![]() “This album’s a bit autobiographical in a musical sense, ‘cause these are all bands that have been such a huge inspiration to us and a huge influence on us. “We’re definitely wearing our influences on our sleeves with this one … again,” Hammett added. But no one knew and they didn’t care and we didn’t tell ‘em. ![]() “’Metallica Live Tonight at the Troubadour,” – half the set is Diamond Head. “We took their songs and called them ours,” Hetfield said, laughing. The songs they’d chosen over the years, in one respect, were a way to pay back the artists whose coattails Metallica had ridden in their club days, when they were filling out their sets with covers of obscure British bands the audience likely didn’t know, passing them off as their own compositions. ![]() The idea was to blend an album’s worth of new covers with all those that had been released previously on B-sides, and the Garage Days Re-Revisited EP, making for a double album that effectively spanned Metallica’s career. “It was a lot more spur of the moment stuff, a lot more vibe,” frontman James Hetfield added. It’s very much rock and roll, that’s the cool thing.” This thing gets to be raw and rough and fun…sloppy like it should be – like rock and roll should be. “Not having to get, like, in the Metallica recording mode of everything has to be under such a huge microscope and everything has to be so perfect. “The most important thing about this, really, is the ‘fun’ factor,” bassist Jason Newsted said. One goal was to keep the sessions loose, they also wanted to retain a level of enjoyment in recording the music. They would figure out what songs each member was going to bring in and work on three or four each day. Metallica had been talking about doing another Garage Days album for some time, and decamped to guitarist Kirk Hammett’s basement less than two days after the final show of the Reload tour that September. There was just a renewed interest in fucking with some other stuff." Just shake that off a little bit and come back to something a little looser and a little kind of sillier. “But we just did the two Load albums more or less back to back, so it just seemed like a good time to do some, from both a time point of view and a creative point of view. proves anything, it's that the group's musical instincts, risks, and sense of humor have made them the greatest metal band of the '80s and '90s.“We haven't really fucked with cover songs for a while,” drummer Lars Ulrich told Metal Hammer. At one time, it might have seemed a little odd that Metallica would cover Budgie, Diamond Head, the Misfits, and Queen, but if Garage, Inc. And if raw is what you want, the equally diverse disc two provides all the thrills you could hope for. Sure, it may not be nearly as raw as early Metallica, but it is a better listen than either of the Load records. Whether it's Bob Seger, Blue Öyster Cult, Thin Lizzy, Nick Cave, or the all-star jam on Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone," the band effortlessly makes the songs seem like their own, through a bizarre mix of respect and ballsy irreverence. It shouldn't come as a surprise that these covers recall the blooze 'n' boogie heavy rock of the Loads, but what is a surprise is that Metallica seems to have found their footing in this style through other people's songs. ![]() The second disc's rarities are balanced by the first disc's new covers, the bulk of which were recorded following the Reload tour. Savvy businessmen that they are, they also realized they needed to give hardcore fans who already owned all the covers a reason to purchase the new set - hence, the expansion of the Garage Days EP to the double-disc blowout Garage, Inc. By 1998, the band had understandably grown frustrated with this situation and decided to confront the problem head-on by reissuing all these rarities. For many years, Metallica's 1987 EP Garage Days Re-Revisited was the most sought-after item in their catalog it was constantly bootlegged in the '90s, and often supplemented by a host of covers Metallica had released on singles and compilations throughout the years.
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