Side 4. Struggle. Within.
The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 — The Black Album
Metallica & Amazon
4.8 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Metallica and Bob Rock share the story of their time in the studio making The Black Album. The reality vs. the myth: It was more a “coming together” than a tearing apart – but it just took a lot of hard work and playing to get there. Guests include: Bob Rock, Cliff Burnstein, Adam Dubin, David Fricke, and Alice Cooper.
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| 0:00.0 | Lars Ulrich. |
| 0:01.0 | All of us struggled with different levels of insecurities about what each of us were bringing to our own instruments. |
| 0:10.0 | The compensation was to overplay. |
| 0:13.0 | All the time, overplay, another drum fill, a crazier drum beat, more of sideways shit, |
| 0:19.0 | fucking the craziest thing that I can come up with. |
| 0:22.8 | James Hetfield. |
| 0:25.6 | We were so defensive about our process. It was more of a punk rock approach, which was the exact |
| 0:33.0 | opposite of what we thought of Bob Rock. He knew a lot, and we didn't give him credit for any of that stuff, |
| 0:39.5 | but it took time to allow that into our world. |
| 0:42.5 | Kirk Hammett. |
| 0:45.1 | When I would show up with like, okay, I got this part, |
| 0:48.3 | and we need to fit it into this solo, |
| 0:51.0 | he would just like, look at me and say, is that even in key? |
| 0:56.2 | I would just be like so crushed, you know, as a guitar player. |
| 1:00.1 | You don't want to hear something like that. |
| 1:02.5 | And so I had never had someone directly challenged me in the studio like that and go, |
| 1:14.4 | that guitar lick, it's not not working it's not greasy enough the black album this is The Metallica podcast The Black Album. |
| 1:31.0 | This is Side 4. |
| 1:32.9 | Struggle Within. |
| 1:34.7 | Part of the journey of the black album is then Justice for All. |
| 1:39.5 | It wouldn't be the black album. |
| 1:41.1 | It wasn't for injustice for all, which wouldn't be there if it wasn't |
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