Side 2. Bob. Rocks.
The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 — The Black Album
Metallica & Amazon
4.8 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
How will the band deal with bringing in an outsider? Why did they invite one in? On Side 2 of the podcast, the band enters the studio to record the Black Album with Producer Bob Rock. Guests include: Bob Rock, Jason Newsted, Alice Cooper, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, and Big Mick Hughes.
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| 0:00.0 | Lars Ulrich. |
| 0:02.8 | I think when we walked out of that studio a year later with a black album in our pockets, |
| 0:08.0 | I don't think anybody had Arron thought we were going to work together again. |
| 0:11.5 | James Hetfield. |
| 0:14.0 | It was like letting the enemy into your inner circle. It really was. |
| 0:20.0 | Kirk Hammett. |
| 0:27.6 | The great thing about Bob was he brought out a lot of the subtleties in our playing that I didn't even think we were even aware of. And that was just a great thing. The Metallica podcast |
| 0:43.7 | The Black Album |
| 0:47.2 | This is Side 2 |
| 0:49.1 | Bob Rocks |
| 0:51.1 | James Hetfield |
| 0:52.6 | Metallica vocals and rhythm guitar. |
| 0:55.7 | We fashioned ourselves as producers and, you know, we got so into what Metallica was for us. |
| 1:04.0 | We kind of maybe lost a little track of what it meant to the rest of the world. |
| 1:08.8 | We noticed live that, all right, you know, the set list was 10 songs, you know, or something. |
| 1:15.0 | I want to play more songs. |
| 1:16.9 | So let's write some shorter songs. |
| 1:18.6 | And that's where all that came about that we might need some guidance with production. |
| 1:26.0 | We knew that. |
| 1:27.3 | Lars Ulrich, Metallica drummer and co-founder. |
| 1:30.8 | We were still sort of these kids trapped in these sandbox bodies, still a little unsure of where it was going. |
| 1:40.7 | Are we forfeiting control? How do we explain this to our fans? You know, we're |
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