Robert Trujillo says supporting Metallica in 1993 was “way better, way funner” than supporting Guns N’ Roses
You don’t get sandwiches thrown at your face during Metallica shows, for one.
Ex-Suicidal Tendencies bassist Robert Trujillo has looked back on his touring days with Metallica and Guns N’ Roses, and the reason the former made for a “way funner” experience.
Speaking during a recent Q&A session at the Metallica: The Black Album in Black & White book signing event in Finland, Trujillo says [via Blabbermouth]: “So, basically 1993, 1994, Suicidal Tendencies supported Metallica. We came through Europe with Metallica and we also did the States. And that was my first introduction to massive production.”
“And the interesting thing is, in ‘93 in Europe, we were actually going sort of back and forth between Metallica and Guns N’ Roses. So we would do two weeks with Metallica , and then we’d do two weeks with Guns N’ Roses. And what I found was that our two weeks with Metallica were — no disrespect to Guns N’ Roses — but man, way better, way funner, better for us, better crowd.”
As Trujillo puts it, with GN’R, things “varied”.
“I remember one show, somebody threw a sandwich,” he recalls, “and it hit me, and I got really mad, and then Mike [Muir, Suicidal Tendencies frontman] and I went out in the crowd of 40,000 people to try and beat somebody up that we couldn’t find. But all of a sudden, we were signing autographs, and it’s, like, ‘Wait a minute. We’re supposed to be pissed off.’ So, it was weird. There were good days and bad days.”
Regardless,Trujillo concedes that tours like these are “always great” at the end of the day as you get to connect with new fans. Only difference was, “the Metallica fans were more kind of in our wheelhouse.”
“But Guns N’ Roses was huge back then, so, of course, we had to take that tour. it was a great experience,” he says.
