When Garage Days Re-Revisited came out in 1987, I remember wondering "where was Garage Days Revisited?" Well, its here. The two covers comprise all of the Garage Days Revisited side of the cassette. As a kid, I was always hoping for a lost, full-length release with two full sides of covers, which I was treated to later on Garage, Inc. At the time, I actually loved the covers on the b-sides of their singles almost as much as the actual songs, songs like "The Prince" (Diamond Head) and "Breadfan" (Budgie) got as much play as the a-side stuff and actually turned me onto both of those bands.
The cover art of the LP was amazing, with a very dark, foggy pass and the words "Creeping Death" below it. I always wanted to hunt down the LP just for the cover art and have yet to find a copy at one of my area record stores.
I was a huge Metallica fan growing up and it was the first arena rock show I saw, seeing them on the 1989 Damaged Justice tour in October in Minneapolis. They blew me away, even if I thought ...And Justice For All was a bit of a more commercial album than I was hoping for when it came out. I really didn't know what to think when I saw the video for "One" and hoped it was going to be their only forray into commercialism. Unfortunately, I was super wrong.
As it stands, Ride The Lightning is probably my favorite Metallica record and this short EP is a great taste of Metallica at a time when they had yet to hit MTV and still had Cliff and were the kings of the thrash scene, always a step ahead of their contemporaries.
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