

2:03.6

And once again, thanks to the Sweetie Pie that is Met Mixer, Mike Gillis, for coming on the show.

2:08.9

And we have some really fun stuff planned for the future with Mike.

2:12.9

So we're going to get into that soon.

2:14.9

Let's do a little bit of housekeeping.

2:16.2

Let's do it.

2:16.8

We just did a Patreon Zoom hang.

2:18.4

It was a good time. So let's just start off with that. We had a great time. We do this every

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