SPINAL TAP MOMENT #478: James Hetfield calls it "Flamingo Music"

[Mark in Helsinki]

Really.

Don't ask how I stumbled upon this video of Mr. James Hetfield of Metallica "jammin'" with the bass player, Robert Trujillo, who was playing flashy but rather mundane Spanish guitar styles. Then an astonished Mr. Hetfield gushes "He's a good...(pregnant pause)... Flamingo player!"  (0:50)

What he says afterwards is garbled by others in the room and the guitar continuing; it almost sounds as if he corrected his pronunciation of the word, and I nearly gave him the benefit of the doubt, but then he said "Flamingo" again at about 2:00 when he is refers to their Latin American bassist as "Flamingo Man" to Danish drummer Lars!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ktjlVvMYlA&feature=related

QUESTION: Does Mr. Hetfield really think there is a guitar style called Flamingo Music?

QUESTION 2: Why don't Metallica put out a psycho-tex mex album?

[nec13]

I fully expect to hear Metallica on the next Putamayo compilation or at the next WOMAD festival.

[cutout]

That is an awesome YouTube find. Metallica doesn't have 2 brain cells to scrape together between the four of them.

See also: the bonus footage from Some Kind of Monster where they awkwardly collaborate with Swizz Beats and play the "rap and rock are made to be played together!" card.