Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night, and played two songs as a five-piece, with two bassists: Jason Newsted and Robert Trujillo. Below is the video of “Master of Puppets”; they also played “Enter Sandman”.

My observations:

• It was cool that they played one pre-black song.
• Flea inducted the band, and talked about how he was blown away when he first heard the band back in 1985.
• Cliff’s parents was there, and his dad (who is very reminiscent of Ross Perot) spoke, which was cool.
• The artwork on Kirk’s guitar was pretty bad-ass.
• Lars acted and looked like a total douche.
• Two bassists are cool, but are still about half of what Cliff Burton was.
• Dave Mustaine was invited to be in the induction, but turned down the invite, because he was touring in Europe.  I wonder if there’s more to that story.

 
Video after the jump:

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