Did Lloyd Grant an original member of Metallica? He sets the record straight

Last month Namm‘p “Ultimate Jam Night”At Lloyd Grantthe guitarist who played on the original recording of Metallica song “Hit the lights” In early 1982, he reflected on how he joined the legendary heavy metal action more than four decades ago. He told me Reality Check TV (like transcript of Blabbermouth.net): “Well, I don’t think Metallica Want to say I’m an original member because the band wasn’t really formed at that time. It was like i was looking for people to play with and we had a magazine or a weekly (publication) coming out every Thursday, and Lars (UlrichAt Metallica Drummer) put an ad in and I answered the ad. And we started to get stuck and so on. “

Back in 2015, Give told the tea “Rockzone Legends” Show how he first got involved in Metallica: “There are a lot of different versions of what happened. My version is, me and Lars Bumped down there in Orange County, California, and we squeezed with a few people and we were looking for other people to clamp. And we met through … they had a weekly newspaper down here called RecyclingAnd we met it. And that’s how it started. “

He continued: “We played for a long time and he came down to my place, my apartment, once and he kept asking me to come by and jam with the band but I was really busy doing others things. James (HetfieldAt Metallica guitarist/vocalist); Just the three of us. James played bass and I played guitar and Lars played drums. And we practiced it ‘Hit the lights’ song. But far before that, Lars Let me hear that song. We hung out and watched football, and he says, ‘Hi, I met this guy,’ blah blah blah, ‘and he’s exactly what we want to squeeze.’ And he played this one song and it was amazing and that is how I was first introduced to ‘Hit the lights’. And then I went and jerked a few times. Then he called me and said they were going on this compilation album (‘Metal massacre’) and he brought a bond over ‘Hit the lights’ Recorded on a four-track and asked me to make some solos for it and they would bring down the four-lane and they just wanted to put it out of a dump it on the compilation album. “

Give Also talked about how it was like participating Metallica On stage at Fillmore in San Francisco as part of the week-long celebration of the band’s 30th anniversary in December 2011.

“Yes, it was one of the greatest experiences of my lifetime, man,” he said. “I went up there and all these rock stars show up – showing up – Ozzy (Osbourne) Geezer Butler… Everyone was quite well known and rock stars on the same stage that I had to play that night, so it was a pretty wonderful experience. And these guys worked really hard on it. I mean, they would get there in the morning and they would play all the songs they had to play in the set and they would go over them several times. They would start practicing in the morning and they would stop just before the show start (ed) so they worked really hard. So more power to them. They worked pretty hard. And not just that and not just that – they were really hospitable and it was a great experience to be honest. A really good experience. “

In his “Metallica UNDED” Book, noticed HARD ROCK -Journalist Kj Doughton wrote about Give‘s short time with Metallica“Lars and James decided, with only hours to go before ‘Hit the lights’ Demo was going to submit (to be included at Metal leaf shoots‘ ‘Metal massacre’ Collection) that another lead of another guitarist would be important! Lars knew a Jamaican guitarist by name Lloyd Grant Who was available. Then on the way to Hollywoods Bijou Studio where Brian Slagel (Metal leaf shoots Head Honcho) had already finished mixing the other ‘Metal massacre’ Tracks the band screamed into Give‘s driveway, the four-lane adorned into his front room and saw him throw another blypause. The ‘Hit the lights’ The recipe was now done. “

“I remember we had this four-track recorder,” explained Hetfieldreminds of the fight at the last minute. “It had traces of drums, bass, guitar and vocals. Because there was no vocals in certain parts of the song we could beat a lead on the vocal track. I remember we would get another solo on so we stopped past Lloyd‘s house and connected a small fuckin’ amp and just torn through a solo. It was the first roof. We went into the studio and that solo ended up on the record. It’s a fuckin ‘big solo, man! “

Although many stories claim Give was actually a member of MetallicaAt James Maintains that this single, slapdash meeting was the only time he was involved in the band. Other employees remember that Give Was a talented Delta Blues player who had an ability for tasty leads. “He could play leads like a motherfucker,” said James“But his rhythm things were not very tight.”

The second and third pressure on “Hit the lights” before “Metal Massacre” included Dave Mustaine And not Give.

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