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Los Angeles: American heavy steel band Metallica is at the moment on its ‘M72’ World Tour travelling throughout North America and Europe. In a current incident, the band’s venue at Lengthy Seaside Enviornment in California led to them paying over $300,000 for damages brought on by followers who broken 1000’s of cushions.
Talking to ‘Want A Pal’ podcast again in August 2, drummer Lars Ulrich spoke of the incident “Why are there over 16,000 seats in there? We have paid for about 15,000 of these 16,000 seats over time as a result of each time we have been enjoying Lengthy Seaside Enviornment, folks would simply take the cushion, you understand, play frisbee with it inside the world.”
Later speaking in regards to the damages on August 5 evening, Ulrich stated “This was an absolute thoughts f***. The very subsequent day, the venue employees was like, ‘Okay, Metallica, this is these $300,000 value of cushions that you must pay for. And we’re like ‘WTF’?!!”
He went on to say that due to this incident, Metallica needed to warn followers that they can’t injury venue property as a result of then the band has to pay for the damages which is each a unnecessary monetary loss to them, and delays the continued M72 World Tour which can solely upset extra followers.
The thrash steel legends have at the moment taken their tour to New Jersey, following which they are going to head off to Texas after which straight to Europe to carry out in Trafalgar Sq. within the UK.
The band just lately celebrated the legacy of the late heavy steel guitarist Dimebag Darell from Pantera as they have been joined by the band’s singer Phil Anselmo on stage the place they gave their tribute to the guitarist.
The M72 World Tour, so titled resulting from their newest album ’72 Seasons’ which dropped this 12 months will later head off to Latin America in nations resembling Brazil, Peru and Chile following which they are going to head off to Africa, Asia and Oceana.