ZitatMetallica -- yes, Metallica -- just professed their love and admiration for all things Justin Bieber… and they weren’t kidding … like not even a little bit.
The band was giving an interview with a rock magazine about Bieber's recent take on their mega-hit "Fade to Black," when lead singer James Hetfield admitted, "Are we Beliebers? Yes."
Drummer Lars Ulrich backed James up ... saying, "I think the kid's really talented and obviously to go through what he's going through at that early age must be a mindf**k. So the fact that he still goes out there and does it, I admire that and I think he's super talented, so I guess I am kind of a Belieber.”
Bassist Robert Trujillo added "As long as he stays out of trouble, I'll be a Belieber.”
Right ... ‘cause what’s more heavy metal than staying out of trouble and making good clean pop music for the kids?
Wow - next thing you know, Grace Slick will be busted for being a Miley Cirus fan.
You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you're out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are. ~Rufus T. Firefly
Grace Slick had one of the top 5 on stage meltowns in history. She may very well like a nut job like Miley...
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Star: Grace Slick/Jefferson Starship
Specifics: June 1978, Germany
Meltdown: Jefferson Starship's European tour was not going well. At the Lorelei Festival (the band's first show in Germany), thousands of fans rioted when it was announced that singer Grace Slick was too sick to perform. The next night, in Hamburg, they probably wished Slick was still ailing. As a child of the post-World War II era, Slick later admitted that she always had it in for Germans, and she told them so in no uncertain terms in Hamburg. Drunk as a skunk, she took the stage in a Nazi uniform and goose-stepped around the stage, taunting the Germans about losing the war to America and pausing occasionally to insert a finger or two up the nostrils of puzzled German men, whom she called a bunch of Nazis. Those in attendance reported a curious phenomenon: mass walkouts of people who would get almost to the door and then think, "I wonder what she will do next?" and head back to their seats. "I'm in Germany and I'm gonna get back at them for Dachau or some dumb drunken decision," Slick said years later. "That's what that night was about: dumb, drunken decisions. So they started walking out, but they kept coming back, like 'Maybe she'll do something really hideous and we will have missed it.' A freak show."
Aftermath: Slick quit the band immediately after the show; Jefferson Starship staggered on without her through the rest of the tour. "I think she created punk rock that night," drummer John Barbata recalled. If only that had been her swan song. In 1981 she would rejoin the band, which dropped the "Jefferson" from its moniker and (along with other once-decent bands like Chicago and Heart) unleashed some of the worst and most unaccountably popular rock of all time in the mid-'80s. From "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" to "We Built this City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" fairly defines the concept of creative descent.
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