Episode 349 - Johnny Sword 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

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week Johnny Sword returns to the show on a rare off day in Albany, NY on the Morgan Wade "Around the World Tour." Before they chat Clint hits news, giveaways and the e-mail portal covering: - Metallica outselling Taylor Swift in Arlington, TX - boxset giveaways - being a Load and Reload guru - Tom Waits and 72 Seasons - MUYP hangs in St. Louis Johnny and Clint talk about the following: - Johnny's specialty redneck cocktail - Clint's speech at Johnny's wedding - being bad kids in the 90's - Clint's Black Tooth Grin story at Paul's house - Dimebag Darrell and Pantera - Hetield/Hammett as players and writers - 72 Seasons - MUYP listeners give Johnny gifts - the Secret of Life - songwriting - the enduring legacy of Kill Em All - (Kill) Bon Jovi - James Hetfield's lyrics - Slipknot, Ghost and Dope - Fuel and Poison - life as a touring musician - what keeps Metallica going?

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal! You are listening to Metal Up your podcast with your host Clint Wells
0:36.1	All Things Metallica No, please. With your host, Clint Wells.
0:40.5	All Things Metallica.
0:44.2	You reach the end of the line.
0:46.7	Lying.
0:49.7	Okay, here we are.
0:51.9	New episode of Metal Up Your Podcast.
0:53.0	This is episode 349.
0:57.4	Johnny Sword returns to the show. And what is like a turn the page.
1:00.4	We call it the turn the page series, but it's basically like a road series.
1:07.1	And we had a day off in Albany and decided to hang out in the hotel room and talk about a bunch of stuff.
1:11.7	We had a lot of interesting Metallica talk, got his perspective on 72 seasons. We talked a lot about Pantera, Dimeback Darrell. We talked about the enduring legacy of Killem All. And we shot
1:20.1	the shit for about an hour about what it's like being out on the road. We're currently on a fairly
1:23.7	grueling five, six week thing. We're about to go to Europe for a month. And let me give
1:30.2	you guys an idea of what it's like out there. So two or three days ago, we, so we're on a tour.
1:37.1	We're in our bus. We had a gig in Montreal in Canada. The night before we were in Burlington,
1:42.1	Vermont, but we couldn't get our bus into Canada because
1:45.1	we have two people in our touring party, our merch seller and our front of house engineer,
1:49.8	who for various reasons, not DUI related, couldn't get into Canada.
1:54.3	So what does that mean?
1:55.2	That means that, well, it's a festival, they have a backline, which means they have a bunch of gear that we can use.
2:00.5	So that means we rented a car after our show in Burlington, which means they have a bunch of gear that we can use. So that means we rented a car
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