BOC: Metallica Astronomy Cover

[Albert T Bouchard]

Swartz:

>Just picked up Metallica's "Garage Inc." and immediately went to Track 8 -
>their cover of BOC's "Astronomy".  Awesome!  Sure, the original will always
>be the best, but Metallica is both true to their own sound and BOC on
>this version.  Now, if they could just have gotten Buck to play an extended
>guitar solo at the end...


I love the new Metallica version of Astronomy. I'd say it's very respectful
of the original version. There are many things that I like about it that I
think are superior to the original but the original is still great (I'd say
it's one of my best tunes ever). I was with Metallica last night and they
all said that they spent more time working on that song than on any other
on the new album.

They listened to many different versions of the song, including "Live in
the West" bootleg (provided by their current LD, former BOC lighting tech
JB) and tried to synthesize the different versions. (They never heard tBS's
version unfortunately)

Astro:
>Speaking of new CDs coming out... how soon can I add the new tBS to my
>collection?

The new CD is coming along by next week we should be half through with the
overdubs, ready to mix by new years and out sometime in early spring.