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Post by tom135 on May 17, 2016 15:38:55 GMT
According to a music journalist friend of mine, Harvester of Sorrow was inspired by the break-up of James Hetfield’s long-term relationship with a British girl. Apparently James was in England enjoying a meal with his then girlfriend at a popular restaurant chain called Harvester when they got into an argument about who had eaten the greater share of their scampi in a basket for two. In a rage James turned the empty basket upside down, placed it on his girlfriend’s head, called her a greedy cow and stormed out. The relationship ended there and then and it’s something James has regretted ever since - this is borne out by the fact that he hasn’t eaten scampi in a basket since this time. In fact, there are no photos of him eating breaded seafood of any kind after 1987. Furthermore, if you send James Hetfield a box of scampi it will be returned to you immediately, and if you send him a second box of scampi you’ll get a threatening letter from his lawyers. I think this speaks volumes.
Factoid: Harvester of Sorrow was originally going to be called Basket of Regret.
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Post by Alan-P on May 17, 2016 16:18:53 GMT
According to a music journalist friend of mine, Harvester of Sorrow was inspired by the break-up of James Hetfield’s long-term relationship with a British girl. Apparently James was in England enjoying a meal with his then girlfriend at a popular restaurant chain called Harvester when they got into an argument about who had eaten the greater share of their scampi in a basket for two. In a rage James turned the empty basket upside down, placed it on his girlfriend’s head, called her a greedy cow and stormed out. The relationship ended there and then and it’s something James has regretted ever since - this is borne out by the fact that he hasn’t eaten scampi in a basket since this time. In fact, there are no photos of him eating breaded seafood of any kind after 1987. Furthermore, if you send James Hetfield a box of scampi it will be returned to you immediately, and if you send him a second box of scampi you’ll get a threatening letter from his lawyers. I think this speaks volumes. Factoid: Harvester of Sorrow was originally going to be called Basket of Regret.  Fun fact I used to work in a Harvester and we called it the Harvester of Sorrow Welcome aboard, Matey |
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Post by lightning master on May 17, 2016 23:19:55 GMT
James...seafood...
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Post by ford71V8 on May 18, 2016 0:40:11 GMT
New album title : Scampi in a Basket
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Post by SicJes on May 18, 2016 0:46:14 GMT
New album title : Scampi in a Basket Teksab a ni ipmacs - Sounds Latin or something, could work. |
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Post by tom135 on May 18, 2016 8:47:02 GMT
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Post by tom135 on May 18, 2016 10:15:00 GMT
According to a music journalist friend of mine, Harvester of Sorrow was inspired by the break-up of James Hetfield’s long-term relationship with a British girl. Apparently James was in England enjoying a meal with his then girlfriend at a popular restaurant chain called Harvester when they got into an argument about who had eaten the greater share of their scampi in a basket for two. In a rage James turned the empty basket upside down, placed it on his girlfriend’s head, called her a greedy cow and stormed out. The relationship ended there and then and it’s something James has regretted ever since - this is borne out by the fact that he hasn’t eaten scampi in a basket since this time. In fact, there are no photos of him eating breaded seafood of any kind after 1987. Furthermore, if you send James Hetfield a box of scampi it will be returned to you immediately, and if you send him a second box of scampi you’ll get a threatening letter from his lawyers. I think this speaks volumes. Factoid: Harvester of Sorrow was originally going to be called Basket of Regret. Fun fact I used to work in a Harvester and we called it the Harvester of Sorrow Welcome aboard, Matey Lol. Thanks. |
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Post by MugCostanza on May 20, 2016 22:34:16 GMT
The song was originally titled Harvester of Sorrows. It used to annoy Lars to no end that James was singing Sorrows. Finally, as they were recording the song, Lars approached him about it.
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Post by yepsure on May 21, 2016 3:13:33 GMT
The song was originally titled Harvester of Sorrows. It used to annoy Lars to no end that James was singing Sorrows. Finally, as they were recording the song, Lars approached him about it. I've heard this slightly different - the song was always called Harvester or Sorrow, James would sing it incorrectly as "Sorrows" which annoyed Lars. Funnily, James started singing it as "Sorrows" again in 2013, at least a few times, and probably not intentionally. |
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Post by Kimbo on May 22, 2016 19:30:38 GMT
It sounds so weird when he sings "sorrows"
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Post by archstanton on May 30, 2016 9:17:08 GMT
The truth is that the song was originally a folk ballad called "Harvester of Marrows" because one of James's happy childhood memories was helping his dad to tend the vegetable patch where he grew a variety of produce, including vegetable marrows, the mature fruit of certain cucurbita pepo cultivars. Cliff had heard the early demo version and didn't like it at all, but James rejected his suggestions. Ultimately of course, Cliff's untimely death sent the song in a bleaker direction.
Obviously, the tendency to pluralise the line comes from that demo version, as Harvester Of Marrow would sound silly.
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