When Lou Reed was a teenager, his father sent him to psychiatric help because he was bisexual, and he got electroshocks as "therapy" for his sexual orientation. I reckon this is quite enough to say that Lou Reed's father used to hate his son. Now, getting older, the son turned into a "Junior Dad", because he looks like his father, and Lou can see reflected in the mirror the same face of the man who despised him (his father's face). This is true "Psychic savagery".
Kirk: "That song, I don’t really want to pinpoint exactly what the song is about, because it’s one of those songs that could mean a million different things to a million different people, but what it really meant to me, it had everything to do with the fact that my relationship with my father was just kind of, you know, very emotional. And that’s really what hit it. It pretty much touched up on my own relationship
with my own father. It’s a hard one for me to talk about. Even now, bro."
The lyrics that apparently got to the two metal men were "Say hello to junior dad/The greatest disappointment/Age withered and changed him."
Hammett added, "[Reed] managed to take out both guitar players in METALLICA in one fell swoop, with his amazing poetic lyrics."
James Hetfield's father abandoned his family when James was just 13, an experience that the singer/guitarist has spoken about at length in a new documentary called "Absent".
When Lou Reed was a teenager, his father sent him to psychiatric help because he was bisexual, and he got electroshocks as "therapy" for his sexual orientation. I reckon this is quite enough to say that Lou Reed's father used to hate his son. Now, getting older, the son turned into a "Junior Dad", because he looks like his father, and Lou can see reflected in the mirror the same face of the man who despised him (his father's face). This is true "Psychic savagery".
Kirk: "That song, I don’t really want to pinpoint exactly what the song is about, because it’s one of those songs that could mean a million different things to a million different people, but what it really meant to me, it had everything to do with the fact that my relationship with my father was just kind of, you know, very emotional. And that’s really what hit it. It pretty much touched up on my own relationship with my own father. It’s a hard one for me to talk about. Even now, bro."
The lyrics that apparently got to the two metal men were "Say hello to junior dad/The greatest disappointment/Age withered and changed him." Hammett added, "[Reed] managed to take out both guitar players in METALLICA in one fell swoop, with his amazing poetic lyrics." James Hetfield's father abandoned his family when James was just 13, an experience that the singer/guitarist has spoken about at length in a new documentary called "Absent".