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Froy King Shit *board owner*	posted on 04-11-2001 @ 12:27 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01	UNIVERSAL CITY, California — Metallica won't let a little thing like not having a bassist stop them from getting started on their next album. "Obviously before we play any shows, we're gonna need someone playing bass," singer/guitarist James Hetfield said Saturday (April 7) during the ESPN Action Sports & Music Awards (see "Metallica, Moby, Eminem Score At ESPN Awards"). "But we can still write and record and do some things together. We have a total free-form attitude right now, so we could go any which way we want. It's a great place to be." Though they're "starting to entertain" the idea of finding a new bassist, Hetfield, guitarist Kirk Hammett and drummer Lars Ulrich plan to spend time jamming and possibly recording new material before they buckle down for their search. "Right now the three of us are gaining strength — the three of us are getting our sh-- together and whoever comes into this is gonna have to put up with a lot," Hetfield said. "We're really enjoying each other's company and retouching on things we haven't connected on in a long time. It's a fun and healthy time for us." Hetfield said Metallica has moved beyond the internal friction evident in the April issue of Playboy, which features an interview done with the band prior to bassist Jason Newsted's January departure. Bandmembers incessantly take shots at one another in the 12-page article. Hetfield knocks Ulrich's drum skills, for example, while Ulrich calls the singer homophobic. It also implies that Newsted's departure resulted from Hetfield forbidding him from releasing a side project as well as the hurtful hazing he received after replacing Cliff Burton, who died in 1986. "A lot of people don't realize that's how we really talk to each other — they think it's all mean," Hetfield said. "At the end of the day, it documents a time in our history when we're probably the most fractured, and it's good to look back on that for inspiration. Why just highlight the great times? Highlight the sh-- times, too." Hetfield said they've been in touch with Newsted since he left. "Jason's still very much our friend," Hammett said. "We can't stress that enough." The upcoming album will be Metallica's first studio effort since 1998's double-disc cover collection, Garage Inc. Though they expect to have a new record out by next year, Metallica enjoy the liberation of life without deadlines. "The best thing about where we're at right now is we don't have anything in front of us," Ulrich said. "We for once feel a tremendous amount of freedom to basically do whatever we want and whatever comes to us." "I'm actually working on my surfing," Hammett said. "I'm working on my marriage," Ulrich said. "I'm working on my next beer," Hetfield said. ~Matt/Froy from Jersey Official Protector of Gay Marco & SwampJunk...if he ever decides to post.
Rog2K	posted on 04-11-2001 @ 12:35 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01	I wonder if Les Claypool's available? Or maybe Mustaine's willing to switch to bass...[tog] Remember, amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic.
drkn2forget	posted on 04-11-2001 @ 12:59 PM
Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01	Les Claypool had already auditoned for the band but all sides agreed it would not work...The boys said he was to good for them
Rog2K	posted on 04-11-2001 @ 1:05 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01	That's why I put tog (That ol' Gag). Did you really think I thought Dave Mustaine might ever go back? Remember, amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic.
Mr. Brownstone	posted on 04-11-2001 @ 6:56 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00	So many jokes, so little time... We'll roll on with our heads held high Our conscience in the gutter Our dreams up in the sky ---The Living End I see stupid people...They're everywhere...They don't know they're stupid...
Fyfetallica	posted on 04-11-2001 @ 9:53 PM
Psychopath Registered: Aug. 00	Wonder what the end result will be, hey maybe they will get a 14yr old bassist A man lies in his bed in a room with no door He waits, hoping for a presence, something, anything to enter After spending half his life searching He still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he stared He is alive, but feels absolutely nothing, so is he? When he was six, he believed that the moon overhead followed him By nine, he deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact, no trade-backs So this is what it's like to be an adult? If he only knew now what he knew then :)Taken my first Newbie Apprentice, radio-star:)
punkrocker	posted on 04-11-2001 @ 11:08 PM
Psychopath Registered: Jan. 01	So when can I download Metallica's new cd? Adopted By Slackjaw
allyourbasearebelongtous	posted on 04-12-2001 @ 8:59 AM
Hanger-On Registered: Apr. 01	Personally, I think they started going downhill after And Justice For All... Bob Rock is the Devil. allyourbasearebelongtous

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