Former Pink Floyd bassist and vocalist Roger Waters has weighed in on James Hetfield’s comments at the Sphere in Las Vegas on October 10, in which he took shots at artists who use their platforms to make political statements.
“I just gotta say, Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their bullshit, OK?” Hetfield said during the show. “We are here… no bullshit… we’re here to forget about all the outside shit, OK? Metallica’s agenda is love, energy and heavy music, baby!”
Though Hetfield didn’t mention any artists by name, the comments came just weeks after the recent Macklemore-Ed Sheeran debacle.
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Waters has now torn into Hetfield on The Katie Halper Show, saying, “Can we stop talking about this prick? I’m so bored with him. He’s just showing that he’s a complete prick. He’s got an IQ of about three, and why we’re talking about him, I honestly don’t know because he’s a nobody and he’ll always be. He may have a few hundred million dollars or whatever, but he’s a prick.”
Waters took things a step further by claiming that Hetfield is “no musician. I heard them playing acoustic instruments and they couldn’t. It was appalling.”
He continued, “It’s a shame this prick didn’t have somebody around him to explain that being kind is way more important than all that loud music and bouncing around and whatever.” Waters ended his rant with a call for Palestinian solidarity.
Recently, the Pink Floyd bassist blasted Ed Sheeran for his response to Macklemore’s removal from his tour following onstage pro-Palestinian and anti-ICE comments.
