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notified every time i upload a new video on my channel back in 1989 the british band the cult
would support metallica on their damaged justice tour
metallica was touring their and justice for all album while the cult were coming off the release
of their hugely popular record sonic temple which was produced by future metallica producer bob rock
the members of metallica had some fun with their tour openers
pulling a pretty epic prank on them what was the prank you ask stay tuned to find out
in drummer matt storm's book doubletalk and jive he talked about the tour the cult did
with metallica in the summer of 1989 during a summer gig storm was on his drum kit when
he heard a loud thump beside him he used to keep a corona beard next to his drum stool
and he would take swigs of the beer between songs sauron would look down to see what fell next to
him and it turned out to be a ziploc bag with the pretty frightened goldfish in it it turned out
someone from the crowd had thrown it on stage following the gig matt sarum would run into
frontman ian asbury's girlfriend renee who was on tour with the band she got excited at the sight of
the goldfish and decided to take care of it naming it lennon sorum would recall how having a fish
tank on the tour bus was a terrible idea as water sloshed everywhere leaving puddles on the floor
and matt would recall one of the stranger moments involving the fish revealing in his book how the
band was chilling on the bus one day drinking beer with the air conditioner on on a hot summer date
when renee came in complaining about how lenin was freezing and didn't look very well
askberry would order the air conditioning to be turned off on the bus and him and his girlfriend
would take the goldfish to a veterinarian to get it checked out sorum and guitarist
billy duffy would wait at a restaurant next to the vet for two hours until renee and asberry
would walk in with some good news that the fish had been saved following the visit to the vet
sorum would call metallica drummer lars ulrich to inform him of what he was having to put up with
on the tour the band would finally arrive in new york city where sorum and ashbury would head to
the bar of their hotel before renee came running in and crying revealing that the fish was now dead
following the news askberry and renee would head to central park to bury the goldfish at
john lennon's memorial and just as a side note it would also be the same evening where matt
sorum would meet his future band mates axel rose and izzy stradlin from guns n roses it was also
during this time that according to sorum the cult were on the verge of breaking big sonic temple was
a top 10 hit and the band's single at the time fire woman was doing very well around the world
but according to the drummer frontman ian asbury seemed to be sabotaging any potential success with
this heavy drinking and the weight he had gained both of which affected his voice things apparently
got so bad asberry asked storm to sing some parts of certain songs which apparently caused tension
between guitarist billy duffy and asberry duffy even confronted sorum to stop drinking so much
with ian and while the heart partying didn't seem to affect matt's performances each night he wasn't
fronting the band the band's final gig with metallica would take place in portland and for
sorum it was completely normal for bands to mess with each other on the final dates of their tours
and that night in oregon was no different sorum would recall in his book we went out on stage
and i couldn't help but notice that ian really did look like [ __ ] maybe even he was aware of it by
that point because between songs he started muttering a whole bunch of bitter remarks
and alienating the crowd with rude british jokes no one understood didn't exactly help that from
the very onset large chunks of the crowd were against us for the simple reason that they were
there to see metallica the next moment sorum would see all the four members of metallica walking
up on stage dressed like ian with pillows under their shirts to make it look like they had a belly
on top of that metallica's roadies would hurl stink bombs on stage in addition to talcum powder
and soon enough the members of the cult would look like ghosts and smell like rotten eggs
and to finish things off metallica's crew were standing on the lighting truss
above the stage and dumped literally hundreds of goldfish onto the cult
according to sorum rene did her best to come on stage and save as many of the goldfish
and drummer lars ulrich would reveal to rolling stone how they actually pulled the prank saying
i love the cult but when we had them with us for the whole summer of 89 one unnamed band member
had a girlfriend who brought around goldfish in little bulls one day the bus driver forgot to turn
on the ac and the fish basically boiled and the girl effing lost it so for the show in portland
we bought out the local pet store and for two minutes rained goldfish on their set the unnamed
member and his horrified girlfriend were trying to pick up the flopping fish their drummer matt sorum
started eating them he'd remember and that does it for today's video guys thanks for watching be
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