{"id":2070,"date":"2012-09-01T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2012-09-01T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:16:45","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-250-the-metal-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/09\/01\/my-musical-evolution-part-250-the-metal-years\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 250 The Metal Years Master! Master!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Metallica<\/a>Metallica’s latest hit stores and Aric picked it up.\u00a0 Master Of Puppets<\/em> delivered more of the chunka-chunka speed metal we had come to love about their two prior releases. You can detect that their skills and equipment had become more refined and budgets and experience grew.<\/p>\n

I’ve been listening to it this morning and even though it is very good and comes with its own set of memory jarring riffs, I still have to say that Kell ‘Em All <\/em>is still my favorite.\u00a0 In the nearly 30 years since my first Metallica<\/em> experience, I have routinely turned to Kill ‘Em All <\/em>for speed metal fixes. That being said, the song Master Of Puppets<\/em> is really taking me back. What a great piece.<\/p>\n

Back in The Roach Motel Days<\/em>, Aric and I used to think of the song Master Of Puppets<\/em> as Metallica’s <\/em>Public Service Announcement regarding the dangers of addiction to cocaine and heroin.\u00a0 While we’re talking about the song Master Of Puppets, <\/em>I’d like to get Angus Young’s attention. The bridge in this song is a soothing melodic piece that would go a long way in curing battle fatigue. It only last a little bit beofre the ruthless chunka-chunka bits resume but something as simple as this might help AC\/DC concert goers to survive the onslaught. Just think about it.<\/p>\n

Metallica<\/em> reminds me of Bach <\/em>in their composition. They often seem to follow a formula of fours.\u00a0 Do that\u00a0 Chunka Chunka Chunk Chunk riff four times then do the Chunkity Chunk- hunkity Chunk riff four times then Chunk Chunk Chunka Chunk four times followed by blazing solo Chunk Chunkity Chunk Chunkity four times then repeat until the song is 7 minutes long.<\/p>\n

This album seems to have a lot more acousticly melodic quiet bits. It is almost like they got my AC\/DC battle fatigue memo.<\/p>\n

Battery<\/em>
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