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METALLICA-GARAGE INC.

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-NOV 23, 2019…ELEVEN YEARS AGO METALLICA CAME OUT WITH ‘GARAGE INC.’ THE ALBUM WAS A COMPILATION OF COVER SONGS AND B-SIDES AND FEATURED SONGS BY ARTISTS THAT INFLUENCED METALLICA. WITH THIS RECORD THE BAND MADE A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO GET BACK TO THEIR ROOTS. ACCORDING TO LARS ULRICH: “We haven’t really f*#@ed with cover songs for a while,But we just did the two Load albums more or less back to back, so it just seemed like a good time to do some, from both a time point of view and a creative point of view. Just shake that off a little bit and come back to something a little looser and a little kind of sillier. There was just a renewed interest in f*#@ing with some other stuff.”

THE ALBUM WAS FUELED BY TWO HUGE SONGS. A COVER OF THE BOB SEGER ‘TURN THE PAGE’ AND THE THIN LIZZY TRACK ‘WHISKEY IN THE JAR.’

‘GARAGE INC.’ TO DATE HAS SOLD OVER SIX AND A HALF MILLION COPIES. HERE’S A FANTASTIC RENDITION OF ‘TURN THE PAGE’