Word: peterbilt
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...sell more than $40 billion worth of these goods, ranging from Dynasty perfume to Mr T guitars. The popularity of corporate logos may have begun with people who proudly sported the brand names of machinery they used, such as farmers who wore International Harvester caps or truck drivers with Peterbilt belt buckles. Anheuser-Busch during the 1970s began to put its Budweiser logo on such souvenirs as dart boards and Frisbees...
Hetfield is the son of a truck driver and a light-opera singer, and while he writes with all the subtlety of a Peterbilt, he can sing. What saves St. Anger from being a victim of its own self-pity, and actually elevates it into the category of a pretty good metal record, is his voice. Producer Bob Rock has wisely taken the gloss off Metallica's sound, and Hetfield is the biggest beneficiary. On tracks like My World, he comes through in all his gruff and gravelly glory. The unaffected strain in his voice acts as a form...