Nee Lewman
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I’m sure I won’t express this as eloquently as I’d like, but as I start listening to this again, I think I’ve figured out what makes me react so strongly to it. So classical music is more static than rock music by its very nature. It is reserved. There can be expression, but it is nuanced.
Rock is the opposite of that, it is guttural and on the edge of falling into chaos. Metallica should be dangerous (and this is some of the issue with the band post Black album in general - they became pop and lost the ability to be dangerous as a result).
By combining the two in a live setting both have been robbed of what makes them special. Neither art form is allowed to breathe, the symphony has to act in such away that it doesn’t destroy the music should the band go a little too far one way or the other.
And Metallica can’t be as off the cuff as they normally would. It’s why James comes off so corny through out all of it… it’s a show that’s been rehearsed to death and his moments of manic showmanship are forced through that filter of rehearsed to death.
Everything that makes both art forms special is lost. So we get a caricature of both… it resembles both and is neither. It’s almost a new thing but is just off. They’re able to let the symphony shine through the instrumental pieces at the beginning but never find a way to let the band be the band.
Sure things like Fuel are better than their recorded counterparts but it’s such a low bar to begin with.
Rock is the opposite of that, it is guttural and on the edge of falling into chaos. Metallica should be dangerous (and this is some of the issue with the band post Black album in general - they became pop and lost the ability to be dangerous as a result).
By combining the two in a live setting both have been robbed of what makes them special. Neither art form is allowed to breathe, the symphony has to act in such away that it doesn’t destroy the music should the band go a little too far one way or the other.
And Metallica can’t be as off the cuff as they normally would. It’s why James comes off so corny through out all of it… it’s a show that’s been rehearsed to death and his moments of manic showmanship are forced through that filter of rehearsed to death.
Everything that makes both art forms special is lost. So we get a caricature of both… it resembles both and is neither. It’s almost a new thing but is just off. They’re able to let the symphony shine through the instrumental pieces at the beginning but never find a way to let the band be the band.
Sure things like Fuel are better than their recorded counterparts but it’s such a low bar to begin with.
