Name: Joe Rogan Experience #887 - James Hetfield
Uploaded: 2016-12-16T23:27:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #887 - James Hetfield' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-12-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #887 - James Hetfield' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-12-16. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #887 - James Hetfield

i guess i never i don't know much about moose they're awesome so fucking big
such a giant animal
two one live boom live with james headfield how are you sir doing awesome any
friend of gym
brewers is a friend of mine so awesome to hear so yeah so you're in hey man i
listened to your
new shit in the gym today and you know what's amazing about it you guys still
fucking rock hard
you know you you haven't i love aerosmith i was a huge aerosmith fan when i was
a kid but
somewhere along the line they became a ballad band somewhere along the line
they started doing
movies for music for our music for movies that appeal to like uh adolescent
teenage girls you know
like something happened yeah i got you no and then and then uh other people
start writing your songs
that's that's i think the the ultimate kind of uh uh not giving up but you've
you've you've lost your
way yeah but i wanted to talk to you about like there's a transition that's
very successful
people make and either they make it or they don't and the the transition is to
go from being hungry
and filled with all this angst being like stupid wealthy and famous but still
keeping your art
relevant like how do you do that uh we're super competitive people we're really
perfectionists
and we hate to let each other down uh there's a there's always a better riff
coming there's always
a better album uh maybe there's the never satisfied part to us that will keep
us going till we die
you know there's always the ultimate lyric that's going to connect to everyone
in the world or something
there is always a better something that we haven't got yet so it's that mindset
is that
i guess in the beginning you just want to do it right you want to be a
successful band you want to
make it you're young you're filled with angst but your music has the same sort
of intensity to it like
today in the gym i got in there i hadn't listened to your new album at all i
fucking cranked it up to
nine and i just said let's go and i turned it on and right from the jump i was
like whoa like there's
something about a good fucking hard rock album that just gets you pumped up and
you guys a hundred
percent a plus succeeded with this one awesome to hear well that's that's why
we do it too we write
music we write music we record music that we want to hear because we're not
hearing it out there
sometimes so and that's how it's been since day one and uh you know as you we're
we're pretty honest in
our music too so i love the fact that from album one to here we're doing it our
way and we're writing
songs for ourselves and that there's an honesty that has to be in it or people
can see people can see
that shit yeah they're like little animals they smell it right don't they and
they smell yeah they
smell they smell it the whole deal yeah it's it's just it's refreshing to see
like a band that's been
at it for a long time that's super successful that still goes after it yeah the
thing that uh thing
that bugs me a lot is when people say you know okay now that you're now that
you're sober or now that
you're matured now all this and you've worked out all your uh demons and things
like that that your
music's gonna be all soft and flowery and i tell you if if i could exercise all
those demons i would
have and it but it just it's something you you embrace it's a part of me and i
get to celebrate it
in my music i get to communicate it i get to use it as a therapy to help my own
insanity
and other people do too so when you get those like-minded people together in a
place
and play live music does something to people like you in the gym i get to watch
people at our shows
transform from god i just took my tie off or i still have my friggin briefcase
you know like
handcuffed to me i want out of this and i get to let loose and i get to see
these people transform
and and and watch music do stuff to them yeah transform is the right word right
because it does it's almost like music it i think there's a an element to music
that doesn't get
discussed that it does have some sort of an effect on the body like there's
like when you hear a good
song and you're in your car and you're like fuck yeah like it's like a drug i
mean it is it's like
absolutely taking a shot of this caveman nitro or something more powerful than
that really
because it's instantaneous you know i got plenty of speeding tickets i'm sure
plenty well that's the
best place like you know for lars and i to listen to the music when we're
putting it together
you know does it make the car test you know that that because you're yourself
in your car if no one
else is in there uh you're you get to celebrate and listen and just go friggin
nuts in your car
and that's that pass the car test you know that's got to be where most people
listen to most their
music these days with all the commuting people do especially here in la man it's
a ridiculous place
isn't it yeah yeah where you live in these hopefully we save people from road
rage they get to just
headbang instead of shooting people you're ramping it up well there's not too
much shooting people in
cars anymore it was going on for a while in like the 90s that's trendy where do
you live these days
i live in vale colorado oh no shit man wow that's kind of cool it's very cool
it's quiet no friggin
traffic uh and especially now super quiet snow uh snow does does something to
calm you down a little bit
i agree with that i remember when i was a kid in boston there was those days
when it would just snow
hard you go outside and you experience quiet like you never heard it before
right it's like everything
gets filtered by that snow well i like you know there's a there's a there's a
lone wolf part of me
that i i maybe you can relate to but i like being by myself uh but i also like
i need people
to to connect with as well but when i get out uh you know living in vale moving
from california to
colorado was a was a great thing for me i feel really oh i feel a part of
nature there um and you
don't want to be inside there there's something about it you just want to be
outside all the time
what's so beautiful yeah i'm going to colorado this weekend cool yeah it's
fucking stunning up there
this is something about colorado those mountains are just the best natural
artwork like you could
ever look at yeah no doubt we get to look at the gore range right out our
mountain and i've drank
plenty of coors lights in my life and that's the one on the can like wow i'm
looking at it and uh
lots of 14ers there lots of great uh you know lots of great snowmobiling rafting
you know paddleboarding
you name it what's a 14er uh 14 000 feet peaks oh yeah lots of 14 000 feet oh
people who are into
climbing those crazy peaks yeah or hunting you know what made you move out
there like what what was
the uh did you go there and visit first or just decided you needed to separate
from the hive yeah
there's there's probably a multitude of things that made it happen uh my wife
grew up there she was
born in argentina they moved to vale she went to elementary school there you
know we were going
to tahoe a lot to do skiing and stuff like that and she said you gotta we gotta
go to vale this is
this is not snow we'll go to vale and feel snow and we went there a few times
and i loved it
i'm not a huge skier but i can ski and i have fun doing it my kids love it um
and so that my my wife
turns into a kid when we go there which i kind of like it's a little more like
me you know she can be
a little you know a little too on point and a little you know uh she's she's uh
she loosens up
and she becomes young again there um so there's that kind of got sick of the
bay area the attitudes of
people there a little bit i was you know they talk about how diverse they are
and things like that and
you know it's fine if you're diverse like them you know but you know showing up
with a deer on the
bumper doesn't fly in marin county you know uh my or my my form of eating
organic doesn't vibe with
theirs you know did you do you have issues with that like with the people you
lived with up in
marin county with hunting or is it just something you felt yeah you know it's
something i felt uh i
probably made it up in my head a little bit yeah because i'm pretty good at
that i'm pretty creative
and i can start fights with myself in my head all the time you know a lot of
people can oh yeah but
but there was there was just a i don't know i felt that there was an elitist
attitude there that if
you weren't their way politically their way uh you know environmentally all of
that that uh
you know you were looked down upon i think in colorado everyone is very natural
people are not
playing some game they're not posturing you know yeah they're very into oh you
like doing that cool
how's that go how you doing with that you know and they're they're they're less
they're less obsessed
with stopping what you're doing and more enjoying what they're doing you know
hmm that's interesting
that's an interesting way to look at it the i love the bay area but i've always
felt like i think you
nailed it the bay area they love diversity as long as you're diverse the way
they're diverse
it's um it's so tech oriented it's so absorbed with one aspect of society
technology and cell phones and
the internet and electric cars and it's so locked into that one sort of like
mode of being that i think
a guy like you goes out there and shoots an elk or something like that it's
probably like a little
creepy to them well i i just think i i feel more at home in the midwest or the
mountains or something i
mean i love the ocean and i love the bay area i love what it's got to offer but
there's just uh
there's an attitude that it was uh it it wasn't healthy for me starting to feel
like uh i was just
fighting all the time and i just had to get out of my own head so colorado does
it for me well um you
were doing that show the hunt that uh that show that was what is it on history
channel or something
like that where it was all about a grizzly bear hunting you were doing the
narration for that
yeah and you i saw this crazy blowback because of that where there was people
were they wanted to
boycott a music festival that you guys were on and and there was photos of
another guy who wasn't
you right they were getting circled around they were saying it was you they
killed a grizzly bear
and they were you know saying we have to ban this this is hard it was it's very
strange like what was your
reaction to all that i i kind of just took it as okay that's you know how how
it's been for me in the bay
area you know people don't understand it i mean it's just like with anything
you know i don't think
they understand that someone can be as passionate about something else as as
passionate as they are
about what they are passionate about you know so if you're as uh passionate
about something there's
someone who's the opposite and that's okay you can get along you can talk about
it no one's right no
one's wrong this is my life i like living it this way you like living your life
that way i totally get
it but we can coexist in this and let's really be diverse you know for me uh
going out whether it's
planting my own vegetables having you know my own beehives getting our own
honey uh harvesting my own
meat on the ranch that's what i love doing i love sustaining my family with as
organic as possible
and uh you know i i i respect people that don't want the blood they don't want
all that scene they
would rather see their meat or whatever it is show up in a nice cellophane
package and it's handed to
them they don't want to know how it got there i i respect that my kids are like
that they don't want
to see it going on but i want to be as close to the earth i want to be as part
of it as possible
i want to be part of every bit of it and respect it yeah i i get that sentiment
and i always found
it strange how many people get upset at what you do but meanwhile they're
eating meat i mean the san
francisco is filled with restaurants that 