[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[retard]

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:46:13 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:31:05 -0400, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>>>
>>> I was avoiding stating my own Metallica opinions, but now that you
>>> mention
>>> it, that's exactly how I feel (and yea, I have heard a lot of other
>>> people
>>> say Load was the start of a downfall). I did kind of like "Until it
>>> Sleeps"
>>> and maybe one other (forget what), but yea, most of Load/Reload I just
>>> never
>>> got into. "Black album" was filed with good stuff, and I never
>>> understood
>>> people that said "St. Anger" was a return to Metallica's former glory.
>>> Just
>>> sounded like noise to me, and I'm a big metal fan!
>>
>> I think the first album of their downhill slide was the Black Album.
>> Its production quality was extremely high, and one of the things I
>> liked best about Metallica was the garage sound of the earlier albums.
>> Musically, I really can't fault it though.
> 
> I have a video of Metallica documenting the making of the Black album (A
> year and a half in the life of Metallica).
> 
> You may not like the not-garage sound of the album, but it was one of
> the best produced albums they had, and Bob Rock did an excellent job. 
> One of the coolest things on that video was how they built a special
> bizarre shaped enclosure for the rhythm guitar on Sad But True, in order
> to get the correct deep guttural sound.  They definitely worked hard to
> get exactly the sound they wanted, so I feel like that album was almost
> the peak of how they wanted to sound.  Kirk Hammett said the solo on The
> Unforgiven was the best solo he's ever done.  It is a pretty good solo
> :)

I'm not a big fan of Metallica, but have to admit that the Black album is 
one of my favorites. I've actually bought it twice. The first one just 
disappeared many years ago.