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No bit torrent without this case! Likely no fediverse without it too. And Metallica weren't even the first to file vs Napster. Who were pretty shameful in their piracy, and trying to profit from it too

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There's way worse bands out there. Metallica at least keep their political views well away from their music. Cause they are old as fuck and probably all right wingers these days; and know they'd be cancelled in a heartbeat

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I'm wanting to see a return for the non-standard instrumentals next album, come on Rob - let's see those musical flexes

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All bands who can afford lawyers on retainer are

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Metallica Mondays: Orion (www.youtube.com)
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A 2025 rendition of a Master of Puppets classic. And our first instrumental as a listening party. And another Cliff Burton track from me. And correcting the lack of MoP tracks.

The track is a multi-part harmonised masterpiece featuring another non-standard song structure. Part 1 with a guitar riff and bass repeating motif that lays groundwork for seemingly endless solos both bass and guitar. Part 2 slowing down for a guitar solo driven almost sung part itself with mid neck work and voicing on the bass that speaks in minor. Part 3 an almighty crescendo that speeds up with an intensity to suck a listener in and is as enthralling to listeners in 2025 as it was in 1986

Never played live often, Jason presumingly not wanting to be associated with what is often considered Cliff's magnum opus. Until 2006 that is where it was broken out for the whole album live tour, which I just so happened to see ;) Seems to be back on rotation for this tour too, much to my enjoyment as I've tickets for them next year too.

That's enough for now, I'll gush about MoP some other track. Happy Metallica Monday!

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Metallica meets politics. Kinda. Don't be using their music without permission!

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Poor form from Farrell to call up yet more players imo. Even 3 scots. Makes a bit of a mockery of a tour

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Well done to Wales ending an 18 test losing streak. Not a record to be taken lightly!

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Bit shocked about Fiji, but not wholly surprised. Scotland with the B team and Fiji have had a few weeks of actual team time. This was definitely on the cards.

Will Wales get a win? I expect so, but a slim one. Currently up by 11 at the break.

New Zealand will beat France in yet another thrilling test match between these two

The Lions will win against a scratch side now

SA will annihilate Italy

Ireland will put on a great display with a narrow win in Portugal

And England are going down to Argentina. Who also have some good game time under heir belts vs an under strength England

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Loads of weekend fixtures

Fiji have already played Scotland
Japan are curently playing Wales
New Zealand will face France at 8.05
An AU/NZ side will face The Lions at 11
SA will play Italy at 4:10
Portugal host Ireland at 1900
And Argentina play England at 20:40

All times BST. Predictions and reactions all appreciated. Some wonderful other sport on today with Wimbledon Ladies final, Tour de France, Golf's Scottish Open, and loads of other stuff too. So have a good Saturday folks

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Except of course people are hankering for a reunited cast. And it never got things like a soundtrack, or a film director, or film credits, or a cinema release

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yup, and it is fine. I'd still chose debian for any work server personally, the longest support of them all

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Don't believe Tom and the headline. This was a confident win still. And Australia will need a hell of a lot more

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Too little. Too late. Ubuntu ate their lunch years ago. And debian is still there kicking ass

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

This week alone I've used Arch, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, and Fedora. Its Arch. By a short way, and mostly thanks to the wiki. Tbh they are all converging, and I go with KDE variants when I use a GUI and no distro does too much to customise it

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

About time. How he managed to keep his job after that scandal was fantastic

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A day late but: it's still Monday somewhere! In honour of Black Sabbath retiring, here's Metallica at the Rock n Roll hall of fame performing Iron Man. Metallica are obviously huge fans of Sabbath, so this is a cool cover indeed. And far from the only Black Sabbath cover I could have chosen either, Metallica have borrowed from them on many occasions

At the weekend they were top of the bill for the tribute bands in Birmingham for Back to the Beginning also. And had a good fun set too, but my the whole bill was looking old, Metallica included!

Iron Man itself is a track that needs no introduction for metal fans with a distinctive guitar riff from Iommi and distorted vocals from Ozzy. As always, anyone got any memories of either Sabbath or Metallica playing this live? Anyone lucky enough to have been at the hall of fame for this performance? Anyone in Birmingham this weekend?

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Anyone else watching the live stream? Anyone lucky enough to be there?

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Schoooo! A great read from Tom English here. Hoping he makes at least the bench for a test

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U20s on Friday. Plenty of action from half 2 to half 9 for your Friday plans. Tomorrow it starts very early doors UK time, so enjoy that feast easterners! Then there's a last Sunday match too, where Austrailia enjoy some pre-lions warmup with Fiji

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I feel for Wales fans. Just 1 left and we're still 2 weeks out from the first test. Japan host Wales this weekend also, fingers crossed for Wales to give Eddie Jones a hiding

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Realised this morning I haven't covered a Cliff era track! And so we have the master himself live from back in 1985. And the performance itself is a masterclass in bass improve intro with judicious use of fuzz and chorus to create a sound that few 40 years ago could even imagine.

The track is from Ride the Lightning, Metallica's second LP but first from what is considered their stable lineup. And I'll gush about Ride with some other track later. What's more relevant is that this track features in Cliff em All, a compilation of bootlegs videos of the bass wizard in action released after his passing. With Cliff being just 3.5 years with the band, his influence has been phenomenal to not just Metallica, but all of rock and metal. So watch him go, he has the crowd in a frenzy even before the main riff kicks in, and he plays with the intro like a cat with a string, effortlessly and without mercy.

Anyone lucky enough to have seen Cliff play? Anyone remember seeing this video on Kerrang/MTV2 like me?

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UK timings (UTC+1)

1100 Lions vs Western Force

1610 South Africa vs The Barbarians

1900 New England Free Jacks vs Houston Sabrecats

2005 Toulouse vs Bordeaux Beagles

And Sunday the U20s championship kicks off! Loads of rugby for us to enioy

Predictions, photos, reactions all appreciated

[-] [email protected] 196 points 1 year ago

It's systemd+gnu+linux these days

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