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Metallica, Mustaine, Ozzy and Geezer sitting in a tree…

So the last Fillmore anniversary show had quite a lot of guests. Like we told you before, Dave was there, and apparently Geezer and Ozzy joined them on stage, also.

Aside from them, former Metallica bassists Newsted and McGovney were present, as was Bob Rock.

Dave played five songs with them: Hit The Lights, Metal Militia, Phantom Lord, Jump in the Fire and Seek and Destroy.

You can find some photos and the setlist on Blabbermouth. No point in wasting time putting those photos here since you can just do one click and BOOM: everything is there.

Dave and Metallica sitting in a tree…

Dave Mustaine will attend Metallica‘s final San Francisco show celebrating their 30th birthday, and I have to say, that’s awesome. I’ve made so many Dave/Metallica jokes here, it’s only fair I should give credit where credit is due — The feud seems to finally be over, and that’s pretty awesome.

Well, it’s over until Dave feels the need to name drop Metallica again to promote his new album, then it may get revived. But for now… Weeee.

Here is Dave’s official tweet:

“I am up in SF for Metallica’s 30 anniversary. I look forward to celebrating with them.“

Read tweet here.

Rumor has it that the shows have been taped by HD cameras, so maybe a Blu-Ray of these concerts will hit The Pirate Bay be up for sale someday.

By the way, here’s a drinking game for you. Read this Dave interview and drink each time Dave says ‘to a degree.’

DJ Ashba got the ‘GNR gig’ just by showing up

Guns N’ Roses have been auditioning guitarists for over a year before getting DJ Ashba, so the guy just wants everyone to know that unlike those guys, all he had to do was ‘be in the room’ to get the gig. Way to be humble about it, DJ.

“What happened is that I got a call, basically saying — I got a call at SIXX: A.M., and we had a number one hit at the time, and it said: ‘Listen, GUNS has been auditioning guitar players for about a year and a half on the down low. They can’t seem to find the right guy.’ Then they asked if I would be interested in coming down and checking it out. And I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll definitely come down.’ I guess Axl got wind that I was going to come down, and he called management and said, ‘If he even shows up in the room, he has the gig.’ So it was kind of that easy.“

Read full interview here.

Amazing guitarists don’t audition, yo. All they need to do is enter the room and BOOM, their aura will take care of everything.

Yet another unreleased Metallica song…

Songs don’t make the cut for a reason. They’re not good enough. So releasing them after a few years is as bad as being caught without makeup if you’re a hot celebrity chick with a bad acne problem. That’s how I see it, anyway.

But in celebration of 30 years of Metallica (and my metal math says 9 years of actual Metallica and 21 years of trying to jump on other bandwagons),  the guys are playing a few shows in San Francisco with a bunch of guests (like Jason Newsted) and shit. It’s pretty cool, and apparently they play an unreleased Death Magnetic song each night and then release the studio version of it online.

Something along those lines, anyway… Fuck you, I didn’t really research this.

Anyway, the third unreleased song hit the interwebz — It’s called ‘Hell and Back,’ and it describes what I went through to avoid Lulu.

Guns N’ Roses play ‘Civil War’ live for the first time since the 90s

They haven’t played this song live since 1993. In other interesting news, I shaved my testicles this morning, and noticed my ball hair grows unevenly.