Metallica Recalls Hard-Partying Days and Destroying Dressing Rooms

You guys were trashing the

dressing

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just because you felt like that's what you were supposed to do, you didn't realize it would cost you money, but you probably had worshiped a lot of bands, well yeah, I mean knocking over hotel TVs. , that was all we read and we liked Cream magazine or the stuff from the time when, you know, Led Zeppelin and you know, all right, getting away with all kinds of chaos, we felt like that was cool, that It's what we're supposed to do on tour, so I think probably more in the Jagermeister

days

, that stuff drove us crazy like really crazy, um, but what do you mean Bill Graham?

Remember Bill Graham was like the legendary promoter who turned the Rolling Stones against him. and he basically ran San Francisco, obviously, in the best way and the first big show we played, uh, we had to open for where, so the legendary shows from then remember all those stadium concerts in the '70s at aerosmith and blue ester , cold and leonard skinner. Then everyone would show up, so they called it the day on the green and they were an institution in San Francisco. They had two or three every year, so they invited us to play our first day on the green in 1985.

We were you. I know we were playing at 10 in the morning when they were opening the doors and people were coming in, but we were having a great time and we were hanging out and when the day was over, obviously we were all completely devastated. The minds and the

dressing

room were defeated, they took a beating and then you were summoned for a redecoration, redecoration and then James, on Monday morning, was summoned to Bill Graham's office to receive a swipe on the finger from the legendary man himself and um, it was yeah. He was like papa bear, you know, trying to help all these bands, you know, '60s and '70s hippie stuff, and you know it was all about love and helping people and we were there tearing up his dressing room and for some reason reason.

This watermelon has to go through that little vent into the next room James why even though I wasn't thinking about anyone else it was me, the jaeger and my friends and this is what we want to do and this is how we celebrate life. You talk things about someone else, you know, do you ever shiver at night? I'm serious, what if you had? I don't know what it's like to physically pull a TV off the wall and throw it out a window, but do you ever like that? sit there and see, oh my god, what would have happened if that television had fallen on a human being and killed him my entire life?

I could have ended up in prison and I never would have been Metallica. Do you ever seriously think about that every day? Almost all the actions that I did back then, yeah, I'm very grateful that we're here alive and that we can play and realize that okay, there are some things that are regrettable, I have to let them go, I can clean all those things, But at the end of the day, Bill Graham was certainly one of those guys that I respect because he took the time and the effort to say hey, yeah, you care and I've seen it, I've seen this, I've seen this.

I happen to have had the same conversation with Keith Moon and Sid Vicious and I think okay, thanks, bye, I walk out and then I think okay, I have to come back in. I'll go back in and I said, you know. Thanks, you know my dad has never talked to me about this. I didn't really have any guidance. Thank you. I'll take it to heart and respect what you said and do my best the next time I remember we played. city, he had the whole backstage covered with visqueen, which is clear plastic, I mean, everything good and duct tape, all our guitars, I mean the food, televisions, everything was covered and then it hit me, it's like this guy doesn't Not only was it cool, but it also had it. a great sense of humor too