Metallica lead guitarist and songwriter Kirk Hammett has lost his super-valuable iPhone. No, it’s not one of those gold-plated ones favored by celebrities like Justin Bieber — it’s the iPhone on which he’d stored 250 riffs for the band’s next album.
In terms of money lost, this has to make you feel better about that time you dropped your iPhone in the bath, right?
“I put riffs on my iPhone, but something very unfortunate happened to me about six months ago,” Hammett told a podcast host. “I lost my iPhone [containing] 250 musical ideas. And I was crushed. It didn’t get backed up … I can only remember, like, eight of [the riffs].”
Not only is this a damning reminder of why we should all back up our information (all the more so if it has the potential to make or cost you millions of dollars), it’s also the second time Apple has indirectly contributed to challenges faced by Metallica.
When the band released its album, ‘Death Magnetic’ in 2008, the distorted sound of numerous tracks was blamed on the mastering process, specifically carried out for those who listen to music on their iPods.
Let’s hope this doesn’t tip the band over the edge into Android fandom.
Source: Jasta Show
Via: Blabbermouth
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
9 responses to “Metallica songwriter loses iPhone packing 250 new riffs”
And this is why you back up phones and computers regularly. On the plus side, we may have just been spared a new Metallica album! :D
Yeah. Now if we could only get Nickelback to lose their iPhones.
Karma…for Napster
Beat me to it.
I’m not sure how having Android would have made a difference. Also, if the album sounded distorted on an iPod, it would have on any other MP3 player. Blaming Apple for crappy music isn’t the answer. Don’t get me wrong, I was a Metallica fan years ago, but they haven’t put out anything I’d call good in quite some time.
It’s Apple’s fault that some millionaire doesn’t possess common sense?
What app did he use? It could really use some cloud backup.
Why would he back up riffs on an iPhone anyway??
8 riffs, that’s 8 tracks – I won’t use the word “songs” obviously – which is enough to spin out another money-making platter. Drones will buy it anyway and I can’t imagine anyone complaining that the chord sequence is A-D-A-D-E-E-E rather than A-D-A-D-E#-E#-E, can you?