2024-03-28

I’ll count four, and then just follow

Courtesy of the Metallica documentary “Some Kind of Monster”, this is a phrase I’m going to adopt to indicate a situation in which one is being put in the position of scrambling hopelessly to catch up in the face of both long odds and intense personal scrutiny.

In the documentary they’re interviewing new bass players, and I don’t think they were trying to be assholes, but the one band member comes out with “I’ll count four, and then just follow” — and before the synapses in your brain have had time to even process the sentence they’re onetwothreefour WHAM top-speed into a crashingly tight (as always) Metallica song and boy did I feel for the poor newbie bassist.

“I’ll count four, and then just follow”. Yeah. Right.