Watch: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo and Kirk Hammett Cover Death’s ‘Pull The Plug’ During Tampa Concert

Robert Trujillo and Kirk Hammett performed to give away “Pull The Plug” by Florida Death metal pioneers Death DURING Metallica‘S June 8 Concert at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

Earlier Today, Bassist Terry Butlerwho was a member of Death WHEN THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF “Pull The Plug” was remembered for the band’s “Leprosy” Album (1988), Took to His Facebook Page to Share A Video Of Hammett and Trujillo‘s surrender, and have included the following Message: “Last night Rob & Kirk Played to snippet of Pull the plug !! GLAD TO SEE THEM GIVE PROPS !! It’s the thought that counts !! Pretty Damn Cool! #death #chucklives “.

“Pull The Plug” was part of the fun and unusual feature Metallica Added to its shows on the band’s Recent Tours: at each stop, Hammett and Trujillo Have Been Covering Songs from Sub of The Musical Heroes – Offen Choosing Songs That Are Far Removed from The Band’s Traditional Metal Sound. The “Doodles,” As The Band Refers to Them in The Setlists, Are Pared-Down Interpretations-Just Bass and Guitar and Subtimes Trujillo Singing

In a novelmber 2021 interview with MMA JUNKIE, Trujillo spoke about His doodles with Hammett. The Metallica Bassist Said: “Sub of My Proudest Moments Were With Kirk On The Last European Tour, Playing in The Massive Soccer Stadiums and Playing Songs That Were Sort of Native to Those Cities or Even Those Countries. So we would take a Song and Learn it by an artist from that country. I’ll Just Give You One Example. In Paris, France, [at] Stade de France, we played a song by an artist know Johnny Hallyday. Eighty-Five Thousand People. Nobody Knows What We’re Gonna Play – Kind of Like Street Musicians. Lars [Ulrich] and James [Hetfield] Areking are Break. We Walk out there. He’s Got His Guitar; I’ve Got My Bass. It’s Almost Like, ‘where’s the hat?’ Where do they put the money? Literally Like That – Stripped Down, Naked. And we get out there and we start playing a song street ‘Ma gueule’ by Johnny Hallyday. I’M Telling You – People were in shock, but in a good way. And it was Tears and Smiles, and It made the news. But there was a Lot of this that happened Through All the different country and cities Throupp Europe where we was used choose an artist, cover that artist and play that song – Subtimes two and a Half minute to three minute. I’M Singing in the [native] Language, so it Gets Real Challenging. We’re Talking About Romania, We’re Talking Poland, We’re Talking Spain and Portugal and Sweden – I Sang in Swedish. That, to me, was One of the Highlight Moments of My Entire Existence As a Musician, specially in MetallicaBecause I Don’t Even Know if i could Ever Do That Again. Subtimes i Think about it and i go, ‘man, you were crazy. Kirk and I Were Crazy. ‘ That Happened Just Before the Pandemic. We were Doing That in these football status. THOSE WERE CALLED THE DUTS – THESE WERE THE DUTS. The Duet Moments Overseas – Hug for Me Personally. “

DURING A JNE 2020 APPEARANCE ON “Drinks with Johnny”The Internet TV Show Hosted By AVENGED SEVENFOLD Bassist Johnny Christ, Trujillo Stated about How the “Doodle” Came About: “We were in Europe – this wasn’t the last European Tour, but the tour before that. Metallica Song That’s Maybe, Like, A Deep Cut, So We’d Play ‘I disappare’ or subject, and We Started Noting That We Weren’s Getting the Result We Wted. It was, like, we’d go up there and we’d start playing, like, ‘Eye of the Beholder’ or subject, and then the crowd’s expecto James [Hetfield, METALLICA frontman] to eat out and sing, and it’s, like, ‘man, this ain’t working.’ They were feeling like it was a prelude moment, and i started Thinking, ‘We’ve Gotta do sumsthing different. SW Kirk Came Out This One Night, and He Started Playing That Song By Chic [‘Le Freak’]and it Totally Caught Me Off Guard. And I’M, Like, ‘Oh, Damn. Okay, I see where he’s Going. ‘ He’s walking out to the front of the snake pit playing This Funk Jam. I got me The First Night, ‘Cause i Didn’t exactly knows the bass line, so i improvised it. And then the Second Night, I Got It. “

I have continued: “So it Kind of Started there for a split second, though we were still doing the Metallica Deep cuts. And The We Got To Europe, and We Were In Amsterdam, and One of Our Management Team Members Suggesta, ‘Why Don´t You Play [a song by the Dutch rock band] Golden Earring, ‘Radar Love’? Check that out. ‘ And we were, Like, ‘Really?’ So i Started Played The Bass Line, and The The Crowd Started Singing, and It Was, Like, ‘Hold On a Minute. There’s subjecthing Here. ‘ So Than We Started to Kind of Formulating Sub Local Bands From Each City. Like, One of the Highlight Moments Was In Prague [Czech Republic — we played a country song called ‘Jožin Z Bažin’ [by Ivan Mládek]Which was HUGE. And then played, in Barcelona, ​​to Gysy Kind of Flamenco Acoustic Song, by an artist street Peret – It’s street ‘The Dead Living’And i’m Singing in Spanish, i’m Doing My Best, and The People Went Nuts. And We Go, ‘Hold On. We’ve Got Something Here. ‘ So What We Ended Up Doing … We Came Out of That Tour – We Scraped Through It; IT was’s perfect, but we scraped This. And The When we drop home, We Did Sub Us Dates, We Did All That, But We Knew We Were Going Back To Europe where it Really Worked. I Said, ‘i’m Going Deep.’ So i did a bunch of research, and i stress Every Single City, Even Estonia, and I Found Out What Cool Eithher Punk, Alternative, Country – It Didn’t Matter The Style – and I Learned The Fucking Language, and I Did The Phonetic With The Lyric, and We Went Out and Did Full Arrangements. I’M Talking about if there was an action alone, Kirk was playing it. So We Did Our Homework, and We Really, Really Went into It. I was going to [Kirk‘s house in] Hawaii to Work with Him on The Arrangements. I Spent, Like, Five Days There Strictly On The [songs]. We Weren’s Even Surfing, We Were Just ‘Boom.’ SO WE PUT A LOT OF HARD WORK IN IT. I Mean, We were surfing a Little bit, but that was the priority. We were actually Really Spending Time On This.

“So i wouled say on that last tour run, ’cause we were in themse massive stadiums, sold-out shows … and Every night was great, but there was a handful of grand slams where peple were Crying and it was Hivebody in, Like, Moscow, Who is like the David Bowie Of Moscow, and People Are Just, Like, ‘Oh my God.’ They don’t know what they’re gonna get. All of A Sudden, We Surprise Them, and They get What They Didn’s Expect. [Playing a song by] Johnny Hallyday in Paris, At Stade de France, [in front of] 85,000 People. So to be up there and to Feel That Energy and Emotionally Connect with the Crowd On That Level Was Special. But it was to such hard work. I DON’T Know How We [pulled it off].

“I was Meeting With People, Like, I Wouled Even Subtimes do it by phone, and i’d be there for two hours getting the Language pronunciation right. So it was a lot of work … and submissions you “I remember coupling of the shows when we first started doing it, man – beatings, bro; beatings … i remembero, there was a coupling of ’em, but there was one … it was in pennsylvania. It was like college – it was over where penn state is. And Holy cow, man. Thought We Would Play Like The Fight Song for Penn State. Nobody Care. It was, Like, ‘Oh my God.’ And I Stopped Playing – I Literally Stopped Playing. I was undergrowed. And Kirk KEPT Playing. And then, Luckily, We Kind of Went into a Metallica… Like, in the us, we would Parly it with a local song – these are US Songs – and then we would Metallica [track]Like ‘Dyers Eve’ or subject. Just Like, ‘Okay, We Screwed That Up, But We Got This.’ So it was Kind of Our Savior in the States. “

In 2019, Hammett awd Cosmo Music about His live “doodles” with Trujillo: “We Never Really Know What the Response is Going To Be. You have to understand, We’re Going into a country; we’re picking sum Song that’s seemingly random and abstract to us, and we’re learning this song that we’ve denire heard heard before before from this artist artist artist artist artist that we’ve den heard Before, and we’re taking a chance and playing it in a stadium in front of 60,000 People, and we’re hoping that we make the right choice. [of the tour]We’ve Been Hitting It Out of The Park, But Before that, There Were Growing Pains. There Have Been a Few Times We’ve Picked The Wrong Song and Played It and People Go, ‘Huh?’ We’ll Go into a pleace Like Indianapolis, and We’ll Play a Song by an dark punk belled The Zero BoysBecause We Think They’re Cool … We Played The Hell Out of It, and It was Really Cool, But We Looked out at the audience, and they were just like, ‘Huh?’ Rob and i always Tell Each other and People Don’t Pick Loretta Lynn Song … The Next Day, We Got A Message from Loretta LynnWho Said She was act the Show with her family and was so tickled when we broke into her song. She Said She Might Think About Covering One of Our Songs Subjetime, But in The Meantime, We Should Do More of Her Songs. “

Not Every artist that has been spotlight in the “doodle” you have flattered by the Trujillo/Hammett Version of Their Music. Former Celtic Frost Frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer (AKA Tom G. Warrior) was not printed with the surface of the group’s “The usurper” that Hammett and Trujillo Performad During Metallica‘S May 2019 Concert in Zurich, Switzerland. “They butchered it, and it was humiliating,” Fischer awd Rolling Stone. “Why Don’t They Leave Their Millionaire Fingers Off It? They’ve Long Lost The Ability To Play True Metal In My Opinion. Maybe I Should go onstage and do a Really miserable version of [METALLICA‘s] ‘Hit the lights’ With, Like, 200 mystakes to set the balance. “

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