Robert Trujillo era mahmur cand a dat probe pentru Metallica

de Cristi Nedelcu

Robert Trujillo era mahmur cand a dat probe pentru Metallica


Robert Trujillo, actualul basist Metallica, a oferit un interviu in care a vorbit despre auditiile sale pentru postul de basist in Metallica.

Artistul a petrectut o zi in studio cu acestia pentru a vedea cum stau lucrurile, urmand ca a doua zi sa aiba loc auditia propriu-zisa. Doar ca in noaptea dintre prima si a doua zi acesta a petrecut in oras cu Lars Ulrich pana dimineata, iar a doua zi era mahmur.

Mai jos aveti un extras din declaratia lui Trujillo care povesteste incidentul.

"The first day of the audition, I was kind of just there to be a fly on the wall. Bob Rock's there. The bass for 'St. Anger' had already been recorded; Bob Rock recorded the bass. So I'm just hanging around. And Lars and James and Kirk kind of live in this bubble. They were just, like, 'Yeah, make yourself at home. Just hang out...Eleven o'clock rolls around at night, and Lars says, 'Hey, man, let's go get a drink. Let's go get a nightcap.' So I'm, like, 'All right.' And we go to the first bar, have a couple of cocktails, we go to the second bar, have a few more, go to the third bar. Then we end up at his house for more cocktails. By this time, it's five in the morning. I can't even drive to where I'm staying; it's impossible. And he even says, 'Here, crash out in my guest room.' So, at nine in the morning, four hours later, he's on the treadmill, this guy, and it's like he doesn't know me anymore. He's already sobered up. And he's on the treadmill. And I've got this crazy headache. And then he's, like, 'All right. Let's go. Let's go to the studio.'

Here I am with a pounding headache. James has just gone through this whole thing where, of course, he's sober, and the last person he wants to see anywhere near his band is a drunk Mexican. That would be me. So I'm sitting at the table, and I've got the worst headache, [I'm] completely hung over. And I'm thinking, 'Lars did this to me, 'cause he was checking me out, to see if I could hang with him.' It was [a test]; it had to have been. He's a Viking, really. I'd go into the bathroom. I was throwing water on my face, slapping it, going, 'Oh, man, you've gotta… Hang in there. Hang in there.' 'Cause I really wanted to say, 'I can't do this right now, guys. I don't feel good. I really can't do this.'"

"I stuck it out. I knew the tech, the bass tech, from back when SUICIDIAL TENDENCIES was touring with METALLICA, which would have been in 1993 on the 'Black Album.' So, Zach Harmon, who is now still my bass tech. I didn't have a bass, so [I went], 'Let's go grab a bass. Let's choose the amp setup.' So I kind of used that as my way to get out of this hangover situation...

We played 'Battery', and I think it helped me not be nervous," he recalled. "And that's what you see in the film, and everybody seems to think it was pretty slamming. But other than that, I was brain dead. If I could play, I was fine. But in communicating with Hetfield, 'cause he would come over to me and ask me questions, and I would come up with really stupid answers, because, literally, I was not all there."



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