Kirk Hammet Says Rick Ruben Was Never Around During Recording
by 
Metal Martyr on August 11th, 2008
Kirk Hammet said in a recent told MTV news that the great thing about Rick Ruben producing the labum was that he was never around. Maybe this is a good thing and maybe a bad thing. Maybe the reason Metallica have been all pussified out for the last 14 years is because Bob Rock was up their asses 24/7 and this time around they are having their own influence on the music again. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. And then after I wrote this I read the following…
“The great thing about working with Rick is he’s never around,” Hammett said. “I would say that’s a very strong point, in that it leaves the four of us to take on the entire brunt of the work and the planning that goes into the songwriting process and the recording process. Of course, Rick was there for part of that process — when we recorded drums and vocals — but the fact that we were isolated in our studio, working on the songs ourselves, made a big difference, because it kept our sound pure. We got more METALLICA that way than we had previously with Bob Rock.
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1 opinion for Kirk Hammet Says Rick Ruben Was Never Around During Recording
Aug 11, 2008 at 2:33 pm
well that sounds good to me but we can really only take everything they say with a grain of salt *crosses my fingers it may be too late
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