I thought I was gonna jump in and play one of the songs during Joey’s section, but they decided to keep him for the rest of the set, which was totally cool with me. He knew the songs front to back, and he nailed it. Like, ‘Is this really happening?’ But I couldn’t question the moment, ’cos there was something more important at stake, which was to help Lars and the band deliver these songs, and deliver a show for the fans.” I love challenges: ‘Alright, let’s do it, we’ll work it out and make it happen.’ I was thrilled to be up there with those guys, but it was surreal seeing James and Kirk and Rob in front of me. It’s five minutes before you’re due onstage. So we agreed that I’d do the first two, Battery and The Four Horsemen, then Joey would jump in, ’cos he’d been in a Metallica covers band and he knew all those songs inside out.”
I knew a few of their songs well enough to play them, but I just didn’t know all the detail of some of the other songs. My first thought was, ‘Is Lars OK?’ But they said, ‘He’s OK, he’s at the doctors, he’s just having a bit of a moment.’ So I said I’d do whatever I could to help.”ĭid they bundle you into a rehearsal room with the other guys to learn the songs? They said, ‘Lars can’t make it, and Metallica was wondering if you’d be able to sit in?’ It was a bit of a shock.
Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", Included in Q's "Best Metal Albums Of All Time" - ".Transformed them from cult metal heroes into global superstars.bringing a little refinement to their undoubted power.", "This record's diamond-tipped tuneage stripped the band's melancholy guitar excess down to melodic, radio-ready bullets and ballads.", "The album that propelled them out of the metal ghetto to true mainstream global rock superstardom.", Ranked #16 in Melody Maker's list of the top 30 albums of 1991 - ".In a committed move away from their thrash roots, METALLICA was slower, less complicated, and probably twice as heavy as anything they'd done before.", ".Rock's preeminent speed-metal cyclone.Metallica may have invented a new genre: progressive thrash." - Rating: B+, 4 Stars - Excellent - ".Several em destined to become hard-rock classics.They effectively bridge the gap between commercial metal and the much harder thrash of Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth.", Highly Recommended - ".A burnished black gem.", Ranked #52 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.“Slayer had played in the tent earlier in the evening, and I was somewhere backstage when I was approached by management.
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