Только что прочитала интервью
Металлики 1988 г. Очень интересные вещи там освещаются. Ну, про манеру разговаривать Ларса Ульриха и Хетфилда я не буду ничего говрить, трэш-металисты все-таки =) А вот про способ сочинения песен очень познавательно. Например:
For Metallica, writing and recording an album is an extremely piecemeal, even abstract process. Their songwriting begins literally in a garage, which Ulrich and Hetfield sift through riff tapes compiled by the four band members.
"We've got riffs from years and years," explains Hetfield. "On the road we constantly riff and write it down."
"The riffs have feels," says Ulrich. "First we start separating the riffs into... "
"...Categories... " says Hetfield.
"Like, some shit is strong enough to be the main idea of a tune. Then we go through the tapes and try to find possible bridges, choruses, middle bits or whatever. After we have the skeleton of a song, we start getting a feel for what the song's really like. Then we search for a title from a list of titles that fits with the riffing's
mood."
After assembling the song, the group works it out on a demo.
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After completing the click track, the group is ready to record. Here again Metallica differ from standard procedure by going after a full, "live" sound in the most roundabout of ways.
"We record about as nonlive as possible," says Ulrich. "There's never more than one guy in the studio at any one point in time."
Building the click track, says Hetfield, takes "a lot longer, probably, than it would to actually do it live". The recording procedure goes something like this: Hetfield lays down his scratch rhythm, Ulrich records his drum tracks, Hetfield returns and completes his final rhythm-guitar parts, Newsted adds the bass, then Hetfield and
Hammett alternate leads and vocals, "so we don't burn ourselves out".