Metallica Member Cried Getting $1 Million Check

Robert Trujillo recently revealed that he was offered a whopping $1 Million as bonus. During an appearance on The Surfer’s Journal’s “Soundings” podcast, Robert Trujillo spoke about a scene in Metallica’s “Some Kind of Monster” documentary where at an early meeting with his new bandmates. He struggles to maintain his composure as he’s awarded a $1 million signing bonus.

Robert Trujillo opens up on being offered a huge sum of money

When asked what that experience was like, the bassist said:

“Well, that was weird and that was surreal. I guess I didn’t believe it. It didn’t seem real. It’s funny, ’cause you don’t actually ever… It’s there, but it’s not there. Everybody says, ‘Wow, man.’ After taxes, it’s a little different than a million dollars. I guess I got so consumed with the workload to where I was, like, ‘Okay, that’s cool.’ But then in my head, I’m, like, ‘It’s time to get to work. I’ve got this mountain of catalog to learn.’ And then there was this new album, ‘St. Anger’, that they hadn’t even played live yet, ’cause that album was created in the studio. So now I’ve gotta learn these songs. And I just saw it as, like, ‘I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me. I’m not gonna worry about… I’m not gonna think about the money. I’m not gonna celebrate what’s going on because I’ve got work to do.’ I remember I didn’t go home for, like, six months, almost. I might’ve gone home for a night or two to go get some clothes or whatever I needed and to bring it back up north, but I basically moved to San Francisco right at that moment. And my life changed forever.”

Trujillo was a member of Ozzy Osbourne’s band when he was offered the Metallica gig, and went on to say that “there were two auditions” for the James Hetfield-fronted outfit.

Trujillo, who was born on October 23, 1964 in Santa Monica, California, tasted success as the bassist in Suicidal Tendencies and Ozzy Osbourne’s band. But in 2003, he successfully auditioned to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica, a process chronicled in the aforementioned warts-and-all documentary “Some Kind of Monster”.

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