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  • Is this their best kept secret? Why did Loyd leave the band way back when?

  • Why is it that a white guy would be talking to lars, not a big deal. Black guy, OMG!!! I NEVER SEEN A BLACK GUY LIKE METAL BEFORE lol!!!! Why do you think Metallica & other bands travel around the world performing? Because they just feel like it? NO!!! They have fans in every city, state, country, & continent of all ethics & cultures. That's the beauty of this genre of music.

  • Ha the rumors DID begin! And the reunion DID happen! And he WAS there! Lololololololol

  • To all the ignorants BLACK people ARE Rock AND METAL!

  • When Black people like rock and metal its cool but when White people try to be black they look like a joke

  • Hey people, i'm black and i'm a metalhead. Any problems with me ? People who don't agree with this can suck my BLACK cock as well !

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  • 1:00 Lol rumor was true..

  • Why is there a bunch of racist squabbling from 10 year olds on a Metallica-related video? Pathetic.

  • i was wrong. he's the real deal. im going to be listening to more lloyd grant and learn about the roots of metal. i can't believe this guy hasn't been documented as vital to the metal movement.

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  • One of the most popular comments is telling someone to kill them selves and it is voted up..So sad,,what is wrong with this picture??Cant you blood thirsty people figure that out..Even Lars is not that big of a dick...Peaceout

  • Metalllca's

  • Ok, Here you got you're reunion: watch?v=Hd6VSrncMFU

  • Just curious, what did Lloyd do for Metallica?

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  • @TheLawliet08 there's actually a youtube clip of their reunion performance the other night. just type in 'Metallica Lloyd Grant' and it will come up.

  • @TheLawliet08 He played lead guitar on Metallica's very first Hit the Lights recording. The one that ended up on the Metal Massacre album produced by Brian Slagel. He was way before Dave or Kirk.

  • @TheLawliet08 he contributed the solos for hit the lights on the original and the very first version of the song on the metal massacre compilation.

  • I love the racist shit here.

    Go fuck off 

  • A black metalhead nowdays, though not the most common thing, is not something to write home about.

    But this dude was a black metalhead in 1983!!!

    You sir, are the epitome of coolness!

  • lloyd grant rulz, you faggots!!!

  • Ironic, the only thing as bad as some of the racist shit comments I see here are people who constantly pull the race card for no reason. Both of these types of people can fuck off because we don't need people who see everything through the spectrum of race, fuck them. Anyway, lloyd finally got to reunite with Tallica for hit the lights along with Mustaine. Pretty fucking sweet.

  • the reunion happened yesterday great to see lloyd,ron and dave out there so awesome

  • The songs dave wrote Metallica ripped him off. So dave being the metal man that he is, he went ahead and wrote all of his own music..

  • Fun fact: That reunion happened on December 10th, 2011. He played with them at the last night of their 30th Anniversary gig, along with Dave Mustaine and Ron McGovney.

  • you see and megadeth fans think dave mustain wrote hit the light,,..wrong

    dave was only part of 4 songs on the album

  • You people are so critics to racism sheez im racist so what who cares its a life style not a joke like lots of people but look at it this way if you dont like people criticising your life dont criticize other people's life there you go problem solved

  • Scumbag racist deserve nothing good in their life, all your doing to yourself is teaching your kids how to ask for & receive an ass kicking when they grow up with that ignorant point of view, Grant played the second lead on hit the lights 1st pressing, according to McGoveny

  • From what I heard he just did one solo towards the end in hit the lights, I think around 2:56. I'm not saying I'm right

  • Lloyd Grant sucks at guitar and its not because of his race

  • @purplewalnut89 Don't say that word, not cool bro, not cool.

  • @purplewalnut89 You're ignorant, stupid racist tool. No matter what race, we are still all the same on the inside. He contributed to this song, therefore, if you turn him down, then you obviously aren't that grateful that you've been blessed with Hit The Lights.

  • Hehe lembrei quando era moleque e lia até decorar encartes de disco, no kill them all mencionam essa figura ai.

  • I got Metal Massacre II with Cliff's first band Trauma in a flea market bin for 3$ the guy could not understand why I was smiling it looks like it's never been played even though though it's opened the plastic is still on the cover just slit so the record can come out now I gotta find MM 1 maybe not so easy

  • hahaha, wow, know whats funny?? im fucking lucky because i was born on October 15th, Metallica day!!:)

  • respect!

  • Lloyd was never officially in the band. He was a studio guitarst for that one song only. Would be really cool to see him jam Hit the Lights with them live though. I'm sure Kirk would understand and sit out for one song..... or hell, him and Lloyd could just trade solos! Even better! ;)

  • @Dime6String yeah and the guy who played bass before Cliff was in the song because him and Jaymz were roomates and they had no one else (fuck I cant remember his name) i'm sure some one will give the info here

  • @horseboyken Ron McGovney.

  • @Dime6String Thanks I remembered his name 5 min after the post, lol

    but did he do anything after the original Metallica?

  • @horseboyken Nope. He recorded Hit the Lights on the first Metal Massacre album and that was it.

  • @horseboyken Oh you mean Ron? Well I'm friends with him on Facebook lol he's living in North Dakota or somewhere these days. He updates his FB page once in a while but not too often. I'm not personal friends with him but he does accept friend requests from fans.

  • @horseboyken First name was Ron but his last .. i can`t remember

    MCgivney or smthing like that

  • October 15th 2011, Metallica's 30th anniversary....I would love to hear a hit the lights redone wiht lloyd grant.

  • I love black people who love metal, its refreshing.

  • @frazz2306 I'm sure this pisses off all the neo-nazis who are influenced by Metallica ;)

  • @frazz2306

    i agree

  • @frazz2306 It's so open minded! Need more of us lol

  • i read about this guy in a metallica book. It mentions he is african american.

  • omg id love too see that lloyd and kirk jamming on stage

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  • @coooba94 Problem?

  • @coooba94 He is also the best guitarist they ever had

  • @ODSTArchive Yeah and i'm queen of england

  • @ODSTArchive Yea right...Lloyd Grant is pure shit. I mean yea that solo he did on the Hit the Lights demo was amazing and the best out of him Dave and Kirk but I think he only pulled that off because the ghost of Jimi Hendrix temporarily possesed his body. If you look at that video of him on youtube he sucks, he can't even play in key.

  • @coooba94 And you're a moron

  • @rocafella142 your father is a moron!!! and fuck you swine!!!

  • @coooba94 you're a wannabe neo-nazi and that's the best insult you have ahaha. what a tool.

  • @rocafella142 ooh is that all about, well mind your own bussines you stupid american, it's not your bussines what i am or not!!!

  • @coooba94 you're a little ass reject child who cuts himself at night and cries because his mother hates him. go listen to emo wtf r u doing in a metallica video

  • @rocafella142 fuck you fuckin ass. go die with your stinking mother. i'll rape your father!!! i hope 10 ugly cotton pickers from Alabama rape you black mother!!!

  • @coooba94 *yawn* i heard better jokes from a 10 year old.

  • @rocafella142 ohh yeah, well i saw monkeys who use their brains better than you try.

  • @coooba94 i doubt it, all you wanna be neo-nazis are fucking retards.

  • @rocafella142 well doubt it, you idiot, i don't care, at least i'm not from the lower race like you!!! black monkey iiiooookooooo, you wanna banana?

  • @coooba94 lol look at you, you're lowering yourself to talk like a primative homo erectus. and i'm the idiot? haha you're the scum of the earth buddy. no one likes you

  • @rocafella142 fuck you subhuman!!! i bet your parents are brother and sister!!! and you are the biggest scum of all!!!

  • @coooba94 nope you're the waste of sperm and egg racist wanna be neo-nazi redneck. that means YOU'RE the imbred child :)

  • @rocafella142 you're brainless creature, don't bother me again with your bullshits, even in your best best best period, you'll never be like me, and you'll stay just un american black idiotic monkey :) you're just jealosing that you can't be white supreme dude!!!

  • @coooba94 I have better things in my life to do than to be a racist. Such as working on my master's degree. Tell me how does a gravitational singularity affect space-time and I won't take you for a complete prick. Otherwise you're a waste of life, a failed abortion who has nothing better to do then to cherish a dead mass murderer who wouldn't give two shits about you if he was alive.

  • @rocafella142 go shave the cunt of your mother :D i hope some tsunami hit san diego and send you to see naples! but you're a subhuman and you won't understand the meaning of it!!!

  • @coooba94 Gravitational Singularity? Awww the little neo-nazi doesn't know what that means? :) Lol wannabe Hitler, since you want to be like him means you have to eat Cyanide and blow your brains out, not that you have any brains though.

  • @rocafella142 your ugly mother made me a blowjob last night, you can substitute her tonight, she said you're very good at cock sucking and licking just like your father!!! By the way if got fuckin monkey sister, she could join you!!!

  • @coooba94 go get an education

  • @rocafella142 i have very good education, go read a book, not comics.

  • @coooba94 you worship hitler, you're a fucking uneducated moron. mein kampf isn't a book, so you never read one in your life.

  • @rocafella142 fuck you, you are incredible big idiot, how long are you gonna write me your bullshits?!? go commit suicide, ugly faggor!!!

  • @coooba94 You're the idiot buddy. continue wasting your life away hating groups of people for no reason. And I can keep going on and on as long as you keep writing me. I have no problem spending a few seconds out of my day to type to a shithead :) And you go commit suicide, do it by Cyanide and a gunshot to the head like your butt buddy Hitler :) You like riding his dick apparently haha so why don't you be just like him and kill yourself like a coward.

  • @rocafella142 beat it bastard!!! go suck a dick, you fuckin swine!!! black brainless creature!!!

  • Ohhh you are so brave behind the monitor!

  • @VaskeLoG Oh you so need to mind your own business, you hypocrite.

  • @rocafella142 All racist people need to commit suicide.

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  • @rocafella142 wow, with that comment, you're just as bad as the other guy.

  • @JEUXolim explain

  • @coooba94 "i have very good education" is grammatically incorrect

  • @eagleeye2391 Yeah ok, probably, my english is not perfect and it's nothing wrong with that, i'm not from english speaking country and i don't try to make it perfect. You can't say or write "i have very good education" on my language, even grammatically incorrectly.

  • I knew Lloyd was black, but what's the problem about it?

  • I like how it ends with St. Anger hahahaha

  • metallica has pretty every race in the band or has had

  • @valdivia562 Same about sexual preferences haha

  • Hes black?

  • i guess he was never credited as a full member of metallica.

  • @Liz15thyr You watch, that " Not a complete metallica album" will turn into like a 14 song album from so much material they had from Death Magnetic!

  • hahaha "when or we gonna play some heavy stuff?" then they put on st. anger.... oxy morons

  • A METCLUB MEMBERSHIP IS THE LEAST THAT LARS COULD DO FOR LLOYD!

    'NUFF SAID!

  • what happened to lloyd grant? did he just quit or...?

  • I'm black and I'm a metalhead. Blacks have always contributed in some way shape or form to metal music. This clip shows proves that. But metal is for everyone.

  • @cabalofdemons race doesn't matter - right across the board

  • @cabalofdemons couldnt of said it better.

  • thank god for dave mustaine and then kirk hammet LOL

  • @dpapaioannow I don't know if that's supposed to be a racist comment or what, but dude have you heard "Hit the Lights"? That song set the tone for the whole album. One could argue that his contributions to that one song had a major influence on Metallica. What is Thrash? Listen to "Hit the Lights" and you'll know.

  • This reunion will be great!

    James - Vocals and guitar

    Lloyd grant - lead guitars

    Ron mcgovney - Bass

    Lars ulrich - Drums

  • so does this make lloyd grant the pete best of metal?

  • what is the problem if he is black ..

  • lol he sounds stoned

  • Omg! Metallica would be so odd with a black guy today.... hahaha, It would be awesome though. he seems awesome haha

    

  • my band has a black dude playing guitar. hes freaking awesome. and our drummer (a white dude) has a fro, as does the black dude. maybe we should think of some other uncommon metal band traits....any ideas? lol

  • @hdzrk86 Monocles. And one guy should have an eyepatch. Yeah, a monocle AND an eyepatch.

  • @hdzrk86 You should all wear spandex.

  • Haha they should reunite for Hit the Lights just once, with that loser McGovney on bass xD just to get the old gang back together

  • @soadratmetc A reunion like that would be pretty damn awesome...

    :-D

    Although I don't think Dave Mustaine would be happy that Lloyd Grant is the lead guitarist and not him...

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  • lloyd+metal+ BLACK METAL

  • @metallisaro lol

  • @metallisaro LMAO

  • Lloyd is not better than mustaine...no way in he'll man..

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  • WHO FUCKING CARES IF LLOYD WAS BLACK?!?!?!?!?!

  • lol he says heavy stuff , burn metalicca is soft nd has been for years

  • yeah, lloyd grant is from jamaica

  • Wow!! how surprising! Lloyd Grant is a black man. I never knew!

  • @CarbinBleuDia So it would be less surprising if he was white?

  • @JackFriedRice Well yeah!!! Because Not to many blacks I know are into metal. In fact outside of the internet I'm the only black person I know who is in to it. I remember being in highschool and bringing metallica and justice for all to school ( a predominately black high school) and all the kids who heard it saying "what the fuck is this"!!! So its very surprising.

  • @CarbinBleuDia dude hirax his singer

  • They should have worked with Lloyd hes a great guitarist.

  • 1:02 mina Larsa...bezcenna xd

  • how i hate the 21st century, with its white artists like justin bieber and also with its black artists who make people forget about the effort of the biggest musical geniuses of different types of genres like jimi hendrix, godfather of rock n' roll chuck berry, b.b. king, and many, many more.

  • That's cool, black people in metal are kewl.

  • @megaluisdeth fuck yeah bro, people are always amazed when I tell them I fuckin' love metal, there's no better genre of music in my book

  • @SinistaMinista666 I went to Sam's Town casino to see the Big Four in theaters and then a security guard stopped me and my friends, I thought we were in trouble, but turns out Megadeth and Metallica are his favorite bands! And a cop pulled my Dad over and let us go because he saw our Megadeth shirts. Cool stuff. Rock on Man!

  • @megaluisdeth that's cool as fuck, I checked out the music on ya page, really, really good shit bro, fuckin' epic

  • @SinistaMinista666 The covers or our originals or my taste in music?

  • @megaluisdeth the covers & your taste in music, I really dug that Lazarus A.D. song

  • @megaluisdeth of course we are... and to be a female bass player is cool too

  • This man is like 100x Mustaine....he's great!

  • omg i would pay to see lloyd jam with metallica in present

  • So the early version of hit the lights was reggae?? COOL¡

  • Yeah id known Lloyd was black for a while but i was like "wow really" when i found out

  • They just need an arab and a Native American and they'll have everything covered.

  • @TheMicCheck jajajajajajaja xD youre right

  • metallica old times.... but really very very old times

  • Ron, Dave, Lloyd and Jason should be more respected for being part of Metallica's history, Cliff is obviously respected and we all know why and Rob is part of Metallica now, Jason and Dave are more known then Ron and Lloyd but everyone, it doesn't matter how small the role should be equally respected

  • lars looks comfortable lol

  • Metal Massacre was recorded in june 14 1982 . Mustaine played on ron mcgoceneys demo where hit the lights appears on march 14 1982 obviously before lloyd

  • @mEgAmESmIK Look up the 1997 Ron McGovney interview from SHOCKWAVES. It's easy to find if you google it. He tells the truth about the early days...

  • @louiebones I have looked it up. Lloyd was never a part of Metallica this video is misleading. He only wrote the solo. which is different from Dave's version on the afore mentioned demo and from Kirk's KEA solo. Dave IS the FIRST and ORIGINAL Metallica Lead Guitarist.

  • @mEgAmESmIK ...YEP....exactly right

  • Lloyd was never in Metallica.....i read somewhere that james and lars drove to his house with a 4 track recorder and he laid down the solos to hit the lights right there on the spot in only a few takes...he never played live with them or anything..

  • @bukofjob You got it right. Mustaine was already in the band at the time. this video is somewhat misleading

  • @bukofjob Actually you're wrong. Metallica jamed with Lloyd more than just the Hit the Lights recording, it wasn't for very long but it was more than just that one time. He didn't record hit the lights with a few takes, it was only one take. And the reason James lost interest in him was because he had trouble keeping time with the rest of the band.

  • not only am i surprised that lloyd was black. but that there were black musicians into metal back at that time.

  • he could have been the next jimi hendrix why didnt he stay with metallica

  • @TheM3TaLMeTaLLiCa

    No he couldn't. Have you heard him actually played after HIt the Lights? He SUCK!

  • hey, I have a friend that's as black as Lloyd. We call him Frank Black

  • wait, so Lloyd was the original lead guitarist?

  • @mEgAmESmIK but he played on hit the lights. Would that make him a studio member?

  • @rageagainstboxhead He only played the Hit the Lights solo for the Metal Massacre compilation not for KEA. He was just a friend of Metallica, I don't know they recorded in some house or a studio. If you listen to the 1982 demo's, Metal Massacre and KEA Hit the Lights solos each one differs from the others so his solo didnt last

  • hahaha didnt thought lloyd was black;)  would be cool if he stayed with metallica. like kirk though too

  • I do wonder what metallica would be like if lloyd was in the band