Metal for All - Big and Small

Metal can be loud and ear piercing. For fans of Metal this is a good thing. Not so much if your not a fan. But what happens when you take the edge off? Some of rocks biggest bands tried this and had huge success.
Alice in Chains doing Killer is Me, Pearl Jam doing Porch, Korn with Amy Lee doing Freak on a Leash, Nirvana doing Something in the Way all forced me to take another look at these bands. I reconnected with these bands and found myself getting more into their catalogs.
Although these bands saved us all from a deficit of good music they are not considered Heavy Metal. To go unplugged was not an earth shattering step in their careers. But what if one of the most successful Heavy Metal bands of all time decides to unplug? That is what happened when Metallica took the stage during the Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, CA.
I love Metallica but I am not a fan of everything they have released. In fact there is a good amount of their work that I can’t stand. When I heard of this unplugged concert I was taken back by the fact that these metal gods would expose themselves as anything less than mighty men of metal. They floored me.
Highlights include:
Veteran of the Psychic Wars (originally recorded by Blue Öyster Cult)
Brothers In Arms (originally recorded by Dire Straits)
Disposable Heroes and All Within My Hands
This was not the first show that they did unplugged but the first one that I had heard. The cover of Brothers in Arms will send chills up your spine. Disposable Heroes displays why this is still metal. The jam is unreal.
As I get older and find myself raising 2 little girls, I realize there is a time and a place for everything. This show lets me keep the metal flowing at all times.