Metallica were legendary partyers back in the day. Is there any one moment that still stands out?
The recording of The Black Album was probably the most insane on the debauchery front. We were in LA for about nine months, at the same time that Guns N’ Roses were recording their Use Your Illusion albums. Los Angeles in the early-’90s was ground zero for any kind of outrageous hard-rock behaviour. It all started and ended in the corner booth of the Rainbow Room on the Sunset Strip! It was a pretty crazy convergence: music, alcohol, drugs, debauchery, porn. At that time the porn world and the music world were kind of like bedmates – if you were mixing with anyone other than your own group, it was the porn world. We had a lot of fun, and I have good memories from that time. I’m glad I lived it… and I’m glad I don’t have to live it again.
Hulk Hogan recently said
you once asked him to be Metallica’s bassist. Um, what the hell?
See the previous answer. There are some things that get a bit hazy back there. I have – this is scary – the best memory of any of us, and I still have to file that one under “hazy”.
That could’ve been one beefy bass line…
Listen, you know me – I’m up for anything! Don’t take my inability to remember as a negative thing. That actually sounds sensational.
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