![]() ![]() “Nothing Else Matters” was a song for me. “Nothing Else Matters” has become a song that any complete beginner who has never picked up a guitar can feel like they are playing Metallica for a few measures. That solidified, I think, that we were doing the right thing, writing from the heart about what we felt, and you can’t go wrong that way. It’s quite amazing, it’s a true testament to honesty and exposing yourself, putting your real self out there, and taking the risk, taking a gamble that someone’s either going to step on your heart with spikes on or they’re going to put their heart right next to it, and you never know until you try. ![]() It was a song for myself in my room on tour when I was bumming out about being away from home. While the song does get heavy during the second guitar solo, it is for the most part, a ballad about expressing your feelings, like an Emerson poem: ![]() The song grew out of an extension of a phone call James made with his girlfriend while on tour and he was picking his guitar while on the phone. Frontman James Hetfield had been taking classical guitar lessons and wanted to show off his fingerpicking skills in the introduction. On their controversial self-titled album which came to be known as the Black Album, “Nothing Else Matters” was perhaps the greatest example of the new Metallica sound that alienated core fans. ![]()
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