Side 1. See. Change.
The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 — The Black Album
Metallica & Amazon
4.8 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Through four studio albums, Metallica established themselves as the most successful and respected band in metal. How did they get there? More importantly, what else did they have to prove? Why mess with success? This episode takes us from where it all began to moments before The Black Album was born. Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and former member Jason Newsted are joined by Ron Quintana, Brian Slagel, Big Mick Hughes, and manager Cliff Burnstein.
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| 0:00.0 | Metallica HQ, just slightly north of San Francisco, I'm afraid we can't tell you exactly where. |
| 0:07.1 | Lars Ulrich. |
| 0:09.8 | The only band I've ever wanted to be in is Metallica. |
| 0:13.6 | James Hetfield. |
| 0:16.8 | Let's have some fun and enjoy the moment. |
| 0:19.3 | Kirk Hammett. |
| 0:22.1 | I'll just sit there and keep on playing for fucking 24 hours if I need to, you know. |
| 0:37.4 | The Metallica podcast |
| 0:39.5 | The Black Album. |
| 0:43.6 | This is Side 1. |
| 0:45.5 | See change. |
| 0:47.2 | Well, I'm sitting here just trying to get into this frame of mind. |
| 0:50.3 | The first thing that I'm thinking of is just, you know, when I think back to those couple |
| 0:55.8 | years, the idea of thinking into the future was non-existent. I don't think any of us were |
| 1:01.1 | equipped to really have sort of long-term projections about where's this going, what's it going to |
| 1:07.8 | look like. You know, hard rock bands, like the ones we loved, whether it was the Judas Priest or the Iron |
| 1:12.8 | Maidens or the Saxons or they weren't up there at that level. |
| 1:16.9 | They were still, everybody was on the outer fringes of the mainstream of music because that |
| 1:21.7 | was just the way music was at the time. |
| 1:24.6 | I remember coming to America and being introduced to this word goals. |
| 1:28.9 | What are your goals? |
| 1:30.0 | What are you going to do? |
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