Metallica’s Kirk Hammett joined Journey onstage on Thursday evening to play the latter’s “Wheel in the Sky” and the previous’s “Enter Sandman.” You can watch a video of the efficiency under.
The visitor look occurred at Journey’s second consecutive present on the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu. “Had a great time with Kirk Hammett of Metallica last night at second sold-out Journey show in Hawaii,” guitarist Neal Schon tweeted Friday morning.
The Metallica axman caught to rhythm guitar throughout “Wheel in the Sky,” and the band then segued right into a snippet of “My Hometown” by HSAS, the short-lived supergroup that includes Schon, Sammy Hagar, bassist Kenny Aaronson and Santana drummer Michael Shrieve.
From there, they transitioned into the long-lasting “Enter Sandman” riff, permitting Hammett to rip a wah-drenched solo, earlier than ending again on “Wheel in the Sky.”
Journey lately launched Freedom, their fifteenth album and first since 2011’s Eclipse, marking the longest hole between the band’s albums. Hammett, in the meantime, launched his debut solo EP, the instrumental Portals, in April. Former Journey singer Steve Perry lately filed a petition towards his former bandmates to cancel trademark registrations for 20 songs filed by Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain. The movement contains a few of the band’s greatest hits, equivalent to “Separate Ways,” “Open Arms,” “Any Way You Want It” and “Who’s Crying Now.”
Schon responded to the authorized motion, calling it “total crap.” The guitarist stated his efforts to kind via Journey’s trademark points sparked the band rift in 2020 that led to the departure of bassist Ross Valory and drummer Steve Smith.
“They knew all this time I’d been investigating our trademarks for years,” Schon wrote on Facebook, including that he’s been “trying to get to the bottom of all the corruption, as [my wife and I] found that nothing had ever been trademarked besides our music. They all went for a takeover and it didn’t work. Quite simple.”
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