Flemming Rasmussen reveals insights into the Metallica Albums in a new online Masterclass!!!

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thegame said:
The weird part is he detailed a lot of this stuff 20 years ago for free on the old gearslutz forums. So unless he has volumes of newly discovered material regarding what he did 40 years ago at those sessions, I can't help but think he's just repackaging what he already put out for a hefty fee this time. I hate saying it too as I truly love the results he got and his hardnosed approach in the studio towards the musicians (Kirk Hammett is on record as saying it was much more stressful working under FR than Bob Rock).
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Hammett recorded his solos in sections on AJFA, MOP and RTL, while the Black album was usually whole takes. I think regardless of how stressful it was FR got the better performances out of him. I mean this was back when Hammett worked hard on mapping out his solos and treating them as a song within a song unlike his new approach... just improvise everything, which is lazy IMO.
 
anomaly said:
Hammett recorded his solos in sections on AJFA, MOP and RTL, while the Black album was usually whole takes. I think regardless of how stressful it was FR got the better performances out of him. I mean this was back when Hammett worked hard on mapping out his solos and treating them as a song within a song unlike his new approach... just improvise everything, which is lazy IMO.
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I know that many do not like his playing regardless of the era, but in my opinion there was a time when Hammett was approaching greatness. His leads on (recorded in parts - punches are audible) ANJFA in particular were an interesting combination of really frantic, modern sounding, unusual scales and wild bends...along with more traditional, gutsy bluesy runs....and even melodic, vocal sounding sections. More recently, he recaptured this feel on the solo for "Bleeding me", which may be his best work to date. Just some thoughts.
 
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angelspade said:
I know that many do not like his playing regardless of the era, but in my opinion there was a time when Hammett was approaching greatness. His leads on (recorded in parts - punches are audible) ANJFA in particular were an interesting combination of really frantic, modern sounding, unusual scales and wild bends...along with more traditional, gutsy bluesy runs....and even melodic, vocal sounding sections. More recently, he recaptured this feel on the solo for "Bleeding me", which may be his best work to date. Just some thoughts.
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"Bleeding Me"? Are you serious? Can't be. I dig the song a lot but the solo just sounds like another wah drenched improvised Hammett blues solo to me. Nothing like his 80's work.
 
anomaly said:
"Bleeding Me"? Are you serious? Can't be. I dig the song a lot but the solo just sounds like another wah drenched improvised Hammett blues solo to me. Nothing like his 80's work.
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Sounds like something a hater would say 🤔
 
anomaly said:
"Bleeding Me"? Are you serious? Can't be. I dig the song a lot but the solo just sounds like another wah drenched improvised Hammett blues solo to me. Nothing like his 80's work.
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I know what he means, there's something in that solo that I really feel when I listen to it that isn't there with most everything else from that era. Might very well be a broken clock is right twice a day situation but that is a perfect solo for the song and a pretty great guitar solo in general.

However I also agree with @angelspade in that the AJFA era showed a Hammett that was truly approaching being a genuinely great player and soloist in the late 80's / early 90's. Like he was never going to be a Dimebag or Petrucci but he had his own voice and was able to write some cool stuff that wouldn't have occurred to anybody else to write and he was able to play with a kind of raw ferocity that was its own special thing. Listen to the Dyers Eve solo and tell me it doesn't have the intensity of like a white hot nuclear laser beam or something. It rules. And then there's the Unforgiven solo. I don't think anybody would argue that it's not one of the greatest metal solos of all time. It's practically its own fully developed song within a song. I mean sure, Bob Rock practically had to beat it out of him, but it was in there. :D That came from the mind of Kirk Hammett.

Now he just mindlessly wanks off the cuff and it sucks, but there was defintiely something there for a while.
 
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TheGreatGreen said:
I know what he means, there's something in that solo that I really feel when I listen to it that isn't there with most everything else from that era. Might very well be a broken clock is right twice a day situation but that is a perfect solo for the song and a pretty great guitar solo in general.
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Yes...This is what a meant.
 
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I'd be so much more interested in Fleming's work with Blind Guardian.

If we're actually talking about the production, those 90s BG albums were lightyears more interesting than the metallica records.
 
TheGreatGreen said:
lol

However, he actually does have all the notes and stuff back from those sessions so at least he's not just lying about it.

Also I have to say, I like what Flemming is doing if for no other reason than the fact that James has been such a catty bitch about guarding how he gets his tone for so long.
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Watch your mouth when you talk about Papa Het ole son....

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ChuggNorris said:
Watch your mouth when you talk about Papa Het ole son....

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Hetfield is great. One of my greatest musical influences.

But let's not pretend he hasn't always been unnecessarily jealously guarded about his gear.
 
For pure studio/production work, I'd much rather watch a masterclass put on by Bob Rock.
 
Cool class, Honestly really shows you besides great tunes, how micing, Unique amp and rig setups, And generating ones own sound is so important. Something that has gone away in today's music and recording world.
 
TheGreatGreen said:
Hetfield is great. One of my greatest musical influences.

But let's not pretend he hasn't always been unnecessarily jealously guarded about his gear.
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If I single-handedly ushered in a new era of tone (scooped and absurdly high gain, for the time, distortion) that thousands of players tried to ape, I’d be rather guarded about it too.
 
thegame said:
If I single-handedly ushered in a new era of tone (scooped and absurdly high gain, for the time, distortion) that thousands of players tried to ape, I’d be rather guarded about it too.
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I could understand him being guarded about it in the 80's and maybe even mid 90's, sure. But now? His place in history has been cemented for the last what, 20-30 years? He doesn't have to worry about anything. Nobody is usurping James Hetfield for his contributions to metal. Even if he put people in a time machine and plugged them into his old rigs, few people if anybody would sound like him. That right hand is such a signature part of his sound that most people just couldn't duplicate.

I guess I'm just saying even if he did give away every secret he had, most people still wouldn't be able to play just like he did. At this point I think it would just be the courteous thing for him to do, hah. :D
 
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TheGreatGreen said:
I could understand him being guarded about it in the 80's and maybe even mid 90's, sure. But now? His place in history has been cemented for the last what, 20-30 years? He doesn't have to worry about anything. Nobody is usurping James Hetfield for his contributions to metal. Even if he put people in a time machine and plugged them into his old rigs, few people if anybody would sound like him. That right hand is doing a lot of the work. Most every metal guitarist knows how to play Master of Puppets but have to ever tried to record yourself playing that stuff, listening back to back to the real thing, and really try to nail it? It's far from easy.

I guess I'm just saying even if he did give away every secret he had, most people still wouldn't be able to play just like he did. At this point I think it would just the courteous thing for him to do, hah. :D
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Well, as far as I know, he used the same right hand on St. Anger and everything else later!
 
thegame said:
Well, as far as I know, he used the same right hand on St. Anger and everything else later!
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lol I'm not saying Metallica has been able to write a riff worth a shit for the last 20+ years, but Het was at the top of the genre in his prime in both rhythm playing and tone.
 
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