Metallica frontman James Hetfield has an fascinating proposition for inventors: create a microphone with built-in straws.
Talking on a current version of the band’s podcast The Metallica ReportHetfield spoke about instruments that may assist enhance the band’s stay reveals transferring ahead: “Having the ability to possibly sip some water whereas I’m enjoying, you realize, some form of straw on the microphone… That might be cool.”
Nevertheless, hydration doesn’t appear to be the one factor the band can enhance on whereas performing, in accordance with the frontman. As he explains it, his palms are at all times full whereas riffing, so he can’t transfer round with a microphone, limiting his motion and interplay with the viewers.
“I’m not holding the mic, I’m not capable of go anyplace. So there [could be] mic stations all over the place,” Hetfield mentioned. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that this might include its personal set of challenges. “Our monitor man [would have to] chase me round for all of the mics, he can’t have all of them open as a result of it sounds insane, particularly in an indoor stadium.”
To keep away from the chaos of regularly turning mics on and off, Hetfield additionally offered one other progressive proposition; “Should you’re sporting one thing and also you’re inside two toes of the microphone, flip it on, one thing like that. So it might make [the monitor’s job] a bit of simpler and mine as nicely.”
Metallica will hit the highway once more in Could 2024 for one more leg of their M72 World Tour, for which they’ll play two nights in every metropolis with two distinctive “no repeats” setlist and totally different help acts. The tour will wrap in Mexico in September 2024.
The band’s bassist Robert Trujillo, in the meantime, not too long ago revealed why they tweaked their ‘M72’ tour setlist.
