http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0WD5dHtD9A
These guys are hilarious. Beatles songs done in the style of Metallica. The guy sounds pretty spot on as Hetfield
aw yes, remember stumbling upon them in 2002 or 2003 or so (shit, it’s been like 10 years already), they were not even a stage band at that point, they just did it for a laugh - recorded the first EP for friends which found its way on the internet and started getting more and more popular.
better website was designed, another EP was recorded, first proper live shows were starting to happen… and then they got sued by sony, and lars (!) used his resources (!) to find lawyers to protect the beatallica’s side in the lawsuit - hard to imagine he would do that after that whole napster thing.
the band has changed all members (besides Jaymz Lennfield of course) a few times since then, nice to see they are still around putting stuff out and playing for fun.
better website was designed, another EP was recorded, first proper live shows were starting to happen… and then they got sued by sony, and lars (!) used his resources (!) to find lawyers to protect the beatallica’s side in the lawsuit - hard to imagine he would do that after that whole napster thing.
Am I reading this right?
LARS when to bat to protect the Beatallica dudes?
That is completely righteous!
hard to imagine he would do that after that whole napster thing.
That’s probably why he did it. He was trying to get some cred as a nice guy back.
Sony sued them? I thought Metallica owned their own catalog and the Beatles catalog was owned by Michael Jackson??? What dog did Sony have in the fight?
sony has something to do with jackson… oh, apparently:
Jackson later merged his published catalogue with Sony Corporation of America’s to form Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
yea lars defended them
On February 17, 2005, a cease-and-desist notice was sent to David Dixon (and the band’s web host) by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, a company which holds rights to most of The Beatles’ catalog. The notice states that the “music”, “news” and “merchandise” sections of the official Beatallica website constitute a copyright violation and should therefore be taken down. In response to this, a petition requesting Sony/ATV Music Publishing to retract its threat of legal action was created. The band was saved from further legal action by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, who offered to provide assistance with legal negotiations and also asked Metallica’s longtime attorney to try to defuse the situation with Sony. Sony ultimately reached an agreement with Beatallica and their new label Oglio Records, and an official Beatallica recording was released in July 2007 entitled Sgt. Hetfield’s Motorbreath Pub Band.
edit: link to the pic of 'tallicas: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hMOB9pX2oBI/TFGEV24XNSI/AAAAAAAAATc/ag9e8Nv2xD0/s1600/Beatallica_meets_Metallica_2009.jpg
very cool.
Did it sound stock?
I bet it didn’t.
I bet it was super not stock sounding.