Metallica hard-wires a different set list every night
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Er, how does this work in a stadium? Some stadium concerts already have premium prices for the area closer to the stage, but the others can at least see the same thing, albeit from further away. If the "donut hole" is the premium area, what do the people outside the donut get to see? Guess I'll have to wait for a video of this. But this whole "360° stage" thing smacks of "using the stadium capacity as efficiently as possible to make moar money"...
hold up - is this why people go to concerts? because they think they're connecting on some level with the band?
I've been to a few small concerts and not once was I seeking, or did I feel, any connection of any kind.
I may be too autistic or ADHD to understand concerts, I guess. I didn't like the few I went to and I won't go to one again. the music sounds far better at home and I get to control the volume.
I've been to one show where the lead singers microphone didn't work for the first song and he didn't realise but the performance he gave was such that the crowd was still entertained and captivated.
I rarely go to gigs now as the atmosphere has changed from when I first started gigging back in the 20th century. People increasingly seem to go for something to do and a place to be check in on social media, not to appreciate a band they love. People talk over the music, video pointlessly on their phones, heckle, etc... and I'm too old to put up with that kind of nonsense. Some bands though still get devoted audiences and then it's worth it.
I've been to a not-large number of various metal shows in the 21st century, including in the last 5 years, and this isn't my experience at all. except for the video part: some people are using their phones to record the show, or take photos. But certainly no heckling, talking over the music (pretty hard when it's that loud), etc. Generally crowds are very respectful in my experience, and are there to listen to the music (and remember it with their phone recordings too apparently).
Maybe this shows a big difference between genres?
atmosphere? what atmosphere? it's just a bunch of people standing or sitting around looking at a few celebrities and being in awe of that for some reason.
I truly don't get it. LOTS AND LOTS of people love concerts, though, so I'm pretty sure that I'm the abnormal one, and that part of my brain or social awareness or understanding is just not present.
I mean, it makes sense that the artist wants to circulate, but a T shaped stage makes more sense on a first glance (though of course having the guitar means that you need a pedestal for the mic, so there's that)
King Gizzard does this kind of thing of too and it's awesome. It's sometimes kind of a bummer if you go see a large act multiple times and it's pretty much the same set.
the meme is that he's a bad drummer, but even Hetfield said that he thought of kicking Lars before but realized later that he's an essential part of the band, after all, he's the one that founded the band - if it weren't for him putting out an ad on a newspaper in the US, Metallica might've not existed.
he's not a great drummer, but he's an essential part of the band, remove him and the band is no longer the same. I'd say he keeps the band together.
Even if it was just serviceable, he's Metallica's drummer, so he's going to be criticised anyway.
I think for quite some time James and Jason were the best musicians in the band. Now Trujillo is far and away the most serious and capable musician among them.
That’s not to take away from the whole package. Cleary together they do (or did) something people love. But there is some objective notion of musical skill and capability that you can judge them by, and Lars is just not that great.
Technical prowess only goes so far, Metallica got where it got with him, and in the end it's a moot point
Yeah maybe he's not the best drummer, but it was good enough to get them where they got
Age isn't Lars's problem though.
The trouble is, so I've read, that he doesn't like to practice and doesn't do it as much as he "ought" to. Especially given Metallica's position in the industry/culture.
So he can go into a studio and record a great drum track... but it'll take him a bunch of takes to get right. For the other band members, who've put in the practice and shown up to the studio with their parts dialled in, that's frustrating and the source of a fair amount of tension. And while everyone misses a note or two in the course of an hour+ live show, the lack of practice means Lars tends to fluff a line a bit more frequently than the other members. But also, because of how fundamental the drum track is for keeping everyone else together, when Lars misses it causes more problems for the performance than when James, Kirk or Robert do.
I think he just stopped caring at some point, being satisfied with his success and never practicing.
There's even a theory that he doesn't even try to keep time, but instead leaves that to James.
No one's complaining about the style of his drum parts; if he could play them properly, no one would be complaining (aside from the sound of the snare on St. Anger).
https://www.reddit.com/r/drums/comments/7s5t4b/in_ear_metron...
Also most of them are software engineers and I don’t think they would like to know what I think of their code and documentation.
There is a video somewhere of Hammett describing how he shared a riff for one of their songs and Lars said "play that but 3 times them end on that" or something to that effect.
Live performances may not be super tight but it's OK because Hetfield is a better drummer (at least he keeps the rhythm)
https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/red-hot-chili-peppers-13d...
The problem with this article is not just that it originated in a PR firm. The whole tone is bogus. This is the tone of someone writing down to their audience.(Wife worked in PR for a decade.)
A newspaper/magazine/site wants to fill pages with things of interest. Sometimes it's investigative (though often these are built through tip-offs anyway), sometimes it's fluffier. The PR company is briefed by the client and then develops things to pitch that suit a particular publication. They build these relationships over time and don't want to destroy them with consistently bad story pitches. PG's article goes through this.
If there's a business person profiled on the front of the careers liftout, that was the work of their PR company. PG estimated half of the news, but I'd guess it to be higher than that. Once you've seen behind the scenes, you recognise it in almost every article.
I didn't read this Metallica article, but the client could've been Metallica, the venue, or something else. If there are quotes from Metallica, that will almost certainly tell you it was them. The writer doesn't need payment from the client or PR company because they are being handed an interview opportunity on a platter, or exclusive quotes or convinced that some other element of the angle will be of interest to their readers (stage configuration, etc).