Garage Inc.

Album Credits:

DISC I -
Somewhat produced by Bob Rock with Hetfield & Ulrich
Engineered by Randy Staub
Additional Engineering by Brian Dobbs
Assisted by Kent Matcke, Leff Lefferts, and Chris Manning
Digital Edits by Paul DeCarli and Mike Gillies
Recorded & Mixed at The Plant Studios, (except track 10), Sausalito, California, in September-October 1998
Mixed by Randy Staub and Mixed by Mike Fraser
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound
As always, thanks to all the good people involved at The Plant

DISC II -
Tracks 1-5:
Not very produced by Metallica
Engineered by Csaba "The Hut" Petocz
Recorded in Los Angeles, California, in 1987
Tracks 6-7: Produced by Metallica and Mark Whitaker
Engineered by Jeffrey "Nick" Norman
Recorded in Sausalito, California, in 1984
Tracks 8-9: Not produced
Engineered by Mike Clink and Toby "Rage" Wright
Rough mix by Flemming Rasmussen
Recorded in Los Angeles, California in 1988
Track 10: Kind of produced by Metallica
Engineered by Toby "Rage" Wright
Recorded in Berkely, California in 1990
Tracks 11-12: Roughly produced by Bob Rock with Hetfield and Ulrich
Engineered by Randy Staub
Recorded in Los Angeles, California, in 1991
Tracks 13-16: Not Produced
Recorded live direct to two-track at The Plant Studios
in Sausalito, California, in December, 1995
Mixed by Randy Staub
Remastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound
Album Design by Andie Airfix at Satori
Front cover photography and Page 32 of booklet by Anton Corbijn
Back cover photography of original sleeve by Ross Halfin
Additional photography by Ross Halfin and Mark Leialoha
Management by Q Prime, Inc

Track Listing:

Disc 1
Free Speech For The Dumb (Originally recorded by Discharge)
It’s Electric (Originally recorded by Diamond Head)
Sabbra Cadabra (Originally recorded by Black Sabbath)
Turn The Page (Originally recorded by Bob Seger)
Die Die My Darling (Originally recorded by The Misfits)
Loverman (Originally recorded by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
Mercyful Fate (Originally recorded by Mercyful Fate)
Astronomy (Originally recorded by Blue Oyster Cult)
Whiskey In The Jar (Originally recorded by Thin Lizzy)
Tuesday’s Gone (Originally recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd)
The More I See (Originally recorded by Discharge)

Disc 2
Helpless (Originally recorded by Diamond Head)
The Small Hours (Originally recorded by Holocaust)
The Wait (Originally recorded by Killing Joke)
Crash Course In Brain Surgery (Originally recorded by Budgie)
Last Caress / Green Hell (Originally recorded by The Misfits)
Am I Evil? (Originally recorded by Diamond Head)
Blitzkrieg (Originally recorded by Blitzkrieg)
Breadfan (Originally recorded by Budgie)
The Prince (Originally recorded by Diamond Head)
Stone Cold Crazy (Originally recorded by Queen)
So What (Originally recorded by The Anti-Nowhere League)
Killing Time (Originally recorded by Sweet Savage)
Overkill (Originally recorded by Motorhead)
Damage Case (Originally recorded by Motorhead)
Stone Dead Forever (Originally recorded by Motorhead)
Too Late Too Late (Originally recorded by Motorhead)

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Quotes From the Band

1) Free Speech For The Dumb - Discharge
JAMES: "I think we've slowed it down a little bit and tuned it down to get more 'chug' out of the riff. I like to think that they were the first crossover band, even before us, as in combining aggression and good riffs."

2) It's Electric - Diamond head
JAMES: "That's where the shit came from that's what spurred us on."

3) Sabbra Cadabra - Black Sabbath
JAMES: "You sit and listen to the Sabbath stuff and think 'wow that's great' and then you go to sing it, and you think 'wow I can't sing that high, we'll have to tune the song down a bit to get in that range'."

4) Turn The Page - Bob Seger
JAMES: "I heard a song on the radio singing about the road life, a kind of somber, gruff, honest lyric in there. I kinda felt it could be Bob Seger, but the lyric and song itself was great. So it's all to do with that song rather than Bob Seger itself. The lyrics are us. We've been road dogs since day 1."

5) Die Die My Darling - The Misfits
JAMES: "Awesome, ugly shit. I always liked their poppy modulations combined with singing about death."

6) Loverman - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
JAMES: "He's got the nice mellow stuff and goes straight into chaotic hell. He builds these things into giant ugliness. That's the kind of stuff we were doing with 'Fade To Black' acoustic to heavy, one extreme to the other, and I saw a lot of that in Nick Cave. That's what this Loverman is really all about."

7) A Mercyful Fate Medley (featuring Evil, Curse Of The Pharoahs, Satan's Fall, A Corpse Without Soul and Into The Coven) - Mercyful Fate
LARS: "I think it's dear to all of us, we realize 15 years later how tremendously influential they were and what a motherfucker it was to execute. Just realizing how those guys were such brilliant musicians and have such a great thing going was very cool."

8) Astronomy - Blue Oyster Cult
JAMES: "That song's always been pretty epic to me. Listening to the song, we thought whether we should even fuck with it because it's so sacred. We tried it and it came out pretty well."

9) Whiskey In A Jar - Thin Lizzy
JAMES: "It's extremely catchy and the fact it isn't really their song is weird, it's some Irish drinking song. I liked the fact the Phil Lynott could go anywhere and write any style, from some completely sappy love ballad to some total quick-rocker to goofing around with the cowboy song, to different shuffle beats."

10) Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
JAMES: "This is the only one with guests (Gary Rossington, Jerry Cantrell, Les Claypool, Jim Martin, Sean Kinney and John Popper). It was live from the radio show we did last year and so there's all these people singing out of key. We gave Randy (Staub) the tapes of it and said 'here, mix this' and he was like 'holy shit'. There's 20 guys on it, and it had a great vibe."

11) The More I See - Discharge
JAMES: "They had the riffs. Bones came up with some metal riffs, and Cal would just scream. It was fun doing those songs, there were no lyrics there just three lines with 'repeat repeat.' Very cool doing that stuff."

Band Members:

James Hetfield - Rhythm Guitar/Vocals
Jason Newsted- Bass/Backup Vocals
Kirk Hammett - Lead Guitar
Lars Ulrich - Drums

Albums Released

Elektra, 1998 (U.S) [62299-2] Explicit Lyrics Version
Elektra, 1998 (U.S.) Clean Version