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Mama Said
Full list of every time this song was played: November 13th, 1996 - London, GB - BBC Studios November 15th, 1996 - Stockholm, SE - SVT Studio September 7th, 2004 - Nashville, TN - Gaylord Center

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Notes:

• The live premiere was on a TV show. It was just James, a microphone,
  and an acoustic guitar. The second time was also a TV show; it was a live
  show called "CMT Outlaws" on Country Music Television. Multiple songs were
  performed, but unfortunately the performance of Mama Said was not aired.
• One possible reason for it not being played often might be the subject of the song. It is about
  James and his mother, how he always wanted to distance himself from her and then after
  she died, he realized how much he took her for granted.
• The song is kind of an accident - James originally wrote it for himself, but when the rest
  of the band heard him play it they insisted he put it on the album.
• The video for the song was only released in Europe (Until the DVD was recently released with
  all of Metallica's videos) Most of the video is just James singing in the back of a car, but if you
  pay close attention you can at one point see the rest of the band crossing the street behind the car.