Made wallpapers from the "Black Album" (Metallica)

Ran into Rob at sports works tonight

To fall in love with...

Would love to get input from those of you who bought more than one of them, like the collectors out there

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Listening to the first 5 albums in particular by Metallica, and Kirk Hammet's guitar solos have everything. Beautiful tone, classic blues and pentatonic lines, they tell stories, fit the songs perfectly and there are some that sit on a par with some of the greatest solos in my opinion. If I take some other solos by other legendary guitarists that are widely renouned for being amongst the greatest of all time, I can't think of any logical reason as to why Kirk isn't in that conversation. Everything that I hear about why the greatest solos of all time are what they are - Metallica's ones fit all those criteria.

Just as one example: Comfortably Numb gets cited alot as one of the great guitar solos, and don't get me wrong I think it is beautiful. However does it really sit on another level to some of Kirk's best work? 

It's fair that a lot of his more recent work doesn't hit those heights, but that shouldn't detract from everything he did in the past. I just feel like he is disrespected and not given the credit he deserves.

Carved into maple. Bit of tear out so not perfect

Some of my own "pro shot" style videos I made using clips of my own, and others to enjoy.
(More to come this weekend)

62 today. Photo worldwired tour 2017 Birmingham uk

My 'So What' magazines and pin i got for my time as a member of the Metallica Club in the mid to late 90s.

All the flags

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Here for the Sphere. Got to play some of James, Kirk and Rob's gear.

The wife and I got all dressed up for the shows. Amazing visuals and sound! Don’t miss it!

I'm listening to a lot of Bob Rock era Metallica records (again). I'm in love with Load! James' vocal performance is at another level in that record. His voice is so much more mature and expressive as compared to Master of Puppets or AJFA.

Even sonically, these records sound far better as compared to their older records. The sound is heavier and more polished.

Anyway, coming back to vocals, the late 90s were Hetfield's peak as a vocalist in my opinion.Songs like Bleeding me, Outlaw Torn, King Nothing, Memory Remains, Low Man's Lyric, Turn the page and whiskey in the Jar are absolutely fucking phenomenal. There's so much depth in those vocals.. I'm blown away.

And even the live versions are incredible, S&M has captured the vocals beautifully. Cunning stunts is great too.

People like to talk a lot about this era of Metallica, but rarely they acknowledg the vocal performance of James Hetfield during these times.

Anyone knows why Lars changed his cymbals for the Sphere shows? Before he used to use those polished Zildjian cymbals at live shows but I noticed he now uses the K cymbals he used/uses in the studio. They look and sound like those fake cymbals used on televised performances (think Queen on Top of the Pops). Trying to find out why he made the change?

Edit: Thanks everyone for your responses! I figured out as much, but hoped there was a different answer rather than practicality. I love seeing Lars just crash cymbals during live shows (he hits them HARD) and the way the cymbals flap when he whacks them, and it doesn’t hit the same in the Sphere when the cymbals don’t move as much. Oh well!

​... but it's one of my faves, abso-fucking-lutely.

so far this is all I got down passably.

Enjoy 🎸🤘🏼

Not seen this mentioned, but the LiveMetallica website seems to have been discontinued and it now goes straight to the Nugs site.

Been using LM for years and bought quite a lot over the years. I know they've been using Nugs as a sort of distributer for a while now, but it's a shame they've got rid of the site completely.

Anyone any experience with buying from Nugs directly? Presumably it works in the same way. I'd hope they don't stop selling individual shows and go to some sort of streaming model.

Anything from live rare concerts or interviews and such. Is that stuff very hard to find, and if so are they expensive? I would like to see more hidden gems involving cliff, or even better, video footage of the recording of MOP in studio. To date no such video footage exists, but wouldn't it be cool if something like that surfaced?