Metallica Sue Canadian Band over E, F Chords

MTV News ^ | 2003-07-16 | Joe D'Angelo

[Charlie OK]

relax dude.

[Last Visible Dog]

What the hell is an "indie" group anyway? I always thought that was where the band was from. Apparently not - these guys are Canadian.

indie means not signed to a major label.

[Wrigley]

new album sales must be waaay down. It look like they're trying for some publicity.

[tdadams]

It's not April 1st and this isn't from the Onion. What's the punch line?

[tdadams]

You got duped, big time. This isn't from MTV.com. It's a spoof site. It's probably a lame attempt by the band Unfaith to get some publicity. And you just fell for it.

[Last Visible Dog]

People, this is a JOKE. It is NOT REAL. It is not really from MTV News.

Bloody HELL. That was a good job. The links from the MTV website to the Metallica website made it quite convincing.

I still think Lars in a boil on the butt of rock music.

[tdadams]

That's not a Metallica fan, that's the drummer!

[Mr. Mojo]

LOL!

[detsaoT]

You got duped, big time. This isn't from MTV.com. It's a spoof site. It's probably a lame attempt by the band Unfaith to get some publicity. And you just fell for it.

ThinkDifferent pointed this out to me about 40 posts ago. Thanks, though. I get it now.

;) ttt

[onedoug]

Don't even think of playing, or even humming C. My lawyers will hunt you down to the ends of the scale.

[Yeti]

Such silliness. And Metallica doesn't even realize how much they are embarassing themselves.

Agree. Like everyone else, I thought it was a joke at first. E and F aren't even chords, they're notes. Do they mean major or minor or what? Do they even know what they mean?

"We're not saying we own those two chords, individually - that would be ridiculous. We're just saying that in that specific order, people have grown to associate E, F with our music

Oh, I get it. They aren't sayng they own E and F, just locrian and phrygian modes. They have a patent on locrian and phrygian modes as played through distorted guitars and they mean to enforce it.

Has there ever been a band that wore black on stage that DIDN'T lean heavy on that transition? This just goes to show that I was right all those years ago when I came to the conclusion that their music was what happens when stupid guys try to pretend they are serious and heavy. And Hammet has no musicality to his playing.

[TheBattman]

GET A CLUE - THIS IS A JOKE!

The url goes to a server which has no connection to mtv.com The page is a spoof page.

http://www1.scoopthis.com/411/met_uf/stc_met_uf_mtv.htm

is not
http://www.mtv.com


no relation

[tdadams]

ThinkDifferent pointed this out to me about 40 posts ago.

I see someone's a little sore.

[detsaoT]

I see someone's a little sore.

Hehehe, not at all, good sir. Just a little miffed that I missed the obvious hoax.

:) ttt

[Charlie OK]

Thought you all might get a laugh out of this.

Somebody else was fooled too...

[glock rocks]

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* poof *

[Billthedrill]

There's a loophole in the law there - I can play C as long as I'm at least a quarter-tone out of tune. And I'm always at least a quarter-tone out of tune.

[onedoug]

Too close. Sorry.

You can donate my royalty check to FR, though.