I always thought the beauty of being as big as Metallica was not having to compromise your integrity for money, since you’re making enough on your own. I guess I was wrong.
Metallica are playing their second corporate gig in less than a year. This time they can’t even hide behind the Guitar Hero excuse.
“It all started when Kirk mentioned that his next door neighbor had invited us to play at his party in San Francisco and we figured “why not?” After all, it has been quite some time since we’ve played in our hometown, and we haven’t exactly been getting out a lot lately. Well, it turns out that Kirk’s neighbor, Marc Benioff, is the top dog at a “small” company called Salesforce.com and his shindig actually lasts for four days and hosts over 30,000 people! So much for a little backyard barbeque“
Read full statement here.
So it’s not like it was a negotiated thing or anything. Kirk’s neighbor just asked if one of the biggest bands around could attend his bbq, Kirk said yes, then they realized it’s for Salesforce.com. Don’t blame them, it was an accident. Money good.
I have a lot of Monopoly puns in my head right now, but I’ll save them for later. The good news is that if you’re in MetClub, they’re giving away ‘hundreds’ of tickets for this thing, so check that out. At least they take care of their fans, which is always nice.
