Metallica biography book
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Pulling Teeth: In Search of a Quality Metallica Biography
In search of a quality Metallica biography.
Birth School Metallica Death by Ian Winwood and Paul Brannigan. Da Capo Press. pages.
IN THE EXCELLENT British documentary Mission to Lars journalist Kate Spicer pledges to take her brother Tom to meet his hero, Lars Ulrich, Metallica’s impish, Danish drummer. Tom has Fragile X syndrome, a severe form of autism, and he lives in a residential care home. His days are ruled by routine and familiarity, but Kate wants him to have an adventure. One of the few desires he has ever expressed is to, as he laconically repeats throughout the film, “meet Lars,” and so with some difficulty Tom, Kate and their younger brother, Will, follow Metallica’s tour across America, hoping to meet Lars backstage at one of their concerts.
The film is more about familial guilt than it is about Metallica, but it works as a companion piece to ’s Some Kind of Monster, the documentary that stripped away the action-figure heroism of rock stardom and showed us that being in the world’s most famous metal band could be hell. Not a grand, Miltonian, metal hell, but the worldly hell of an endless office meeting, led by a quartet of inadequate CEOs. By this point in their career, Metallica — post-N
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I had never heard of author/music critic Mick Wall until I stumbled across Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica last week, but Wall certainly knows his way around much of the hard rock and heavy metal world.
In addition to writing for various metal mags and publications like the London Times, Wall has penned bios of Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Bono and Guns N Roses.
I&#;m looking forward to reading more of Wall&#;s stuff, because Enter Night is an intelligent, thorough, high-quality work &#; filled with both sharp insights and cutting anecdotes, while not lacking on the lets-look-at-the-car-wreck sleaze that made rock bios like &#;Hammer of the Gods&#; so much damn fun.
Wall has interviewed Metallica members James Hetfield and Lar Ulrich numerous times over the years. Wall has also spent a good amount of time with Kirk Hammett and Cliff Burton (much less with Jason Newsted, but more on that later). Wall also interviewed other prominent figures in Metallica&#;s history, like Dave Mustaine, Rob Trujillo, Ron McGovney, Jonny and Marsha Zazula, Brian Slagel, Bob Rock, Flemming Rasmussen and members of Armored Saint, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and other bands, tour managers and insiders.
All of that access did not turn Wall into a sycophant; i
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