METALLICA To Be Inducted Into ROCK HALL By FLEA Of RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

March 20, 2009

LED ZEPPELIN's Jimmy Page will induct Jeff Beck and Flea of the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS will do the honors for METALLICA at the sold-out Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Saturday, April 4, at Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. The event will be televised live on Fuse and available online at www.fuse.tv.

Inductees were chosen by the 600 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. Artists are eligible for inclusion in the hall of fame 25 years after their first recordings are released.

In a late 2008 interview with Rolling Stone magazine about the band's nomination for induction, METALLICA frontman James Hetfield was asked who will be onstage with METALLICA when they get inducted. "Everyone that played on a record should be there," he said. "You're considered for the Hall 25 years after your first recording, not after you formed." After being told that this would omit Dave Mustaine, Hetfield replied, "He wasn't on a record. Jason Newsted [former METALLICA bassist] should be up there — he was in the band for 14 years and played on quite a few records. And so should Robert [Trujillo; current METALLICA bassist]." Asked if it will be weird to be there with Jason, Hetfield said, "There's no reason for it to be weird. We don't want to be part of the soap opera of the Hall of Fame. Everybody wants a train wreck, like with BLONDIE onstage arguing over crap [in 2006]. That really cheapens the moment."

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