Episode 41 - Interview With Michael Alago

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

🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

We get on the phone with our new friend Michael Alago to discuss his incredible career in the music industry, from booking at the Ritz, to A&R at Elektra, his photography but most importantly, his life long love of music. Michael worked with such artists as White Zombie, Cyndi Lauper, Nina Simone, Traci Chapman and of course, METALLICA! He signed Metallica to Elektra in 1984 and worked with them until just before The Black Album was recorded. We hope you enjoy our talk with Michael and please check out his new documentary, 'Who The F**k Is That Guy? The Fabulous Journey Of Michael Alago.'

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0:00.0	What really gets my dick hard is...
0:07.0	Welcome to Metup Your Podcast. I'm Ethan Luck. So fucking what.
0:22.5	Welcome to Metal Up Your Podcast. I'm Ethan Luck.
0:24.8	And I'm Clint Wells.
0:26.0	And this is a very exciting episode number 41.
0:29.0	We hope you enjoyed our part one and part two of James Hatfield.
0:32.2	But this week, we have our first Metallica connected guest, the fabulous Michael O'Lago.
0:39.6	Yeah, we got hooked up with Michael through one of the listeners of the show, and he's got a new
0:43.7	film out. If you guys don't know real briefly before we get into the episode, Michael was a
0:48.8	record executive at Elektra Records, and he actually signed Metallica to Elektra in 1984. So he plays a really big role in the
0:56.3	history of this band that we all love. Oh, yeah. And it was nice meeting him and talking to,
1:00.3	and we had a good time. Oh, yeah, we had a great time. And you'll hear that conversation very,
1:04.6	very shortly here after we get through our normal housekeeping stuff and some emails and stuff.
1:08.8	So let's just knock this out real quick.
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