Yes, it’s parody site. I knew that right away. Metallica is NOT really suing some unknown underground band because of the chords they use. It’s all a big practical joke.
But I am stunned at how many people are finding that site and BELIEVING it!! People sympathetic to my anti-Metallica crusade have been sending me email, and the metal boards are filled with posts from people falling for it. Hell, there’s even a BBQ Pit thread (now locked) on the subject…and people here are smart!!!
I think it’s obvious that Metallica’s antics have become so outrageous, that just about anything they do is believable, whether or not its a hoax.
I wonder if this is the beginning of the end for them? Maybe, maybe not. But if they really want to sue somebody for ripping off their current sound, they should sue The Osbournes for showing their house full of DOG SHIT.
To me it seems, if you testify in front of Congress (as Metallica did concerning Napster piracy) you lose a HUGE amount of rock and roll credibility.
Let’s face it, rock and roll conveys an adolescent “screw you, I don’t care, drop dead, etc” type of attitude. Examples - the song “Who Do You Love?” - ‘Just turned 18 and I don’t mind dying’. OR the song “Talking 'Bout My Generation” - 'Hope I die before I get old."
I don’t think there’s EVER been a rock song that says - “mess with me and I’ll bring you up on charges in front of a Congressional Sub-Committee hearing”. LOL
Some might say that Pearl Jam also testified before Congress. Yes but they did it in order to help the fans. (esp high ticket prices). Whereas Metallica were complaining that their music was being stolen by their fans by using Napster.
Granted, I think that Metallica should earn money that is rightfully theirs but if folks were downloading their songs, wouldn’t they be Metallica fans? How do you think such fans feel when the band they like is practically “turning” on them?
I think Metallica’s appearing before Congress was the adult equivalent of the Grammar School “I’m gonna tell the teacher”.
Bad move Metallica.
AND rock on Pearl Jam.
A similar thread was up in the Pit a few days ago. A couple posters found out that it was a really well done hoax. There’s links to the hoax pages in the Pit thread.
Just including the link, to the thread you mentioned, KGS. Upon rereading my reply it looks like I didn’t see that you got it was a hoax (despite your having made it very clear that you had in the OP, and that something like this would have to be). Sorry I didn’t word that better.
And upon re-rereading, I see that you did include the link to the hoax cite, just not to the pit thread, which was the main reason I’d linked the pit thread in the first place. :smack: I’m going back to bed.
I’d just like to say Jimmy Kimmel reported this news on his show the other night. Then last night he apologized for reporting it and that he didn’t know it was a hoax and had just found out.
I heard a radio show report it as news Wednesday (I think) morning. One of the guys on the show (not the person reading) did at least question the validity of the source (some wire service).
Yeah, and that’s the thing, Metallica used to be all about, “Fuck you radio, fuck you authority, fuck you MTv!” Something my 18 year old adolescent mind at the time could definitely connect with…and, to no small extent these days, still do.
It was when they switched to “Fuck you, Metallica FANS!” that I took umbrage.
Well, I remember a few people who quit listening to Metallica back in '85 because they thought Ride the Lightning was “too artsy-fartsy”. So go figure.
While I agree with statement in a general sense, I must ask…huh?? How does it apply here?
I don’t think people like Jimmy Kimmel have an inherent bias against Metallica, they were just duped. Indeed, a lot of them felt pretty stupid after they were told that they fell for the joke.
I can’t speak for Jimmy Kimmel, but the hoax is so obviously false that people would (and should) disregard it on first look. The only reason anyone fell for it was because they thought Metallica were sue-happy sellouts.
You don’t have to own a Lars voodoo doll to have that opinion, just have a vague undertsanding of the music biz.
