During a recent interview, Metallica’s James Hetfield said that his bandmates are “really, really average players”, but in their case, the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts.
Here’s what Hetfield said:
“I know individually we’re all really average players, but when you put us together, something happens. Something really happens….
”Getting up and jamming with people is like a nightmare for me.”
More, the guitarist said that he was ”so shy” in the early Metallica days:
“Early shows were really difficult, I was so shy. [I] didn’t want to talk. I’d have the other guys in the band introduce the songs.
“[Now] I feel so comfortable up there, it’s so weird. Sitting down one-on-one with someone is a lot more anxiety-ridden than standing up in front of 10,000 people, 20,000 people.”