MOVIES : Metallica : Some kind of Monster
Why am I addicted to Metallica documentaries?
This was really good, tracking the making of the latest album, St Anger. It starts with the boys trying something really new: just jamming in a studio until they have some songs going. Sharing the reponsibilities for lyrics and tunes and so on.
In the past they have made riff tapes, and submitted them to Lars and James who would then go away and create tracks with lyric lines (no actual lyrics), and then come back and record them, and right towards the end come up with words :) Amazing to watch in the making of Black doco by the BBC.
We watch, as the film starts, a depressed, irritable James being totally unreasonable. Lars, in his emotionally 'mature' way, trying to be very reasonable and therefore pissing James off even more. The boys have a therpaist in to help them sort through problems since James told the old Bass player to go away (40k per month!)
Then everything comes to a head and James disapears: to a rehab clinic. He won't talk to Lars or Bob Rock (who I think they should have replaced with a real bass player much earlier) and doesn't return for over 6 months.
When he does he has new rules for them all: only play from 12-4 for example.
The film then follows the band's recovery (not just James') from 'some kind of monster', culminating in their triumphant return.
The doco is great, well put together and shows therapy as being both a wank and useful for these boys who are, just like the rest of us, a little f*cked up :) It really explains how the music ended up how it is - and especially the lyrics. I really liked it, and would recommend it to anyone with the vaguest interest in metallica or music creation in general.
This was really good, tracking the making of the latest album, St Anger. It starts with the boys trying something really new: just jamming in a studio until they have some songs going. Sharing the reponsibilities for lyrics and tunes and so on.
In the past they have made riff tapes, and submitted them to Lars and James who would then go away and create tracks with lyric lines (no actual lyrics), and then come back and record them, and right towards the end come up with words :) Amazing to watch in the making of Black doco by the BBC.
We watch, as the film starts, a depressed, irritable James being totally unreasonable. Lars, in his emotionally 'mature' way, trying to be very reasonable and therefore pissing James off even more. The boys have a therpaist in to help them sort through problems since James told the old Bass player to go away (40k per month!)
Then everything comes to a head and James disapears: to a rehab clinic. He won't talk to Lars or Bob Rock (who I think they should have replaced with a real bass player much earlier) and doesn't return for over 6 months.
When he does he has new rules for them all: only play from 12-4 for example.
The film then follows the band's recovery (not just James') from 'some kind of monster', culminating in their triumphant return.
The doco is great, well put together and shows therapy as being both a wank and useful for these boys who are, just like the rest of us, a little f*cked up :) It really explains how the music ended up how it is - and especially the lyrics. I really liked it, and would recommend it to anyone with the vaguest interest in metallica or music creation in general.
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Thanks for that - I have been umming and arring about seeing it. Didn't know whether it will just prove that the boys are just a bunch of sad tossers or what. I'll think I'll go check it out now.
Thank you!
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