In an interview with Creem magazine just before he wrote this song for his sixth album, Back In ’72 (released in 1973), Bob Seger addressed why so few musicians had covered his material: “It seems like the only people who do my stuff are these really off-the-wall cats looking for really off-the-wall stuff,” he reckoned. “We might try to glue Sabbra Cadabra together with another Sabbath song.” In the event, A National Acrobat was plucked from the same album and interpolated into the mid-section, neatly seguing from a carefree song about shagging to some of Geezer’s weightiest lyrical concerns (although sadly this meant we didn’t get to hear James sing, ‘Lovely lay-yay-yay-yay-deh’). “It’s that opening riff that just really gets us going,” Kirk Hammett said in 1998, when Metallica were still in the studio playing around with the song. “ Geezer Butler is my favourite bassist of all time,” he told fan club magazine So What! “So needless to say, that was the shit, and the one that I tried the hardest to pay the most attention to be ultra-respectful on.”įrom the Brummie metal inventors’ fifth LP, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, it was an unusually chirpy, loved-up rock’n’roll tune. This was the Garage Inc track closest to Jason Newsted’s heart. Sabbra Cadabra – originally by Black Sabbath I fully appreciate all that they’ve done for Diamond Head over the years.”ģ. Metallica are unrivalled in their field there is nobody even close. It was a brilliant show and I caught up with Lars backstage. In October 2017 I went to see Metallica on their Hardwired tour. How’s the relationship between Metallica and Diamond Head in 2018? I had no idea of the potential of Metallica at this point, but I was flattered.” I was impressed that they’d gone to the trouble to work out, record and release one of our songs – even the solo was pretty much spot on. Then in November 1984 I got sent a copy of the Creeping Death 12” with Am I Evil? on the flipside. “In 1982 Lars sent a rehearsal room cassette of them playing It’s Electric. When did you first hear of Metallica covering Diamond Head? Everything before it was scrapped, but this had something special and entered our live set – not that we did many gigs then! It went down well live and was deemed good enough for our debut album. “This was our 45th song, written in June 1978. See the padlock symbol shown by most browsers when you checkout.Can you remember It’s Electric taking shape? It is 100% safe and secure to order from us as we have been independently verified by THAWTE and your data is transmitted using 128 bit encryption with 'Extended Validation SSL' achieving the highest level of consumer trust through using the strictest authentication standard.We reply to emails in minutes and hours, not days.We're always on the phone to answer questions and help with any orders, Monday through Saturday.Check out thousands of independent 5 star reviews about us.If you don't like it, just send it back for a full refund. All orders carry our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee.Your order will be shipped the same day (Monday to Friday) in custom made superior packaging.We have over 500,000 happy customers in over 100 countries worldwide, are a platinum seller on Ebay and have an average positive rating of over 99% on Amazon sites worldwide.eil.com (also known as Esprit) has been the world's biggest and best seller of premium quality and top condition rare and vintage vinyl records, rare CD's and music memorabilia since 1985 - that's 38 years! And we are proud of it. MET2CGA453739 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item)īeatallica, Echobrain, Goudie, Newsted, Systematic (US), The Moss Brothers, VoivodĬomplete Stock to contact our sales team.Ĭall 01474 815010 quoting EIL.COM reference number MET2CGA453739 Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. (click here for more of the same title)Īdd item to your basket for a postage/shipping quote Metallica (click here for complete listing) Sold Out - 'Request Next' to get an email if it comes back into stock. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). Autographed UK 2 CD album set (Double CD) (this item will be accompanied by a Certificate Of Authenticity upon purchase) Metallica Death Magnetic - Set Of Four Badges US memorabilia Promo
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