Metal Up Your Podcast - All Things Metallica

On this special episode we sat down with the lovely Chad Z to talk all things teching for James and Metallica in general. Here are a few of the topics covered: PS - The interview begins around the 27 minute mark. growing up a drummer in Wisconsin breaking into the music industry as an audio engineer in Minneapolis touring with The Breeders, Garbage, Hole and Tori Amos working with Veruca Salt and Bob Rock details on getting the Metallica gig being healthy on the road establishing trust with James making the pedal changes live for James working with Metallica at HQ during writing/recording sessions what he does when Metallica isn’t touring the Grammy’s/Gaga fiasco the Chris Cornell Tribute show making mistakes at a show James kicking his guitar in St. Louis James’ unique digital acoustic guitar solving problems on stage transitioning from real amps to Fractals the process of matching the tones from the albums to the fractals the correct tunings for Sad But True, Thingy, Seek and Dream No More the purple bari