I will never forget how he basically _EXORCISED_ that solo out of Kirk Hammett when making The Unforgiven. One of the best solos on that record; one of my favorites, period. Kirk was just having a hard time that day - and Bob just pushed him, and pushed him, until _that solo_ came out - and it was glorious.
@@lolxdroflmao For Sure Man. The making of looks pretty stressfull but it paid out in the End. The Bass Intro for my Friend of Misery is so cool. They should have kept Jason i don´t know. Rob is cool though but Jason was more in the Songwriting and wanted to get in there where Rob seems mor like a hired Guy.
I said this long ago in the comments but I'm back and again I hope he is doing well because this doesn't look well...Bob is one of the absolute hands down GOAT producers IMO!
His take on St Anger and being okay with taking the heat so that they’d stay together gives me a new appreciation not only for the album itself, but for Bob. Wow
@@M97-u8t Maybe so but it's cool to know he did that to save Metallica in a way. He's already taken blame for other things so he's used to it and is ok with it
@@M97-u8t Nope, he produced Crazy Love and that album was a number 1. If anything, he sorta disappeared after The Offspring album. Edit: Also Ultra beat down by dragonforce was not prodced by him, but he did produced 2004 Simple plan's album that had welcome to my life which is a great track and he produced some Bush albums. After "let the bad times roll" he sorta chilled out a bit, so that would be on the Offspring hehe.
its odd ive never thought that was a bad album cause as a little kid i watched some kind of monster and that got me EVEN MORE into metallica cause it showed me a side tot them there music and music videos couldnt show me so, that album i really liked only when i got older i found out it was recognized as probably one of the worst albums they put out.. i was like what??? its not the best but no where near the worst
@@MetaITurtle St anger didn't ruin his career, he kept producing big acts like simple plan, the offspring and Bush, not everything is Metallica centered.
Best part of this? He barely mentions guitars. Feels like Gibson has faith in the audience to understand their name is associated throughout, embedded in the subtext of rock n roll. No need shove it down our throat and try to shift units. Brilliant interview. More like this please. Music music music!
Exactly! These kinds of interviews are why people buy guitars. I was at my local Guitar Center and they were SO busy, they're ALWAYS busy. Whoever said the electric guitar is dead was very, very wrong!
A minute in and I'm just saddened hearing him. Seems like yesterday I was watching the making of the black album. That was 30 years ago!! I'm just having a real hard problem growing old and seeing my heros age.
@Eduardo Viegas fuckin shit you are a kid ,42 is not old , buddy ,not these days ,you are in the best years ,mature enough ,but no old brother , when we are young we don't have the essential baggage for life ,we are just collecting ,learning , at 40 you are supposed to learned enough to enjoy the good things in life . Enjoy it ,you have so much to live
@@endezeichengrimm I agree. Whatever people think of Load and ReLoad in a musical sense, no one can deny that the production on those albums was top notch.
I remember as a kid asking my parents to rent a year-and-a-half in the life of Metallica every time we went to the store. It was on VHS tape and there was two tapes. I've been playing guitar now for 20 years and I'm telling you watching that made me want to play guitar for the rest of my life. I'm just a nobody but I Love to play. So thanks for the inspiration Bob Rock and Metallica.
Preach. I had part 1 for a while and then finally part 2. I remember rewinding the bit where Kirk is laying down the solo for Struggle Wtihin over and over and being completely blown away. I can't believe how time flies.
I think I watched "year and a half" so much that tapes got worn out)) Jasons lines for Sad and Tread blew me away and there was no way back, playing bass ever since!
Hi just gotta say, VHS movie tapes are a quarter each at garage sales. So I have like 600 movies now. 10 fit in a cardboard flat that holds 24 cans. So when you have 3 stacks of those, it's easy to count the movies.
@@beefcake0354 apparently the original tapes have been completely shredded over time, making a remix would be near impossible at this point sadly, unless all of the original stems are preserved somewhere else.
I met Bob in 82 when I was in a band called The Metros. We did a demo with him at Little Mountain and opened some Payolas shows. I’m so happy to see the positive trajectory his life has taken the last 40 years
Simple. Good genes. I’ve seen a patient, in late 60s with multiple disease (bless his heart) with hair like Chewbacca. Thick wavy without the slightest receding hairline. Imagine young david coverdale
This guy should be sainted for making the best suggestion in the history of music: telling Metallica to slow "Sad But True" down and drop it a wholestep. This alone birthed the most monolithic, heaviest, colossal, iconic Metal song of all time. And then the production he got on that thing as well - just out of this world.
I don't play guitar, I didn't know who this guy was/is, don't know how I got into this video, but I watched the entire interview. Bob seems like such a good dude. I'm glad I got to see this.
I saw Bob in the film Some Kind of Monster and came away thinking he was the only grown-up in that whole project. I looked over at my wife and said "I really like this guy." Such a great person.
I always hated that Bob Rock got a lot of flack for "softening" Metallica's sound...because the band wrote the songs for the black album and recorded the demos before they had ever hired a producer. They probably had never even met him at that point. They made their own conscious decision to change their sound. And if you listen to those demos....Bob Rock (and no doubt heavily assisted by Randy Staub) brought out the absolute best in the songs that they wrote. I actually wish he'd work with them again, although Hardwired is a fantastic album. It would be nice to hear Bob and Randy with the band again, reunite the team that did their best sounding albums, sonically.
Thank you for saying this. You're 100% correct. I don't recall whereI heard this, but on an interview with Bob he stated he was expecting to do a "Justice type record." Instead, like you stated, they wrote the black album and then hired him. Furthermore, he didn't win many battles on the black album (He got them to slow down Sad But True and not much else IIRC). They hired him and he gave them exactly what they wanted. Metallica grew and some of the fans couldn't handle it so they found a scapegoat. Bob Rock is awesome. Load and Reload are AMAZING records too imo.
It's because fans are usually stupid fucking idiots who have no fucking clue how music is really made. The Black Album is not really a favorite of mine as I prefer everything before it, but in terms of sound it's better than any album they ever did. The production quality is outstanding. Better than Ride, or Master, and a fuck ton better than the shit quality of And Justice, even though it's got amazing songs. Bob Rock is a legend. The fact that Lars and James keep name dropping him in regards to how important he was is their way of telling their fans to fuck off without actually saying it. Unfortunately Metallica fans are mostly a bunch of fucking babies who paint the band into a corner of expectations that they aren't allowed to deviate from. In short, Metallica fans are the least "Metal" people around.
@@doublestrokeroll Right? people act like Bob Rock made James put on a dress and write The Unforgiven or Nothing Else Matters. Bob just perfected the material he was delivered, and ballads or not, that album is a sonic juggernaut.
"I was just a 13 year old kid wanting to own a Gibson guitar and now Gibson made me a guitar." That had a lot of weight to it. He's had a great 40 year career and I enjoyed listening to his story. Thanks Bob for sitting down and giving us that.
I saw Bob in the film Some Kind of Monster and came away thinking he was the only grown-up in that whole project. I looked over at my wife and said "I really like this guy." Such a great person.
It's not unpopular, it just takes a single unbiased listen to understand how good both those albums actually are. listen to Metal Up Your Podcast, they explain it best.
@@sourcemonkey Meh. They were trying too hard. Or not trying hard enough? Dunno. But a rock album shouldn't have to be explained to be good. It should just be good.
The coolest thing Bob Rock ever did? At a time that he was still arguably the biggest rock and roll producer in the world about 15 years ago - when his fee and points on sales would be in the high six figures - he had a few weeks off and he offered to produce a record for Canada's most famous punk band DOA. Between 79-82 Bob had worked with most of the big punk acts in Vancouver but he had never gotten DOA in the studio then. So he offered to do a record for them decades later and didn't charge them his producer's fee purely because he wanted to have a DOA record under his belt.
He used to hangout at the Mabuhey in SF . He was always a nice guy and Canadian polite. The rockers would hang at the Stone across the street but he could usually be found at the Mab...As well as Buth Vig and Jack Endino
This guy did nothing, except black album. All others his "work" is shit. St. Anger, the Offspring!!! How after black album Metallica record too bassing load/reload and dirty st anger?? How about the offspring americana, and album with bob rock?
The thought of Bob Rock smiling on stage with Metallica made my day! lol! I love it when people don't take themselves too seriously, especially when around musicians who do.
@@Qwerty-ks8dn bull shit no one can come close to him about produce and create a sound like he did back when no internet and pro tools so dont come here to repeat all the shit that you just read from morons on the internet
What a beautiful ending. The gratitude and awe with which Bob looks back on his life is amazing. How many people can honestly do that? Truly inspirational.
Behind the greatest albums of all time, is a producer...he's not there to be nice, and bring you a cup of tea, stroke your ego...He's there to kick your ass and bring out the best of you...Thank you Mr. Rock!
@@gogigogic1936 you really think metallica's black album was that enjoyable if someone else produced it? Soundically that's one of the best sounding productions you'll hear even to this day. Plus being a rock and metal producer is a lot harder than what those dumb ass beat makers with pads and key controllers make these days. This man also produced metallica's load and reload, since than everything has changed wih their sound because the replaced a producer, and now they sound like shit
This is by far the best Gibson TV video and Bob Rock interview I've ever seen! Thank you! Bob Rock, thanks for the amazing work you did with Metallica, Bon Jovi and Motley Cru!
Phenomenal interview. Beautifully shot and produced. Thank you Bob for your captivating presence and stories. And Producers, THANK you for letting Bob finish all of his thoughts and stories without interrupting. Brilliant on all levels.
As a Hardcore Metallica fan? I stuck with Metallica since as a late bloomer to Metallica in '89 when I first saw them live at age 12yrs and only knew "ONE" song which was "One". Changed my life, I was true to Metallica through Load and Re-Load to now here in 2020. I just wanna say Thank You Bob Rock. You still are part of my life, I still and will forever listen to all your production work from The Cult to Motley to Metallica. You will always be the 5th member of Metallica to me. Bob F'n Rock!!!!
Bob I just want to say thank you for your dedication to music and bringing the best out of people to help bring this world some of the best music. You will forever be a legend in music and deserve to be a hall of famer.
Really excellent video guys. Way to go Gibson! Its nice to see a fellow Canadian do well. "Nobody wants to hire me again" is a Canadian trait that kept him feeling grateful and provided him with the open mind he needed to succeed, at least that is my take.
I’ve seen Bob on so many docs when he was in his prime, i forgot he actually gets older. What a career he has had. Seems like a true gentleman as well.
These icons videos are really special, I've watched two now and they're just excellent, who knew Bob Rock was such a great dude in his own right?,thanks for that🍻
Loved this vid on Bob Rock, what an interesting guy and what a great career he's had, he's produced some of my favourite albums and he said some lovely things to say about my favourite ever guitar player Mick Ronson, thanks for posting this :)
Thank you Gibson... Really fascinating hour. Appreciate that the interviewer is not the focus, but the conversation. Almost feels like we could be asking....
He's kind of a hipster douche who turned an amazing, edgy, controversial metal band into a mediocre, politically correct, trendy, radio friendly band. What a hero.
First the Gibson Icon is an awesome series. What I like best is that I don’t hear the interviewer you just hear the person being interviewed talking almost as if it’s just one conscious stream of thought how eloquent, how brilliant how insightful. And Bob Rock Thank You for sharing and I’m glad that somebody had the idea that you had something to say because some of us wanted to know !
Okay wow, not only has Bob Rock inspired me but he’s given me a sense of hope that I might be able to produce music like I’ve wanted to for 4 years now
@@bigmike5785 Did he write the songs? No! If there is anything wrong with the album (and there isn't, but, hey, taste is taste) it is the composers' fault = Metallica!
What a humble guy. Keep on rocking Bob. Great that he acknowledged his missus, it’s like he won the lottery of life and is still so stoked and grateful for everything he’s doing. Well played sir... well played...
Bob Rock is a great musical icon ,his contributions to Rock music is incredible. He’s up there with Mutt Lang Eddie Kramer,and Andy Johns producing some of the greatest rock albums of all time .But unlike the aforementioned Bob is a great musician in his own right ,which I think gives him insight to the artists he works with .And he seems like a pretty cool cat 😎.Id love to sit hear some of his stories !! Thx Bob for all the awesome music !!
Great discussion! Love his memories, insight, and advice. He’s a fantastic producer, one whose influence is far reaching within the heavy rock circle. Thanks Gibson!
I met Bob during his early Payola days. I was a carpenter and we were bullshitting about the construction business. I mentioned that l was sure that his construction days were over. I got that one right. He was such a nice guy.
Thank you for this. Despite being responsible for the greatest-sounding rock and metal albums of all time, Bob is still so kind, down-to-earth, and generous with his considerable knowledge. I had the honor of hanging out with him for a couple days in the studio, and not only did I learn a TON just from observing, but the thing that really shone through was how much he just LOVES music. He's still that same kid that got so excited about the opening to "All Right Now"--he's never stopped chasing that thrill. He could have retired years ago, but is still making fantastic records in all styles because he just loves doing it. Sometimes unfairly maligned by knuckledraggers who blame producers because they don't understand that the band members write the songs, I'm happy to see him get such a wonderful, longform platform here. Thank you, GibsonTV.
My god, this is incredible. What a journey. The significance of guitars throughout Bob’s life threads such a beautiful storyline. Captivating from start to finish.
Gibson has become the most forward thinking guitar company on the planet. Their interaction with fans and players through things like Gibson TV are awesome!
That’s a brilliant interview- such a cool guy & I love the fact that he’s so enthusiastic about his work years into it. Not surprising that he’s such a well regarded talent. Rock on 🤘
I’ve always remembered bob rock from watching the Metallica documentary on the black album back in the 90s. Very cool to hear him talk about his journey as it makes me reflect on mine. Lots of great memories of albums I loved, bands I’ve been in, and roads I have or haven’t taken. Cool interview.
Bob Rock has influenced my ideas of recording and sound immensely. I truly hope everything is cool Bob. Thank you for so much for what you have done in the way you have done it. Great video and rap Bob.
This was a great interview!! Thanks Gibson. Rock had his hands in so many great albums, some im surely unaware even now. Always liked that Cult album, Kingdom Come and other obvious ones. Fellow 🇨🇦 done good 👍🏻👍🏻
This man is everything. Loved his last words at the end. Really inspiring and I just want to sit down and talk music with him as a younger upcoming artist.