Love or hate Lars, he's a great rock drummer. But to me this is indistinguishable from all their other post Trujillo output.. just a few years older. Again.
Lars drumming - sounds great on an album - probably 'cos in that situation he's forced to take the time to practice, he probably has a sympathetic producer too. He's shite live though and admits that he doesn't practice when they're not in the studio.
A long time ago, I learned that Lars comps his drum tracks together piece by piece. I think it maybe started on Justice...could be the Black album, but I think it was Justice that I first heard about it. They had some poor intern literally cutting and splicing billions of pieces of tape together for a drum track. I don't think I've intentionally listened to one new Metallica song since then. And I can believe it because he is a disaster live. I know studio trickery is a common and accepted thing to do, but I can't get past something like that.
Pre Milli Vanilli getting busted lots of 'fixes' were used. One common one was to call in the hired gun and just have an uncredited ghost player do the part right. Late night drumner
Don't know for a fact if this was the case with Lars. (He wouldn't even know if it happened), but I've known lots of session players who did that work. In the days of big record budgets it was a good paying gig.
One common one was to call in the hired gun and just have an uncredited ghost player do the part right.
You know Steve Hunter? Very cool. One of my guitar heroes.I know Steve. Boy oh boy, the stories I've heard.
Anything that was "great" about Metallica died with Cliff Burton.
Always thought Cliff was pretty overrated too.
He just died young so he's legend.
Always thought Cliff was pretty overrated too.
They didn't use a DAW on the black album. They were cutting tape and splicing it together. Any computer monitor looking thing you saw on that video was the automation for the console. There was no computer audio editing platforms that would do more than 2 tracks until about 1994, which is a few years after the black album was out.I saw a making of video of The Black Album years ago and it was the first time I'd seen video of people using a DAW - must have been an early version of Pro Tools, although I didn't even know what a DAW was at the time. They were chopping up beats and moving various fills around then, at the time they were even joking that they should sell drum fills 'cos they had some left over.
The fuck it up and fix it later attitude does really bother me. Probably why I am a bit OCD about complete takes in my own songs.