Jesse Welles: Hero of the Day on MaximumMetallica
Out of nowhere yesterday’s Hero of the Day on MaximumMetallica was famous folk artist Jesse Welles. I wasn’t even aware he was a Metallica fan and he did a phenomenal job introducing the songs it was absolute poetry.
“Imagine a world without Metallica, a strange world without the genre inspiring, generational, musical watershed moments, Metallica brought. A world without Metallica or any of its progeny.
It's as if Black Sabbath stopped in 1976, and you said, You know what? We took it too far. And we've decided, along with our pals here, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heap, Budgie, Sir Lord Baltimore, Rush, and Judas Priest, that what we've done here is gone a bridge too far.
And we'd ask that you turn off your systems, and burn the records, at ease, and as you were, put on your James Taylor, and sink into the Reagan years unperturbed. Just imagine that. Now imagine the implications.
That means a world without Tool, a world without Mastodon, a world without System of a Down, a world with no Nirvana, no Queens of the Stone Age, no Alice in Chains, no Ghost, no Tenacious D. I could go on and on. You name it, entire genres disappear from the future when you remove Metallica from history. Now that your head is clear, and your ears are cleansed, listen to these tunes anew, and appreciate what your forefathers sacrificed to bring you the greatest metal to have ever stood nearly upright, and walked the planet. “