Mt. Rockmore | Season 4| Episode #401 Metallica "Pre-Black"

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Let's hope they hear this.

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Breaking down the best four songs.

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This, this, this is No Rock, No Rock.

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You shut your mouth when you're talking to me.

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Well, we were looking there.

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We got ourselves a brand new season of the old Mount Rock

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more for your listening and dining pleasure.

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I don't even know what that means.

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Welcome metal bangers, metallic cats, and defiant metal fans of Beavis

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and Butthead, I am your host for this climb up season four of Mount Rock

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for this being episode number 401, as we pay tribute to the four

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career defining songs of the arguably biggest metal band

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this spinning ball called Earth has ever seen.

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The one and only Metallica.

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And here as we kick off 2025, we are digging deep into

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one half of Metallica's discography.

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But for our other climbs at the mountains, I just ask your Alexa

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or Google for some of our other Mount Rock more ventures.

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Like last season we took on the four career defining songs

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of the Foo Fighters.

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And I brought my daughters on to climb the Mount Rock

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more of Pop Punk Legends Green Day.

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And for those who just think it's too loud for me, I hear you.

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And while we expect the volume to date a sore past 11,

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feel free to ask your Luxr Google to play the Mount Rock more of

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Love or Boy if you're into a little nostalgia and perhaps

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not so loud of volume.

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But first, let's set today's ground rules heading into season number

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four of Mount Rock more.

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Today's ground rules, we are solely, solely talking about Metallica songs

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that came before the black album.

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You see, one thing we know for Metallica fans is that

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both casual and die hard fans agree Metallica had an equator.

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And that equator started and ended at the black album.

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There was a before the black album and an after the black album.

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That black album was the equator, released in 1991.

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That's where this line in the sand was drawn.

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That line separated the once underground, extremely greasy, long-haired Metallica

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from those that only knew the metalheads from the now they're being played on the radio

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and heavy rotation Metallica that came from the release of the black album.

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And for the record, once the black album saw the success it had,

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radio all across the United States began playing some of the older Metallica songs.

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Generally, if you worked at a radio station like I did at KSJO in San Jose, California,

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the Bay Area home of Metallica,

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we had our triple shot weekends, which were in essence for those of you around the country.

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Block party weekends, right?

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The rest of you had these block party weekends you'd play like three Metallica songs in a row.

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Well, we had our triple shot weekends that we did those in.

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But then Metallica was so huge, we actually bumped out what used to be a die hard benchmark at the radio station.

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We bumped out Led Zeppelin and we threw in something called Mandatory Metallica.

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We're each and every night you'd have three, four, five Metallica songs in a row.

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It was usually on the shorter end because some of those Metallica songs could be pretty long as we'll attest to here today.

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But it was huge Metallica was massive.

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They took the world by storm and all of a sudden you started hearing these songs,

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the older songs being played right next to things like Enter Sandman or maybe is the unforgiven, right?

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So what we want you to think is in this particular case any legitimate podcast would tackle Metallica songs from the Black Album to Today, right?

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Everybody would do that.

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But thanks to my 10 year old daughter who just watched the entire series of Stranger Things,

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tapping up with that amazing scene with a revitalized Metallica, its die hard fans falling in love all over again with Stranger Things because of the Metallica song being played.

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They're opening up the door to an entire new generation of Metallica fans with Stranger Things to dig deep into their streaming audio services.

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Now there's a new season of Stranger Things that's set to hit here in 2025.

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If I have the question remains will we continue to see a Metallica thread running through this Netflix series?

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I don't know. I am unsure.

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We've all yet to see how this will play out.

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But I am fully aware that I will not be able to satisfy every die hard Metallica fan who says they don't get my band man.

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But over 40 years.

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Since way back in early 1984 when San Francisco's Titans of Thrash Metal issued Whiplash, the first single from their 1983 debut album Kill It All, not Kill It All.

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1983 debut album Kill 'em all and its rallying shout will never stop will never quit because we're Metallica.

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Decades later Metallica has endured ragged rhythms blistering guitar work flat out. I mean the pace of 80's Thrash gave way to the more defined volatility and global reach of their 1991 album.

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And with that kind of resume there is absolutely zero debate here on Mount Rockmore we carve four songs into the side of the mountain.

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But you deserve a play in with that kind of resume.

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So quick note about this one Metallica for this play in song never had made a music video before this.

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But when they relented it turned out to be among the most harrowing things to be seen on MTV.

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Yeah let's carve it shall we all out not yet this is prior to the car.

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Despite its heavy duty subject matter one and its video helps score Metallica their first charting hits.

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This is one on the Mount Rockmore pre-black Metallica edition play.

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I can't remember anything, can't tell if this is true or a game deep down inside I feel the strain, the sterable silence stops in me.

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Now that the world is through with me I'm waking up I cannot see that there's not much left in me.

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Nothing is real but pain in our home.

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My friend is I wish for death.

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Hopefully skies play me.

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Back in the warmest months to real then comes that that I'm a stranger but can't look forward to a real look to the time when I live.

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Then to the two that speaks in me just like a word and a bold dear.

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Died to the sheet and being with me.

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You cut this life apart from me.

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Oh my friend is I wish for death.

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Hopefully skies play me.

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Now that the world is gone and gone but can't help me.

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Oh my friend is I wish for death.

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Hopefully skies play me.

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Stop messing with me.

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And there you have your play in.

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The play in on the Mount Rock more of Metallica before the Black Album.

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Now despite performing that song in the 1989 Grammys they lost the first metal Grammy to Jethro Tull.

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Yeah I know it sounds stunning and it is but then they won the following year for one.

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Now friends it's Car of Time.

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Four songs pre-Black from Metallica that we are going to carve into the face of Mount Rockmore here.

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This song in particular is nearly a seven minute standout from Killamall.

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It has been a constant in Metallica's live performance set lists since its inception despite never officially being released as a single.

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Our first song on the Mount Rockmore of Metallica before the Black Album.

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It was the first song the band recorded in a studio.

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This song has frequently been performed at concerts since 1982.

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It was quite a while as a closing song.

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It is the third most performed song in Metallica's history and it goes my friends to seek and destroy.

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If you throw down a one star if you only know James headfield to look like a finally

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quifed hipster guitar player.

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And then, throw down 5 stars.

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If you remember his days, looking like a live action version of the cowardly lion on stage.

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Because, when Metallica reached a major career milestone in 2021, you know, when we were

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all going through the COVID world, one social media user celebrated with a savagely funny

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post that went viral, wow, Metallica is fucking turning 40.

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Thank you for 7 years of great metal music, huh?

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It was a masterclass in giving a back-handed compliment, but this was just more than a clever

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joke for a certain faction of those Metallica fans, you know, giving me the one star.

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In their first decade together, Metallica invented and then reinvented, thrash metal with a

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series of albums that continually up the ante in terms of songwriting and just sheer brutality,

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all becoming cornerstones of the genre.

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Kill 'em all, ride the lightning, they exploded with youthful aggression, then you had

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injustice for all and master of puppets, pushing the envelope for technical thrash and featured

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some of the decades most sophisticated and memorable compositions.

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So much so that as a guy like me who was a big poison fan at the time, I couldn't understand

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Metallica.

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I couldn't appreciate Metallica until years later.

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And that classic Metallica lineup, James headfield, Lars Olrich, and James headfield.

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I'm sorry, Kirk Hammett, Cliff Burton, they reached the pinnacle of their powers on the third

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album, particularly with this multi-part, devastatingly beautiful title track.

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Everything that makes Metallica great is on display here.

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Headfields downpicking, unintentional baffling time signatures, which I still to this day

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don't know how Lars got around any of that.

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Arena Ready, Colin Response Chats off the rail drum fills one of Hammett's most blistering

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solos.

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That headfield reaches this lyrical peak, painting a harrowing portrait of all consuming drug

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addiction, with wordplay that would make aspiring MFA students jaws drop.

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So when master of puppets enjoyed a reported 650%.

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Think about that.

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650% streaming bump from the Stranger Things season 4 finale in 2022.

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It only further emphasized the song's universal appeal.

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So think about that too.

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There are some people who only know Metallica because of what happened with Eddie Munson

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on Stranger Things.

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Oh yeah.

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And that's when the bad creatures come out.

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And the actor who played Eddie did a fantastic job, Joseph Quinn, of playing Metallica's

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And the band themselves, according to reports, said to themselves, that's pretty goddamn

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amazing.

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Half a decade before the black album catapulted Metallica to the top of the rock world, this song

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made the leap seem inevitable on the Metallica pre-black Mount Rockmore.

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Ernest Hemingway is a 1940 wartime novel of the same name,

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"Amping Up the Dread of the Source Material" with Thrash in the best possible way.

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which one would you be more shocked by?

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That bomb featuring Cliff Burton's bass playing through the distinctive warp of a wall wall pedal as well.

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But, so let's be clear, even metal gods like Metallica have songs that didn't quite make the Mount Rock more cuts.

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Lying there in the, if the pyrotechnics don't get you the Marshall stacks will planes lie the scorched remains of sanitarium.

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And if you still have ringing in your ears, I advise you to turn away from the vultures picking away at the bloodied corpse of motor breath in Burton Death Valley.

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Too soon. But what certified gold track notches its way into the carving of Metallica's pre-era of Mount Rockmore songs?

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Well, that's coming up next, your Mount Rockmore.

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It's the onion radio news, an okay looking guy meets a kind of pretty girl.

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This is Doyle Redland reporting. Tulsa Oklahoma resident Ron Stelson is thrilled to be dating kind of pretty girl Jill Cook.

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The okay looking computer programmer made the announcement earlier today.

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Who would have thought that a guy like me and somebody folding it then on top?

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Close friends of Ron and Tina say that together they make an almost cute couple.

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Doyle Redland for the onion radio news online at the onion.com.

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How many times has this happened to you? You're mining your own business after threatening someone's life with your handgun.

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You go to put your gun away safely by placing in between your most private of areas and the elastic waistband of your whitey tighties.

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Welcome back to the final track on the Mount Rushmore of the Talata Free Black Sauns.

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First, we ask you to visit our website, realguyradio.com. You can hit up our shop because we have stuff there to buy complete with Mount Rockmore T-shirts, sweatshirts, other gear.

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We're working on getting some stickers coming up for your skateboard. I listen, I wasn't in on the sticker meeting.

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I gotta be honest with you. And we found ourselves here at the final spot on the Mount Rockmore of pre-black Metallica.

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So what does that mean to you? Well that means if you're a fan of all Metallica, you'll be looking forward to possibly coming up this season, part two.

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Where it would be everything on black. And then maybe even part three. Everything post black.

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Because black from Metallica, the black album is what was the line in the sand.

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And this final carving into the mountainside is one of the few Metallica tracks to get radio airplay in the mid to late 80s.

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This was actually on the radio. It's the band's first power ballad released as the first promotional single from their second studio album ride the Lightning.

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Back in 1984. The song was ranked as having the 24th, I had to carry the two.

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24th best guitar solo ever by guitar world readers. Yeah, that was it. You said magazines.

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Kids, if you didn't know about AOL radio, you may not have known about magazines and guitar world magazine.

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The final song on the Mount Rockmore Metallica pre-black.

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Damn it, what a good song that is.

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Yeah, that was once considered a power ballot on the radio.

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So, you know, take that white lion, take that winger, take that gray white,

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because since 1984 fade the black has always been a fixture in Metallica's live performances.

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It was also the last song that Metallica performed live with former bassist Jason NewsDid before he left the band,

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which occurred at the VH1 Music Awards on November 30 in the year 2000,

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some 25 years ago.

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It was one of his favorite Metallica songs, Jason NewsDid.

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And while on the Guns and Roses Metallica Stadium tour on August 8th of 1992,

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James Headfield accidentally stepped into the path of one of the chemical flames that had been rigged to shoot from the lip of the stage while playing fade to black.

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The problem there is while his guitar protected him from the full force of the blast,

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the fire engulfed most of his left side, burning his hand, both arms, eyebrows, face, and hair.

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He suffered second and third degree burns, but he was back on stage 17 days later, although his guitar duties were delegated,

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to former guitar tech and metal church guitarist John Marshall for four weeks while he made the full recovery.

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So I couldn't be seen in public after I lost a bet and fantasy football and shaved one of my eyebrows off.

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It says smell.

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Oh, is that you hating my picks?

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Okay, make sense. Do you think you could do better?

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Hmm, why don't you tweet me @mountrockmore and let me know.

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I may need you to help me co-host and crowd surf into some upcoming rockmores.

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And if you knew that fade to black was the last song to be played on the Los Angeles rock radio station KNAC,

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which went off the air in February, the day after Valentine's Day, February 15th, 1995,

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then all you got to do is just tell your fellow Met Club members,

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I guess that's the fan club for Metallica, Met Club members. You can tell your fellow Met Club members that you will now subscribe to Mt. Rockmore

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and we'll be here for your 45th high school, you believe that?

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45th high school reunion road trip. Until then, happy Mt. Rockmore. I'm Bauer.

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See ya!

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