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Drummer Uli Kusch (MASTERPLAN, HELLOWEEN) is unable to join singer Rob Rock (ex-IMPELLITTERI,
DRIVER, JOSHUA) for his upcoming appearance at the ProgPower USA IX festival and warm-up shows in
Florida "due to unforeseen circumstances and logistics," according to a posting on Rock's web site.
LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page has dismissed speculation that his recent jam sessions with
bassist John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham would lead to a ZEPPELIN reunion tour.
Metallica, whose leaked album Death
Magnetic is slated for a September 12 release, launched a promotion on YouTube today
featuring the band's favorite Metallica on the site. Drummer Lars Ulrich introduces their
selections in the video to the right.
"It makes us feels alive and special that you guys can be out there doing that cool stuff that
you guys do... we're mighty proud of what you do out there." says Ulrich. Later, he explains one
reason the band is doing this. "You've all seen enough versions of us playing Enter
Sandman and Master of Puppets on German MTV for the last ten years. Who needs that,
right? Let's check out some really cool interpretations of all the Metallica songs that you guys
out there are so cool to put up on the net and share with everybody in the world."
But the other reasons for Metallica's YouTube promotion are a bit more complicated. Eight years
or so have passed since Lars
Ulrich took that fateful elevator ride up to Napster headquarters with a list of over 300,000
names of Napster users who had been sharing Metallica songs, and the band is still trying to salvage
its reputation by embracing, at long last, the realities of online music.
They've taken a beating from
some fans, but Lars
Ulrich's recent admission that he was unconcerned about the leakage of their upcoming album
and this embrace of YouTube show they really are taking steps in the right direction -- even if
the band stands to make royalty money for its compositions being played as part of the promotion.
Below are the ten Metallica cover songs that Lars and other members of the band chose to be
selected on the front of YouTube.
Eight-year-old Robin busts out a respectable rendition of the solo from Metallica's "One":
Scbene, t0ko and titovincenzo tackle "I Disappear" in four-way splits-screen:
Sembaijo and friends rock ""Master of Puppets" in the top floor of what looks like some sort of
teenage rock academy (note the guitar cases lined up along the back wall):
Francisco Meza plays both parts of "My Apocalypse" in believable style:
Azuritereaction plays the drum part from "Enter Sandman" on Rock Band on expert mode,
with an interesting hack: socks rubber banded on to the game's drum heads "for increased
sensitivity and lowered double-hits":
Scott D. Davis makes "Nothing Else Matters" sound sort of like Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata in this solo piano interpretation:
Stop animation brings Lego characters to life for an air-guitar version of "Whiplash":
Roozbeh067 and his Persian "tar"-playing friend play a precise, lilting version of "Nothing Else
Matters":
Qlsuc1 solos along with various Metallica songs (what, was Guitar Center closed?):
"The Reckoning", the new video from F5 — the Phoenix-based band featuring
former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, ex-SICK SPEED vocalist Dale Steele, guitarists Steve Conley
and John Davis, and ex-MEGADETH drummer Jimmy DeGrasso — can be viewed below.
Headbanger's Blog recently caught up with THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN guitarist Ben Weinman to talk
about the band's decision to pull out of the SUICIDE SILENCE tour, the DILLINGER drummer situation,
Ben's plans for DILLINGER's next album, the band's upcoming DVD, his opinion of deathcore and his
new line of heavy metal t-shirts for dogs.
Heavy metal rockers Metallica have inspired countless musicians on YouTube –
think extreme guitar soloists, pounding drummers, violin trios, hard-edged vocalists and even
animated kerrang-ing Lego musicians. Turns out the band itself has noted this phenomenon. Here's
drummer Lars Ulrich revealing his favorite Metallica-inspired videos and wondering if some of these
talented musicians might even out-play his own group:
The videos the band chose include an eight-year-old guitar phenom from Sweden, a Spanish violin trio performing "Nothing Else Matters,"
teenagers banging out "Master of Puppets"
in their bedroom, and Canadian "Shred the Web" winner (and uber-fan) Francisco Meza. Lars shares the whole playlist on
the MetallicaTV channel and today we are
featuring them on YouTube's home page. Also featured is the new Metallica video, "The Day That Never Comes," an epic
guitar-solo journey through the desert during wartime.
A three-minute video clip of METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich congratulating YouTube users for their
great interpretations of 'TALLICA songs can be viewed below.
Drummer Lars Ulrich acknowledges that file-sharing is "part of how it is these days." Metallica has
seemingly come a long way since back in 2000 when it led the charge against illegal file-sharing.
It was their case against Napster that really made Metallica the face of file-sharing critics and
really incensed a lot of their fans who couldn't understand how a band that had already made
millions was concerned with making millions more. It became the poster boy for greedy artists
everywhere and caused many to turn their backs on the band that had turned it's on them. Things at
Metallica Inc.
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