James Hetfield - Harvester

[lowisao]

is that standard tunning?

[tetra3000]

@lowisao nope, its half a step down

[MsMetallicaFan1996]

Now I know why Hetfield plays explorers. I got to try one out at the local guitar shop. They feel so darn awesome!!!! Now I know what he means in his EMG interview where he says the explorer feels "dangerous". Both sitting down and stand up the explorer feels WHICKED!!!!

[ellipsis117]

Hey James turn that mic on I can't you singing!

[MrSuperGnu]

@ellipsis117 you accidently the verb

[Brndnrchrdsn85]

Best song they've ever made!

[victorwirth87]

very good Lars...why don't you just burn the album once for all?...

[keyable]

why i cant watch this kind of great moments in HD ? :\

[cerldude]

oh my god.. for fuck sake Lars.. play the drums as theyre supposed to be played..

[radeonwowbest]

@cerldude oh For fuck sake , can you shut the fuck up and listen to the music? or get the fuck away?.. Faggot!

[cerldude]

@radeonwowbest Lol you gonna start crying now?

[cerldude]

@radeonwowbest Trust me dude, I love Metallica, and I think Lars is an awesome drummer, but he really should perform better than this, its sad, even I can play better and Ive only played for one year..

[nkmcfrln]

@cerldude you should upload a video of yourself then. put the dane to shame! swedes are soft by the way. talented but soft. you mouth off like mats sundin did and don't back it up when push comes to shove.

[alineamajames]

Acho que quem filmou esse vídeo compartilha comigo uma super queda pelo James... mas é por que ele é simplesmente genial!!

[munchy040]

kirk rocked up in his p.j's

[edgenail85]

Fucking bad ass riff!

[AnaheimDucks1993]

I can never get that clean tone exact on my amp when I play Harvester! Fuck!

[NicolaRedwooddforest]

James is the hottest man on Earth. 

[evildeadbully]

one word POOORN!!

[ilovethewar1945]

i think "souls of black" by testament is haviest than this song

[dougmilne27]

@ilovethewar1945 you mean heavier?

[ilovethewar1945]

@dougmilne27 yes ... sorry ... bad english

[MTaGisback]

how the fuck is james switching to that distorted sound?

he just turns the toggle switch and thats it or what? how does that fuckin work?

[englundisgod]

I dont know how its done, but yep he uses a toggle sqitch like a pickup selector, he used that way way back and to this day.

I saw a vid of them playing fade to black back in like 85, and he was accidentally playing some stuff clean cause he missed the switch, or didnt flick it on fully

[livio1396]

@MTaGisback yeah he must have a custom footswitch or something, coz as far as i know he plays clean stuff with his roland and distorted stuff with his mesa or diezel or whatever he uses now... and i doubt he has his tech switching channels for him in a rehearsal

[360Dyl]

@MTaGisback they ve got roadies and sound crew for that 

[beefstu9]

kirk is dressed like my dad on a saturday morning lol

[metallicafan954]

their gear is endless.

[CliniQm]

ZOMG!111 "Whiskey drinkin' woman" at the begining :D

[CreepingDeathSB]

AJFA had this heaviest tone in metal.. period.

[CoolKwstas123]

@CreepingDeathSB And Justice For All the heaviest tone in METAL?!?!?! WHAT THE FUCK!!! It doesnt even has bass -.-. 

[CreepingDeathSB]

@CoolKwstas123 guitar tone, sorry. and I do have to agree,.. the mix wasn't great by any means

[CoolKwstas123]

@CreepingDeathSB well yea i agree the guitar tone was total wicked

[gruokdude]

@NowDemolition; dont forget AJ4A

[VirtismagTepfs]

i want to know what equipment james is using :OO

[AceGuitarR7]

god damn i love explorers... n james has the sickest collection

[edgarbarradaskate]

fuck the comment below me.. yeas Justice is Amazing but #WTF ?? ride the lightning stops at bellz?? are you f**^ing nuts? master at the thing? bla bla bla and death magnetic Lame?? your not a real Fan your just a hater... but whatever..LONG LIVE METALLICA!! \m/ ..

[CrunchDrunk]

...the justice album is their best work, in my opinion i mean, entertainment from start to finish.. kill em all stops at the bass solo, ride the lightning stops at the bells. master stops at the thing, black album stops at sandman, load is pretty good, fuel stops at the memory, st. anger stops at some kind of moron, death magnetic is just completely lame, mostly because everything is just so predictable. and they didnt do that album for themselfs, plus you dont go back in time to make music

[Gam3fr3ak96]

@CrunchDrunk Wrong.

KEA: Seek and Destroy is one of their best songs!

RTL: it DOES NOT stop at Bells. The only "meh" song even on that album is Escape.

MoP: No.

Black: No it actually stops on the second track, Sad But True. :P

DM: No.

[NowDemolition]

@CrunchDrunk KEA, RTL, and MOP are 100% excellence, how can you exclude the instrumentals & Fade to Black? Every single MOP and RTL song is perfection, you're an idiot to say otherwise.

[CrunchDrunk]

@NowDemolition i may be an idiot but there is one thing that i am not, and that sir is an idiot

[zomgzomglawlawlawl]

this is their heaviest song imo

[MetallicA777777777]

One of the world's most fucking awesome songs

[CiviC092]

may not be as fast as songs like dyers eve, but damn its heavy and awesome

[elementality4me]

i like james without tattoos, like from the black album time.

[Stashitquick]

@elementality4me The only difference between a tattooed person and a person who isn't tattooed is that a tattooed person doesn't care if you're tattooed or not.

[NickAden13]

I want that explorer! Such a BA guitar!

[NickAden13]

I want that explorer! Such a BA guitar!

[masterofpuppets218]

what happen to his voice??did it changed??

[rickyjshiznit]

@masterofpuppets218 where the hell have you been? of course it changed it stopped bein so heavy soundin in like 2000

[KillRideMasterAnd]

i miss his old '91 look and voice

[Mettabosna]

you know when they change from dist to clean? sometimes they dont press a pedal on stage for example. do they have a "button" on the guitar?

[cuagmirag]

they always have a pedal there is no such thing as a button to swicht clean or distortion (except in the amp of course)

[Averagegamer100]

People backstage do it.

[CloudiHoe]

@Mettabosna

the sound crew changes it back stage, so Metallica (except for Lars, obviously) can free roam and do loads of crazy stuff instead of having to stay close to the pedal during the channel changes during the songs ;P

[IamTheTrueKing]

is this standard e tuning?

[nowellbuster22]

full step down

[theconjuring2]

why do they always play half a step down now

they hardly play in standard tuning

[guitarshreder91]

@theconjuring2 sounds better live you don't get as many harmonics

[nowellbuster22]

because james' voice isnt as it was 10 years ago, hes got to take care of it more so he can sing at the next show just as well as the day before

[BulletFrenzy543]

I fuckin love this song METALLICA RULES!

[satsMM]

Killer tone!

[jasongmb]

you can tell how good a musican is by how easy they make it look

[MegaMave]

To be honest, Harvester is an extremely easy song to play.

[Hippedkille]

Extremely easy, but extremely badass \,,/

[MegaMave]

Words have never been truer.

[dontburnthewitch23]

@MegaMave it doesnt really matter how easy a song is to play, its just the way you play it. any one can play this song if they want, but only james hetfield can play this song like james hetfield :D

[33COOLMAN33]

i like this "EET fuk" ;D

[cliffburton993]

he made it moron

[Fily20]

that's not an ITALIAN flag???

[zemlay]

i have 4 Explorers, personally i think that VOX amps with a nice 76 Gibson Explorer is truley amazing.

[smiley0800]

1.41 IRELAND FLAG!!!!!!!!!Metallica rule.

[KillswitchFreak1346]

i have a boss disortion pedal and i love its tone, but its NOWHERE as amazing as this is..

[DimebagVision]

I want that tone!

[MattRing]

Hey,hey,hey,hey,hey!!!!.

'Tallica 4 life!!!!.

[Zombiesmack93]

That tone is fucking amazing...

[cnemi22]

@Zombiesmack93 wish that was my office...unreal...

[playerofrock04]

boner......

[satsMM]

Thats one fucking sweet tone James got! ROCK

[cwaniak5]

4:34 "ohhh!" thats got a power

[StrikerTheLizard]

breathe

[Pavl0ve]

I Love hetfield !

[BergmanMusic]

One of the heaviest songs ever written.

[Dittohead555]

Great or greatest movie ever. Can`t believe ppl downrate that =). damn wiener kids.

[johnXkampin]

no people would rather heavy the rap and crap

[thrashistheshit]

@BergmanMusic LOL

[workman845]

@BergmanMusic what? hahahahaha

[BergmanMusic]

@workman845

Sorry, my bad.

THE heaviest song ever written.

[jfkdjfd]

@BergmanMusic Hetifeld is the Harvester Of Sorrow. You're right, the first 1:15 minute is some of the heaviest in metal. Awesoem song.

[arisclomedium]

James was animated

[jessbpowers]

i hate not being able to hear the lyrics very well, but the riffs are so amazing it makes up for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BlackLapanen]

A white Explorer and James Hetfield.

Can't find better combination

[progrockrulz]

bass sounds amazing

[boocho1]

..so good , its like its not even there..

[Pr1nda]

ROFLMAO!

[PhysicalDecay]

muahahaha

[JaviVS]

lol owned

[ios4ever]

One of the greatest riffs ever

[rbsproductions]

the song is really called harvester of sorrow

[saltynuts916]

favorite metallica song

[froloshki]

love the sounds of his amazing GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dude if i could get a tone like that out of my guitar, i would be so much more inspired to write shit

[DIMEburtonRHOADS]

i agree, its all in his right hand. hes a down pickin monster and he throwns in some palm mutes

[JankGuitArt]

well that song is not hard to down pick.

but i agree that he is fast at downpicking (blackened)

[DIMEburtonRHOADS]

i never said it was hard. im just revealing the "secret" of hetfields tone...its the right hand always

[JankGuitArt]

oh ok ,my mistake

and I totally agree with you

[Tharonja265]

(puppets)

[doctorsadvocategame]

That tone is just fuckin ball crushing. But he deserves it, He's one hell of a guitar player.

[Reozren]

What pedal did he use at 01:20 ?

[jafardude007]

he didn't, the camera moved and its mic was in the amp speakers direction causing a change in how it sounded to the camera mic

[Reozren]

Yeah, but how did he get that sound?

[Joca54]

haha you guys are great, thanks for making my life worth livin.

[DarkLabProductions]

Metallica should throw a bunch of live studio jams on their next album like they did with st. anger.

[xurxo12]

fuck yeah, that was awesome, sounded hundred times better than the studio album

[DarkLabProductions]

i am going to see them live in october..its my second time seeing them.. i am stoked dude!! :)

i love metallica more then oxygen

[froloshki]

songs like that always sounds better...studio version, if i had to be honest on what i think, they all sound too...clean, too perfect...you need that extra crunch from when you play it live ya know. not with all songs...songs like nothing else matters sounds perfect on the record, but not always life.

[xurxo12]

2:1 to 2:14... that's the extra crunch man we r talkin bout !!!!!!!

[mikem376]

The body of james guitar looks gibson shaped to me

[TheOriginalGayman]

ESP

[xxxNostalgia]

His custom ESP. YEAH!!! lol

[theMG90]

Its an ESp but its the gibson shape

[fs9dude]

gibson sued esp beacause james made the guitar so popular it htink it was for loss of profits

[arisclomedium]

kirk was sleeping

[CliniQm]

Kirk did it after morning jog

[businessismykilling]

How does James get his guitar to sound so high pitched when he does the electric part after the clean intro? He's playing the same notes as far as I know.

[saltynuts916]

he uses a pedal on the ground to switch from clean to the distorted sound

[bongowongowongo]

1:19 in the background its CLIFF

R.I.P. Cliff

[cucanaaa]

sexy guitar

[Rammiumptum]

I think thats a custom made explorer to him from gibson actually...but im not 100% sure on that...

[michilios01]

its an esp

[Rammiumptum]

it makes sense that it would be an esp considering they endorse him and he has all of his explorers custom made from esp. But he does have a lot of gibson models also like the one he calls rusty for instance.

[michilios01]

yeah i know but most esp like the eet fuk and the one with the deer skull inlays and more beer and al those explorers were all esps but he has gibsons too

[uglyguitarguy]

That's an ESP explorer that he pinstriped the graphics on himself.

[lakenormanusa]

James is feeling that groove.

Ruhahh!!

[Riberaberubu]

i dont understand how do they switch between clean and dist so fast?

[TheRedDevils7]

They use pedals that can switch between clean and distortion by the press of a button

[RIOTandDontYouFakeIt]

Ugh.That guitar is fuckin awesome.

[skatingshayne]

what ever heppend to his EET FUK esp? i never see him useing it these days

[campoobutt]

he only uses it in the studio. He used it, and his original Kill Em' All Flying V to record Death Magnetic.

[skatingshayne]

it might also have something to do with gibson sueing esp about that xplorer shape and the discontinued making them.. in that shape

[Williams1505]

i think that shape is way better then ESP's just because it looks more original instead of all spiky.

[michilios01]

most of his explorers exept his ken lawrences are gibson shaped ESP explorer they are custom so they can't sue anyone for that

[Tarck452]

James looks a lot like Brad Pitt when his hair is short.

[IASP17]

ha ha! hes not

[7Whitewolf3]

man they suck

[beautycutepink]

you suck!

[HardRockLover]

james is the Master of Downstroke.

[liljuve13]

lol

[s2ths2]

0: 45 - 0: 49

JAMES!JameS!James!

=D yeahh!

[jbarrett2007]

Really? I'd like to see that. You are the only one besides myself who I've ever heard of using James' actual picking style.

[zariamo]

i rofl'd

i wants ze Explorer D=

[SgtShaw55]

Dave Mustaine!!

[westlifeizqueer]

Likin the Paddy flag at 1:42 ;)

[Toffke123]

it's LOVE!!

[dic71]

To answer the distortion to clean without any pedals question he turns the volume on his guitar almost all the way down for clean and then cranks it back up for the distortion

[Weybl]

I would have thought it'd be because this is proper live rehearsals, so the guitar tech's doing the switching like they do live.

[skullkap1]

Cool. Great crunch too.

[TheOrangeFondler]

Explorers neck+head kind of looks like a hockey stick. Would be cool to play that with a hockey mask on!

[Tosh999]

it could be that the mic on the cam is going towards the speaker cab so the volume of only his guitar is hitting the mic and no other thing can be heard clearly like his voculs the drumms or kirks guitar

[thepro187]

the technicians are paid to do it for them

[gibsongold1970]

.  . . sounds like hetfield stomps on the treble booster at 1:13.

[BeyondTheGates87]

it's the camera moving to a different position in front of the amp...

[matt420740]

Just the position the camera is in at the time

i have the same explorer but black xD