Petition to end Metallica's ties to Bob Rock

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View/sign [a href=\'http://www.petitiononline.com/SaveMet/petition.html\' target=\'_blank\']the petition[/a]. [!--emo&:blink:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/blink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'blink.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
I'm not signing the petition because I think it's unfair to blame Bob Rock for Metallica's decline. I'm not denying that Rock has had a great deal of influence on Metallica, or that a change in producer could be good. But ultimately, the producer works for the band. And if the members of Metallica like Rock's work, then all they would do is find someone who would fill the exact same role.

A slightly more useful suggestion would be to give Metallica a list of other good producers who they should consider working with. I myself wouldn't try to put such a list together because I don't especially pay attention to who produces what albums, but I'm sure there are people here who know their metal well enough to come up with a good list.

A much better petition would be one which told Metallica what we like, and what we don't want to hear anymore. Bring back the guitar solos and get rid of the tin-can drums. Forget the touchy-feely St. Anger-style lyrics and bring back the kind of lyrical intelligence we saw on Puppets and Justice. As artists, it's Metallica right to play what they like - but OTOH, the millions of fans who would probably agree with those 2 sentences above aren't likely to be wrong. Most people don't want to hear a clone of Puppets; we still want to be pleasantly surprised, and I at least think Metallica's spirit of experimentation has a good side. But fer crying out loud, if you're going to call your band Metallica, you should at least play something that more closely resembles metal.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-SinisterMinisterX+Jan 21 2005, 06:57 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(SinisterMinisterX @ Jan 21 2005, 06:57 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]I'm not signing the petition because I think it's unfair to blame Bob Rock for Metallica's decline. I'm not denying that Rock has had a great deal of influence on Metallica, or that a change in producer could be good. But ultimately, the producer works for the band. And if the members of Metallica like Rock's work, then all they would do is find someone who would fill the exact same role.

A slightly more useful suggestion would be to give Metallica a list of other good producers who they should consider working with. I myself wouldn't try to put such a list together because I don't especially pay attention to who produces what albums, but I'm sure there are people here who know their metal well enough to come up with a good list.

A much better petition would be one which told Metallica what we like, and what we don't want to hear anymore. Bring back the guitar solos and get rid of the tin-can drums. Forget the touchy-feely St. Anger-style lyrics and bring back the kind of lyrical intelligence we saw on Puppets and Justice. As artists, it's Metallica right to play what they like - but OTOH, the millions of fans who would probably agree with those 2 sentences above aren't likely to be wrong. Most people don't want to hear a clone of Puppets; we still want to be pleasantly surprised, and I at least think Metallica's spirit of experimentation has a good side. But fer crying out loud, if you're going to call your band Metallica, you should at least play something that more closely resembles metal.
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why blame BOB, blame the money hungry Lars [!--emo&:cussing:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/cussing[1].gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'cussing[1].gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
It's stupid to make a petition like this, and what would be the difference when they have a new producer, they write their own songs, bob did a great job on the black album !!!!!!! it's a bloody classic album [!--emo&:rock:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/headbang.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'headbang.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
I'm not much of a fan of mettallica. also, their new stuff sucks. so ,I guess I'll sign it. don't get me wrong, they HAD good songs, but only 3, and thats kinda sad.
 
It's Metallica who has the last word on every song. They can play it the way they want, but they're very good friends with bob rock so they easily take critisism from him as a third part, and i think that's just good!
 
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