Episode 432 - The House Jack Built (Load Boxset)

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

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This week Clint talks Metallica touring Australia, Dave Mustaine covering Ride the Lightning for some reason, a chronology of James Hetfield's soaring melodic guitar solos and takes the deep dive into "The House Jack Built" via the treasure trove of behind the scenes material from the incredible Load boxset. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal! on I burn
0:26.0	You are listening to Metal Up
0:30.7	Your podcast
0:31.6	With your host
0:34.4	Clint Well
0:35.9	All things Now things With your host, Clint Well, Well, all things.
0:40.8	You reach the end of the line.
0:48.0	What's up? Welcome to Metal for your podcast. I'm your host, Clint Wells. Today we're going to be talking about the house that Jack built and all the wonderful iterations of the song that you can find in the new load box set. If you like the song, the house that Jack built, you're going to have a good time today on this episode. If you don't like that song, maybe you'll fall in love with it. I don't know. We're going to examine it. We're going to listen to the early riffs. The stuff in the box set's awesome. And the box set has the two basically rehearsals,
1:16.9	but only live versions of the song that we know exists. It's a very deep song. One of James's
1:22.7	best songs about addiction. So we're going to dive into the house at Jackbilt. I'm pretty excited about
1:28.4	that. Before we do that, let's get caught up here, a little housekeeping. We got some news to talk
1:33.0	about old Dave Mustaine has stepped in the proverbial Metallica turd once again. We'll be talking about
1:38.3	his curious choice to cover the song Ride the Lightning on the quote-un mega death album and we'll take a look at sort of his
1:50.0	comings and goings with Metallica since his notorious firing back in 19th of an infinity forever ago
2:00.0	um Halloween just happened it was an exciting week here in this neighborhood we live in Anthony 80 forever ago.
2:02.2	Halloween just happened.
2:05.7	It was an exciting week here in this neighborhood we live in north of Nashville.
2:09.0	A million kiddos, a lot of lights, had a great time.
2:15.7	I, for the first time since I was a kid, watched all of the Halloween movies, the franchise.
2:18.3	Nova and I were looking for a scary movie to watch one night. She's 11, by the way, my daughter. We watched Halloween, 1978, John Carpenter,
2:23.2	the original, the slasher to, you know, birth a million slashers, which, by the way,
2:30.9	Nova says is her favorite movie now by the way her favorite movie over frozen
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