Master of Puppets part 1 - It’s Electric – abt Cliff (2)
Kirk: I just remembered something: Cliff was a big REM fan
Lars: oh yeah, I remember that
Kirk: and he actually turned us into them
Kirk: Life Rich Pageant, and I remember him just wanting to do just, again like a call-response thing that was very similar to REM was doing at that time
Kirk: and he was like “we are gonna start doing this cool, you know, one guy sings and another guy finishes the line” and– and remember him just like very adamant about that once he heard–
Lars: did that weaved into a particular song?
James: yes, but no one else could sing, so it didn’t work
James: he was definitely into what was really unique about them back then is… there were 2-3 different verses, but they were all sang at the same time, and they would just gonna go over each other; there was no specific way of doing it.
James: Cliff loved caos that way, musically, things where weren’t supposed to be normally, so he loved that and I think that the issue was no one wanted to step up to the mic and do the other part
Lars: yeah and it’s intresting you say that because the stuff you and I came out with, especially me, was about order and about… you know “bridge-chorus-bridge-chorus” and making it very easily digestable
Lars: and all of those New Wave Of British Metal things were all 3 minutes, and it was just super… y’know, easy to sort of understand and wrap your head around and I guess ultimately we ended up with the right balance of those two different elements, y’know
Lars: between chaos and order
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