What do you get the man who has everything? It is a question that the members of Metallica probably ask each other every time it’s one of their birthdays. “He’s in Metallica,” they probably say, “what more could he possibly want?” And then they go and devise some plan that only influential and famous hard rock stars can, and arrange for a rock legend to pie their unsuspecting bandmate in the face with a birthday cake. That’ll do.
Metallica’s Robert Trujillo can verify this, for it was the bassist whose face was on the receiving end of a wad of sponge and icing back in 2016. Metallica were appearing at Neil Young’s annual charity bash the Bridge School Benefit in 2016, playing on October 23, Trujillo’s birthday. They ended their short, nine-song set performing a cover of Buffalo Springfield’s Mr. Soul with Young himself, and it was at the song’s end that the Rockin’ In The Free World icon decided to give Trujillo his birthday present.
