• facebook
  • twitter
  • rss

METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD Joined By JOE SATRIANI, BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG At 'Acoustic-4-A-Cure' Benefit Concert (Video)

May 16, 2014

METALLICA frontman James Hetfield played a four-song acoustic set last night (Thursday, May 15) at the first annual "Acoustic-4-A-Cure" concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco, California. The event benefitted the Pediatric Cancer Program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, and featured solo sets, duets and jam sessions.

In addition to playing two METALLICA songs on acoustic — "Nothing Else Matters" and "Until It Sleeps" — Hetfield joined forces with two of the evening's other performers, GREEN DAY frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and CHICKENFOOT's Joe Satriani, for a medley of BOB SEGER's "Turn The Page" and the GREEN DAY track "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams". James and Billie Joe traded verses — going back and forth between the two songs — while Satriani accompanied them on guitar. James also delivered an acoustic rendition of THE BEATLES' "In My Life" which he had previously performed with his METALLICA bandmates at this past Monday's (May 12) MusiCares MAP Fund benefit in Los Angeles.

Hetfield's setlist was as follows:

01. Nothing Else Matters (METALLICA)
02. In My Life (THE BEATLES cover)
03. Until It Sleeps (METALLICA)
04. Turn The Page (BOB SEGER cover) / "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" (GREEN DAY cover; feat. Joe Satriani and Billie Joe Armstrong)

Fan-filmed video footage can be seen below.

The show was Hagar's idea and was administered through his Hagar Family Foundation. The legendary rocker said in a statement that, "I've seen first-hand the great work [the Pediatric Cancer Program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is] doing and how vital community support is. I ran the idea of a benefit concert by James, and we quickly had an amazing lineup of artists on board...and now we've got an epic event — the first of many, hopefully — so we can keep their research and programs funded and on the path to a cure."

hetfieldhagaracousticcure

Find more on Metallica
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • reddit
  • email

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).