Running with the Devil

Talk about running with the devil: smooth jazz is, without question, Satan's tunes of choice. It resembles music but with absolutely everything good stripped away.

But as with most things, there are exceptions that prove the rule. Por ejemplo.

If that's not my all-time favorite Van Halen performance—and it may very well be—it surely comes powerful close. As well as being an interestingly instructive look at the power of a record producer.

Enter Sandman

There are many things that make Metallica not only one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time, but one of the greatest bands period. Their versatility and willingness to take chances—even though their track record is far from spotless—is but one of them. So radically recasting perhaps their best known song in front of tens of thousands of fans is, no two ways about it, ballsy.

Hats off, gentlemen. Well done.

I tuck you in...warm within...take my hand...we're off to never never-land 

So sweet.