Metallica and Bonnaroo
Growing
up in the mid-west music was sometimes hard to come by, or at least no
underground variety. When I was turned on to Metallica around 1986, the message
was quite clear, and some new direction had occurred in the dark rock world.
This affected a huge part of my playing and concepts of piecing together
musical ideas. A gallop to a trudging into inferno, Metallica was just what I
was looking for from age 11-17. It seemed crazy they had soon gotten commercial
in 1991. My personal musical path with heavy metal music rather suffocated
after high school. Jazz, Country, and Zappa seemed to take over. So, there was
no time Metallica and I collided in a live experience, until Bonnaroo 2008. A
couple years back I started getting a feeling for metal music again and
realizing it is the real underground power in this music field. Finding some
root love for metal always and forever now. You cannot deny those deep musical
tendencies. That is why songs like Wizard Burial Ground exist in our little
corner of the world. It just feels good to play assault riffage sometimes . .
. It seems strange I never got to see
Metallica till B’roo, but my god, it really made me feel like a kid again, like
I was transported back to 1987. Raging like true metalloids with Vince and the
rest of my crew. Who cares if it was a bit sloppy, the energy was unparalleled.
It was just what B’roo needed
Raging metalloids: Wade, me, Kathy, and Heidi
Jake