I started playing bass in 1987. I LOVED Cliff Burton, and he's still my guy, but time has been very kind to Jason Newsted and his tenure in Metallica. He brought aggression, intensity, good bass playing, and great backing vocals. Was he Cliff? No, but he didn't need to be. He was good enough on his own.
I remember being 11 years old and going to a friends house after school and seeing the video for One on MTV and thinking “what the fuck is this?” The video kinda stuck with me but the song was embedded in my brain. That night I remember watching this live on TV with my parents and my dad wanting to turn the channel but I begged him not to. He thought I was insane for liking “these long haired noise makers” but listened anyway. Afterwards when Jethro f’ing Tull won the best metal Grammy he said “it’s not my cup of tea but those long haired noise makers got robbed.”
I agree 100%. My dad has some narrow minded views when it comes to music but he can give credit where it’s due, even if it’s not his type of music. Let’s just say he loves James Hetfields car collection more than his music.
You might have seen this before but if you haven't please watch it, I just found it today and just got done watching it. It's a video of tribal elders reacting to the music video of this and is another example of music being the universal language of humanity. Hope you have a blessed day and rock on!!! ruclips.net/video/BsclJqVnEjQ/видео.htmlsi=ps2acL8dvjsiF1ww
I remember watching the premiere of “One” on MTV’s Hard 30. My sister walks past the TV, and she says “This is the brownest, darkest shit I’ve ever heard.” I was blown away by that video. Been a fan since
Metallica dropped the musical equivalent of a thermo nuclear bomb on them and still didn't get the win. The audience couldn't even appreciate what they were witness too.
@@wldcts72 It was the judges. It’s way smarter to take the time to look up what a new type of music is supposed to sound like before brushing it off. Either that or, Lars’ decision to turn down the bass cost them Grammy. The mix must have been that bad to the judges that they went with the band with the clear production.
If you weren't around then you just can't know- the Grammys didn't play stuff like this. Stuff like this was not widely popular yet. There was no internet, no broad access to things like there is now. It felt, at the time, like Metallica was representing all of us metalheads, like we had sent our champion to war on our behalf. And Metallica got up there and laid waste to it.
No they didn’t! Metallica was the music the stoners, misfits, and losers listened to. The ones who were headed to Juvi. Nothing like this even played on MTV
@@mikekrause3671 Yeah, but Metallica waited until almost the end of 1980's ( 1989) release a video on MTV. They really didn't like to do mainstream stuff back in the 80's. It might be hard to believe today, but Metallica was a underground band for most of the 80's. The radio didn't want to play their music and they didn't wan't to do MTV or make a video.
Of all the bands in the “Metal” category, jethro tull was ‘safe’. He was old and the academy knew who he was. They always go with what they know and go against what they fear. The Grammys aren’t about musicianship, artistry and talent or integrity; it’s about money. And at the end of the day it’s a business. Not one single old piece of shit on the Grammys board knows anything about music. But they knew all about money.
I saw this live when I was home, on leave, from the military in 1989. I always watched awards shows with my Mom and was super excited for her to see Metallica. Even though she wasn't a "metal" fan, she was always super open-minded about what constituted good music. We watched this performance in stunned silence. I will never forget her reaction. She said, "It's not my kind-of music, but that was amazing!" That performance lives with me to this day and is one of my fondest memories of sharing a landmark musical moment with someone. I still revisit this video from time to time and it always brings tears to my eyes.
Thank you for your service 🙏 🇺🇸 I watched this with my parents and I have a similar memory. My parents were definitely surprised. Lol. I remember my Dad was more into it. 🤘
James thank you for your service my man! This is the first time I’ve seen this video and I’m not disappointed at the performance. For ‘89 at the Grammys and metallica losing to Jethro Tull was just nuts. 🌰 nuts, more nuts,
My Sister and I were there!!! I flew home to Charlotte, NC on the plane with them from LA. Watched them go to their bus. They were all SO cool. Lars signed my plane ticket!
You can literally see the transformation on stage. James was clearly nervous when he started. His voice was weak and timid. By the time they got to "darkness" he said fuck this. I'm James muthafuckin' Hetfield. And he had all of the confidence in the world.
Imagine your in your late 20's, you have 4 mega studio albums which are now regarded as classics, your about to play one of metals biggest songs (at the Grammy's) and your band has only been around for 8 years at that point...
Yeah that was the introduction of _real_ heavy metal to the American audience. And in typical 80s fashion, some nearby pipsqueak had to immediately demean the whole thing for a chuckle (Billy Crystal's Steve Allen joke). Took a long ass time for metal to be taken seriously because of people doing shit like that. Kids in school got bullied and teased just for saying they liked heavy metal music in those days. Being a metalhead was dangerous sometimes!
@@elbeetlebeasto Jesus you're embarassing. Bitching about Billy Crystal making an innocent jab at a band playing at the grammys lolololol. sO mEtAl!!!!!
I watched this when a fella named, "Jethro," won with a flute. Vomited on my shoes. Rumor has it that they disqualified Metallica because they changed it from, "Cut this life off from me," to, "Cut this shit off from me," on the stage that night. Lars addressed this when they won for The Black Album.
@@enreeekay2754You're free to have your own opinions but Jethro Tull was a very influential progressive rock band. It ain't metal, let alone hard rock, which is why the decision was stupid, but Jethro Tull was still a very influential band, I wouldn't call it shitty. PF and JT don't even have the same style of prog
This was a miracle young people it didnt happen this band came from fans to mainstream. They fucking melted faces that night. Got fucked for the award and everyone knew it.
Justice was the second album I ever listened to when I discovered metal back in 88/89. The first being Maidens Seventh son. I still regard both as my favourite albums of said bands, and its strange, but i am not alone, everything before those albums by these 2 bands absolutely kick ass. After, not as much. It was a golden era. So still to this day they both are still in my top 3 all time bands, the only other band I ever decided to let into the hallowed heights of top3?? Alice in Chains. The order changes but they will remain the 3 for life. Now at 50 its amazing to think how long I have listened to these bands on a daily basis. And even more amazing, they are all still rocking today.
It happens around 4:10 Lars gets this "fuck this shit" attitude and start beat the drums like an angry bricklayer. Jason Picks it up a few seconds later and at 4:22 Lars shouts down a huge "Yeah" down at him - and from there James and Kirk just keeps firing
At 3:02, James Hetfield changed the lyric "cut this life right from me" to "cut this shit right from me". That's the most real and symbolic shit I've ever even heard of, changing life to shit, cuz life is shit. Saying shit on 1980s television too. Metallica is fucking badass!
Imagine a time when performers performed, metal/thrash was just emerging into the culture, Metallica had only been a thing for about 8 years, and had produced four of the greatest albums in the history of rock. It was so exciting. By sheer will the made everyone take notice. And bands and people that like to hate on them forget the paths they carved for so many. Respect.
I saw all this live on tv. I was 13 then and still a huge fan now. My friends and I gathered to watch this that evening and it blew our minds. Time passes fast my friends.
This was a classic moment in my life. I was 16. I was excited Metallica was on the grammy awards. I wanted to show this to my mother. We watched it on a tiny tube screen tv in her room. Performance was amazing. Then Jethro Tull was given the award. I remember saying. Wtf!! Then i went to my room. Extremely mad. Been mad ever since. This is when a metal head was born. Haha...Just sharing my experience of that moment.
The look in Jame's face, halfway into the song, when it starts transitioning to the heavy part is priceless: like "business is about to start". These were the Metallica I loved, the only band that truly changed my life by making me want to learn and play guitar, something that has enriched my life tremendously. Will always be grateful to them for that and for the incredibly good music (up to a certain point).
I'm 48 years old and this live performance was the first time I had heard Metallica when I was 14. Remember that us old farts didn't have internet, did have a Satanic panic, only had FM pop radio and the box department stores in my one traffic light region only carried cassettes of glam rock bands like Def Leppard or Poison. I had been long board of glam rock bands yet lacked reasonable access to anything outside the mainstream at the time. Then I saw this performance and my balls dropped and I grew my White trash neck beard on the spot. Everything I wanted to hear from a heavy rock band I heard in this and never looked back. Metallica are the Beattles or Led Zeppelin behemoth Rock band of our time young and old.
Back then who would have thought that Metallica were going to become the biggest heavy band of all time, with longevity, integrity and dedication. They continue to inspire others and make a mark on the music scene. Sure the number of gigs they play promoting new albums are much less than they used to do, around 50 concerts per year. Well that's ok because they are still with us, playing and making music 🎵 for themselves and the Metallica family! METAL UP YOUR ASS!!!
Motherfuckin Jethro Tull... my favorite quote ever from Lars, when they won for the Black Album... " We'd like to thank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year" Also, props for getting shit past the censors in this era, they probably thought at the time that they'd never be back, so fuck it, let's just do it... little did they know Also also, no disrespect at all to Jason cuz I love him, but I wish Cliff had been there for this moment
Jethro Tull! I remember spitting out my beer when I saw this! I was 23 and a total headbanger! 😂 I still listen to the music but don't "headbang" anymore. 🤘🎸
3:03 "Cut this $#!+ out from me!" Yes folks that actually went out LIVE on network TV, no 7-second delay or nothing! (At least on the east coast anyway). Taped it on my VCR. Still the coolest moment in Grammy history.🤘🤘
Yes, while very uncommon there have been occurrences of a flute being played in a heavy metal song. These rare instances are known as... "Flute Metal."
Metallica _did_ win a Grammy for “best metal performance” for “72 Seasons” last year, to which the Grammys didn't have the courage to play their song to which the title belongs to. Although, there hasn't really been any younger metal acts that have reached the level of success Metallica has in getting more extreme music out there to mainstream listeners.
I’ve always loved Jethro Tull, but they didn’t deserve this Grammy. One is my favorite Metallica song, and this performance was epic. Respect to Iggy for showing his open appreciation of the performance.
I remember being 13, a weekday, stayed up late for this to air and then recording on the family VCR. All the awards were given out and this was the very last act to close out the show. The show ran late, past my bedtime, but I sat by the TV and VCR read to hit record. That's the way it was done.
Agreed 100%…went to a concert last Summer. When heights went out as we waited for the next song and heard the beginning (da-da-da-ddahhhhh) MAJOR CHILLS went up My spine! They close with Sandman but this is their best song!
![Metallica - One [Live In Seattle '89] (2018 Remastered)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5U-rSxTTgys/mqdefault.jpg)
I love how James looks at Jason just before “Darkness and Landmine” making sure he’s ready for the echoing, came out great!!!
Oh James knew it was time to turn into a monster that very moment
I imagine an audible gasp/visual flinch form the audience - who undoubtedly tensed up at the hammering double pedal. "DARKNESS!!!"
I started playing bass in 1987. I LOVED Cliff Burton, and he's still my guy, but time has been very kind to Jason Newsted and his tenure in Metallica. He brought aggression, intensity, good bass playing, and great backing vocals. Was he Cliff? No, but he didn't need to be. He was good enough on his own.
@@Hupomone😢 Cliff Burton, love that guy… I agree 100% about Jason! Miss him also. I wish he was still here with Metallica !
@@Hupomone Cliff was hard to replicate. Rob is good, but even he isn’t close. Jason tried, but he was set up to fail
I remember being 11 years old and going to a friends house after school and seeing the video for One on MTV and thinking “what the fuck is this?” The video kinda stuck with me but the song was embedded in my brain. That night I remember watching this live on TV with my parents and my dad wanting to turn the channel but I begged him not to. He thought I was insane for liking “these long haired noise makers” but listened anyway. Afterwards when Jethro f’ing Tull won the best metal Grammy he said “it’s not my cup of tea but those long haired noise makers got robbed.”
Thank you for sharing this, prime example of how music breaks barriers.
I agree 100%. My dad has some narrow minded views when it comes to music but he can give credit where it’s due, even if it’s not his type of music. Let’s just say he loves James Hetfields car collection more than his music.
You might have seen this before but if you haven't please watch it, I just found it today and just got done watching it. It's a video of tribal elders reacting to the music video of this and is another example of music being the universal language of humanity. Hope you have a blessed day and rock on!!! ruclips.net/video/BsclJqVnEjQ/видео.htmlsi=ps2acL8dvjsiF1ww
I remember watching the premiere of “One” on MTV’s Hard 30. My sister walks past the TV, and she says “This is the brownest, darkest shit I’ve ever heard.” I was blown away by that video. Been a fan since
Noise makers 😂
"Darkness" = shit got real...
that shit echoed through the room, out the door and down the street
@@ok2255- I was on my back deck in Peoria Illinois, and I heard it.
Chills
That crowd did not deserve that performance.
Was coming here to say the SAME thing! Idiots didn’t even realize how lucky they were. Morons.
Say that again, squares
f*ckin' eh!
Sure they did. A good music education is well worth the time.
No, not at all! But should be good chance for the old farts.
5:05 that “ left me with life in Heheeeeeeallahhh “ is so perfect
Jason's backup vocals will forever echo in the Shrine auditorium
Beautiful
4:57 LandminEEEEEE
Fuck yeah dude you can feel it when he sings
Brutal! @@cosmefulanito4593
Indeed....
4:25 “They wanted Metallica? Let’s give ‘em fucking Metallica!” 👹
''Metal up your as*''
🤘🤘
Grammy's didn't deserve them. Screw the industry snobs. Met's relevance outlived them anyway.
So Mike just uses the official account to watch RUclips videos? I mean this is a fitting video but that’s hilarious.
Jason shouting "landmine" is the greatest
Metallica dropped the musical equivalent of a thermo nuclear bomb on them and still didn't get the win. The audience couldn't even appreciate what they were witness too.
Then lost to Jethro Tull with the Black Album. Apparently a flute os more metal than we all thought
That audience was lame af
@@wldcts72 It was the judges. It’s way smarter to take the time to look up what a new type of music is supposed to sound like before brushing it off.
Either that or, Lars’ decision to turn down the bass cost them Grammy. The mix must have been that bad to the judges that they went with the band with the clear production.
Probably the only live part of the whole show
???? It was 1989, it was all live. Jesus! I don’t think you were alive then.
@@anthonymartinez8488 how would you know
@@HernanRuelas-w4nI'd assume the guy actually attended/watched the show?
C'était une vraie face
@@HernanRuelas-w4nmany people alive today were alive in 1989 bro lmao
What was great was when Metallica DID win a Grammy, Lars thanked Jethro Tull for not putting out an album that year
If you weren't around then you just can't know- the Grammys didn't play stuff like this. Stuff like this was not widely popular yet. There was no internet, no broad access to things like there is now.
It felt, at the time, like Metallica was representing all of us metalheads, like we had sent our champion to war on our behalf. And Metallica got up there and laid waste to it.
This was such a big deal. I recorded on our vcr and watched it over and over.
No they didn’t! Metallica was the music the stoners, misfits, and losers listened to. The ones who were headed to Juvi. Nothing like this even played on MTV
@@paisleyprincess7996 uh... except for "Headbangers Ball"???
@@mikekrause3671 On Headbangers but not on mainstream MTV
@@mikekrause3671 Yeah, but Metallica waited until almost the end of 1980's ( 1989) release a video on MTV. They really didn't like to do mainstream stuff back in the 80's. It might be hard to believe today, but Metallica was a underground band for most of the 80's. The radio didn't want to play their music and they didn't wan't to do MTV or make a video.
cant believe metallica was robbed of this
Yea, Jethro Tull? Smh
Of all the bands in the “Metal” category, jethro tull was ‘safe’. He was old and the academy knew who he was. They always go with what they know and go against what they fear. The Grammys aren’t about musicianship, artistry and talent or integrity; it’s about money. And at the end of the day it’s a business. Not one single old piece of shit on the Grammys board knows anything about music. But they knew all about money.
🤬🤬🤬
what the fuck even is jethro tull? not even kidding, never heard of it
@@jeffhendrix2166Tull is a band lol an awesome one at that
I saw this live when I was home, on leave, from the military in 1989. I always watched awards shows with my Mom and was super excited for her to see Metallica. Even though she wasn't a "metal" fan, she was always super open-minded about what constituted good music. We watched this performance in stunned silence. I will never forget her reaction. She said, "It's not my kind-of music, but that was amazing!" That performance lives with me to this day and is one of my fondest memories of sharing a landmark musical moment with someone. I still revisit this video from time to time and it always brings tears to my eyes.
Thank you for your service 🙏 🇺🇸 I watched this with my parents and I have a similar memory. My parents were definitely surprised. Lol. I remember my Dad was more into it. 🤘
🇨🇴 es de Metallica
James thank you for your service my man!
This is the first time I’ve seen this video and I’m not disappointed at the performance. For ‘89 at the Grammys and metallica losing to Jethro Tull was just nuts. 🌰 nuts, more nuts,
What a lie😂😂
LOL I was on Leave too then LOL wow
My Sister and I were there!!! I flew home to Charlotte, NC on the plane with them from LA. Watched them go to their bus. They were all SO cool. Lars signed my plane ticket!
So they took a regular coach airline from LA to NC?
@@DaRealVonStauffenberg They sure did.
They were just getting big, that was their first Grammy Awards. I'm 100% sure if you ask them, they'll remember!
4:30 when James looked directly into the camera and decided “fuck it, let’s jam!”
You can literally see the transformation on stage. James was clearly nervous when he started. His voice was weak and timid. By the time they got to "darkness" he said fuck this. I'm James muthafuckin' Hetfield. And he had all of the confidence in the world.
THAT moment, when James spies the overhead cam, and goes to say something to Lars, the whole performance just becomes legendary!
Imagine your in your late 20's, you have 4 mega studio albums which are now regarded as classics, your about to play one of metals biggest songs (at the Grammy's) and your band has only been around for 8 years at that point...
LANDMINE 🔥
4:57
How do they get that echo
@@reggiebanksrb10 An effect on Jason's mic
It's insane to me that they have so much footage from the scene of this daylight robbery
It was a crime!! 😂😂
In 1989 this would have been the heaviest shit the majority of the people in attendance would have heard up until that point.
Awesome.
it was so heavy it scared the judges into giving the award to a guy who plays the skin flute
Yeah that was the introduction of _real_ heavy metal to the American audience. And in typical 80s fashion, some nearby pipsqueak had to immediately demean the whole thing for a chuckle (Billy Crystal's Steve Allen joke). Took a long ass time for metal to be taken seriously because of people doing shit like that. Kids in school got bullied and teased just for saying they liked heavy metal music in those days. Being a metalhead was dangerous sometimes!
@@elbeetlebeasto piss off with the victim complex.
@@elbeetlebeasto Jesus you're embarassing. Bitching about Billy Crystal making an innocent jab at a band playing at the grammys lolololol. sO mEtAl!!!!!
Jason Newsted we still love youuu
Yeah 👍, I also love and miss him.. One of my favorite bass players after Cliff Burton . Keeping Cliffs memory alive.
I watched this when a fella named, "Jethro," won with a flute. Vomited on my shoes. Rumor has it that they disqualified Metallica because they changed it from, "Cut this life off from me," to, "Cut this shit off from me," on the stage that night. Lars addressed this when they won for The Black Album.
who even is that Jethro dude 💀
@@RandomPerson-ui3xv Fr
@@RandomPerson-ui3xvShitty Pink Floyd/King Crimson ripoff.
@@enreeekay2754You're free to have your own opinions but Jethro Tull was a very influential progressive rock band. It ain't metal, let alone hard rock, which is why the decision was stupid, but Jethro Tull was still a very influential band, I wouldn't call it shitty. PF and JT don't even have the same style of prog
@@RandomPerson-ui3xv what a braindead comment. I say this as someone who's been into thrash for decades.
8:20 you can hear the boos, and rightfully so!
Biggest robbery of the entire grammy’s history
@@goldenwolf8081 You got that right!
Jason’s backing vocals always take it to another level
That closeup of Kirk's finger work as he shredded the end was just gold!!!
The same Kirk people like to shit on now. "Too much wah!" "He can't play as fast as he did when he was 20!" Give it a rest, already.
@@ObiWanShinobi999those wankers that hate on kirk are nobodys 😂 Probably can't a damn chord 😂😂😂
he played the fuck out that
This was a miracle young people it didnt happen this band came from fans to mainstream. They fucking melted faces that night. Got fucked for the award and everyone knew it.
Metallica should of won the award because And Justice For All is now considered one of most influential and successful Metal albums of all time.
Justice was the second album I ever listened to when I discovered metal back in 88/89. The first being Maidens Seventh son. I still regard both as my favourite albums of said bands, and its strange, but i am not alone, everything before those albums by these 2 bands absolutely kick ass. After, not as much. It was a golden era. So still to this day they both are still in my top 3 all time bands, the only other band I ever decided to let into the hallowed heights of top3?? Alice in Chains. The order changes but they will remain the 3 for life. Now at 50 its amazing to think how long I have listened to these bands on a daily basis. And even more amazing, they are all still rocking today.
4:42 DARKNESS!!!
Who’s here after Metallica won their 10th GRAMMY Award last night? 🤘
Thank you for Being the one to saying this! Respect ✊
It happens around 4:10 Lars gets this "fuck this shit" attitude and start beat the drums like an angry bricklayer. Jason Picks it up a few seconds later and at 4:22 Lars shouts down a huge "Yeah" down at him - and from there James and Kirk just keeps firing
Or, those are just the dynamics of the song as its written.
At 3:02, James Hetfield changed the lyric "cut this life right from me" to "cut this shit right from me". That's the most real and symbolic shit I've ever even heard of, changing life to shit, cuz life is shit. Saying shit on 1980s television too. Metallica is fucking badass!
i have heard that song since i was a kid, but it still gives me goosebumps, and is 50 years ahead of its time
One of the best heavy metal performances of all time, PERIOD!
Pantera....Domination in Moscow
@@nitrojunkie9027 Note that I said “one of”.
What you are witnessing from 4:10 to 4:35 is a shift from fear to courage to love.
huh?
From fear to “nah bro fuck this, let’s kick some ass”
I think once it got to the heavy part, Hetfield saw the camera go up and was like "okay they're letting us play this, let's GOOO."
The proudest moment of heavy metal.
Fucking amazing. That crowd had no idea what they were witnessing. That was very special performance
Imagine a time when performers performed, metal/thrash was just emerging into the culture, Metallica had only been a thing for about 8 years, and had produced four of the greatest albums in the history of rock. It was so exciting. By sheer will the made everyone take notice. And bands and people that like to hate on them forget the paths they carved for so many. Respect.
I saw all this live on tv. I was 13 then and still a huge fan now. My friends and I gathered to watch this that evening and it blew our minds. Time passes fast my friends.
This will forever we a iconic Grammy performance.
At least Jason's bass was audible.
Always has been live. Their long standing sound guy makes the calls on that. Theirs a while video somewhere about him going through it all.
私はこれを見て衝撃を受けて。guitarを始めました。
凄く思い入れがある映像をありがとうございます。
This was a classic moment in my life. I was 16. I was excited Metallica was on the grammy awards. I wanted to show this to my mother. We watched it on a tiny tube screen tv in her room. Performance was amazing. Then Jethro Tull was given the award. I remember saying. Wtf!! Then i went to my room. Extremely mad. Been mad ever since. This is when a metal head was born. Haha...Just sharing my experience of that moment.
I love how you can actually hear Jason.
And it’s kinda funny how Lars is nerf’d.
That shot of iggy pop at the end digging the show.. iconic
gotta love the mullet in Lars.. very Peso Pluma like
The look in Jame's face, halfway into the song, when it starts transitioning to the heavy part is priceless: like "business is about to start". These were the Metallica I loved, the only band that truly changed my life by making me want to learn and play guitar, something that has enriched my life tremendously. Will always be grateful to them for that and for the incredibly good music (up to a certain point).
I'm 48 years old and this live performance was the first time I had heard Metallica when I was 14. Remember that us old farts didn't have internet, did have a Satanic panic, only had FM pop radio and the box department stores in my one traffic light region only carried cassettes of glam rock bands like Def Leppard or Poison. I had been long board of glam rock bands yet lacked reasonable access to anything outside the mainstream at the time. Then I saw this performance and my balls dropped and I grew my White trash neck beard on the spot. Everything I wanted to hear from a heavy rock band I heard in this and never looked back. Metallica are the Beattles or Led Zeppelin behemoth Rock band of our time young and old.
LEFT ME IN LIFE IN HEEEEEEAAAAAALLLEEEEEEEHHHH
What a force of nature METALLICA is, 4:25
I remember being 13 yrs old and how much I lived everything METALLICA! And how they were just robbed of a Grammy
They were 25-26 yrs old here yall, fukn amazing!!🤟🤟🤟
Back then who would have thought that Metallica were going to become the biggest heavy band of all time, with longevity, integrity and dedication. They continue to inspire others and make a mark on the music scene. Sure the number of gigs they play promoting new albums are much less than they used to do, around 50 concerts per year. Well that's ok because they are still with us, playing and making music 🎵 for themselves and the Metallica family! METAL UP YOUR ASS!!!
James facial expressions at the 4:30 mark! Pissed at the corporate schills
I remember tuning in just to watch them play this live at the awards. My parents hated it.
Motherfuckin Jethro Tull... my favorite quote ever from Lars, when they won for the Black Album... " We'd like to thank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year"
Also, props for getting shit past the censors in this era, they probably thought at the time that they'd never be back, so fuck it, let's just do it... little did they know
Also also, no disrespect at all to Jason cuz I love him, but I wish Cliff had been there for this moment
the city pop style groove in the intro was amazing! lol sounded like casiopea!
Gotta love me the "DARKNESS!!!!" fuck i love that
4:36 James turns around and says “let’s fucking get it” or something and they immediately turn it up a notch
Soft soft spoken James first two minutes and then he turns it on when he has to put some metal madness into his voice!! Hell yes
Shout out to whoever designed the stage. It wasn't over done but definitely fit the song with limited time and technology
Man that bridge came they really just said “fuck it” and kicked things into overdrive and even Kirk was flipping them off with his picking hand
What a show, James is on point with the late 80s growl. Jason is a fucking monster per usual, Kirk is shredding and Lars put on a damn clinic.
They all are so young, but the ripper is so much younger...
All these years later in this song still gives me chills all over my body
Jethro Tull! I remember spitting out my beer when I saw this! I was 23 and a total headbanger! 😂 I still listen to the music but don't "headbang" anymore. 🤘🎸
same. sometimes I'll listen to something i haven't heard in a while and start thrashing my head and immediately regret it lol. Sucks getting old
I remember Jethro Tull's surprise at winning: "Well, we do sometimes play our mandolins very loudly."
I was 14 when I watched this and they became gods to me ... 🤟
That “Darkness” the best ever
3:03 "Cut this $#!+ out from me!" Yes folks that actually went out LIVE on network TV, no 7-second delay or nothing! (At least on the east coast anyway). Taped it on my VCR. Still the coolest moment in Grammy history.🤘🤘
This gives me the chilly bumps. I love it!
I was 16 and remember being so excited for this ,and shocked when Jethro Tull won !!A fucking flute in metal ?😁
Yes, while very uncommon there have been occurrences of a flute being played in a heavy metal song. These rare instances are known as... "Flute Metal."
Unfortunately there are no more metal acts at the Grammy's now.
Metallica _did_ win a Grammy for “best metal performance” for “72 Seasons” last year, to which the Grammys didn't have the courage to play their song to which the title belongs to. Although, there hasn't really been any younger metal acts that have reached the level of success Metallica has in getting more extreme music out there to mainstream listeners.
Jason...great bass player
The whole vibe in James changed as soon as he said-cut this shit off from me….
Iggy pop seal of approval
He literally turns and says, "That was really good, man."
😢 metallica should won that gramy award.
wow nothings really changed about the grammy's since then!
I remember watching this on TV here in Canada. The old people in ball gowns and tuxedos leaving their seats was so satisfying.
One of the breakpoints of history.
When James looked at the camera he said fuck this in his mind. Bad fucking ass.
I’ve always loved Jethro Tull, but they didn’t deserve this Grammy.
One is my favorite Metallica song, and this performance was epic.
Respect to Iggy for showing his open appreciation of the performance.
This no longer exists today, this belongs to the ages. At least we can re-watch it for those like myself that were around this time.
I remember being 13, a weekday, stayed up late for this to air and then recording on the family VCR. All the awards were given out and this was the very last act to close out the show. The show ran late, past my bedtime, but I sat by the TV and VCR read to hit record. That's the way it was done.
THIS was the Emmy winning performance for best hard rock live.
Best metal song of all time
Agreed 100%…went to a concert last Summer. When heights went out as we waited for the next song and heard the beginning (da-da-da-ddahhhhh) MAJOR CHILLS went up My spine!
They close with Sandman but this is their best song!
I'm surprised they didn't notice the "Oh Fuck!" near the end of the opening combat sounds and bleep it.
you mean the Go Go! that has always been in the intro?
This album got me through my Junior and senior year in high school along with Queensryche and Fates Warning
Jason's bass tone is so good.
Im going to play the Grammys and Im wear a Capt Krunch tshirt. 🤘Gotta love Jason🤘
2024 72 seasons Grammy winner. 1989 feels like yesterday.
Yet the Grammys didn't have the audacity to actually play their song through the speakers.
i love that you can see them become more comfortable/confident the longer they play!
Jethro Tull, metal?? That's beyond absurd :D
My favorite band ever doing something perfect
Finally you can hear the bass line!
What an epic performance.
Metallica carrying the flame for matel music.
The greatest robbery in the history of grammies.
Moment when Metallica just brought underground thrash name to the world
Just seen them in Detroit, first Snake Pit pass:) Im 50 now, got an interaction with James and Rob. Life is complete🤘
One is the song that made me love metal. So fucking awesome. When I first heard it it blew my mind
The left me with life in HEYEEYELLLL!!! back when Hetfield could give you goosebumps
The song that made me fall in love with metal back in the day when I was a wee young lad 🤘