Episode 341 - M72 Tour Breakdown

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

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

This week Clint is joined by friend and patron of the show, Lee Gomila, to break down and discuss the Zane Lowe M72 Metallica interview. Lee is a world-traveled and highly respected tour manager based in Nashville and currently on the road with critically acclaimed hit-maker, Mitchell Tenpenny. On this episode, Clint and Lee bring their years of touring experience to the table as they discuss the technical facets of putting together and executing a stadium tour at this level. They also discuss: - what makes Blackened whiskey so good - becoming friends on a stadium gig - Lee, St. Anger and Clint's rule of thirteen - a day in the life of a tour manager - the philosophy behind the M72 stadium tour - the evolution of the snakepit - Metallica aging gracefully - the vitality of the new Metallica album - what makes Lars so special - the evolution of Jaymze to Papa Het - making a stadium tour work financially - shows we plan on attending - the future of Metallica

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal! Oh, not bird.
0:25.6	Hey, this is Chad Z, Rode for Metallica, and you're listening to Metal Up Your
0:31.2	Podcast.
0:31.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, All right, welcome to the middle of your podcast. I'm your host, Clint Wells. I have a very special guest.
1:10.6	Came all the way to my studio.
1:12.1	My new studio, you were the first guest that I've ever had in my studio.
1:15.7	My friend Lee Gamilla, welcome to the show Lee.
1:17.5	I'm honored.
1:18.1	Thank you, Clint.
1:19.0	You have a great, great room here.
1:20.6	It's a great man cave.
1:21.7	You got the guitarist, the vinyl, everything. It's aspirational. My wife gets tired of me talking about Metallica. I can just come up here and live up here. Yeah, right. Perfect. You came wearing the Ride the Lightning shirt. Yeah,
1:31.7	felt good. Love it. You came bearing gifts of the, uh, some blackened whiskey. Yes.
1:37.3	Which is never harmful. Always good. No, always good. It's a bottle. I'd gotten the West Henderson collaboration bottle on a while ago,
1:45.3	hadn't opened it, and this felt like a perfect occasion to do so. Now, what's funny is when we were
1:50.0	in my kitchen, you got here and you were explaining the generous bottle that you brought,
1:54.1	is I thought you were saying the Wes Anderson. Yeah, no, totally different thing. And I kept thinking,
1:58.4	wow, the quirky weird director guy collaborated with blackened whiskey.
2:03.6	Yeah, that's a curveball.
2:05.6	So, Lee and I looked up, as you all know out there, which, by the way, check out our
2:08.5	episode with Rob Dietrich, the master distiller, who heads up black and whiskey after Dave
2:12.0	Pickerel passed away.
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