Jason Newsted has revealed that Metallica once had darts thrown at them during an arena show in Canada in the late '80s.
The Chophouse Band frontman traded tour stories with Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr as part of Rolling Stone's Nashville Podcast, as the pair are currently on the road together with their respective bands in North America.
During the 30-minute conversation, he said that he witnessed a dart just miss James Hetfield's feet during their show and had to halt the performance so the attacker could be reprimanded.
"As we played across Canada, we wouldn't always sell those arenas out in the middle of wherever it might be, somewhere out in the woods a little bit," said Newsted. "[It was a] 6,000 seat hockey arena, and they put the big rubber curtain up in the middle because we only sold 3,000. So, partly for sound and partly for vibe. So that pushed your stage all the way up close to the seats.
"So kids are about like this up above you," he continued. "We're playing a few songs, and all of a sudden, it's a dart, right? I look over at James and then there's another one. I go, 'Dude'."
