OFF: Metallica

[Andy Gilham]

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> Behalf Of BREVARD, Adrian R.
> Sent: 17 December 1998 22:23
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> Subject: OFF: Metallica
>
>
> >popular music as a whole was dominated by twee romo bands in makeup
> >(Culture Club, Duran Duran, Thompson Twins, and worse); a few cock-rock
> >dinosaurs still walked the earth (yes, David Coverdale, I'm looking at
> you),
> >and mostly such metal as was left was horrible big-hair glam
> from LA (Ratt,
> >Poison).  It was horrible.  A generation in crisis looked for heroes.
>
> >Metallica were simply the right band, with the right riffs and the right
> attitude, at >the right time.  They were an antidote to all that
> was wrong.
> They simply set the >agenda for heavy music for several years.
>
> For the first time I do not regret spending the 80's in disco dance

Wasn't disco dead by then?  Of course, you're in DC, you had go-go, didn't
you?  It's a blur...

> halls...BTW you forgot Motley Cure, Anthrax and a few others...
>

No, I didn't, but I'd count Motley Crue in with Ratt and Poison, and Twisted
Sister for that matter, as being a bunch of big girl's blouses I wouldn't
touch with an eleven-foot pole (most poles only go up to ten).  Anthrax, in
this thesis, are counted alongside Metallica in the early days, as are
Slayer, although they both seemed to lose their way rather.  I was trying to
keep it brief, not write a whole bloody history of metal in the
nineteen-hundred-and-eighties!!!

Now, if someone can explain Guns'n'Roses to me... :)

> How much do I owe you for the therapy session Andy?  I'm truly relived by
> these developments.

On the house, my good man!

- Andy

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