[翻譯] 美國鞭金史（三）

[coolfly (早安，黑色星期五)]

Part III: Set the World Afire
其三：讓世界陷入火海

1986 was the golden year for American thrash. Though still very much an
underground movement, the music was becoming more popular—and better—than
ever. ‘86 saw the release of three of the genre’s defining albums:
Metallica's Master of Puppets, Megadeth’s Peace Sells… But Who's Buying?,
and Slayer's Reign in Blood, all of which would help push thrash into the
mainstream consciousness. But the year also brought its share of bad news to
the thrash community—first with Paul Baloff’s ouster from Exodus and then
with the death of Cliff Burton in Metallica’s tragic bus accident.
1986年對美國鞭金來說是個好年。雖然依然比較像是地下運動，但這種音樂正變得比之前
更流行──也更好。86年，這個流派出現了三張定義性的專輯：Metallica的《Master
of Puppets》、Megadeth《Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?》以及Slayer的《Reign
in Blood》，都幫助將鞭金推向主流意識中。但這一年也為鞭金界帶來了惡耗──首先就
是Exodus的Paul Baloff被逐出樂團，再來則是Metallica的Cliff Burton死於車禍慘劇。

HAMMETT I remember when we were getting songs together [for Master of
Puppets] and thinking, Wow, this is really sounding good! But we were short a
couple songs. And then, the last two songs that came together were “Damage,
Inc.” and “The Thing That Should Not Be.” By that point, we had been
playing together for a few years, we’d toured a ton, we knew each other
musically and personally. Everybody was contributing amazing ideas, and it
was just a culmination of all the right spots and all the right notes at the
right time. But I don’t think any of us had any idea that it would stand the
test of time 20 years later, that people would be heralding this album as a
breakthrough. 
我記得我們一起寫（要錄在《Master of Puppets》上的）歌，想說，「哇！這聽起來真
的很棒！」但我們還缺幾首歌。然後，最後兩首一起寫出來的歌是〈Damage, Inc.〉和〈
The Thing That Should Not Be〉。在那個時候，我們已經一起演奏好幾年了，我們一起
做過很多巡迴，大家在音樂上和個性上都很了解對方。每個人都提供很讚的點子，這張專
輯是一個巔峰，它在正確的時間集合了所有正確的點和正確的音符。但我不認為我們之中
有人料到它會在20年後仍如此屹立不搖，而人們會認為它是一張突破性的作品。

KITTS Metallica were on the road with Ozzy for much of that year. We went to
see them at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, and we were going there to see
Metallica—at that time, we couldn’t have cared less about Ozzy anymore.
Ozzy was so ’80–’81 for us. 
Metallica那年大多都是和Ozzy一起巡迴。我們到長島的Nassau Coliseum去看他們表演，
而我們是去看Metallica的──在那時候，我們對Ozzy一點興趣都沒有，Ozzy對我們來說
聽起來就像80、81年的東西。

HAMMETT Going out on that Ozzy tour really made a difference, because all of
a sudden we were playing Master of Puppets to a pretty mainstream audience.
Your typical Ozzy fan at the time might not have gotten Metallica, but two or
three years later, they were all saying, “Yeah, I saw Metallica with Ozzy,
and they were great! They blew away Ozzy! I knew they would!” 
參與Ozzy的那場巡迴真的造成很大的改變，因為突然之間，我們在相當主流的聽眾群面前
表演《Master of Puppets》。標準的Ozzy歌迷可能不會在當時喜歡上Metallica，但兩三
年後，他們都說，「對，我看過Metallica和Ozzy一起表演，他們超棒的！他們電爆了
Ozzy！我就知道他們會！」

ERNST Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? is, to my mind, the definitive
Megadeth album, because they took the speed, they took the heaviness, and
they combined it with some incredible songs. “Peace Sells” was just an
incredible video, and in some ways it helped break them out. And MTV News
used the bass line from “Peace Sells” for years! Don’t know if Dave got
any royalties from it, but…
對我來說，《Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?》是Megadeth最具代表性的專輯，因為
他們兼採速度和重量，將之結合變成一些驚人的歌曲。〈Peace Sells〉的MV棒極了，
從某些方面來說它幫助了他們成名。MTV新聞用了〈Peace Sells〉前奏的bass line好幾
年！不知道他們有沒有付版稅給Dave，不過……

ADLER I remember when Megadeth was coming ‘round to D.C. on the Peace Sells
record. The Washington Post printed the lyrics to “Black Friday” [about a
sadistic mass murderer]—and my parents saw it and ripped up my tickets!
我記得Megadeth在推出《Peace Sells》後來華盛頓演唱，華盛頓郵報刊了〈Black
Friday〉的歌詞（內容描述一個兇殘的殺人者）──我爸媽看到後撕了我的票！

KITTS Most of us in the New York scene had had the advance tape of Reign in
Blood for a good month before it even came out. There was no record in our
lives that ever had that sort of impact on us. That 28-minute tape was like
absolutely nothing you’d ever heard, and it actually changed the way we
thought about everything, music and otherwise. 
我們這些紐約鞭金圈的人，早在《Reign in Blood》推出前好幾個月，就大多都有先行版
的錄音帶了。沒有一張錄音像它一樣對我們造成這種衝擊。那張28分鐘長的錄音帶上的東
西，實在前所未聞，它真的改變了我們對事物的想法，不管是音樂還是其他方面。

KING Reign in Blood was just our next 10 tunes. But for the time it came out,
no one had ever heard anything like that. Even though we’d been playing fast
and riffing our asses off [on the earlier Slayer records], nobody could hear
the ferocity because it wasn’t mixed correctly. So with [producer] Rick
Rubin coming in, and getting a bigger budget to get a better sound, and then
taking the reverb out so that the entire thing just bludgeons you in the
forehead—it just stands out for the time, I think.
《Reign in Blood》對我們來講只是十首新歌。不過當它推出時，從沒人聽過這樣的東西
。雖然我們（在早期的Slayer專輯上）一直彈得很快，刷riff刷到快掛，但沒人聽得出什
麼殘暴的感覺，因為專輯的混音沒做好。所以有Rick Rubin的加入，而且有更多的預算和
更好的錄音，回音去掉了，整張作品聽起來就好像在你面前恐嚇你一樣──該有的感覺就
這樣跑了出來，我想。

HOLT By '86, Paul was goin' through some rough times. He was living in the
Exodus rehearsal room, and his shit wasn’t very together. Paul, for all his
onstage brilliance, had horrible timing as a singer. He’d have a really hard
time coming in on time or remembering lyrics. There was one line on Bonded by
Blood, which shall remain nameless, which was actually sung by John Volaitis,
our engineer, because Paul just struggled and struggled and struggled on it.
We just didn’t think we’d be able to get the next album done with him. We
figured we'd still be doing vocal tracks today, you know? 
到了86年，Paul正歷經一些很難熬的時光。他當時住在Exodus的團練室，而且精神狀況很
糟。Paul，儘管他有出眾的舞台表現，卻是個很不準時的主唱。他那時很難準時到場，或
是記住歌詞。在〈Bonded by Blood〉上有一句歌詞，我就不說是哪句了，其實是我們的
錄音師John Volaitis唱的，因為Paul不管怎麼樣就是記不得那一句。我們不認為自己可
以和他一起做下一張專輯。不然的話，我們猜我們會弄vocal的部分弄到現在吧，你知道
嗎？

CHUCK BILLY Steve Souza [a.k.a. “Zetro”], who used to sing for Legacy,
which was what Testament was called at the time, left the band to join
Exodus. I was playing in a band that was more like Dokken, more melodic
singing and stuff. But then my brother Andy was like, “You should try out
for this band.” I got the Legacy demo, and I was like, Holy smokes! These
guys can write some killer songs, and that guitar player’s amazing! Alex
[Skolnick] was 17 years old, and I was like, Man, that kid can play! That’s
when I realized, This is the style of music I should be playing!
Steve Souza（綽號「Zetro」），他本來在Legacy，那是Testament當時的名字，當主唱
，離團加入了Exodus。我本來在玩一個比較像是Dokken的團，歌唱或是音樂都比較旋律化
。但我哥Andy告訴我，「你該試試這個團。」我聽了Legacy的Demo，感覺就是，「要命咧
！這些傢伙能寫出超棒的歌，而且吉他手好讚！」Alex (Skolnick)那時候才17歲吧，我
只覺得，「天啊！這小鬼真會彈吉他！」也就是那時候我明白，這種風格的音樂才是我該
玩的！

FERRERO One day, we got a package at Megaforce from a band called Legacy. I
put it on, and it was so catchy and so tasty and so fucking cool. I drove
Jonny and Marsha up a wall—he didn’t get it at all, but I loved it and kept
playing it. Finally, he said, “Okay, I’ll sign this band.” They had to
change their name, because there was some jazz band called Legacy. [S.O.D.
frontman] Billy Milano came up with Testament. 
某天，我們在Megaforce收到了一個叫Legacy的團寄來的包裹。我把裡面的音樂放來聽，
它是這樣好聽易記、動人有趣，而且很酷！我把Jonny和Marsha搞得很煩──他一點都聽
不懂這首歌，但我很喜歡，所以就一直放。終於，他說，「好啦，我會簽這個團。」他們
必須把團名改掉，因為已經有個爵士樂團叫做Legacy了。（S.O.D.主唱）Billy Milano想
到了Testament這個名字。

BILLY Megaforce to me, that was it—I wanted to be with the guys who found
Metallica, the guys who had Anthrax and S.O.D., all my faves. Ferrero got
Jonny and Marsha to come out to California to see us. I remember the day we
auditioned for them. They were all tired and bummed and worn out, because
Cliff [Burton] had been killed the night before. They told us the whole
story, and it just floored us—we couldn’t believe it. And then we had to
play three songs for them for the audition, and it was just the saddest
audition you ever heard. They said, “Okay, you got a deal,” and we were
like, “Right on!” but it was such a sad day.
Megaforce唱片對我而言，就像是──我想要這些跟發堀Metallica的人一起工作，他們旗
下有Anthrax和 S.O.D.，我的愛團都在那兒。Ferrero說服Jonny和Marsha到加州來看我們
。我還記得我們接受他們面試的那天，他們全都又累又沮喪，而且精疲力竭，因為Cliff
Burton就在前一晚去世。他們告訴我們整件事，我們大為震驚──我們不敢相信這一切。
然後他們要求我們演奏一些歌給他們試聽，那大概是你聽過最哀傷的面試演奏了。他們
說，「OK，你們獲得合約了。」我們說，「好耶！」但那真的是很傷心的一天。

JONNY Z I remember it all too well. I went to see Testament at their music
space on the other side of the Bay, where all the bands rehearsed. As I’m
going down the hall to Testament’s room, all I heard from every room I
passed was [Metallica song] “Pulling Teeth (Anesthesia)”—everyone was
playing Cliff’s solo. And I remember thinking, Shit, he’s not even dead 24
hours, and look at this! 
我記得清清楚楚；我去Testament的音樂室看他們，那就在灣區的另一邊，一大堆團都在
那邊練習。當我走過大廳，去Testament的房間，我聽到每間房裡都在練（Metallica的歌
）〈Pulling Teeth (Anesthesia)〉──每個人都在彈Cliff的solo。我記得自己心想，
「靠！他才死了還不到24小時耶！但你看這一切！」

HOLT Cliff was the guy with these big bell-bottom jeans on at a time when the
rest of the world had theirs pegged ankle-tight. He’s got his Morley wah,
and his bass tone is all distorted, and he’s just soloing out and going
crazy and banging like a madman. But he’s also the one who taught James
everything James knows about harmony and melody, because Cliff was a genius
at that stuff. The sad thing is, after all these years, anyone who plays bass
for Metallica is still filling Cliff Burton’s shoes. Jason [Newsted] was
amazing, but Cliff was one of a kind. There was nobody like him.
Cliff是那種當全世界的人都穿著把腳踝包得緊緊的牛仔褲時，他卻穿著喇叭褲的人。他
帶著他的Morley wah，他的貝斯全都是開破音，他彈著solo，情緒激昂，甩頭甩得像個瘋
子一樣。而他也是教給James所有James對旋律與和聲的知識的人，因為Cliff是這方面的
天才。哀傷的是，在這麼多年後，不管是誰在Metallica彈貝斯，都似乎還是在試著填補
Cliff Burton留下的空缺。Jason (Newsted)很棒，但Cliff是獨一無二的，沒人跟他一樣


（待續）

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