NEW: Metallica concert registers a small earthquake in Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium as thousands of Hokies jumped in unison.
The band played in front of 60,000 fans as part of their M72 World Tour.
According to the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory, there was a spike when Metallica started playing “Enter Sandman,” as reported by CBS Sports.
The Virginia Tech football team is known for running out to the song before their football games as Hokie fans jump in unison.
NEW: Metallica concert registers a small earthquake in Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium as thousands of Hokies jumped in unison.
The band played in front of 60,000 fans as part of their M72 World Tour.
According to the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory, there was a… pic.twitter.com/ZNLG1FaxON
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While speaking with Pete Pardo of Sea of Tranquility in a new interview, Alex Lifeson of Rush revealed that he met up with a couple of the members of Metallica for a jam session while the band were in Toronto for a show last month.
“The guys from Metallica were in [Toronto] last week. And I got together with Kirk [Hammett, guitarist] and Rob [Robert Trujillo, bassist]. We went out for dinner and then we got together and jammed afterwards — actually, right here [at my house]. They came over after dinner and we played for a few hours, and it was great,” Lifeson said.
“Often in the past, if you jam with a bunch of people, we’d play a 12-bar bluesy thing; everybody can play that: ‘Let’s do that.’ But when you play with great musicians like those guys are, places you go is, it’s just unbelievable. It’s so remarkable. And God, I loved every second that we did that. The three of us just were oozing with enthusiasm, that whole thing. And that’s pretty cool.”
In 2023, Lifeson’s Rush bandmate Geddy Lee interviewed Trujillo – along with Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Primus’ Les Claypool, and former Hole/Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur – for a four-part documentary series titled “Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too?”.
Shortly after, in a separate interview with Detroit radio station WRIF, Trujillo reflected on working with Lee on the Paramount+ series and how surreal it was for him to work with one of his musical idols.
“I played in backyard party bands at age 16 and we played [Rush’s] ‘La Villa Strangiato’, we played ‘YYZ’, we played all those classic songs,” he said. “The harder, the better back then. And we probably butchered them, but we would play these backyard parties and play Rush songs in the same way that we also played Ozzy [Osbourne] songs and we played Black Sabbath songs and Van Halen and all these different bands.
“So you can imagine hanging out with one of your heroes and just trying to stay grounded. At the end of the day, everybody’s a human being and you always wanna treat people with respect and, again, stay grounded. But at the same time, you’re going, ‘Damn, that’s Geddy Lee.'”
