Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has written a letter to Metallica telling them that they are Metallica. Well, that was a small part of it and I've gone and taken it out of context. Anyway, he instructed the band not to release their new album "until it's kick-ass". You can't buy advice like that.
The letter reads:
"Hey, it's Dave! Remember me? Yeah, I'm the guy that's been listening to your band faithfully since 1983. I bought your first album 'Kill 'Em All' from a mail order catalogue called 'Under The Rainbow', I think. Actually I can't remember. It was 1983 for Christsakes! But that album changed my life and I've been listening to your albums ever since (even 'St Anger'!).
"I can't wait to hear the new shit, and no matter what you guys do I'll always be first one at the shop waiting to hear it. I'm sure you'll come out and blow everybody's fuckin' minds, because you're fuckin' METALLICA!
"Good luck. And don't release it until it's kick-ass.
"Yours, Dave Grohl.
"P.S. Are you finished recording the drums yet?"
As previously reported, the new, as-yet-untitled Metallica album is pencilled in for an October release. I hope Dave Grohl doesn't get to play drums on it. As a friend of mine said during Grohl's particularly prolific period of providing guest drums a couple of years ago, "Why don't you piss off and let someone else have a go?"