No old school Metallica fans on IMDB?

Deffenetly an old school Metallica fan :) Cliff'em All (allthough some of the footage is not the best) is an actual classic for real Metallica fans .. my brother was going to be at the concert at the time were Cliff died ..

R.I.P. Cliff
Metallica just isn't the same without you :(

"i got it! i got it! i know your damn words!"
-Ash

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James or Lars I cant rember who said Cliff was the soul of the band when he died they sold there souls. Also I like and Jusitce for all but thats the last great album they made they should have stuck to concept albums.

Let me start by saying that I've been into them since I was a LITTLE guy. My friends and I studied them, thought of them as heroes, even acted like them and in essence, tried to be just like them. When we were 18, we hadn't seen Metallica since they came here (Salt Lake City, UT) in '92 for the black album. Then, we hear that they're coming out with a new album?!? So, in '96, we hear "Until It Sleeps" on the radio for the first time. We were shocked. Then, Load came out, and the first thing we saw was the pics on the back of the CD. Suits and short hair?!? That's not very metal. But, we still listened to the CD. That's where we drew the line. Our heroes kicked us in our balls. We all had long hair, wore biker jackets, and band shirts, all because of them. Over the years, we got over that, and eventually grew up some, and even had the new stuff grow on us, but we came to one conclusion. There is no Metallica anymore. The black album was...OK. They have been selfish, wannabe, "we're rich, so why try?" self-absorbed douche bags since then. I can appreciate Load, Reload, and St. Anger for what they are: good music. -BUT- they are NOT Metallica. That age has passed. I remember seeing them when I was 5 years old. My brother took me to see them at some rathole club, and (even though I didn't know what was going on), I LOVED it. I remember the day Cliff Burton died. I was 8, and I cried. That man is the reason I've been playing bass ever since I could pick one up. That man is the reason Metallica was Metallica. I LOVED Justice and the black album, but Justice was what was left over from the Cliff era, and the black album was Jason. If you look HELLA, HELLA hard, you can find a copy of "Damaged Justice," which for all rights and intentions is Justice as we all know and love it, save a couple of differences. All the tracks are raw as hell demos, and there's no version of "To Live Is To Die" on it, and that's because Cliff Burton is playing bass on the songs. It's no easy find, lemme tell ya, but after hearing it, one can truly see the void that he left that will never be filled. They got pissed at Jason because he wanted to express his music that James and Lars deemed "unfit" for Metallica, so he left. They wanted a robot to play what they told him to, so they got Trujillo. Good on 'em. Now they're just a bunch of guys that, while talented and still capable of making good music, will never measure up to the days when they were true, honest to god metal. Those pioneering days, when they redefined what heavy music was. And let me just close by saying that I understand both sides of the coin. Metallica's is that as musicians (more specifically, artists), one must continue to grow and explore new terrains in order to become a better artist. A good analogy would be to imagine your favorite food in the whole world. You just can't resist it, right? Now imagine eating that food and that food alone for every meal, for the rest of your life. You'd get sick of that food at some point, possibly even develop a resentment for it. Metallica didn't get hateful of real metal, they just wanted to try other types of food. On the other side of the coin, what about us, the fans? We got to liking, loving, even idolizing these guys because of what they showed us was possible from them. Then they just turn around and say "Sorry, we don't do that anymore." That really let us down. It's hurtful, and knowing that they had the whole mainstream to work with, they had plenty of commercial success to get them by. They no longer needed the praisings of their peers, because they weren't into that scene anymore. So they turned their backs on us. But that doesn't mean it was meant as a hurtful move. They just outgrew the scene, the same way one outgrows partying 24/7, or chilling with the "in-crowd." They just got older. No harm, no foul. All in all, they taught us some very important lessons. We diversified from the "if it ain't metal, it ain't cool" attitude and opened up our minds to new things. We found that we didn't have to have a certain image, only what we as people felt we wanted to look like. We learned that it's possible for anyone to let you down, even your heroes. Not that they will, just that it's possible. I'm not defending them or bashing them by any means, just stating my view on the whole thing. But I'm a better person for having experienced that kind of let-down, and gleaning the knowledge that everyone has to grow up sometime, as well as the fact that an image can be a prison of sorts. So, in closing, I continue to enjoy Metallica's music, but I no longer view them as the heroes I worshipped in days of yore. Now, I look inward for someone to look up to, and now, they're just another band that I can say I like, and nothing more.

Guys. Liking only "Old School" Metallica no longer makes you seem important, unique, or interesting.

They've changed a lot, but Load and Reload are both perfectly respectable albums, and I listen to them just as much as any other. Load and Ride the Lightning have sold the same number of albums, along with S&M and Garage Inc. I mean, I LOVE Ride the Lightning. Who doesn't?

St. Anger...I won't mention.