NEW: Metallica live performance registers a small earthquake in Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium as hundreds of Hokies jumped in unison.
The band performed in entrance of 60,000 followers as a part of their M72 World Tour.
Based on the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory, there was a spike when Metallica began enjoying “Enter Sandman,” as reported by CBS Sports activities.
The Virginia Tech soccer staff is thought for working out to the music earlier than their soccer video games as Hokie followers bounce in unison.
NEW: Metallica live performance registers a small earthquake in Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium as hundreds of Hokies jumped in unison.
The band performed in entrance of 60,000 followers as a part of their M72 World Tour.
Based on the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory, there was a… pic.twitter.com/ZNLG1FaxON
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Whereas talking with Pete Pardo of Sea of Tranquility in a brand new interview, Alex Lifeson of Rush revealed that he met up with a few the members of Metallica for a jam session whereas the band have been in Toronto for a present final month.
“The fellows from Metallica have been in [Toronto] final week. And I obtained along with Kirk [Hammett, guitarist] and Rob [Robert Trujillo, bassist]. We went out for dinner after which we obtained collectively and jammed afterwards — really, proper right here [at my house]. They came to visit after dinner and we performed for a couple of hours, and it was nice,” Lifeson mentioned.
“Typically prior to now, if you happen to jam with a bunch of individuals, we’d play a 12-bar bluesy factor; all people can play that: ‘Let’s do this.’ However once you play with nice musicians like these guys are, locations you go is, it’s simply unbelievable. It’s so exceptional. And God, I beloved each second that we did that. The three of us simply have been oozing with enthusiasm, that complete factor. And that’s fairly cool.”
In 2023, Lifeson’s Rush bandmate Geddy Lee interviewed Trujillo – together with Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Primus’ Les Claypool, and former Gap/Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur – for a four-part documentary collection titled “Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Gamers Human Too?”.
Shortly after, in a separate interview with Detroit radio station WRIF, Trujillo mirrored on working with Lee on the Paramount+ collection and the way surreal it was for him to work with one in every of his musical idols.
“I performed in yard celebration bands at age 16 and we performed [Rush’s] ‘La Villa Strangiato’, we performed ‘YYZ’, we performed all these traditional songs,” he mentioned. “The tougher, the higher again then. And we most likely butchered them, however we’d play these yard events and play Rush songs in the identical method that we additionally performed Ozzy [Osbourne] songs and we performed Black Sabbath songs and Van Halen and all these completely different bands.
“So you possibly can think about hanging out with one in every of your heroes and simply making an attempt to remain grounded. On the finish of the day, all people’s a human being and also you all the time wanna deal with individuals with respect and, once more, keep grounded. However on the identical time, you’re going, ‘Rattling, that’s Geddy Lee.’”