Self-proclaimed “guy that’s been listening to your band faithfully since 1983″ Dave Grohl has apparently sent an open letter to Metallica pleading with them to not release their new album until they’re sure it’s good, a rule that they haven’t really been following for the past 10 years or so.
Dear METALLICA,
Hey, it’s Dave! Remember me? Yeah, I’m the guy that’s been listening to your band faithfully since 1983. I bought your first album ‘Kill ‘Em All’ from a mailorder catalogue called Under The Rainbow, I think. Actually I can’t remember. It was 1983 for Christsakes! But that album changed my life and I’ve been listening to your albums ever since (even ‘St Anger’!).
I can’t wait to hear the new shit, and no matter what you guys do I’ll always be first one at the shop waiting to hear it. I’m sure you’ll come out and blow everybody’s fuckin’ minds, because you’re fuckin’ METALLICA!
Good luck. And don’t release it until it’s kick-ass.
Yours, Dave Grohl.
P.S. Are you finished recording the drums yet?
I’m not really sure who he’s trying to mess with here, but that P.S. sounds kinda… ominous. Watch out, Lars–you know that Dave Grohl thinks he’s THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST… right?
DAVE GROHL’s “Open Letter” To METALLICA [Blabbermouth]
I have no idea why he would “send” this open letter, but that doesn’t change the fact that there’s not another rock star I’d rather hang out with more than Dave Grohl. And I don’t even particularly like Metallica.
Dave Grohl is full of win.
Give that man a cowbell or two pieces of wood with sandpaper or something* and get him on the next Metallica record, STAT!
*Two drumsticks and a drum kit preferably!
I’d buy that shit if Grohl played the drums. Lars is fucking AWFUL.
Open letter to Dave Grohl:
Practice what you preach, buddy.
@R. Morast: Hey now! (But, yeah, good point.)
Good for Grohl. Everything past …And Justice For All has been a mad weak cop out. Commercial crap… roller rink Bud Lite shite.
They need to go back to the break your ear drums rampant shredding (maybe with some steel guitar mixed in as well) and do a whole instrumental album, and screw the symphonic back up.
They need to make BADASS music again, like when Burton was riding. But I don’t think Grohl could or should even try to fill those shoes, Cliff was the master.
He’s one to talk, when was the last time Nirvana put out a good record?
@EddieRebel: LOL
@luciluce666: Does Grohl play bass?
@janine: Considering he recorded almost 100% of the first FF album by himself, he probably knows his way around a bass.
@janine: He plays a bit of everything.
Open letter to Dave Grohl:
Retire. Soon.
this open letter is weak sauce and not delivering the snark promised by the headline. very tricky, idolator.
Dear Dave. Yes, Metallica is old. But so are you. Go water your lawn and shut the fuck up.
Metallica need to take this to their Life Coach.
Bah, they both garbage. Metallica hasn’t put out a decent record since killem all and Nirvana sucked. I’d rather listen to some Bootsy.
I guess I am tired. Typo, *They are both garbage.
Even the watered down ACTUAL letter is pretty kick ass. I’ve always liked Grohl and stopped liking Metallica after Master of Puppets because that was their last good album. And it wasn’t as good as Ride the Lightning.
Metallica is through. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion of for how long… Go Grohl! Letting fun lead.
The Foos aren’t anywhere near Metallica’s level. Grohl, go find another “amateur-professional” musician to fiddle with you at the Grammys.
I have liked every Metallica album except for ReLoad and can’t wait for the new one.
Metallica rules. Always has always will.
Dave. Call the Queens of the Stone Age, ASAP!!
Much like his admiration for Metallica, I will probably always love Dave Grohl no matter how predictable and crappy his music becomes. Unless he becomes a superdouche like Chris Cornell…
I can’t say I’m the biggest Metallica fan, but I am puzzled how everyone dumps on St. Anger. I kinda like it. It has (to me) a good raw punked out sound, and the energy is there. So what is it? Poor mastering? lack of solos? bad songs? I guess some songs drag a bit long, and the therapy-session lyrics can get tiring, but it still rocks.
@mossdale: Try one of the shittiest drum sounds ever laid down.
And as far as a “good raw punked out sound,” I find it amazing you think they achieved that when the recording was so cut and paste in Pro Tools that the band had to spend a month learning how to play the songs Bob Rock built before playing them live.
@Whigged:
I like the drum sound–tinny, ugly and sharp. And I don’t care how the sound was created, so long as I like it. I don’t go looking for authenticity in mainstream pop/rock studio recordings.
So the beef is simply the drums?
Metallica hasn’t put out a decent record since killem all
Now that is elite.
From the In Your Honor guy… wow. Ballsy.
Still…Grohl got help from Stu Copeland on his stuff, and I don’t think he’d break Metallica any worse than it is.
I’d love to see the rockumentary of those sessions, though. I’m sure Lars’d relinquish the throne now and again.
Right.