The Campaign To Get ‘The Big Four’ To Play ‘Orion’

terrybezer / News / 05/02/2010 12:37pm

sonisphere2010_90‘The Big Four’ will be playing together. After an office discussion, we thought Scott Ian’s idea for all four bands to jam on ‘Orion’ was pretty kick-ass. Join this campaign here!

Imagine Metallica, Dave Mustaine, Scott Ian and Kerry King blazing along to that riff on ‘Orion’ or all of the band’s bassists playing along to commemorate the life of Cliff Burton at the half-way point. It’d rule, right?

It’s incredible enough that four of the greatest bands to ever grace heavy music will finally all share the same stage for the very first time in their history but an all-star jam to celebrate this pant-wetting occasion would be the icing on a particularly kick-ass cake.

The idea was first drummed up by Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, who told us: “A big jam session? Eight guitars on Metallica’s ‘Orion’ would be sick!”

We’re with him all the way and you can add your support in our comments section!

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58 Comments


Wesomek

Let’s fucking do this shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’d be beyond EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jonny Beadle

Hell yes! you’ve got my vote Beez! I think i would loose my shit if they did any sort of jam

fingers crossed

Goodluck getting Dave Mustaine on stage to play with Metallica!!!

Calrowe

I’d love to see a Mechanix Vs. Four horsemen Battle go down!

I think Mustaine playing on a Kill Em All song would be a landmark in itself.

My fucking God. That would be absolutely epic.

The Mark of Zur-En-Arrh

Forget ‘Orion’, they should play ‘Anesthesia’ instead, or have Mustaine play ‘Four Horsemen’, at the speed it was supposed to be played at.

But yeah, getting Dave to agree to that, is as likely as seeing it rain snowcones across the Equator

If Dave wouldn’t want to play with Metallica, he’s still a bitch then

It would be wicked if they did anything together full stop!

Whiplash would be my choice of song

Get them to soni! :D

David Pike

Am I the only one who’s not realy bothered?

The Devils Reject

They wont agree to do a Metallica song…it would have to be a song that isnt one of theirs for them to all agree on it

MetallicAsh

So let it be written, so let it be done!!

bring that to the UK and i’ll get excited

Cyanide_sickler

I can’t see Mustaine supporting a tribute to a Bass player that replaced him when he was booted…I don’t see that happening, Hammer.

michael maggs

i thought it was kirk hammet that replaced mustaine
anyway isnt the megadeth song my darkest hour is a tribute to cliff?
if theres a tribute to cliff on justice then they should do a medly of the two

hmmm metallica and dave mustaine playin the mechanix

fuck sake can’t you pricks find something else to do with your time than to flame on dave,@cyanide_sickler dave and cliff were good friends up until the day he died and dave was never on bass and mechaniz is the proper way of playing that song Zur-En-Arrh >:(

i mean mechanix

whoops i mean mechanix lol

Luke (x)

i think all of them would put aside their differences to honour Cliff. none of them have a bad word to say about the guy so i think it would be possible if everyone had a polite conversation about it and didnt let their ego’s get in the way.

shlipknotntiggy

DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shlipknotntiggy

PLEEEEEEEEEASE PLAY IT PLAY IT and film the whole thing for a dvd :D

Subeena

OMGOMGOMGOMG. fuck that sounds amazing!

clement

fuck yeah thats going to kick ass !!

they should make that concert into a dvd

wrathchild

Its going to be… unbelievable :D :D.
Make a DVD just with that stuff.

At least everyone on stage for backing vocals on Seek & Destroy or something fun and neutral like, Die Die My Darling would rule.

krasherr

lets have a campaign to get them to the UK, not to make the gigs that we cant go to better.

Orion would be amazing, but imagine a song with James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine, Tom Araya and John Bush all singing on!
My preference would be a long-ish song that gives all singers a chance to sing. Master Of Puppets as a big finale to the event would be mind-blowing!

walkwithmeinhell

i agree with Calrowe. and yea there should be a dvd made about this!!!!!

Make it come true…would be perfect! Every metalhead’s dream!

HellRazor

Have i read it clearly? Goodbye & Good Riddance to Bad Luck. Let the intro to Mustaine!

HellRazor

Mustaine playing Orion?? Give me a full break.

I completely support this. The Big Four playing the greatest instrumental rock song ever? FUCK YEAH

Jamie Bott

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=294730359733

Petition to get the Thrash Four to play the UK!

orion sucks. theres a million instrumentals id rather hear them all play. including silence.

Johannes Scott

Orion sucks, yeah!

Since Mustaine created thrash metal one of his songs will be a better idea. But then metallica won’t be able to play most of the Megadeth songs.

If such kind of a thing is necessary any D. Mustaine songs, either from Metallica’s albums or from Megadeth’s should do well.

Anyway why should such a thing be done???
It will be a shame on the other two bands.
They too are great ones!

Studdman

That would be epic. Orion is one of the greatest songs ever.

That would be sexual

I find this idea great. It would be the greatest tribute to Cliff ever. It might seriously bring tears to my eyes. I’m really looking forward to hear it.. Guys, please, do it!

it would probably suck to be honest. I’d rather hear just Metallica play it

It has the potential to be incredible….

As much as I would love to see this happen I would much rather I get a chance to actually see the Big Four play. I still have my fingers crossed for them to be at Sonisphere Knebworth but I know that it wont happen.

Perhaps they could all play a medley of a couple of each of the bands greatest. If they all worked together it could sound amazing!

My god, if they did this it would have to be streamed live so that everyone around the globe could see it. I can’t imagine a more epic moment for metal fans.

That would be awesome. Dave might have issues playing other songs with Met, but Orion as a tribute to Cliff would be awesome.

Also, @Matt…an all star medley was what i was thinking.

It would either be amazing, or a discoherent mess…

Moshtank

That would be godlike…..
even though i won’t be able to see it in poland
i’d still like to see it on youtube
or just to know it happened….

Yeah, I mean as awesome as this would be, Dave Mustaine would be the only thing stopping this from happening.

Johannes Scott

If Dave is hated by everybody so very much
then would it not be a happier scenario if he does not enter the stage while this comic even takes place?
That way his haters, on and off stage, do not have to suffer him?

KrissieTheGenusUnknown

YES!!!!!! I’d vote,
A Massive Jam Session + A Commemorate To My Fave Bassist?

:)

As much as it’d be a cool thing, it won’t happen. No chance. I’ll drink something REALLY nasty if it does.

I can’t see it happening myself so I’ll hold off popping a chubby until it actually happens

@Vicki: Giggity?

Kabanos

That would be great to hear this live :D

Krzysiek

It will be cool if Mastodon joined in playing Orion, they made a cover of it for Master of Puppets Remastered though

Please let this happen….wouldn’t this immediately be the most downloaded metal performance of all time?

would be SO awesome!

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