I get the point of an autobiography. Even if it has a ghost writer, it may still make for a pretty interesting read. Musicians have interesting lives — the tours, the drinking, the drugs, the STDs. Big musicians live a life of luxury and excess and have quite a few stories to tell.
What I don’t get is when others write biographies. Great, some dude knows a few things, read a few interviews and has an opinion. The nerve of that person to write all that crap. Wait, I actually do that too. At least I blog, though. Get with the times, lulz, who reads books anymore?
Anyway, such seems to be the case with yet another Metallica book: Enter Night (by Mick Wall)
This guy says Dave being kicked out made the band more focused, implies that Cliff wouldn’t have liked Metallica‘s replacing him so fast and says a bunch of stuff about Jason.
You can read the full interview with the author here.
How on Earth can someone know what a dead person would have wanted? And why would Cliff not want Metallica to keep going, or be ‘upset’ about being replaced? He seemed like a pretty cool guy, who wants to die and ruin careers and lives in doing so? If I died, I truly want everyone who knew me to move on as quickly as possible and not let my death get in the way of their lives. I didn’t know Cliff, but I honestly doubt he would have a problem with Metallica ‘soldiering on’ and becoming so big. And finding a replacement fast was a instrumental to that success, cause they were pretty big around those times.
But that’s just my opinion, at least I don’t write a book about it. I never understood how people can just cash in on famous people by writing unauthorized books about them. Meanwhile I’m registered as a sex offender for stalking Miley Cyrus a few years ago.
Fair? I think not.
