Metallica Interview March 1983 James Hetfield - Rhytm Guitar and Vocals Lars Ulrich - Drums Dave Mustaine - Lead Guitar Cliff Burton - Bass Guitar METAL UP YER ASS!
What's so funny?She asked how long the band has been called Metallica and James simply answers since we started,in other words it's always been Metallica
@@juanrezende4914 I still have it when I hear something funny but this isn't,he simply answered since we started after she asked how long the band has been going by the name Metallica,what's funny about that?
@@Miist3rDuce1 kinda tho, wahh kinda covering lack of skills. I'm not saying Kirk is an awful guitarist, he is the god and the one who makes me play guitar years ago. But yes wahh kinda annoying there is no pure skill in it
Dave was like the main piece of the band here, confident, talkative, wrote a lot of the songs, if you just watched this video and someone asked you who do you think would be out the band first out of these 4 without knowing the answer...Dave would have been my last pick.
A lot of the songs,he co-wrote a few,and the main piece of the band isn’t the one that gets kicked out of it,the main piece of the band does the kicking
In a way I'm glad Dave wasn't with Metallica very long because if had been allowed to remain with them we wouldn't have Megadeth.or Countdown to extinction or Rust In Peace both of which are two of the best metal albums ever in my opinion.
We ALSO wouldn't have Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, ...And Justice For All, or Black Album. Maybe the albums would still be around, but they wouldn't sound the same. Same thing with Cliff dying. It was tragic and still is very sad, but every event influences what comes after it. Without Jason Newsted quitting the band wouldn't have felt that element of guilt to push them into therapy during St. Anger's recording and maybe they wouldn't even be together today. If Kurt Cobain never died we wouldn't have Foo Fighters. Everything, all the good shit and the bad shit, people just need to take things as they are and make the best of it. At least we'll never know what we missed out on, so we can just focus on being thankful for what we have.
Mistakenly? You're incorrect on that account. Read their history. It says quite clearly they formed in L.A. "Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, " Now they made their 'home base' in SF but make no mistake about it. They band formed in L.A. so, she wasn't wrong and there were no facepalms from them. Now...facepalms from me? Yep. You got one.
@@JC-11111 I know they're originally from LA and none of the band members wanted to associate themselves with that. That's why you see Cliff cringing in the video. To this day Metallica is the band from SF...
@@JC-11111 What the fuck are you talking about? You can clearly see Cliff and Mustaine look at each other and then Cliff facepalm. Metallica didn't want to associate with the glam metal scene of LA.
Oh my god they are babies. Lars was so pretty and he looks so happy. James is shy and awkward and Lars is trying to help him. Dave is just a red haired devil child and clearly the biggest personality, and Cliff is still just a funny chill stoner.
I just realized they did this interview 2 months before recording Kill Em All in May of 1983, in those two months who would’ve expected dave to get fired, they were so wholesome in this interview.
Wait. What. You fkd that, ALLLLL up. If this was June, 1 month later isn't April. Lol If he left in April of '83 and this was recorded in June of '83, then Dave wouldn't be there. You've screwed the dates up somewhere. FYI 1 month later would've been July 1983. April comes BEFORE June. So one month after June can't be April. It'd be July. So he left in July of '83? Or this was recorded in March of '83 and not June like you're saying?
it's obvious that MegaDave was the band leader...such a huge charisma in less than one minute...James was just a shy little boy..his answers are so silly..he tried to be sarcastic but he failed..luckily he has changed over the years...
@@juanrezende4914 12 different guitar players could of stepped in. Dave writes and is unique player. Metallica had the James/Lars team for writing, and Burton could help. They didn't really need anymore Kirk knows his role, he says it himself. And of course he can smile every time he looks at his bank account.. Lots more 0's than anyone else who played in Exodus! He truly got lucky
This would have been just a few weeks after they moved to San Fran and they barely even knew cliff. Kind of crazy. Cliff’s expression when she calls them the hot new heavy metal band from LA says it all.
The ZZ Top rockumentary on Netflix is actually really good. This interview was from March 83 and Eliminator came out on March 23rd, 1983 so I'm guessing that, by then, their videos will have already been doing the rounds before the album release and getting played to death on the, pretty new at that time, MTV station that was all the rage with the kids. So Cliff's remark would probably have been intended as a kind of sarcastic in-joke to drop at the time. Lars used to joke, too, when they did their own 1st ever video, for One, that they were thinking about starting the video with an opening shot of a pair of woman's legs walking down the street but then decided to scrap that idea and shoot it the way that they did. This will obviously have been another cheeky backhanded dig at ZZ Top and the kind of videos that they, and bands like them, had on heavy rotation on TV, at the time, too. An edgy young band like them probably felt like they had a kind of moral obligation to distance themselves from such 'formulaic', blues based and pretty cliché-ridden, rock music and videos back then but I bet that, as they got older, like me, they probably don't really have such a massive problem with other bands, of different styles, exercising their god given right to do whatever they want to do and make whatever kind of music they want to make. Especially when it's a band that writes and performs their own songs. Especially on real musical instruments. Especially with real drums and electric guitars. Instead of being all uptight and a bit hatey and gatekeepy about it. Eliminator's a catchy album, if a bit over produced. With hindsight I can see why it was so massive as it does have some pretty good songs. My attitude, now (as is often the case) is, while it might not be 100%, totally, 'my thing', I respect it and can see that they're great at 'their thing' and doing what they do, really well. And I can sometimes get some enjoyment out of music, by seeing things that way, as well. Their follow up album, Afterburner, is so overproduced and synth-laden, it doesn't sound good to my ears but, at least, I gave it a fair crack of the whip and it takes quite a lot for me to say that and, fuck it, I'd still like to go back in time in their back-catalogue and listen to their albums, from Très Hombres, onwards, to see what they're like. I'm a total sucker for any kind of music documentary, it doesn't matter what kind of music it's about. You get a new appreciation of why people do what they do and how they do it, etc, too. I bet the Metallica guys wouldn't be so down on the old timers, any more, now that they're, older and wiser, old timers, themselves (well, not the guy who actually said 'ZZ Top', just to drop a bit of black humour in there, but I'm sure you know what I mean). I saw another clip in a Cannibal Corpse doc, where they met Billy Gibbons. It must have been in a hotel lobby, airport, or studio, somewhere (can't remember, it was brief) and they were all shaking hands, talking, laughing and glad to meet each other, too. Ha.
those 4 were unique i'd rly have liked to see them all together in real lfie in that time the people who witnessed that amount of greatness won the real life lottery
imagine a alternative world there no megadeth and dave mustaine still was on metallica? imagine holy wars playing/sing by james and lead guitar dave mustaine?
It’s weird how quick James lost his LA accent. It was really strong here and still pretty prominent by the black album but by the load/reload days he didn’t have much of an accent at all
Oh man, what would happen to them if Dave wasn't kicked out of the band? I mean the "what if scenario"? I can't think of that thing. We know that Dave is a better guitarist and also a good writer than Kirk will ever be (no disrespect to Kirk anf his fans but we know what I'm trying to point here).
Question. Do any of you think metallica would be as big as they are today or bigger if burton wasn't killed and mustaine wasn't fired. let's hear your opinions.
The eternal question. The fact that Dave was able to make arguably the second biggest/best metal band on the planet on his own leads me to believe they'd still be a big band. It's hard to say if Dave's solos with Metallica would have been as iconic as Kirk's, I don't know if they would have. Megadeth's later albums are technically and musically stronger that Metallica's so Dave being able to maintain his standards better makes me think a Burton/Mustaine permanent inclusion would have meant that musical standards wouldn't have slipped and there'd be a stronger late career Metallica. I think the bands would have been comparatively as big but very different. I think RTL, MOP and AJFA are near perfect albums so I wouldn't like to see them changed in anyway. I would give anything though to keep those albums and still open up a portal into a parallel universe to see what a Burton/Mustaine Metallica would've produced.
They would be the biggest metal band like now for sure, if not having harder riffs and solos. But I don't think we will have something like black album, which made Metallica a household name in music in general, not only in metal. And imo Dave's fallout with James and Lars is inevitable so yeah he will eventually split anyways
Nope, if dave hadn't left metallica would probably have never head to the prog metal(MoP/Ajfa) or the groove metal(black album) music. It would probably 3-4 more pure thrash albums or they would've broken up after their second album.
