@@johnnybertrand2039 I heard someone say that years ago they were talking with SRV about tone, and he was wanting to know how to get his tone. He said the last guitar Stevie played was lik a a $100 Kmart guitar, and Stevie just sounded like Stevie. I understand the value of great equipment, but some of these guys that tour all the time, have a gazillion hours of manipulating strings with pressure with the tiny nuances of how they achieve that becoming their specific sound. I'm sure that most people wouldn't notice the difference if someone got close. But nobody will sound just like James even on the rig James plays. This is all information I learned while going down a rabbit hole of this very thing. Equipment or Human touch
@@johnnybertrand2039 your idea of how much guitar and amps cost is greatly skewed holy hell.... any musician as successful as metallica who have played thousands of shows, same riffs and chords for decades they can shred any guitar or drum set you put in front of them and it will sound that good. the instrument isnt making the musician
@@davidrussell9290 That is your least favorite out of the 150 songs they recorded? It isn't my favorite at all, but there has to be 50 more below it. I don't know if the reason that I don't care so much for it, is because if any radio station or streaming platforms play a Metallica song, this is probably going to be it. The radio has ruined some great songs for me because I have had one playing on my jobsites for 20 some years, and they will beat one song to death.
Metallica is an amazing combination of several pretty solid musicians. Edit: guys, Lars isn’t THAT bad. He’s a decent drummer *for Metallica’s songs* at the very least. Edit: Okay, I get it, Lars isn’t a good drummer. I’ve gotten that same comment twice a day for the last two weeks.
@@eliah7346 he’s solid. He’s a good drummer *for Metallica*. I wouldn’t have wanted him to be appointed as the new drummer for Foo Fighters, but for what he’s assigned, he’s good at it.
@@4Realzeaz just like everything in metallica. james is god and lars and kirk sucks.that what others think. its sad that most metallica fans dont understend that without lars, james wouldnt be in the biggest metal band, regardles how good he is as a musician. being good at playing instrument is a very small % of a success
What a surreal moment that would be to be sitting there and James/Kirk just start jamming out with one of the most iconic riffs of all time. It will never NOT get the adrenaline pumping.
no matter how much i dont get that 72 album with all its hype and glamour i hold those other Met slbums dear to my life for these guys altered my lifes history back in 1986 ive never been tha same😎🤘🏽🎵🌙🙌🏽
An a non famous, but great songwriter, the songwriting was sooo much more satisfying than the show boating, but having even 500, or a. couple thousand people singing lyrics I wrote in 9th grade, it's amazing, or covering a Fear Factory song while opening for Divine Heresy (Fear Factory's Dino Caseras's new band and HE COMES OUT OF THE BUS TO WATCH THE WHOLE SET, then back at our merch booth, he said " that was a great show other than Fear Factory cover, what were the other songs you guys covered, they were awesome and I've never heard them before? " I was stunned and said, those were all Originals, talk about justification from one of my IDOLS! Remind me of the show where you try to get the celebrities to turn around, the was can you get the musician out of the bus, before their set😂😂 great memories
I love Howard an Metallica. I have my $360 tickets for Metallica for next August in Seahawks Stadium. I've saw them 5 times before but I think I'm as excited as I've ever been to see this next show. No way it compares to 89 in Seattle for intensity but it'll be intense in different ways. The massive crowd will be super fun. I saw them in Seahawks Stadium for their (Damnit I can't remember) (St Anger, took me a minute) St Anger Tour but it was only half full or so. Should be packed this time which will be epic. Still, honestly, look up Metallica 89 Seattle Binge & Purge. I've been to more concerts than I can name. That crowd was off the hook, rowdiest ever that I've saw. Multiple fist fights going on at any given moment from what I saw during the few minutes I was in the stands an not on the floor. They were a legit Metal band then an hyper intense. They're too old to recreate that but that's okay, I'm still excited to see them. First time I saw them was 3 months after Cliffs passing, James told us we sucked. That too was in Seattle. I gave him the bird for that as did many others. Jason is still my bass player but I also love Robert. They feel like family. Saw them twice for St Anger an they've only been back once since then an that was 2017 in Seahawks Stadium an it looked packed then. That was stage at one end an not in the middle. The show I'm going to next year should be their biggest ever in Seattle unless Sunday beats it. But whatever, I'm excited.
This very specific instance with Stern interacting with the guest. Metallica makes both parties involved seeing genuine. Therefore A salute and a tip of the Cap to all parties involved here here here
Tbh people underrate James an excellent rhythm guitar player, vocalist, and songwriter the other members don’t rly matter as much. Except for cliff if he was stiff here, also a top talent
As a songwriter, i think everybody is different. I think every song is different. Sometimes the fiff comes first, other times the lyrics are first. I dont play guitar but i hear riffs in my head. The right guitar player will hear me vocalize the riff and will play what im imitating. Usually ill have a stack of lyrics and when a riff comes up ill thumb through the stack and choose what fits or ill improv something and figure out what i was singing later. I dont understand how you cant feel lyrics when a piece of music speaks to you. There is no wrong way. Everybody is different.
The band "First of October" is perfect for explaining this as every year they get together and make an album in a single day to make a video out of it.
ive always said that i wish i could invent a time machine just so i could go back and sit in the room and witness the moments when these iconic songs/riffs were made.
instrumentally, it is not hard to make music because of music patterns/chord combination that exists. The hardest thing to do is creating a vocal melody to go with the instrumental music you created. Vocal melody is hardest because not only do you have to create it, you have to also make it sounds good too that will please the majority of your listeners.
If it was easy, or required no talent or skill, everyone would be a rockstar and then no one would be a rockstar. Luck, timing, inspiration, creativity and talent.
Song writing. There's an all girl band (3 sisters from Mexico) that are some freakin poets. They have over 50 songs & they're only 23-guitar & lead vocals, 21-drums & lead & backing vocals & 18-bass & backing vocals. Started at 13-11-8yrs old as "the warning". EVERY SONG IS GOOD!
That's also how we did it, even though we were just a garage band that never got anywhere or did anything except for one Grainge Hall show in Yreka CA in 1992. We were called PSYCHIST. But we did the same thing and wrote 5 cool songs
Glad to hear them beef up thier tone finally. Last few albums guitar tone was not my thing. The singer definitely gets it. More like 84 - to 91s tone, just more of a brightness and sculpt. The other guy still has the classic Marshall sound.
in the early 90s, when I was in grade school, I had an assignment to write a paper. The subject was someone we would like to meet in person. I wrote a 6 page essay on why I wanted to meet James.
" The Warning " just a bunch of chic's that was call directly by Metallica to do a cover of "Enter Sadam"for the latest "black album" and open for all the biggest band out there (Foo fighters, The Musse, Gun and Roses, etc, etc.) and on the last year went to more than 17 country world wide. Also appear as guest on the last MTV Award, and it was the band to talk about it with millions of viewers... JUST A FAN...💛💙❤️🇨🇴
@@mina7572 🤣 do research my guy Dave has credits to: *The Four Horsemen* and *Jump in the Fire* partly written by dave. *Phantom Lord* (1 small part of riff before solo) *Metal Militia* (1 riff) *Ride the Lightning* (1 part of, 'spider chord' riff before solo later modified) *Call of Ktulu* (the d minor riff in the song) *Seek and Destroy* (solo partly [which actually sucks]) So nothing special🤣🤣 you are delusional I dont see any of the biggest metallica songs anywhere here💀
Somehow I got a Metallica poster to put on my bedroom wall in 1993 or so. I was in 7th grade. My dad thought I was going to grow up to be a puffer when he saw that poster!
Different writers and bands, different methods. Maybe varying with different songs. Hetfield has his ways, Tuomos of Nightwish has his, others have theirs. "How do YOU..." would be a more realistic question.
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Kirk wanted everyone to know that Enter Sandman was HIS riff!
😉👍
Which he stole
@@mikefarrell6766 Doesn't matter. It happens every day in music. Now unbunch your little panties and go sit down.
Piss off.... @@mikefarrell6766
@@mikefarrell6766 from where? Proof?
@@pyromaniaxe1187Stone - Get Stoned
Its pretty easy to come up with the riff but coming up with something good to sing over it is the hard part for me.
Therapy.
Yeah it’s way easy to cornball it up if you overthink it
I am the complete opposite. We could be the Beatles together.
Jesus loves you!❤
Power chords my friend. Just give them a rhythm and boom the rest is easy
Willie Nelson said something to the effect of " writing a song is easy, writing a song people like is the hard part".
Writing a song and getting a record contract and distribution and your fair share of royalties is the hard part.
@@jondunmore4268yea without getting screwed in the process
god that tone is just godly. i need that tone
Be getting those fingers, yo. That be where the tone lies....
has nothin to do with the $50 000 guitar and amp set up.....
No it doesn't actually @@johnnybertrand2039
@@johnnybertrand2039
I heard someone say that years ago they were talking with SRV about tone, and he was wanting to know how to get his tone. He said the last guitar Stevie played was lik a a $100 Kmart guitar, and Stevie just sounded like Stevie.
I understand the value of great equipment, but some of these guys that tour all the time, have a gazillion hours of manipulating strings with pressure with the tiny nuances of how they achieve that becoming their specific sound.
I'm sure that most people wouldn't notice the difference if someone got close. But nobody will sound just like James even on the rig James plays.
This is all information I learned while going down a rabbit hole of this very thing.
Equipment or Human touch
@@johnnybertrand2039 your idea of how much guitar and amps cost is greatly skewed holy hell.... any musician as successful as metallica who have played thousands of shows, same riffs and chords for decades they can shred any guitar or drum set you put in front of them and it will sound that good. the instrument isnt making the musician
Incredible riff and song. Makes me wanna rock out
Worst Metallica song ever.
@@davidrussell9290
That is your least favorite out of the
150 songs they recorded?
It isn't my favorite at all, but there has to be 50 more below it.
I don't know if the reason that I don't care so much for it, is because if any radio station or streaming platforms play a Metallica song, this is probably going to be it.
The radio has ruined some great songs for me because I have had one playing on my jobsites for 20 some years, and they will beat one song to death.
Metallica is an amazing combination of several pretty solid musicians.
Edit: guys, Lars isn’t THAT bad. He’s a decent drummer *for Metallica’s songs* at the very least.
Edit: Okay, I get it, Lars isn’t a good drummer. I’ve gotten that same comment twice a day for the last two weeks.
And Lars
He's a good producer, bad drummer @@eliah7346
@@eliah7346 he’s solid. He’s a good drummer *for Metallica*. I wouldn’t have wanted him to be appointed as the new drummer for Foo Fighters, but for what he’s assigned, he’s good at it.
@@JayKayEllEmmeveryone rips on Lars bro. He's a tool
Beat me to the punch 🤣@@eliah7346
Yep. Thank you guys.
James has a freaky talent with his right hand mainly! He and Lars are a legendary original talent.. always loved these guys
James had some really good advice here!
Wasn't his advice. If you watch the interview Lars is the one who told him that. Edited to give James credit
@@4Realzeaz just like everything in metallica. james is god and lars and kirk sucks.that what others think. its sad that most metallica fans dont understend that without lars, james wouldnt be in the biggest metal band, regardles how good he is as a musician. being good at playing instrument is a very small % of a success
Meanwhile Battery:
Lmaoo
Battery isnt even that complex, because most of what he sings is actually on top of power chords, and maybe 20% is on the galloping riff
@@Ekii2 Yeah but still that gallop riff trying to sing ontop of it always fucks with me lol
In their defense, they were crashing through the boundaries and lunacy had found em.
@@GrumplefutBATTERY
What a surreal moment that would be to be sitting there and James/Kirk just start jamming out with one of the most iconic riffs of all time. It will never NOT get the adrenaline pumping.
I don’t understand how ANYONE can still pay attention to Howard Stern.
he SUCKS so badly 21st Century forward
His interviews are really good with interesting people but you’re right the rest of the shit just sucks
Show has been trash since Artie left :( even the last year or two of Artie being there was a step down from the K-Rock days
His highlight was having Beetlejuice on his show
Simplicity at its best. Simply perfect.
no matter how much
i dont get that 72 album with all its hype and glamour
i hold those other Met slbums dear to my life
for these guys altered my lifes history back in 1986
ive never been tha same😎🤘🏽🎵🌙🙌🏽
Bro entered sandman😂
Nah bro 72S bangs
72 Seasons is super great
An a non famous, but great songwriter, the songwriting was sooo much more satisfying than the show boating, but having even 500, or a. couple thousand people singing lyrics I wrote in 9th grade, it's amazing, or covering a Fear Factory song while opening for Divine Heresy (Fear Factory's Dino Caseras's new band and HE COMES OUT OF THE BUS TO WATCH THE WHOLE SET, then back at our merch booth, he said " that was a great show other than Fear Factory cover, what were the other songs you guys covered, they were awesome and I've never heard them before? " I was stunned and said, those were all Originals, talk about justification from one of my IDOLS! Remind me of the show where you try to get the celebrities to turn around, the was can you get the musician out of the bus, before their set😂😂 great memories
Fyi for everyone that hadn't seen the full interview. This was edited to make it look like James gave the advice but it was actually Lars
Talent
I love Howard an Metallica.
I have my $360 tickets for Metallica for next August in Seahawks Stadium.
I've saw them 5 times before but I think I'm as excited as I've ever been to see this next show.
No way it compares to 89 in Seattle for intensity but it'll be intense in different ways. The massive crowd will be super fun.
I saw them in Seahawks Stadium for their (Damnit I can't remember) (St Anger, took me a minute) St Anger Tour but it was only half full or so. Should be packed this time which will be epic.
Still, honestly, look up Metallica 89 Seattle Binge & Purge. I've been to more concerts than I can name. That crowd was off the hook, rowdiest ever that I've saw. Multiple fist fights going on at any given moment from what I saw during the few minutes I was in the stands an not on the floor. They were a legit Metal band then an hyper intense.
They're too old to recreate that but that's okay, I'm still excited to see them.
First time I saw them was 3 months after Cliffs passing, James told us we sucked. That too was in Seattle. I gave him the bird for that as did many others.
Jason is still my bass player but I also love Robert.
They feel like family.
Saw them twice for St Anger an they've only been back once since then an that was 2017 in Seahawks Stadium an it looked packed then. That was stage at one end an not in the middle. The show I'm going to next year should be their biggest ever in Seattle unless Sunday beats it.
But whatever, I'm excited.
This very specific instance with Stern interacting with the guest. Metallica makes both parties involved seeing genuine.
Therefore A salute and a tip of the Cap to all parties involved here
here here
Living legends...I'll always be a fan!
They look great and sound amazing
Generally those that make music understand the structure of the music, as such you know what goes where.
Genius of his craft! I love Enter sandman
God those guitars sound so metal and nice. Godly
It starts with using cow bell as a framework and setting your amp to eleven....
Sometimes, when you play the riff, the words are already there. Led Zeppelin whole lotta love, You can hear I want a whole lotta love in the chords.
Tbh people underrate James an excellent rhythm guitar player, vocalist, and songwriter the other members don’t rly matter as much. Except for cliff if he was stiff here, also a top talent
What a song. What an album💯💞
As a songwriter, i think everybody is different. I think every song is different. Sometimes the fiff comes first, other times the lyrics are first. I dont play guitar but i hear riffs in my head. The right guitar player will hear me vocalize the riff and will play what im imitating. Usually ill have a stack of lyrics and when a riff comes up ill thumb through the stack and choose what fits or ill improv something and figure out what i was singing later. I dont understand how you cant feel lyrics when a piece of music speaks to you. There is no wrong way. Everybody is different.
Metallica keeps it simple where it counts❤
I love hearing the different ways that musicians create songs. 🫡
Very cool interview.
I love Enter Sandman!
Congratulations on "loving" a song that's the equivalent of being a basic white bitch in metal
The band "First of October" is perfect for explaining this as every year they get together and make an album in a single day to make a video out of it.
JAMES YOU ROCK!!
The late lyrical genius once told me If you don't start with a great idea
DON'T START
L.Russell Brown 🎉
Butt battery is first colonello Trautman❤
That’s a crazy riff ! 👍
How can you do the prince and sing, that is the most badass fretwork I can play. Singing is divine James. Wow man
It doesn’t matter, it reminds of, when I was young
James is truly one of the greatest frontmen to ever exist.
ive always said that i wish i could invent a time machine just so i could go back and sit in the room and witness the moments when these iconic songs/riffs were made.
James first E5 has to have some special sauce on it. That tone is money.
Great interview!! Some of the Best Musicians in the World!! G
instrumentally, it is not hard to make music because of music patterns/chord combination that exists. The hardest thing to do is creating a vocal melody to go with the instrumental music you created. Vocal melody is hardest because not only do you have to create it, you have to also make it sounds good too that will please the majority of your listeners.
Black album stuff it’s easy for vocals but the early stuff I have no idea how he songs while he plays some of it
If it was easy, or required no talent or skill, everyone would be a rockstar and then no one would be a rockstar.
Luck, timing, inspiration, creativity and talent.
And that's why their music is pop music.
Song writing.
There's an all girl band (3 sisters from Mexico) that are some freakin poets. They have over 50 songs & they're only 23-guitar & lead vocals, 21-drums & lead & backing vocals & 18-bass & backing vocals.
Started at 13-11-8yrs old as "the warning".
EVERY SONG IS GOOD!
Are you the guy from /mu/
I saw Mexico and immediately went "Are they talking about The Warning?"
@@gaffer2602 hell yeah!
@@droideca88 no longer a myth.
@@p4our587 do u get paid 4 this
Best concert of my life was these guys
This f looks great still!
That's also how we did it, even though we were just a garage band that never got anywhere or did anything except for one Grainge Hall show in Yreka CA in 1992.
We were called PSYCHIST.
But we did the same thing and wrote 5 cool songs
James tone is 😩😩
U can fuxoff any ol tyme if it's shit u talking bout my Favorite vocalist of all time.
Fair enough?
@@ReptilePoliTiKo-kk2lcbruh what? Nobody even said shit negative. What are gonna do anyway? Lmao
Don’t know if that’s meant as a stank face or not but tone is beefy and raw! Would sound killer in a mix
This tone is always super dank haha I love it
@@tim0391 yeah it is lol
ladies and gentleman this is the magic of arrangement
The power of the riff compels me
His guitar tone 😮🦾
And that's how it's done...❤
And several " yeah -heauhs and whoa-oooo-whoas'
Glad to hear them beef up thier tone finally. Last few albums guitar tone was not my thing. The singer definitely gets it. More like 84 - to 91s tone, just more of a brightness and sculpt. The other guy still has the classic Marshall sound.
Yeah love all those riff wrote by Dave Mustaine
Good point... another thing I would like to know is, who comes up with the different drum beats and tempos ... the songwriter or the drummer.
He's aging like fine wine!
"You simplify the riff because we cant play anything more difficult than that"
- Metallica -
Love this band! ❤❤❤❤❤
Metallica had Riffs and all kinds of wild stuff no one had ever heard weigh before enter Sandman came out
Lars in the back like "hey someone ask me something "
in the early 90s, when I was in grade school, I had an assignment to write a paper. The subject was someone we would like to meet in person. I wrote a 6 page essay on why I wanted to meet James.
banks next!
Brilliance!
Sir Ian McKellen is also a proficient guitarist and singer. Good to know. And the same for Mariah Carey in the very end of the clip.
" The Warning " just a bunch of chic's that was call directly by Metallica to do a cover of "Enter Sadam"for the latest "black album" and open for all the biggest band out there (Foo fighters, The Musse, Gun and Roses, etc, etc.) and on the last year went to more than 17 country world wide.
Also appear as guest on the last MTV Award, and it was the band to talk about it with millions of viewers...
JUST A FAN...💛💙❤️🇨🇴
Metallica is a cool dude
I just snorted😂😂😂
@@totally100darthvader7 that’s a win 😂
DAMMIT PANTERA THIS BEER IS WARM
@@georgejohnson5904 WHAT IS THAT, a TEAR, PANTERA?!
🇺🇲🤘Absolute Masters of the craft, because they're #MetallicaFamily too❤🇺🇲
Legend.
that was the best ive seen lars play
First you get this guy Dave Mustane...
Did close to nothing for metallica😂
@@7weco just the quality, not the quantity.
@@mina7572 but the quality was not good🤣
@@7weco No, we're talking the hits that Metallica got from Mustaine riffs, not Metallica's current junk, I think you were confused.
@@mina7572 🤣 do research my guy
Dave has credits to:
*The Four Horsemen* and *Jump in the Fire* partly written by dave.
*Phantom Lord* (1 small part of riff before solo)
*Metal Militia* (1 riff)
*Ride the Lightning* (1 part of, 'spider chord' riff before solo later modified)
*Call of Ktulu* (the d minor riff in the song)
*Seek and Destroy* (solo partly [which actually sucks])
So nothing special🤣🤣 you are delusional
I dont see any of the biggest metallica songs anywhere here💀
Somehow I got a Metallica poster to put on my bedroom wall in 1993 or so. I was in 7th grade. My dad thought I was going to grow up to be a puffer when he saw that poster!
The way you come up with it is you take an already exiting riff…in this case, Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath…change one note and there’s your riff.
Gaw dam these dudes are cool
Hetfield is such a sweet badass. The original sweet badass
Dude Kurt’s playing a guitar with a Bigsby on it!? Never woulda thought
Kirk
Who’s Kurt?
Yes, it's defiantly always the riff first... except for all those times when the lyrics came first.
Not a HARD ROCK fan but Metallica is great
These guys have aged awesomely well
Different writers and bands, different methods. Maybe varying with different songs.
Hetfield has his ways, Tuomos of Nightwish has his, others have theirs. "How do YOU..." would be a more realistic question.
James just looks around, He sees a dirty window and now he singing about how clean the house is ha ha.
They just mix the voice basically in a rhythmic way then harmony and melody .3 main energy of what music is made of
Masterful
It's a piece of cake.
And yes, thank all these people running around Call Wendy themselves. musicians. Don't even have to worry about even being challenged anymore
They came up with hit after hit back then.
"So like how do you come up with this stuff?" Incredible journalism
excellent how Kirk talks playing the riff to demonstrate
And sometime the riff is already written. Like that one from David Bowie/Mick Ronson in Master of Puppets
Remember kids, that was Lars who told Kirk how to change that riff. That's why he's the soul of Metallica.
Enter Sandman riff got its specific shape by happenstance along the inspiration by the group over a pretty basic rock riff.
The only thing Howard stern can do is repeat back to guests what they literally just said to him
But he still gets the guests that most can't so there's that.
It’s still mind blown how it’s made. Musicians tap into another part of their brain
That's why Dave mustaine has the hardest job. He is singing over terribly insane riffs
May I correct your typo ? He is singing terribly over insane riffs
@@Hhhlll7778😂
There's nothing insane about this riff
@@TheBobcatlover He referenced Dave Mustaine, so I don't think he was referring to this riff.
@@Hhhlll7778 damn, that was funny.
That riff has potential. They should work on that one.
😂