Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to go and do a reaction to
Metallica and the song is "Enter Sandman" now I did a version of this myself.. a
couple versions actually but I'll put it in the description. The version 2 in
the description so you can check out and you know see how I did but this was one
of those bands that helped kind of change rock history and let me explain a
couple things before I play this. So at this time or actually before this, back
in 87, 88, I was signed to them on the same label in Europe called Music for
Nations and the president's name was Martin Hooker you can look this stuff up
and you know they were just kind of another band trying to make it at the
time, they were doing really well and you know Motorhead all these bands well
Motorhead had a previous history, big time but anyway but it was that sound
where we were looking at melodic rock and we were looking at Cinderella and Bon
Jovi and Van Halen and Aerosmith and you know whatever and there was this whole
new movement that was coming in that us melodic guys didn't recognize in the
same way, so what's makes this more interesting is this performance was live
in Moscow in 1991 I believe and they were one of the very few bands that were
able to play. I know Bon Jovi played you know throughout Moscow, Ukraine etc. I
know that the Scorpions I think really set the precedent and in fact the song "Winds
of Change" was like an anthem for like both the east and the west at that time
and I mean east as in Baltics not as in Asia and also like getting back to the
Bon Jovi part. Bon Jovi played there, but they couldn't make the numbers work it's
really funny, so what they did was they couldn't pay in ruples rubles ruples
whatever it's called and so they paid him in lumber and he was able to take
the lumber and sell it, you know to pay for the tour, excuse me so
um anyway I got a little bit of an eh in my throat so bear with me but what's
really really cool about this, is these guys really opened the door for this
east-meets-west kind of thing. Now I have a student, you guys know her name's
Gabriela Gunčíková and her dad was a soldier in the Czech Republic. It was at
the time called Czechoslovakia and they split up between Slovakia and the Czech
Republic and became two separate entities. They hadn't
seen this kind of music throughout the 80s and really basically early 90s until
this happened and that music wasn't really introduced to them, I think till
the late 90s even early 2000s so it was kind of like reliving an era all over
again for a whole new generation that hadn't heard this music so um I find
that fascinating cause Gabriella came to me and she was like 17 or whatever and
she said... I said you know what are your favorite bands and she says you
know Iron Maiden you know Judas Priest Led Zeppelin, Metallica you know all these bands.
I'm like what like how did that happen to this beautiful girl in the Czech
Republic whose 17 and she said well my dad was as a soldier was recently introduced
to that music, fell in love with it and we take these really long drives to the
ocean. I want to say like four hours or something and he would you know play
this music for his kids on the way there and so she just you know absorbed this
stuff like a sponge and then came out just going, I want to do Metallica. I'm
wanna do Iron Maiden you know or whatever so
there's a big back story to that. So this is a very special moment and a time
where we all got along. It's not like what's going on today so I wanted to
preface all this so that you guys could get a feel for what's really going on
here. Okay here we go.
You see the flags. American flag, Russian flag, British flag you know....
solidarity
Look at the soldiers
and they're ready to rock. Here we go
I want to be at that concert
You know that hair movement thing, this you know, this thing. I used to do that in
my 20s and 30s and after a while, that's a little painful but look at that
audience and just.. it just a sea an ocean of people and they want to
experience what we got to experience in the 80s. They're in the you know mid late,
this is early 90s but mid late 90s and even early 2000 so let's continue.
Here we go.
There's a riot squad of Russian police
but even the Russian military's rocking out.
The energy is amazing
Crazy.
Now before we go on, a lot of people, I know I'm a conservative and a lot of
people say ah this song is of the devil and this and that blah blah. You know
Hetfield actually wrote this song about his or to his son as like a kind of a
funny bedtime story or at least in his mind that's what I understood.
So like imagine like kind of teasing your kid with this song and it became
you know this iconic thing. One of the other things too, is I've seen this band
several times, they leave nothing on the field or leave it all on the field. I
mean everything they did was hammered, it was loud, it was tight and the energy was
just off the charts and I'm gonna talk more about that cause I've seen Motorhead
and some other bands. There are very few bands where you're just walking away
from this thing going, I need something to calm down. I mean it's crazy energy and they
did it with a professionalism though, it wasn't like infused energy or
drug-induced energy, it was real raw power which is awesome.
Notice he said don't forget my son....tuck you in.
Now again, there's very few bands that can do this and not only is the record
super tight and by the way they got, one of the main engineers on this, his name
is Mike Tacci he's a friend of mine. We've done some projects together "T" "A" "C" "C" "I"
is how you spell his last name, you can google this if you want. He actually
worked on this record on the Black album, a couple things but on this one
specifically and what went into this record was just again it was
trend-setting as far as you know big huge fat sounds, really tight, not using
the same big reverbs that most of the 80s metal bands sound. So it was like a
really tight, punchy, crystal-clear sort of sound and they actually reduplicate
that sound live, even better I think than the record because they get the freedom
to have the energy and not have to worry about doing it in four minutes or three
and minutes or whatever and they just get to have fun with it so I think
that's really cool.
Spot-on vocals man. Good job
Okay so I want to go back again, talking about politics. You know I don't know if
you guys remember the Rocky movie where you know Rocky Balboa defeats the
Russians you know at the end of the movie whatever. I think the other guy was
a Swedish, I forget his name but he's not even Russian but they made this whole
story up and the USA is yeah we beat the Russians and the Russians
are you know yeah we beat the Americans and this whole sort of thing.
The solidarity here is the coolest thing ever like I said I know you know Bon
Jovi I got to play over there early on. Scorpions really set the precedent. Dio
got to go. There's a few bands that were able to cross barriers and music does
that. It's amazing that you know we could have this whole Russian group of people
rocking out to American rock and British rock too but in a way.. Iron Maiden was
there too but in a way that brings everybody together which is amazing and
I would love to see a lot more of that for what's going on in today's world. So
anyway little political side note for myself, here we go.
Killer energy man
That's why you go to a live concert instead of just listening to the record
because you want to get the whole band's personality
That audience is raging, there's like (sounds) it sounds like a storm of voices but um the
other thing too is um, if you notice they're running around like maniacs and
guys I'm going to tell you, that's really hard to do. I've done that a million
times. To be almost anaerobic which is
the absence of oxygen just going back and forth and still playing all the
notes, not missing a beat, taking it up another level, rocking their
faces off and just you know I said leaving it all on the field, giving it
everything they've got to make this show Rock.
See those military helicopters flying overhead
(sings)
Raging
That's awesome
Come on admit it, you'd like to be at this show too, this would be so fun and
again, just the energy of this is just phenomenal. I'm gonna stop here because I
mean it's basically the end the song but these guys just did a fantastic job of
rocking the unfree world at the time and Bush became.. it's almost kind of the free
world in some in some ways. There's a funny old American Express
joke and it was like on Saturday Night Live I think it was and this American
Express used to say you know "don't leave home without it" and the Russian American
Express used to be "don't leave home" and they got to crossover which is really
funny but anyway thank you for joining me. Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the
proof is in the singing. Metallica 5..10 thumbs straight up man, you
guys seriously Rock and it was a pleasure getting to meet you guys way
back in London a long time ago and seeing you guys personally a few times
over the years. So anyway until next time, peace out.
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