Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Red Hot Chili Peppers Mistaken For Metallica at Airport



All kinds of zany insaney things happen in the world of rock n' roll. Some times they aren't even dirty or disturbing. Some times they are just plain goofy. Such a thing happened to The Red Hot Chili Peppers a couple days ago (July 9th) at an airport in Belarus when the customs department of the airport stopped them, thought they were Metallica, and wanted photos and autographs.

The Chili Peppers insisted they were not in fact the famed thrash metal band, but the customs people insisted that the band sign the merchandise anyway. It was a very weird time for them indeed.

Bassist Flea made an Instagram post about the bizarre incident with a photo, saying:

“We were called into customs officials office at an airport in Belarus and they asked us to sign a bunch of Metallica cd’s and photos. We tried to explain to them that we weren’t Metallica but they insisted that we sign anyway. They had the power. Well I did play fight fire with with with Metallica once. I love Metallica anyways but I’m no Robert Trujillo.”

To be honest, I'm really wondering how this mix-up could have happened in the first place considering none of the members of the Chili Peppers look anything like any of the members of Metallica. Hopefully Metallica doesn't try to take some sort of legal action. I wouldn't put it past them to try to sue for forgery or whatever they can manage to make a bit of chump change with despite the fact they don't need it these days. Still, I think that this is a rather goofy and even mildly heart warming story that gives you a bit of a chuckle. Good on the Chili Peppers for making the best out of a really odd situation.

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