Metallica covers Blindman
Metallica did a cover of When a Blind Man Cries while performing yesterday, October 22, at the Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, California.
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Metallica did a cover of When a Blind Man Cries while performing yesterday, October 22, at the Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, California.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
“Is it getting better no no nooooo..”
October 23rd, 2016 at 19:39Yeah! What a great freaking song to cover!
October 23rd, 2016 at 20:20..these things do happen.
October 23rd, 2016 at 21:21I’m at the second concert tonight and hope to hear it in a few hours.
October 24th, 2016 at 00:25Not bad for a retread….
October 24th, 2016 at 05:53Ian Gillan choice of words are so powerful and very clever and it relates to every generation. Blind Pale Drunk or Dead lying on the floor. Glad they stuck so much to the original as the one recoded on the Machine Head cover album was very hard and confused interpretation!!!!
October 24th, 2016 at 08:02Great song, average attempt.
October 24th, 2016 at 10:22Metallica doing covers, the best band ever, one of the best (twice)
October 24th, 2016 at 12:49Leaving this song off of Machine Head was a terrible decision. If memory serves me that was Blackers call…
October 24th, 2016 at 18:54Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, & Metallica. That’s how I rank them and they are interconnected in many ways.
October 24th, 2016 at 23:31@9 Was it off? If I remember correctly it was a single… ?
October 25th, 2016 at 05:09@9 yeah Ritchie didn’t like it..a shame because its a classic song and great to see and hear a huge band like Metallica cover it..give the song the exposure it deserves
October 25th, 2016 at 07:06Which song would you then INSTEAD have left off the album?
They favoured Never Before themselves.
NB to me seemed to me as a youngster that just had jumped the bandwagon of heavy rock a b side or a single.
Many years later I understood they themselves loved it and saw it a a side.
SOTW they at first thought was filler.
The original album was about 37 minutes?
I think that wabm could have been added withouth too much loss of quality?
If not they had to make that decision.
I know people who dislike Maybe I m a leo……….
I like them all but always feel frustrated they did not play PFM and WAMB live with Blackers.
October 25th, 2016 at 10:33No passion play , no soul
best Blindman
October 25th, 2016 at 17:50https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03lItdEAhvo
amazing intro, two guitars solos “doctor” Steve Morse / Gilmour soul /,Ian voice…
Well, I prefer this to Rainbow’s Perfect Strangers on the new teaser! Funny old history to this song, isn’t it? Is this the song being referenced on Ted the Mechanic (‘banjo player took a hike, what’s that song I used to like’?) Anyway, I still love the original guitar solo on the MH session version … Yet Blackers claimed he wasn’t trying! Sounds like one of his very best slow solos to my ears, and although I’m a huge Morse fan, too, I always thinks he plays too fast in his solos on this one.
October 26th, 2016 at 14:30Claudio Alvarez it is a great song but thet did it so bad
October 26th, 2016 at 16:32Not sure where this song would fit in on Machine Head? I have always thought that, when I first heard decades ago that it was left off the original album. It is a nice song with a wonderful subtle Blackmore solo to boot,, but when you think about their other albums, MK2 that is, there are no ballads on those! Anyone’s Daughter is the closest they came to a laid back ‘quieter’ song, but at least that is at a good tempo & quirky also! It sort of worked on the Fireball album in a way! Sort 0f! Cheers.
October 26th, 2016 at 20:57@11 it was a b-side to Never Before, the first single. Highway Star and the rest followed in most countries they released in, which was way more countries than Zeppelin and Sabbath put together. That is why they’ve sold so many records. Not “sanctioning” singles in order to clean up on album sales. Machine Head sold 15 million in 1972. The rest of their “albums” do not come anywhere near close to that. Singles did all their sales except for around 30 million album sales. That’s a lot of singles sales in a lot of countries. They were actually better off for sales releasing singles. Everyone do the math.
October 28th, 2016 at 15:32Ivica @14;
I must concur with you on this. Matter of fact, that is one song in particular that I believe the Morse era improved upon immensely. That being said, since we are on about Covers of this great song… Give this one a listen. Richie Sambora doing an incredible version here. Truly an under-rated guitarist and singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC9-27aGVFs
October 30th, 2016 at 21:17