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Ron
Ron
18 years ago

For the record, “One” is basically an adaptation of Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun. The video even incorporated huge chunks of footage from the movie.

dcnahm
18 years ago

He was a High School tennis prodigy–I think this is the only requirement for lit cred.

Levi
18 years ago

That is interesting, I didn’t know that about “One”.

He also sang “Turn the Page”, which may indicate some familiarity with turning pages.

Ron
Ron
18 years ago

Also, “Creeping Death” is based on the Book of Exodus and decidedly not on the movie The Ten Commandments

Dan Wickett
18 years ago

He also had a very extensive (albeit, pretty creepy) art collection for some time (at least per Some Kind of Monster, or whatever that documentary was called), showing att least a minor appreciation for the arts.

dcnahm
18 years ago

Peart’s lyrics are all based on Rand novels–that doesn’t count.

Skeezix
Skeezix
18 years ago

Lives in Marin County; marginally more cred than Carlos Santana.

ML Heath
18 years ago

As someone who read at an LQ event a few days later, I’m glad someone brought this up.

Folks like Manzarek, Dr. Frank, Chuck Prophet and Penelope Houston have at least some literary connections, or convey a literary sensibility through their music. What has Metallica contributed to local lit. besides reams of crap high school poetry?

Personally, I would have liked to have seen E-40 up there, or someone from the Anticon crew; someone local who are also doing lyrically unique within the stultifying contemporary framework of hiphop.