RE-REVISITED RE-REVIEWED

METALLICA

Garage Days Re-Revisited

(Elektra)

I awoke this morning from a horrible nightmare: I had dreamt I was at a Metallica concert. No, don’t get all overwrought, because that’s not the nightmare part. The scary part was that the new bass player was some fat guy with greasy hair playing bad jazz licks on an old, beat-up bass fiddle and that James Hetfield had went out and got himself a Saturday Night Fever-era John Travolta haircut. And if you think that’s bad, they were playing a cocktail-lounge-music version of “The Final Countdown” and James was singing like a cross between Joey Tempest and Bill Murray.

Pretty scary stuff, eh kids? Well, / woke up in a cold sweat.