Acoustic Metallica

[2112]

I always find it interesting when a band like Metallica plays the all acoustic Bridge School Benefit. I saw them there about 10 years ago. This time, they elected to mostly do covers. The interesting thing is the selection of songs. They did a cover of Rare Earth's "I Just Want to Celebrate", Garbage's "I'm Only HAppy When It Rains", Nazareth's "Please Don't Judas Me", and Dire Straits "Brother's in Arms." I think the "Brothers in Arms" was done well, but I think they butchered "Please Don't Judas Me" (and I'm a huge Nazareht fan). I found some video footage so what do you think?

http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=83652

[OURSOOOOO]

I hate to say this but when a band does this I think they have run out of creative musical ability, does that make sense???

I am a metallica fan.

[SHOELUVRSIS]

i dont have any interest in watching them play cover songs,
but i'd love to see/hear them do their own stuff "unplugged"

[GreggFromJoisey]

The way the music industry s*cks these days I'd rather hear old tunes from an established band than new stuff from lousy Brittney or the rap b.s. :repuke:

[GreggFromJoisey]

Fan-filmed video footage of Metallica's acoustic performance Saturday night at the 21st annual Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California can be at blabbermouth.net (courtesy of xamievilx). Photos of the band's show can be found at Photographn.com.

The band's setlist was as follows:

1. I Just Want To Celebrate (Rare Earth)
2. Please Don't Judas Me (Nazareth)
3. Only Happy When It Rains (Garbage)
4. Brothers In Arms (Dire Straits)
5. Disposable Hereos
6. All Within My Hands
7. Turn The Page (Bob Seger)
8. Nothing Else Matters

In his review of the show, Shay Quillen of The Mercury News wrote, "The band would have been better served by picking just one of the covers — ideally 'Brothers in Arms,' which featured some nice guitar work from Kirk Hammett — and using the remaining time to explore more Metallica material in the stripped-down acoustic setting. Hetfield's interpretive singing is not the band's strong suit."

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told Examiner.com in a new interview that the band's upcoming album will be "heavier" yet more "melodic" than 2003's controversial "St. Anger." Ulrich explained, "Whereas 'St. Anger' was an exercise in over-pummeling the listener, these new songs echo some of our stuff from the '80s — long, epic journeys through different musical landscapes, heavier, but a lot more melodic." When asked whether the new songs will be shorter, in the four-to-five minute range, Ulrich said, "Well, the most of the intros are four to five minutes. I don't know — Metallica and short songs just don't go that well together."

Although none of the songs have official titles yet, Ulrich revealed that some of the "silly" working titles included "19," "10," "German Soup," "Glass Cow" and "Black Squirrel." Ulrich said the names "relate to where the idea came from, like Glasgow, Scotland became 'Glass Cow.' And when we don't have anything clever to call it, we just call it a number."

The new Metallica album is tentatively due out in February of 2008