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SEPTEMBER 1999 NEWS
MSG
9.29.99
Today's New York Daily News' Business section discusses Elektra's upcoming releases. It notes that Elktra was gearing up for their 4th quarter releases with their biggest acts including Metallica; it goes on to mention a November 23rd date at Madison Square Gareden,
Thanks Matt!
S&M
9.27.99
The upcoming CD/VHS/DVD release of the shows Metallica played with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on April 21 and 22 will be called S&M. The album is slated for release on November 23, as previously reported.
Thanks Fudgie!
NEW DVDS
9.27.99
DVDFILE reports that the re-release of both Cliff 'Em All and A Year and A Half... (Volumes 1 and 2 together!) on DVD will be out October 26th. They will retail for $24.95 each. Also, look forward to the still untitled Symphony release to be on DVD as well.
Thanks to Derek
UPDATE: You can pre-order these DVD's and save some cash. Amazon.com is offering the Cliff 'Em All DVD for 30% off the retail of $24.99 for a cost of $17.49; you can also pick up Year & A Half for 30% off, although that DVD does cost $34.99, so it becomes $24.49! Pick up Year & Half here and Cliff 'Em All here.
Ken Crane's has the DVD's available for pre-order as well, $20.49 (Year & A Half), the Cliff 'Em All price is the same as Amazon.com as well! (thanks to Frank).
NEW RELEASE DATE - AGAIN
9.21.99
Derek informs us that "I attended a midnight release of Nine Inch Nails new album TheFragile, and I noticed all over the "Coming soon" boards in my local HMV superstore in downtown Toronto, Ontario that Metallica's Symphony Sessions was being released November 23rd."
The date is also confirmed by Alternative Rock World.
RETURN TO ROCK UPDATE
9.20.99
TiM sent us this info from MTV.com on the show Lars will be hosting on MTV this upcoming weekend:
On Saturday, September 25th, MTV will crank up its 1999: Return of the Rock
special, a four-hour, video-based extravaganza featuring dozens of this
year's hottest and hardest rock acts. Check out Korn, Limp Bizkit, Orgy, Kid
Rock, Godsmack, Staind, Metallica and a slew of others. The show will be
hosted by none other than Metallica's Lars Ulrich.
And on both nights, it's a blast from the past with some hard rock video
madness when MTV goes into the vault for the All Time Rock Hard Videos A-Z.
Hours and hours of head-banging joy, from Alice in Chains to White Zombie, as
well as Headbangers Ball flashbacks, and much more.
Show dates are September 25th and 26th at 10:00pm Eastern."
THE MOURNING AFTER
9.20.99
RockOnTV has Metallica listed to appear on a MTV News 1515 Special called "The Mourning After," airing tomorrow at 12:00pm. For their part of the show, they will be discussing how they coped and managed to carry on successful musical careers following the loss of a band member.
UPDATE: The piece was made up of older clips of James and Lars talking about the aftermath of Cliff's passing. The interviews were circa 1991, possibly from an MTV Rockumentary.
NEW DATE SET FOR SYMPHONICA
9.17.99
An article at jamtv.com talks again about the upcoming Symphonica album/video and tourdates, most importantly, it mentions a new release date...
Metallica is getting cabin fever. Despite the fact that the band swore they needed to spend some time at home with their families after winding down an extensive U.S. tour last July, it looks like the world's most renowned headbangers are itching to get back on the road.
Drummer Lars Ulrich confided to fans during an online chat last week that plans are afoot for a brief U.S. tour early next year. "We are doing a short tour around the millennium with a confirmed show in Detroit on New Year's Eve and looking at about half a dozen other dates on each side," he said, "most probably around the Great Lakes area." So far, confirmed acts for the millennial show are Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.
And that's not all. It looks like Metallica will break out the oboes again and take their symphonic collaboration with superstar conductor Michael Kamen on the road. According to a spokesperson for Kamen, the maestro has had discussions with the metallurgists about staging another bombastic event, and they're looking at a tentative November date at Madison Square Garden.
The show -- if it goes off as planned -- will coincide with the release of a live recording of Metallica's collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony last April 14 and 15 at Berkeley's Community Theatre. According to Metallica's label, they are going to release an as-yet untitled record from the San Francisco sessions on November 16.
JAAN UHELSZKI
Mark November 16th on your calenders! Read the whole story here.
LARS TALKS TO MTV
9.16.99
From MTV.com:
Metallica's Ulrich Talks Symphonic Album And Mini-Tour
Metallica is currently putting the finishing touches on a live symphonic album recorded during the band's two-night stand with the San Francisco Symphony in April and tentatively due out in November.
The metal machine veterans are also discussing a short symphonic tour to be staged in conjunction with the release of the LP, which will feature two brand new songs, "Minus Human" and "No-Leaf Clover," that were recorded during the Berkeley, California shows.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich sat down with MTV News backstage at last week's Video Music Awards in New York City and discussed the progress of the live record as well as its designs to get orchestrated once again.
"We are in the process of mixing and finishing it right now," Ulrich said of the upcoming symphonic album. "So, with a little luck on our side it should be out in mid-November…. I don't want to give it all away, but we're looking to do a couple of selective promotion appearances around [the record] that will most likely involve symphony orchestras in the cities that we're [performing] in."
"After we've done the symphony shows," he continued, "we're gonna do a run of dates around the millennium. After we've done that, we're gonna take some time off. It's been 4 years now non-stop, and we're going to take probably six months off and then start thinking about a new studio album in the spring or fall of next year."
Details about the expected symphonic tour remain forthcoming, but Metallica has already signed on to play a New Year's Eve gig in Detroit with gonzo guitarist Ted Nugent.
Read the whole story here.
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9.16.99
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LARS, TV HOST
9.16.99
From Metallica.com:
"On Sept 25th, Lars will host a 4 hour show "Return To Rock" on MTV."
METAL EDGE REPORTS
9.15.99
From Metal Edge magazine's web site:
METALLICA, whose April 1999 concert with the San Francisco Symphony will be audible on CD November 2, plan to do more symphony live shows, but we hear they will be rocking solo at a free gig in New York's Central Park this fall (no date yet). There are also plans to play a couple of weeks' worth of shows around New Year's, with KID ROCK opening up. There are also plans to release DVD versions of Cliff 'Em All and A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica.
Read the story here.
TOUR INFO
9.14.99
As already reported Metallica will do about a dozen shows this holiday season. The biggest of these shows will be the Y2K show in Detroit on New Years Eve. Other shows will be in the Midwest/Great Lakes area most likely including Chicago, Milwaukee and others. We are hearing reports of a show on December 22nd in Wisconsin. Look for Kid Rock to be the opening act during this mini-tour.
TOP CONCERT IN THE 90S
9.12.99
The latest issue of Rolling Stone features an article by David Fricke giving his top concerts of the 1990s. Included was Metallica's Snake Pit Tour of 1991-1993. Excerpts:
"The principal issue was contact -- how to create more of it, between band and audience. Metallica's solution was the Snake Pit, an arrowhead-shaped stage with runways jutting deep into the crowd -- and a triangular hole in the center where, each night, between 150 and 200 fans stood literally inside the show, within easy high-fiving distance of guitarist Kirk Hammett, drummer Lars Ulrich, bassist Jason Newsted and Metallica's leonine blond stage captain, singer-guitarist James Hetfield.
Hetfield would always bitch about the fact that he wasn't close to the audience," says Metallica co-manager Peter Mensch, who came up with the Snake Pit idea. "So I said, 'The mountain can't come to Mohammed. Let's bring Mohammed to the mountain.'" So Metallica dragged the Snake Pit across America for nine months, then around much of the world and back to the U.S. as part of a two-year global assault that, near the end of the line in the spring of '93, was officially titled the Nowhere Else to Roam Tour."
KERRANG!
9.11.99
Some quotes from Kerrang, thanks to Maurizio in Italy!
"Metallica could be featured in the forthcoming documentary 'Revelations: Paradise Lost Revisited' which is expected to premiere in the Us early next year. The Original movie, 1996 'Paradise Lost'documented the aftermath of a brutal triple killing in Arkansas and the subsequent arrest and convinction of the local teenagers for the crime. As suspects were metallica fans, the band had three songs included on the soundtrack: 'Orion', 'Call Of Ktulu' and 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)'. This was the fist time Metallica had given permission for their music to be used on a soundtrack. Director Bruce Sinofsky says that the most recent cut of the sequel has nine Metallica songs included in it, and adds that drummer Lars Ulrich has already given his blessing to the film after watching a rough cut of it and finds it "just powerful" as its predecessor."
Also, "Dave Mustaine won the Kerrang award for Classic Songwriter, collecting the award Dave said: "I'm really pleased to have received this award, and I'd like to dedicate it to a little Danish drummer who turned me to Kerrang! way back in 1982. This award is for Lars."
...and "Some Dave quotes: " I don't have a problem with guys any more", referring to james and Lars. "Up until about three years ago I'd turn off the radio if a Metallica song came on,but now I'm fine with it". "I think they are a good band. I get really offended when people come up to me and say 'Metallica Suck' just because they think that's what I want to hear. Those are the same sort of people I believe would go up to saying that suck"
ARTISTDIRECT AWARDS
9.10.99
Members of Metallica will be presenting an award at ARTISTdirect Awards at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on October 7. They are also nominated for Best Hard Rock Artist, along with Korn, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, and Tool.
Help Metallica win by voting!
MTV AWARDS
9.08.99
Liz dropped us a line to say that Lars will on the MTV Music Video Awards, which is being televised 9-9-99 at 8pm and will be hosted by Chris Rock. We do not yet know the purpose of him gracing The Metropolitian Opera House tomorrow night...
K-ROCK CONTEST
9.08.99
FIXXER79 lets us know that "92.3 K-Rock from NYC is running an ad about giving away concert tix and Metallica with the Symphony orchestra is the main concert ticket they will be giving away... but there are no details yet."
UPDATE: TALLICA97 informs us that "I was listening to the radio show called "Hard Drive" last Sunday night on 105.1 WTOS in Portland, ME and the host Lou Brutis said that Metallica was playing Madison Square Garden in New York City on November 1 along with Micheal Kamen and the symphony orchestra. He also said the money from ticket sales would be going to charity."
METONTOUR CONTEST
9.07.99
MetOnTour has a new contest up called "Roadkill." It's your chance to win cool Metalllica swag for having the coolest Metallica story and pics from 1999! Check out MetOnTour for contest rules and details... and good luck!
WCW MAYHEM: THE MUSIC
9.02.99
Fade2Green sent us this:
"Musicians Invade the Ring The Return of Rock 'n' Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling, the home of mammoth stars like Hollywood Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash, is blurring the lines between kick-ass music and kicking ass.
The pro wrestling organization inked a five-year, multiple-album deal with Tommy Boy Records, and the first album, WCW Mayhem: The Music, is due out Nov. 2. Joining the mayhem are Kid Rock, Kiss, Slayer, Fat Joe and Big Pun, Ruff Ryders, Metallica, Insane Clown Posse and Rammstein.
UPDATE: We've learned the Metallica song featured on this album is a previously unreleased live version of Seek & Destroy!
99.3 THE FOX
9.02.99
Danica lets us know that this Friday on the Fox (99.3 in Vancouver), Lars will be calling Jeff O'Neil (her buddy) at the station and they'll be "chit-chattin'". So if you're in the area, be sure to tune in and hear what Lars has to say!
ROCK SOUND INTERVIEWS
9.01.99
August 1999 edition of ROCK SOUND features tour mates Lars and Dave Wyndorf of Monster Magnet on the cover, inside is a lengthy interview with both along with James.
Click here for excerpts.
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