I never saw most of the second disc. Watching any of this fly-on-the-wall type stuff is pretty exhausting.
I did see clips of the Raiders gig though, and to see Bob Rock playing bass, smiling away and shaking his hips just looks all wrong....I mean, come on, they're playing "Battery" and he's grinning away and nodding to the crowd. He must be in his 50's now with that horrible Vince Neil haircut. He is such a queer.
Funnily enough, Lars and James crucified him for being 'too smiley' on stage. They all looked like queers actually -- Hetfield has morphed into that biker guy lookalike, Jesse James. Lars has cropped peroxide blonde hair and telling Dave Mustaine that he's attracted to his sensitive side, before selling his paintings at Southebys for $5m. Yes, $5m. Kirk Hammet wears short shorts and flip-flops, and only raised his voice once when the other guys told him that guitar solos were gay. That was pretty funny to see him squirming with his job threatened like that.
Oh another thing - how much money do Metallica have? When auditioning bass players, and upon offering the job to Rob Truijllio, they gave him an immediate $1m signing fee. You should have seen the grin on that dude's face.
Interesting fact: the other bass players auditioned were the guy from Kyuss and the freak from Marilyn Manson. The guy helping select bass players actually told Lars & James that he had searched the underground scene, but he could only find "great bass players that couldn't sing or great singers that couldn't play bass, and all together, none of them had played a gig with more than 1000 people in the audience".
Of course, the fact that 99.9% of underground bands would tell them to go to hell didn't even enter the discussion.
But would I play bass for Metallica for $1m sign-up fee, plus future tour and album royalties, and endorsement deals? Shit yes.
And James says, "this guy is pushing the boundaries, I mean does he think he's in the band now?". Hahaha, they couldn't get rid of him.
