Episode 146 - Metallica Crew (Wes Fiske)

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Wes Fiske is a touring crew member with Metallica responsible for the tuning room and word wedges for James Hetfield. In addition to touring alongside Ethan with Kings Of Leon, Wes has also been on the road with Coldplay, Guns 'N Roses, Rob Zombie and Dead and Company. Wes tells us about his fascinating career, starting with pyro, eventually moving to teleprompter gigs and ultimately working for Metallica. Keeping with the S&M2 theme, Wes walks us through all the gritty details of what it was like to put on a show at that level. If you think Metal Up your Podcast has value, please consider supporting us on Patreon. For $5 a month you get all three current (and future) Cover Our World Blackened EP’s, Lunar Satan tunes, and chances to win awesome prizes like concert tickets, vinyl box sets, rare vinyl, collectible and more! Sign up for Patreon here: Http://www.patreon.com/metalupyourpodcast Follow us on all the socials. Email us here: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal!
0:04.0	So fucking what?
0:23.3	Hi everyone, this is Tom Cui here from Alpha Patelaga,
0:26.0	and you're listening to Metal Up Your Podcast.
0:27.6	Watchin fame, mirror vain, gone insane,
0:32.0	but the...
0:32.6	I'm the...
0:33.6	Yeah!
0:55.3	Yeah! Yeah. Welcome to Milt Your Podcast. I'm Ethan Luck, and I'm Clint Wells.
1:03.5	Hey folks, this is Clint Wells here from the future. You were about to hear Ethan say that this is episode 139 of Metal Up Your Podcast, but I'm here to tell you it's not.
1:14.6	This is actually, in fact, episode 146, I believe. When we chatted with our buddy Wes a few weeks ago, we were not able to put the episode out that very week as we thought we would be able to for lots of different logistical reasons, but we are putting it out today. So any references to that episode number or anything
1:20.5	that was going on at that time, please forgive us. We love you out there and metal up your podcast
1:24.1	land. Hope you're well. We'll see you on the flip-flop piece this is episode 139 and tonight we're so excited to have another guest in HQ1 my good
1:39.2	friend your good friend everyone's new best friend mr west fist let's get up for
1:43.5	west so for those you don't know west west and i a quick little history good friend, everyone's new best friend, Mr. Wes Fiss. Good up for Wes. Hey, y'all.
1:45.3	So, for those you don't know, Wes and I, a quick little history, work together with Kings
1:49.4	of Leon.
1:49.8	He still does shows with them from time to time.
1:52.3	Wes, currently, his main job is to work for this little band called Metallica.
1:56.2	We should start a podcast about them at some point.
1:58.0	We should.
1:58.3	That would be a good idea you want to be in on that west uh no we've mentioned west a few times and plus i think if if you were at our two-year
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