In a brand new interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo mirrored on the time he was hit within the head with a bottle previous to his efficiency with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES on July 1, 1989 on the Giants Of Rock competition in Finland. Additionally showing on the invoice had been ANTHRAX (whose guitarist Scott Ian joined SUICIDAL on stage to play “Struggle Inside My Head”),D-A-D, STONE, AIRDASH and STRATOVARIUS.

Trujillo stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “That is when our relationship with ANTHRAX, for me, formally turned actual, as a result of these guys stood up for me and went on the market and went toe to toe.

“Now, look, on the time, it wasn’t just like the followers had been pissed off. They had been indignant at a technical situation,” Robert clarified. “They could not even see us ‘trigger we had been behind the amps warming up. In order that they chucked some — again then you can have glass beer bottles — and so they chucked a bottle and it went over the bass amp and I had been sort of hunkered down practising, preparing. And there was an issue with the PA system. In order that they had been getting impatient. However that bottle hit me within the head. And, in fact, I simply sort of noticed purple and I went out to the entrance of the stage. My face was bleeding and I am, like, calling folks out. And there is, like, fricking 15, 20,000 folks on the market, in fact, and all people’s drunk, in order that they’re, like, ‘Yeah, cool. Let’s battle.’ And I actually was gonna try to go on the market and battle 10,000 folks. I do not know what I used to be considering. I used to be younger and dumb. So I used to be pulled off to the facet by the tour supervisor and [he] stated, ‘You have gotta play in a pair minutes right here.’ In order that they bandaged me up like I had a toothache, after which they put the hat on after which we went on the market and performed. [Editor’s note: Video of the performance can be seen below.] Through the time that I used to be getting bandaged up, apparently my SUICIDAL bandmembers and a number of the ANTHRAX staff went on the market and began socking folks up — that good quaint sock-up — and I keep in mind, I believe it was the drummer, [he] stated, ‘Hey man, simply so you realize, we took care of this. It is all good.’ And I used to be, like, ‘What does that imply?’ After which, in fact, I discovered. Mainly, a few knuckleheads bought beat down.”

Trujillo went on to say that the state of affairs would probably have been dealt with a lot in a different way in the present day. “Look, that was the way in which it was again then,” he defined. “I do not condone violence or something, however again at the moment and doubtless even earlier than that, that is sort of what occurred at hardcore exhibits and in thrash exhibits, punk exhibits, steel. There was a little bit of edge, and lots of people would begin stuff. You’d have to complete it. And also you look again on it as sort of, like, ‘Yeah, I suppose it was enjoyable.’ However that was sort of my initiation into the world of touring and being in a gap band. It was plenty of enjoyable. ANTHRAX [and] SUICIDAL, that was the primary official tour that I went on and that was in Europe and it was a brand new expertise for me that I all the time keep in mind and cherish.”

Trujillo was first invited to affix SUICIDAL TENDENCIES for the aforementioned European tour supporting ANTHRAX. Whereas with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, Robert appeared on a number of the band’s most profitable albums: “Lights…Digital camera…Revolution!” (1990),“The Artwork Of Insurrection” (1992) and “Nonetheless Cyco After All These Years” (1993). Throughout Trujillo‘s years with SUICIDAL, vocalist Mike Muir heard a few of Robert‘s home made demos and so they collaborated on a funkier, extra progressive sound underneath the identify INFECTIOUS GROOVES. They produced quite a lot of albums equivalent to “The Plague That Makes Your Booty Transfer…” (1991),“Sarsippius’ Ark” (1993) and “Groove Household Cyco” (1994).

Again in 2021, Trujillo humorously revealed in an interview that earlier than he signed on because the bass participant for METALLICA, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES would gobble up METALLICA‘s leftover dinners every time they might throughout a joint 1993 tour. And although the METALLICA members revered Trujillo‘s taking part in with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, METALLICA frontman James Hetfield admitted that when Robert‘s identify got here up throughout bassist auditions, he thought, “there isn’t any method he will be part of us. He is too wonderful, he is too spectacular.”