BOC: Metallica's "Veteran of the Psychic Wars"

[Steve Swann]

Man, I hate to go head to head with Carl... ;-) but even though
Metallica often seems to me like the world's greatest cover band, I
wouldn't walk across the street to hear that version of Veteran of the
Psychic Wars.  The twangy acoustic guitars just don't do it for me.
:-P  (Tarot's version stomped all over it, even given the vocalist's
difficulty with English pronunciation.)  ;-)

Steve

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
> Somehow this escaped my notice until now:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5kwhNo9sf4&feature=related
>
> There are a few other video versions of this performance, with variously
> dodgy hand-held phone-camera work :) or the ever annoying
> I-stuck-this-audio-on-YouTube-with-naught-but-a-static-logo-as-a-"video"
> thing.
>
> The performance is not not as menacing as the BOC original, IMO, but it's a
> solid effort -- and it's nice to see Metallica doing another shout-out for
> BOC.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl, who once he figures out the proper piano lines for Astronomy will
> record a pompously overblown goth-metal cover version :)
>
> ps - while looking at that, I also found a cover by the Finnish band Tarot:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h68ykMB_k-Q&feature=related
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/
>