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http://www.last.fm/user/luisrojas · by **Hitman** » Wed May 23, 2007 1:59 pm

Dylan wrote:did you read Lars' wank on about Middle Eastern culture in their music?

what a knob...

Nope.
Where?

by **Dylan** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:29 pm

"There is a really unusual theme that's working it's way into the music. I'm not really sure how to react to it. Maybe it's someone else trying to tell us that we should react to it, but a lot of the music has an eastern harmonic flair to it, a harmonic minor flair to it, and when I say harmonic minor, that could be construed as like eastern sounding or Middle Eastern sounding or maybe Arabic? I don't know if it's just the zeitgeist, a sign of the times, or maybe because like, you know, Middle Eastern culture is so prevalent, or maybe the negative things about Middle Eastern culture. Maybe artists are conscious, just want to shine light on the positive aspects of Middle Eastern culture, i.e. the music. But there's passages that sound, that use harmonic minor and dominant, and those sounds are distinctly Arabic sounding or Middle Eastern sounding, and you hear them in all the songs. At the less likely times, all of a sudden they'll turn a corner and there we are, smack, right dab there in Syria or Iraq, as far as culture is concerned. We're playing notes that were played, have been played for thousands of years, that aren't born in western culture, and it's just a trip to see. And maybe I'm the first to really vocalize it, but it's just there."

Lars Ulrich from the Wikipedia Article

http://www.last.fm/user/luisrojas · by **Hitman** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:35 pm

http://www.last.fm/user/luisrojas · by **Hitman** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:39 pm

That was actually Kirk...

by **Dylan** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:04 pm

my bad

by **Untermensch** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:10 pm

LOL. That was just a really long way of saying "Modern Western music seems to have a Middle Eastern influence"

by **BJN** » Wed May 23, 2007 8:43 pm

Hitman wrote:Nah, James and Lars = Metallica. Without that combo Metallica would never have reached the level they did. Lars is a fuckwit, but he came across worse in SKOM because James was going through the whole drying out thing. Also, Lars is a mega homo, just like Kirk, but whatever...

In the past (primarily in the '80s), yes. But he's not a great drummer and his ideas and directions for the band have been largely responsible for everything that's been wrong with Metallica on the latest few albums.

Is "Wherever I May Roam" in the harmonic minor scale?
Regardless, the scales that Middle-Eastern music use are hot shizzle.

http://www.last.fm/user/luisrojas · by **Hitman** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:06 pm

BJN wrote:In the past (primarily in the '80s), yes. But he's not a great drummer and his ideas and directions for the band have been largely responsible for everything that's been wrong with Metallica on the latest few albums.

And you base this assumption on what, exactly?

by **BJN** » Fri May 25, 2007 3:29 pm

Things he has said in interviews and on Some Kind of Monster.

He thought touring with Kid Rock was awesome for fuck's sake!

http://www.last.fm/user/luisrojas · by **Hitman** » Fri May 25, 2007 3:38 pm

And who are you to judge?

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