Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo of Metallica once got a bus ride from David Bowie when they couldn’t find a cab home after watching a Bowie show.
Hammett shared the story in the latest edition of The Metallica Report. Metallica had an off night in Kansas City on May 10th, 2004 and Bowie happened to be playing in the city that night. Metallica’s former tour manager was working for Bowie then and invited Hammett and Trujillo to the show.
The pair watched Bowie perfom and met him after the show. Hammett said that when they left the venue they had no idea how to get back to their hotel, which was the same place where Bowie was staying.
Hammett explained, “Tour bus comes up, and I had seen David Bowie in the gym earlier that day…[It] stops, door opens up, and David Bowie’s head comes up and goes, ‘What are you guys doing? You want a ride to the hotel?’ I was like, ‘Oh my god… We don’t have our ride! We were gonna catch a cab! Can we get a ride with you?’ Dave’s like, ‘Yeah, come on!’”
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