Flea is inducting Metallica and he said the F-Word which as far as I have heard is one of the few naughty words of the evening.
Usually, there are a lot more.
Flea has green hair.
Quick!
How many other jobs on this planet can a 40+ year old man with green hair wearing a Metallica t-shirt and a blazer be taken seriously.
Hell Yeah!
Flea just referenced Anasthesia (Pulling Teeth) and he is giving the late bassist Cliff Burton a lot of deserved love and James Hetfield looks a little misty.
Cliff Burton rules!!
It's 10:50 and Flea is still talking. He's going to make the show run late…
One of the things that happens when a band gets inducted is their speeches go very looooooong.
It's 11:10 and Lars Ulrich is still talking.
Leave it to the metal band to double the number of curse words of the previous three hours….feels good.
Hetfield throws love at Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Deep Purple and Rush among others whom he says they'd like to usher into the Hall doors.
Hey you know I met James Hetfield back in 1984
JUST PLAY ALREADY!!
Yeah, Master of Puppets!
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
Sigh…another nauseating Rock Hall class. The only inductees this year who had anything to do with rock'n'roll were Wanda Jackson, Bill Black and DJ Fontana. Metallica is NOT a rock'n'roll band.
Metallica is not a rock band. Interesting. What are they, reggae? Jazz?
I mean, that was just a dumb, dumb comment. The problem with that museum is it's a music/pop music/entertainer hall of fame, not a rock hall of fame, per se.
Nobody will ever accuse Madonna of being a rocker, but there she is, in the Rock Hall of Fame. The same way that plenty of other folks will make it in there who have no business being in there.
Bottom line, as a general rule, if hardcore groupies, sex, drugs and vomit are backstage and in the tour bus, then it's rock. Especially vomit.
Neil Diamond, for example, has been a great entertainer for a long, long time. But he has no business being inducted in a rock hall of fame, but he definitely will be. And that's the problem. Change the name of the museum.
It's nice to finally find a site where the blogger knows what they are talking about.