Its just us doing our thing. |
Let's see, I think the first thing we gotta to do is obviously, like you guys were expecting, is we gotta tank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year. Ha, Ha!! |
Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with.' Metallica is it and I think when that ceases that's it. |
Napster hijacked our music without asking, ... They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. |
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future. |
Our music comes from our hearts - And it always has. |
Over the course of our career we've been fortunate enough to share the stage with a select few of the bands we grew up on, admired and respected including AC/DC, Deep Purple, Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden. The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones. |
Right now we're stading at a massive point of rebirth. |
Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death. |
That's what we're all about; taking advantage of people. |
The 'not-giving-a-fuck' meter is as far into the red-zone as ever before. |
The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in. |
The music gets better and better. It ages so well. Some bands that you sit and listen to, and it just sounds completely silly a few years later, but that Nirvana stuff, when you hear it on the radio nowadays, it sounds as vital and vibrant as it did 10, 12 years ago, when it first came out. And one can only obviously wonder what other cool stuff would've come out of that whole thing. |
The new album will come out some time in november - Knock On Wood. |
The new stuff is much more organic, more old school. It certainly doesn't feel like 'St. Anger' Part Two. When we were rehearsing for our South African shows and started playing the 'St. Anger' stuff, it definitely felt very different to the rest of the set because of how the songs were put together. It was really important to make that record in the way we did because of the chaotic internal vibe at that time: 'St. Anger' was a statement, 55 minutes of brutality packed onto a CD, proving to ourselves that we still had the spark. 'St. Anger' was fun but we don't need to make that album again. |