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~ DirtyBlack - Battery (Metallica Cover)
Views: 11362 |  |  |  |  | Metallica - Battery
Master of Puppets (1984--1986)
Elektra Records A&R director Michael Alago, and co-founder of Q-Prime Management Cliff Burnstein, attended a September 1984 Metallica concert. Impressed with what they saw, they signed Metallica to Elek ...More tra Records and made the band a client of Q-Prime Management.[15] Metallica's burgeoning success was such that the band's British label Music for Nations issued a limited edition Creeping Death EP, which sold 40,000 copies as an import in the U.S. Two of the three songs on the record (cover versions of Diamond Head's "Am I Evil?", and Blitzkrieg's "Blitzkrieg") appeared on the 1989 Elektra reissue of Kill 'Em All.[16] Metallica embarked on its first major European tour with Tank to an average crowd of 1,300. Returning to the U.S. marked a tour co-headlining with W.A.S.P. and Armored Saint supporting. Metallica played its largest show at the Monsters of Rock festival on August 17, 1985, with Bon Jovi and Ratt at Donington Park in England, playing in front of 70,000 people. A show in Oakland, California, at the Day on the Green festival saw the band play in front of a crowd of 60,000. Metallica's third studio album, Master of Puppets was recorded at Sweet Silence Studios and was released in March 1986. The album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200, and spent 72 weeks on the chart.[17] The album was the band's first to be certified gold on November 4, 1986, and was certified six times platinum in 2003.[3] Some critics, including Steve Huey of All Music Guide, consider the album to be the "greatest heavy metal album of all time", and earned Metallica the title of the "pioneers of thrash metal".[18] Following the release of the album, Metallica supported Ozzy Osbourne for a U.S. tour.[15] Hetfield broke his wrist skateboarding down a hill and continued the tour performing vocals, with guitar technician John Marshall playing rhythm guitar Master of Puppets is the third album by American thrash metal band Metallica. The album was recorded in 1985[3] and released by Elektra Records on March 26, 1986 (see 1986 in music) in North America.
The album reached number twenty-nine on the U.S. Billboard 200, and has to date sold over six million copies in U.S. alone. It was the last album the band recorded with bass player Cliff Burton and is considered a landmark in the history of heavy metal.
Battery" is the opening track of Metallica's 1986 album Master of Puppets. As with the opening track from Ride the Lightning, Battery begins with a slow, clean guitar part. In this case, as many as four acoustic guitars are layered harmonically before the drums and bass come in with distorted guitars playing a more melodic version of the acoustic part. This lasts until 1:06, when the guitars cut into a very fast minimalist thrash metal riff that is the basis for the rest of the song. In live concerts, the beginning is not played by the band but instead the actual recording is used (recently dropped 1/2 step in key, since the band tunes 1/2 step down).In keeping with the general "control" theme of Master of Puppets, the lyrics of "Battery" discuss the control that anger can have over one's behavior. The title refers to "battery" in the sense of "assault and battery", as shown by these lyrics: "Smashing through the boundaries / Lunacy has found me / Cannot stop the battery". The song is an indirect tribute to the Old Waldorf Club in San Francisco on Battery street.Battery is still an almost constant part of the band's live set list, frequently as the opening or closing song. In some cases, it is also used as a song before the intermission. When played, the song may stop before the interlude, and James Hetfield asks the crowd "Are you alive?... How does it feel to be alive?" and followed by the solo played by Kirk Hammett. During the chorus of the original version, bassist Cliff Burton can be heard roaring the backing vocals each time Hetfield says the title.
In the live version of the song played on the Live #@!&: Binge & Purge album, intros to the songs "No Remorse", "Ride the Lightning", and "So What?" are played in the song. When performed with the San Francisco Symphony in 1999, the intro up to the thrash riff was instead played by string players in the symphony, utilizing pizzicato in the beginning (the original acoustic) then with bows for the rest.The song "The Bitter End" from Sum 41 is very close to the song song was covered by Eric AK (Flotsam & Jetsam), Dave Lombardo, Mike Clark, and Robert Trujillo for Metallic Assault: A Tribute to Metallica. Dave Lombardo .This song (along with the entire Master of Puppets album) was covered by Dream Theater as part of their world tour in 2002 and has been released as an official Bootleg recording.This song was covered by the band Machine Head for Kerrang!'s Master of Puppets: Remastered, and is also included as a bonus track on some versions of their album The Blackening. |
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~ Dream Theater - In the Name of God (96%) Puppetz Hero 4
Views: 929 |  |  |  |  | Youtube only accepts videos under 10 minutes. (This song is 16). But I cutted the outro of the song (3mins), and faded it out smoothly at a good spot, cuz it's the same the last 4 minutes. And I started recording after 5 minutes, perfectly at the interlud ...More e. And also this is one of Petruccis fastest solos...
Game: Frets on Fire
Artist: Dream Theater
Song: In the Name of God
Difficulty: Expert
Charts/Made/Played by (me): Puppetz_86
Mod: MFH v3.0 (RB2 Theme)
Gear: Keyboard
Lefty Mode: Yes
Recorded with: Fraps
Avaible at: "When PH4 is released" |
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~ Rice Rocket Asian Plays Marshall Vintage Modern
Views: 3175 |  |  |  |  | A further demonstration of how to destroy your hearing and of course the oh so Organic, Awesomely Scintillating Vintage Modern 100 watt head by Marshall. I am biamping this into the power stage of a late 1980s Peavey Ultra head (kick ass amp!!).
The fo ...More llowing is a medley in which I play some Petrucci in a true rice rocket chop suey Asian style with extra MSG followed by an excerpt of The Gothic Love Interlude, an original piece by NetherSphere (my old project). If you enjoy this, check out our videos by typing badacidbadacid into the Youtube search..
Enjoy and keep rocking!! Spot the cheesiness!!!
(Jim spot the bum notes) |
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~ VIGILANTE MIFA 2005 Bass Arpeggio Demo by Makoto Unno
Views: 2308 |  |  |  |  | Demonstrations at MIFA 2005 and played bass arpeggio interlude. ジャーマン プログレ 様式美 クラシカル ハイトーン インギー イングヴェイ
HELLOWEEN DREAM THEATER FATES WARNING JUDAS PRIEST
IRON MAIDEN QUEENSRYCHE NEVERMORE MEGADETH GAMMARAY CYNIC SYNPHONY X VICIOUS RUMORS SAVATAGE SILENT ...More FORCE DUNGEON LORD AGENT STEEL SAVAGE GRACE CRIMSON GLORY
CACOPHONY RACER-X Rob Halford Michael Kiske Geoff Tate John Arch
John Petrucci James Labrie Shrapnel |
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