Looks like ZZ Top better not be planning on taking any plane trips anytime soon.
Posted on 07/08/2007 8:50:52 PM PDT by mnehring
Metallica singer James Hetfield was investigated by UK airport officials who believed he was a terrorist this week, it has been claimed.
The star was barred entry to Luton airport on Thursday and questioned by staff who were concerned about his appearance.
Fears that Hetfield might be involved in terrorism were apparently founded on his "Taliban-like beard", according to The Times.
He was allowed to leave the airport after a brief interrogation, when he persuaded officials that he was a rock star.
Metallica play Live Earth at Wembley Stadium in London tomorrow, before headlining the venue for their own show on Sunday evening.
Disclaimer: I am a big Metallica fan, even after learning they played at Live Earth, but I couldn't resist the irony of Hetfield being mistaken for a terrorist on the way to play Live Earth.
Looks like ZZ Top better not be planning on taking any plane trips anytime soon.
...also from Metal Underground:
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=27291
They played well. Being an old Black Sabbath fan, I never really got to know Metallica. But I bought Nothing Else Matters on Itunes after I heard the live version. Very good tune.
It’s a sad day when James Hetfield gets profiled for terrorism while other folks who we all KNOW should be profiled gets to walk right on through security.
Metalica sold out.
That’s “Sad but True.”
Were they flying on a hybrid jet? If not, how very ungreen of them.
> He was allowed to leave the airport after a brief interrogation, when he persuaded officials that he was a rock star.And just how did he accomplish that? Sing some lyrics in a voice that one of the interrogators recognized? Nah, I've heard Metallica's vocals, they require processing in a studio. Posture and strut convincingly enough in the interrogation room? Nah, they'd think he'd lost his mind.
"Don't you fools know WHO I AM???"
Gotta love it....
I’ll say that he’s a fool for playing Al Gore’s concert. Al Gore led Senate hearings into “obscenity” in rock music so that he could attain the national stage in a run for the White House (he ran in 1988).
He threw a lot of people under the bus for political advancement.
They enabled an amoral politician who’d just as soon label them criminal for “thoughts”.
The bigger irony is that Cat Stevens, an entertainer who’s given his public support to the Islamic Supremacist movement AND terrorist movement (he supported the fatwa against Salman Rushdie) DID perform at Live Earth.
Can’t wait for the new album next year. Hopefully it will be better than that abomination St. Anger.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Wasn't he refused entry to the U.S. for that reason a few years ago?
Ahhhh, none better, Van Morrison ahhhh, Delbert Mclinton ahhhh, Little Feat ahhhhh, ...I like’em.
ROTFLOL!
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“.....Hopefully it will be better than that abomination St. Anger.”
Oh man, ain’t that the truth.
BTW, I thought thier concert done with the San Francisco symphony was the concert I will always wish I had been to.
I did see them in Pensacola 1 1/2 years ago and was so glad they didn’t play but one song from St Anger. I think they knew it was a bomb from the start. I mean, the cd hit the shelves at $9.99 WITH a DVD.
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