Has anyone gotten a chance to read the James Hetfield book "Messengers"?

[NexusMT]

Diezels started in 2003 or 2004? Axe FXs started in 2014.

AFAIK Papa Het used Diezels in that time in combination with Rectos at least live.
I would say Bob Rock production and recording made his sound look huge.

 

[BenSolace]

Pull harder on the strings of your mart... Oh wait that's a different band that sounds like Metallica.

Boat! Rudder! Strange! Mountain!

 

[RevDrucifer]

Boat! Rudder! Strange! Mountain!

That’s one of my favorite misheard lyrics videos.

There was a Fall Out Boy one that I laughed my ass off at but I could never find after. The first time I ever enjoy a FOB song.

 

[nightflameauto]

Boat! Rudder! Strange! Mountain!

Somewhere, buried in a folder I've long since forgotten, I've got a picture of the band at a signing holding up papers with those words written in marker. I should really go through these "save this" folders someday.

 

[Marked Man]

Probably true. I'm not sure when he started using the Diezel because I haven't really followed what gear they've used in a long time. I thought I heard a while ago they've been using AXE-FXs live, probably just emulating whatever tone the song calls for but I could be wrong.

I agree about the Garage Inc tone. I think it sounds pretty good, but I also don't really know how much of that is them and what was changed with editing. It's kind of hard to really determine whether what I'm hearing is the bands gear and what's been processed after the fact. This most likely started with the Black album and it just makes it hard to tell now.

I do give the guy some slack though just because he's been playing heavy music for over 40 years. It's a miracle he's not ear fatigued to the point he can't even dial in a tone. Hell, for all we know he may not even be doing it. Could just be his techs throwing different settings at him until he says he likes one of them.

I know I get ear fatigued pretty quick building a tone in just a few hours, I couldn't imagine doing it as long as he has lol.

Doesn't take hours for my ears to become fatigued. I couldn't imagine what it's like after touring the world for 40 years.....

 

[Emperoff]

Boat! Rudder! Strange! Mountain!

I will never waste an opportunity to say

THIS... LIMEEEEE!!!

 

[DarkstarII]

Somewhere, buried in a folder I've long since forgotten, I've got a picture of the band at a signing holding up papers with those words written in marker. I should really go through these "save this" folders someday.

I don’t get it, can you let me in on the joke?

 

[nightflameauto]

I don’t get it, can you let me in on the joke?

Boat, Rudder, Strange, Mountain was a misheard lyric video, the original song by Trivium. Somebody, somewhere, went a signing for Trivium and had them write those words on papers with magic marker, then hold them up and take a full band picture. I happened to stumble across it and saved it, and now can't remember which folder I put it in. Nothing more complicated than that.

 

[zw470]

Fucking Hoff-style was always my favorite of the misheard lyrics videos

 

[M.U.Y.A.]

Loyalty. That's why he does it. Plus it's his sound anyways.

 

[Mboogie7]

Loyalty. That's why he does it. Plus it's his sound anyways.

Loyalty is not part of it. If that were the case, he wouldn’t play ESP, Gibson, KL, etc.

Your second part is on the money though.

 

[Kosthrash]

When you change between different pickup sets, you have to dial in your amp/ rig to maintain your same overall tone, so it's inconvenient (well, unless you have a preset for each pu set in the Axefx)...

 

[Mprinsje]

I'd argue his tone actually got worse with the Het sets. But tbh his tone was slowly getting worse and worse when he switched to Diezels.

I think that there's an argument to be made that as soon as artists get big enough to get their own signatures gear the quality of their sound goes downhill.

I have yet to be proven wrong and no i will not name examples because I'm lazy.

 

[Andromalia]

Got the book, nothing super new for a long time fan, some tidbits here and there, but it's a nice item, the pictures are good, and some of us like not eveything to be on a screen. I still love my physical books.

 

[randall696]

Bought it on Amazon to check if there is any info about his 2004 custom Purple refinished Gibson LP….
since it said it will cover all Hetfield‚s guitars…
wasn’t the case so I returned it xD

 

[spudmunkey]

Bought it on Amazon to check if there is any info about his 2004 custom Purple refinished Gibson LP…. View attachment 140473
since it said it will cover all Hetfield‚s guitars…
wasn’t the case so I returned it xD

This page says it's a 2003:

2003 - GIBSON Les Paul Custom Purple

www.guitarscollector.com

I also saw a post on reddit from someone who thought they remembered hearing that it was a '73 he had refinished, but didn't stumble across another reference to that anywhere else

 

[randall696]

This page says it's a 2003:

2003 - GIBSON Les Paul Custom Purple

www.guitarscollector.com

I also saw a post on reddit from someone who thought they remembered hearing that it was a '73 he had refinished, but didn't stumble across another reference to that anywhere else

My bad I meant that he had it on stage 2004 the guitar itself is an older refinished one yes.

 

[RevDrucifer]

Bought it on Amazon to check if there is any info about his 2004 custom Purple refinished Gibson LP…. View attachment 140473
since it said it will cover all Hetfield‚s guitars…
wasn’t the case so I returned it xD

If you can find one, Edwards did a run of these a few years back.

That Aguifish dude snagged one-

 

[randall696]

If you can find one, Edwards did a run of these a few years back.

That Aguifish dude snagged one-

Thanks I know that vid

I already got myself ESP‘s best answer to the Purple Satin LP

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

I'm surprised Het didn't commission a Truckster or Iron Cross based on that guitar.

But yeah I always dug those limited edition "signature" models. They did the same for Paul Landers when they did the black satin Eclipse with the platinum thick-ass 1-ply binding, and the inverted one with the platinum finish and black binding.