Metallica had been loads busy this weekend at Napa’s Bottle Rock Pageant, however forward of their weekend set, the band’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo obtained in some further time with taking part in with the all-star collective the Marriage ceremony Band, rocking out covers for followers on the Jam Cellars Ballroom within the Margrit Mondavi Theatre in Napa.
Whilst you’d anticipate a number of the metallic alternatives akin to “Ace of Spades” and “Battle Pigs,” the primarily metallic collective confirmed that punk has a spot of their world as nicely, working by way of The Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop,” The Useless Kennedys’ “California Uber Alles” and The Conflict’s “London Calling” amongst others.
Joined onstage by Demise Angel’s Mark Osegueda, The Mars Volta’s Jon Theodore and Dangerous Wolves’ Doc Coyle, the Metallica pair confirmed they knew their punk licks as nicely.
This could come as no shock to Metallica followers who’ve watched the guitarist and bassist at reveals wowing followers with their huge ranging influences throughout the “noodle” portion of the present.
“For Rob and I, it is cool, as a result of we get to indulge our love of funk and punk,” said Hammett to Cosmo Music in 2019.
Simply this previous week, Weapons N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan commented that punk was accountable not just for his band, but in addition for Metallica. “The punk scene again [in the ’70s] and what The [Sex] Pistols helped generate was such a really particular factor,” the bassist recalled. “There would not be a Weapons N’ Roses, there would not be Metallica, 9 Inch Nails, Nirvana, you’ll be able to simply preserve happening. Foo Fighters — there would not have been any of that with out it.”
Watch Hammett and Trujillo indulging their punk aspect through fan-shot video of The Marriage ceremony Band under.
