Metallica - Ride The Lightning (S7 E36)
Join Mike and Phil as they discuss the classic 1984 Metallica album Ride the Lightning! In this episode, they talk about how this album took thrash metal to new heights with incredible tracks like "Creeping Death," "Ride the Lightning," and "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
Hear their thoughts on Metallica's evolution beyond their debut as they explore the more melodic songs like "Fade to Black" and the epic instrumental closer "Call of Ktulu." They analyze the lyrics, guitar work, and arrangements that made this record so groundbreaking. Even non-favorites like "Escape" and "Trapped Under Ice" get some reflection.
Whether you're a long-time Metallica fan or new to their music, this funny and insightful discussion will give you a whole new appreciation for why Ride the Lightning remains one of the greatest thrash metal albums of all time. Get ready to ride the lightning with the latest episode of the Sounds On Vinyl show!
Transcript
Hey, hey, welcome to the Sun's a Vano show the only show on the planet that will make your fucking ears bleed
Speaker:My name is Phil Boyer and the guy sitting next to me in the abyss of darkness
Speaker:Is Lucifer himself? No, no, it's mr. Mike's fencing Mike
Speaker:How's it going down there in the darkness? Oh?
Speaker:It's it's dark all right. I mean it's I mean Jesus November
Speaker:My god in Sweden Jesus Christ
Speaker:I'll tell you like here. We didn't even have a feel like we didn't even have an autumn
Speaker:No here it went from like 70 degrees and
Speaker:Then like two days later. We had like an inch of snow on the ground. Oh my god, and it's since
Speaker:You know melted away, but we were depending like the 40s and 50s, but still yeah, it's like there's no fall here
Speaker:It just went like
Speaker:Right to winter man. Oh my god
Speaker:we're still in our 50s and and
Speaker:well
Speaker:Between 1555 at the moment, so it's it's it's pretty good, but but still we got autumn
Speaker:I mean all the all the leaves change colors and so forth so and and
Speaker:Just a couple of weeks ago. We were in our like 70s, so it's it's crazy. Yeah, the weather's nuts
Speaker:Yeah, it is yeah, we got the leaves changing to we got all the leaves on the ground and everything
Speaker:It's not like the one year like in oh
Speaker:2008 when we were filming our short film horror film
Speaker:And we were about to go out and film and it had been snowing it started snowing in early morning and this is
Speaker:like
Speaker:Late September this is like the 28th 30th somewhere right in there, right?
Speaker:Yeah, and we ended up getting
Speaker:Something in the neighborhood of like five inches six inches of snow
Speaker:Well, the thing is all the leaves are still on the trees at that point and it was just all the wet snow and the weight of the leaves
Speaker:Yeah, we had all these branches
Speaker:falling down
Speaker:cutting power
Speaker:All this stuff and we were gonna film at the park
Speaker:Which is right around the corner from us and it's like a bunch of trees
Speaker:So we couldn't film that day because it was too dangerous because of the trees farming
Speaker:They were like big oak trees that are falling across streets and stuff. It was insane
Speaker:She's insane, but yeah, so it wasn't like that
Speaker:Thankfully, but this year but anyway enough about the weather. Are you ready? Yes, right? Oh?
Speaker:Oh, am I ready?
Speaker:damn I
Speaker:Wonder if I've been this much ready for anything. I don't know. Maybe it was some kiss stuff that we did
Speaker:I don't know this is I mean
Speaker:Let it rip man. Let it rip Metallica ride the lightnings and if you're watching the video we can clearly see that
Speaker:It's awesome. It's uh
Speaker:What do you say about it? I think there we go the good old Alvin cover you see
Speaker:Got a habit on vinyl
Speaker:Yeah
Speaker:Look at the truck one pretty face
Speaker:Look at the pretty faces those young kids my god, there we go. Yeah, they were young back then man with people's
Speaker:Now and now they're all old and yeah cranky like us and oh
Speaker:My god, I mean this album first of all, I mean
Speaker:This is the first album with Metallica. I heard back to back
Speaker:Uh, I think it's also the first album that I bought with my own money
Speaker:It's a little bit hazy. It could have been monster puppets because back in those days
Speaker:I I didn't have enough money so I recorded them on cassette tapes from from friends
Speaker:But I think it was actually right lightning that was my first Metallica album
Speaker:I heard some stuff from kill em all but I I at that point. I didn't know that
Speaker:That was Metallica. So I remember I am going to my friend's house
Speaker:And it's sort of like sneaky with with with an album trying to hide it. So I got a new album
Speaker:So tell him listen to this and I remember I
Speaker:Mean to this day I
Speaker:heard the opening track the acoustic guitar
Speaker:for fight fire with fire and
Speaker:And I think it out
Speaker:This is this is not too bad
Speaker:it's because I'm into kiss and I'm into to white snake and and
Speaker:Maiden and the flapper and and and whatnot and all of a sudden this acoustic guitar and
Speaker:Harmony man, it's it's kind of cool and so forth and then all of a sudden pure fucking mayhem. I
Speaker:Mean it's it's nuts to this day. I'm I'm I'm
Speaker:doing I'm leaning back because we're sitting in front of his speakers in his in his
Speaker:room that he
Speaker:in his parents house and and we're sitting there and and
Speaker:He just cranked it when the guitars came in and
Speaker:I it was like it's I mean pure energy
Speaker:It scared the shit out of me at first but then I mean there is something about that
Speaker:That's the same experience that I had with kiss and I really didn't think that I was going to experience that
Speaker:Over again, but it was like that and it's sort of like it frightened me at first
Speaker:But then sort of like titillating. I mean it's you had to go back
Speaker:You had to oh, can I record this on cassette tape?
Speaker:And I had to have it with me in in my in my walkman and it's fucking insane
Speaker:Fight fire with fire man. What's your take in this?
Speaker:You know cuz I my first experience with Metallica was with Kill em all so I pop this on
Speaker:And I'm like, okay. This is a bit different
Speaker:This is a bit different than the last record. What were they trying to do with us? It's kind of mellow. It's like, okay, and
Speaker:You know, I guess you know
Speaker:Looking back now, I guess that they were foreshadowing the black album a little bit like hey, okay, but but then like you said the guitars
Speaker:Kick in it gets heavy and I'm in some ways that was even heavier than kill them all
Speaker:Yeah, there's a lot of songs on this record that it's got you know
Speaker:It's got a little bit of a different sound to it than kill em all did the guitars seem like they've got a different tone or something to
Speaker:But in a lot of ways this was a little heavier than kill em all and I was I
Speaker:Was quite surprised and pleased
Speaker:Not crazy about the vocals on this one though, I
Speaker:Don't know. I just don't like the way it's sung and
Speaker:But everything else the music behind it's really good. Yeah
Speaker:So are you one of those guys that that wish that it was like only the first demo?
Speaker:No life to letter and everything is a sellout. No
Speaker:Because you're I actually think kill em all is a the songs are better
Speaker:Yeah, no life to leather versions. Those are cool to listen to because they're the demos but yeah, the
Speaker:Kill em all release was way better produced and played and yeah
Speaker:But comparison to right lightning and mustard puppets. Do you wish that they?
Speaker:Didn't develop themselves
Speaker:No, no, no, well for
Speaker:Black I've made my feelings known about the black. Yeah, and yeah, I mean you mentioned it
Speaker:First the first four records for me. That's Metallica everything beyond that. Yeah, they evolved too much
Speaker:Into but you're all but you said on this album. They are already foreshadowing in what's to come
Speaker:I mean with the well that was more or less a joke. I mean with the
Speaker:Okay, just that was just because it's mellow in stock that was just a goof that was alright
Speaker:I'm getting scared man. No, no, no
Speaker:That was just a joke. I had a scare a couple of years ago
Speaker:If there's people out there still listening is I'll go back and check out the the episode we did on the black album
Speaker:I nearly shit my pants so much hate so much
Speaker:record
Speaker:Eat that fucking record. Oh
Speaker:My god second track right a lightning just keep things moving. What do you think?
Speaker:Yes, I like the rumbling in the beginning of this one. Yeah, you know how the rumbling goes from
Speaker:Flight fire fire into ride the lightning and then you got this riff that kicks in and it's just so epic
Speaker:I mean and then the rhythm and it's like oh fucking hell
Speaker:This is just this is the music on this one is better than the first song. Yeah, it's just it's like, okay
Speaker:It's it's just keeps going and I'm listening to this
Speaker:To prepare for the show and I'm like, you know what? I don't know if
Speaker:Metallica technically invented thrash, but this song definitely defines. Oh, yeah metal. I think I think I mean it's
Speaker:We're gonna go through this even more as we move along with all the other songs, but it's it's like
Speaker:It's something that that you hadn't heard before I mean the heaviness and and James's vocal and the lyrics man
Speaker:Yeah, me the lyrics
Speaker:Guy going sitting in the electric chair
Speaker:Yeah fried and all the stuff that's going through his head and you're like yeah shit
Speaker:Yeah, that lyrics like that. Oh no metal band like this from a thrash metal band maiden. Yes
Speaker:Yeah, it's how like a no no and and do you I thought about deal
Speaker:With all the dragons and and and swords and all that stuff, but this is like it speaks to you
Speaker:It's like in your face did
Speaker:They did he's describing a real real things. I mean it's sort of like holy shit. What the fuck
Speaker:But I just love this song too
Speaker:I mean the pounding drums in the intro and and like you said the noisy
Speaker:Starts and and how it breaks into the heaviness and James vocals man. Oh man. It's a great song
Speaker:Yeah, the two and a half minute mark wrist those down a little bit right before the solo. Oh, yeah, and then you know
Speaker:It reminds me of what?
Speaker:Electricity would sound like as it's yeah through someone's nervous. Yeah, and just oh
Speaker:It's it's just it's it's so
Speaker:So chaotic. Yeah, it's just this heavy chaos
Speaker:That's just like pounding you it just I don't know man. It was great. It's a great song great. It is
Speaker:All right next track for whom the bell tolls
Speaker:One of my favorite songs ever oh
Speaker:Metallica I mean me too. Yes, fuck this is just the first couple of minutes or so is just so epic this long
Speaker:intro
Speaker:It's just so heavy and so oh, yeah melodic and just so and that's that's the first time I heard
Speaker:Heard a bass player you using a wow a pedal like I mean like guitar players do I mean its cliffs going
Speaker:Nuts on the wow pedal for intro. I mean it's in fucking sane
Speaker:I've seen some some shows that he did in the early 80s
Speaker:When when right lightning just came out and it's it's sort of like
Speaker:He placed the bass guitar like it's it's a freaking freaking guitar man
Speaker:It's it's insane
Speaker:I mean how he does with its fingers and and he plays with the fingers not what not with a pick but it
Speaker:It's insane
Speaker:My god, yeah, I just love this song for so many reasons. It's
Speaker:It's been with me. It's my all-time favorite song with them
Speaker:It's
Speaker:Nothing like you ever heard before love the lyrics
Speaker:also a thing that
Speaker:James
Speaker:Took from Hemingway story. I think it was about the Spanish war or something like that and and it's it's
Speaker:describes how
Speaker:How people are in general when when it comes to war like he did with right lighting he describes
Speaker:Person it's it's right there in your face
Speaker:The feelings that you get from people around
Speaker:It's it's nuts. Yeah, it's such a great song
Speaker:Yeah
Speaker:Yeah, I love the bells both in the beginning and at the oh, yeah, it just ties ties it all together
Speaker:Yeah
Speaker:And there's a lot of chaos in the end. I'm gonna use that word a lot chaos for this
Speaker:But you know too bad Dave didn't learn anything and his time in Metallica
Speaker:Yeah, maybe played chaos a little better than he does. Yeah these days, but you never know no, it's it's it's I mean
Speaker:well
Speaker:Yeah, no
Speaker:It's nuts and I just love a hearing hearing
Speaker:For whom the bell tolls live also. It's it's something else. I don't like the live version. Oh, you don't know
Speaker:They do something to it and I just I don't it's just not quite the same. It's one of the few
Speaker:Metallica songs that I don't like live. Oh, I just love it. I
Speaker:Just love what when when they start I mean back in the day
Speaker:when they started out and and you got
Speaker:Cliff some space
Speaker:Just that in the beginning and he just let it fucking rip. I mean Jesus Christ that that
Speaker:That dude was a musical genius
Speaker:He was he was the Jimi Hendrix of base. Yes. Yes. There you go. Oh shit. I'm gonna steal that
Speaker:It was the Jimi Hendrix of base. Yes, he was nobody nobody Steve Harris is good, but oh, yeah
Speaker:Nobody did what
Speaker:What cliff did no no no with the harmonies and and whatnot. I mean he could play the piano also
Speaker:He did a lot of harmony and he taught both both James and Kirk about
Speaker:Harmonies and bring it into the music and so forth and I on this album. You can really hear it
Speaker:It it's it's so good
Speaker:This this album you're asking me if I was one of the purists with kill em all
Speaker:Kill em all is a great record. Mm-hmm. It's a heavy record
Speaker:This is more and as we get into the next song fade to black. This is a more
Speaker:Orchestral record. Yeah, that makes sense. It's it's so as you were saying there's a lot more
Speaker:Harmony melody there. There's a lot of stuff
Speaker:Going on I use the word chaos, but it's organized chaos. It's it's this well orchestrated
Speaker:piece of
Speaker:Music that they're putting together with this album. Yeah, and and you look at like fade the black
Speaker:This is an orchestral piece
Speaker:Yes, this isn't just a regular song and even we'll skip forward just for a second to the final track all of Cthulhu
Speaker:That's just not
Speaker:That's just not an instrumental. That's something completely
Speaker:Different and I think when you talk about Cliff's involvement
Speaker:In in the writing and in putting these songs together. I think that's why Metallica never recovered
Speaker:after his death because
Speaker:Metallica was never gonna be the same again. It could no no no of course when you when you lose that kind of talent
Speaker:Yeah, it's like oh you can't
Speaker:But but it's it's wouldn't you agree that it's completely insane on on your second album that you release
Speaker:you tend to go I
Speaker:Mean off a bit from like the thrash thing and then you get all the instrumental parts and and
Speaker:What not orchestral things and it it's dawning on you. It is like released in 1984
Speaker:And I I think that Metallica was ahead of the time
Speaker:With their music. I mean especially on from right lightning to monster puppets and so forth. I mean, it's it's insanely
Speaker:Developed if you know what I mean, it's not thrash in a can like Slayer. It's you play fast and and
Speaker:And it's all blood and guts and and and then it's over
Speaker:I mean Metallica was like you said it's orchestral
Speaker:You got that thing going on where you work with the harmonies and and whatnot and it's still heavy as fuck
Speaker:Which I think is great
Speaker:Yeah, I mean you look at
Speaker:um
Speaker:Some of the like fade to black right it's you you
Speaker:It's very orchestral. I mean if you've ever heard an orchestra cover it
Speaker:I mean you can tell it it probably didn't take a lot of work to translate that into an orchestra. No because it was already 90% there
Speaker:Right, but it's still it's still heavy. Oh, yeah. I mean there's there's this, you know
Speaker:The the two minute mark it gets heavy and it's just it's like holy mother of god. Where did this come from?
Speaker:I know right and it's just
Speaker:It's just and then it kind of just slows back down and goes into the next verse
Speaker:And then I don't know part of me is like is this a ballad?
Speaker:Could you consider this a ballad and by Metallica standards? But I mean it this this is how ballad should be
Speaker:Yeah, and then and then you listen to the lyrics
Speaker:Which is about suicide and then you go. Oh my god
Speaker:This dude can describe things like in an eerie way
Speaker:And but it's it's still it it speaks to you in a certain way, which is it's crazy
Speaker:I mean, I I never heard anything like this and I I probably never will but it's I mean
Speaker:I come closer a couple of times, but I don't know
Speaker:Metallica's where I like thing man. Oh man
Speaker:Yeah, the the four minute mark on here when it gets heavy
Speaker:And that the the guitar riff in that kind of reminds me of a violin again going back to that orchestra
Speaker:Yeah, and I love I love violin. It's it's one of my favorite next to the guitar. It's one of my favorite strings
Speaker:Instruments, I just I love it. Um
Speaker:I just want to make a shout out to all those that lived in LA during nineteen in the eighties
Speaker:Who remember k&a c and when k&a c went away the only
Speaker:Metal station in LA if you can believe that there was only one and this thing died
Speaker:They took it away. This was the final song that they played
Speaker:Oh
Speaker:My god, they they left the world with
Speaker:Faith the black. Oh my god
Speaker:It was just it was an epic way to go out
Speaker:Whatever the program director was that that made that decision was a genius because it was it was the perfect song to go out on and
Speaker:Yes, and then we had nothing
Speaker:Yeah, we had no metal in LA. I mean
Speaker:Just blows my mind man that a place like LA had no
Speaker:In in like the late eighties
Speaker:No no metal station
Speaker:Mm-hmm. My god. Yeah, there you go. Land of the free home of the brave
Speaker:All right next song trapped under rice
Speaker:I'm trapped under rice
Speaker:Not a fan. No the fan. Okay, something about it can't put my finger on it. Um, some about it annoys me
Speaker:I can talk something about it annoys me. I just
Speaker:I don't know what it is. I mean, it's not that it's a bad song
Speaker:I mean, I'm not gonna go out on my way to skip the song or anything like that
Speaker:um, I just I don't know but I do love the riff at the two minute mark
Speaker:And I think metal church stole that and what's the song the spell can't be broken
Speaker:I feel like that riff at the towards the end of that song is very similar to to that
Speaker:In here and trapped under ice. Yeah
Speaker:So
Speaker:It could be wrong, but
Speaker:Well, I I I dig it. I mean, it's
Speaker:We're back in business with like thrash it. It reminds me of of uh
Speaker:Some of the the songs that could easily have been on on on kill them all
Speaker:Just love the power of the song the crunchy guitar riffs
Speaker:Of course not not a um, huge favorite, but but it's it's it's still there pounding drums and and so forth
Speaker:And I I just love how how metallica just brought in everything up and when they wrote songs
Speaker:I mean you could do
Speaker:You could do for whom to bet holes fate of lack and all of a sudden you got the song like trapped under ice and
Speaker:um
Speaker:The tempo changes and so forth. I mean, he's they got a unique style and and there is a
Speaker:somewhat finesse to to everything they do and it's
Speaker:I wouldn't it's like you say I don't skip it. It's not not a favorite
Speaker:But it's it's supposed to be in the mix if you know what I mean
Speaker:Yeah, if you took it out, it's some something was going to be missed
Speaker:So, uh, I I I dig it trapped under ice
Speaker:Okay, skate. Yeah, it's like six. Hmm. Well, um, maybe I'll go with
Speaker:I steal the oil line is not a favorite
Speaker:So
Speaker:I'd like to I'd like to escape from it as well. Oh
Speaker:Yeah, it's it's decorous
Speaker:It's like whiny. It's yeah, it's you know
Speaker:I just I don't know man. It's like are you a thrash band or you some whiny little bitch again
Speaker:Maybe it's left over from the Dave Mustaine days. I don't know
Speaker:It could be because it it kind of
Speaker:Sounds like a whiny bitch mega death song kind of I wouldn't go that far but but it's it's not one of the strongest songs on the album
Speaker:but but I
Speaker:Still think he'd get something. I mean, I like the lyrics and james singing on it and and
Speaker:Some of the crowns you could towers but but now
Speaker:I'm with you to to a certain extent, but but I don't know
Speaker:I don't know
Speaker:I don't know. Okay. So so we're escaping from this one we're escaping from this one into the next one into the next one
Speaker:Creeping death. Yes. I mean it's fucking creeping death
Speaker:It is. What do you say it like it's I don't know. We all know and love this song. It's it's uh, again live
Speaker:Fucking hell this one. Oh, yeah fucking epic live. Yeah
Speaker:and we I mean
Speaker:Um me in Texas my son we were up in Gothenburg
Speaker:Last summer and and now it was actually this summer for crying out loud june
Speaker:Uh, and whereas because they're doing two completely different sets
Speaker:They play like two two nights
Speaker:Um in in Gothenburg. So and if you went to both of them you got like
Speaker:Somewhere around like 35 different songs if you want. So we we only had
Speaker:Uh enough money to go to one of them because he wasn't cheap
Speaker:I'll tell you that
Speaker:but uh
Speaker:We wished for
Speaker:A couple of songs we wished for creeping death
Speaker:monster puppets
Speaker:um
Speaker:I was wishing for
Speaker:some of the more
Speaker:obscure songs from from uh monster puppets
Speaker:Uh, and I think we oh sick and destroy also
Speaker:and
Speaker:lo and behold creeping death was the opening
Speaker:Song so we were both. Oh my this is
Speaker:Of two good start. So and and for me this song. I'm beginning a history buff
Speaker:I always love the lyrics to this song. It's about moses and and the templates of egypt
Speaker:uh and
Speaker:From the crushing intro to the heavy guitars and drums. I mean
Speaker:sort of like I think
Speaker:When I hear this song is it's sort of like a battle cry for james when he sings it. It's so powerful
Speaker:It's a it's a freaking monster piece
Speaker:It's such a great song
Speaker:Also, one of my all-time favorite metallica songs
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, it's uh, but the solo is magical. Yes. I just love the solo and the part right after
Speaker:The solo it's just like fucking hell. Yeah, it's like it's it's game over. It's just it's awesome. And then you get to the
Speaker:die
Speaker:die
Speaker:Die
Speaker:Especially live man when they do that it just die
Speaker:The crowd's chanting die across the land
Speaker:Killing first born man
Speaker:Oh my god
Speaker:It's fucking great. It's it's it's it's an iconic song
Speaker:well deserved
Speaker:Oh, yeah, my opinion and and
Speaker:Yes, and and I was thinking
Speaker:This would actually be a great song to close the record out
Speaker:Oh, yeah, right the way it ends the way. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, which is it's this epic song just okay. We're done, but no
Speaker:No, they fade this bitch into call a katulu
Speaker:Yeah, and I
Speaker:I don't know what to say. I mean what we talked about this closing songs
Speaker:uh
Speaker:On albums that that we we did track by track or we just mentioned on the show or uh, whatever
Speaker:and
Speaker:Time and time again. We talked about
Speaker:Dudes, what the hell what why are you closing with a song like this and like that and and whatnot?
Speaker:and and
Speaker:Both you and I want
Speaker:One bands to go out with a bang and how typical is that that metallic ends with an instrumental song?
Speaker:I mean, I mean, it's it's so nuts to think about it and it's
Speaker:I don't know. I mean how many minutes is like seven or eight almost nine minutes. I think nine minutes long
Speaker:and it's
Speaker:I don't know and and it's like okay. No you guys made the right choice. This was a good way to close the record
Speaker:Yeah, it's a bold. It's a bold choice. It's a bold choice, man
Speaker:To do an instrumental, but it's again like I mentioned earlier. This is this is an orchestral piece
Speaker:Yeah, this isn't your run of the mill average instrumental song. No
Speaker:It's it's not like them jamming. It's not like whatever. This is
Speaker:This is just a beautiful piece of music. It is it really is and I mean, I mean just just the end
Speaker:And then
Speaker:Fucking hell and then they go again
Speaker:Oh my god
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, there's just so many layers and pieces to this song and it's yeah like
Speaker:Is it really just these guys playing this like it's it's kind of like this one and and like
Speaker:Fade to black and and some of these songs you're listening to just going is it really just these four guys?
Speaker:Is it really just them doing this? It's it's crazy and I was fortunate enough to get to see this song live
Speaker:because
Speaker:uh metallica in 2017 they they were coming to Copenhagen to to open up a new arena called the royal arena so they they
Speaker:It was four sold out shows if I remember it correctly
Speaker:And this was in february
Speaker:And it was really cold outside and and james, of course and of course
Speaker:He got a cold and had to stay in bed
Speaker:And they had to cancel one of the shows and had to came back come back later and and redo that one
Speaker:So I was pretty scared because I I had tickets for the show. Um a couple of days later
Speaker:and and
Speaker:They went ahead with this show, but but james told us well, I'm not
Speaker:Back 100 but I'll I promise you to do everything that I can
Speaker:to to to give you a great experience and
Speaker:To my knowledge call of cthulhu wasn't in the setlist
Speaker:But but since james had to to rest his voice
Speaker:They threw that one in and
Speaker:My god, am I happy that they did?
Speaker:Jesus, and I tell you it's just four people on stage doing this
Speaker:It is insane
Speaker:Insane yeah, like how how does this happen? How does this work?
Speaker:You know, I mean the the latest trend right now is all these guys using backing tracks and backing vocals and stuff
Speaker:It's like you you want to look at metallica and go you guys have to be doing that for some of these songs
Speaker:Yeah, but and you know part of me wouldn't care. I mean for me
Speaker:I'm about the experience and the music and we love these songs and if we
Speaker:If if the experience is going to be shit live because they can't do it live. I'm I'm okay with that
Speaker:I'm okay with it, but I'm not okay with backing tracks to replace like, you know
Speaker:Like they were saying like niki six can't play so all his stuff live was actually all fake
Speaker:And backing I don't know the truth to that or not, but you know that I'm not okay with but to enhance what's already there
Speaker:Yeah, I'm okay with that. I mean you got echoes on vocals
Speaker:You know, I mean if that's just an enhancement that's I see nothing wrong with that, right?
Speaker:I mean
Speaker:Maybe I'm alone in that. Maybe people want to see live. It's more raw. I kind of want
Speaker:The full experience. Yeah, and then you get this
Speaker:Mm-hmm and there's no turning back. There is no turning back
Speaker:Metallica always puts on
Speaker:a great show
Speaker:they do and
Speaker:My daughter texted
Speaker:A couple days ago and said that she's going to be in town
Speaker:in in december for um
Speaker:the
Speaker:Ski place up up to just the north of us. They're going to try to break the world's record for
Speaker:The amount of people skiing at one time. Oh
Speaker:And uh, she asked if we wanted to go. I'm like, no, I like my arms and legs intact. Thank you very much
Speaker:Skiing I've never skied before. I'm good. It's like, okay. Well, you won't be a world record holder then
Speaker:I'm like, sorry. I am
Speaker:Greatest biggest food fight during metallica show in the monsters of rock
Speaker:Where they had to stop the show
Speaker:Because they just got so fucking crazy
Speaker:Oh my god people were throwing food. They were up and it was just so crazy that metallica stopped
Speaker:It was 89. Oh my 80 889
Speaker:Jesus, I think what in LA LA calcium. Yeah
Speaker:It was fucking awesome, man. I mean that that that whole concert was just epic
Speaker:But you know, you got metallica coming on and just this food fight happens and they're like, hey
Speaker:We we're gonna stop if you guys don't settle down we're gonna have to stop the show and it's everything's canceled
Speaker:You got and so finally everybody settled down and then
Speaker:They came back on stage and finished their set, but it was it was fucking crazy, man
Speaker:My god, so much fun so much fun so much fun. It's what it's all about man. Yes
Speaker:Metallica ride the lightning. Yes
Speaker:Yeah, there we go. Go listen to it
Speaker:on final thoughts
Speaker:Fucking vinyl record go listen to it fucking right now man buy it
Speaker:Holding it upside down almost like this
Speaker:final thoughts 10 out of 10
Speaker:one of the best
Speaker:thrash metal
Speaker:metallic albums
Speaker:Heavy metal albums whatever you want to call it of all time
Speaker:In my opinion, it's pretty much not word for word, but what what I have written down here in my notes same thing
Speaker:Yeah
Speaker:Even even with those two songs that I don't like it's still
Speaker:This album defines thrash. Yeah, it's just there's no
Speaker:I don't think there's ever been a better thrash album and I include kill them all in master of puppets and that too
Speaker:by anything from exodus
Speaker:Slayer, I think this album is one of the best thrash records
Speaker:Ever made. Yeah, I agree. Totally agree
Speaker:And you know what I I kind of know a place
Speaker:Where you can buy this record? I'm guessing
Speaker:It's just yes the official sons on vinyl record store. Yes
Speaker:There we go. Mm-hmm come check it out
Speaker:We got some more Metallica. Maybe we got the black album for fill. Yes. Yes
Speaker:Maybe you could give the the fill
Speaker:This count on the black album and actually charge 10 more so people won't have to subject themselves to the stink to it
Speaker:Oh my god
Speaker:And we got some Metallica merch. We got some t-shirts
Speaker:From Metallica. So come check it out. Yes
Speaker:Sounds some vinyl record store in melmo sweden Krusegarten, Schiketree. There we go
Speaker:Mm-hmm. That's why I like do the swedish because yes
Speaker:I can do it. You try to do it. No way. No way
Speaker:No, no, I'll save that for you. I'll all right. We'll continue my swedish lessons offline offline
Speaker:All right
Speaker:All right, of course and with that
Speaker:Yes, we'll see you guys next time and we're gonna have an announcement next. Oh, yeah
Speaker:So yes, don't miss it. Stay tuned
Speaker:toodles
