Linkin Park Bassist Awestruck About Touring With Metallica

The 1992 Monsters of Rock tour featuring Metallica and Guns ‘n Roses ranks among the watershed cultural moments of Linkin Park bassist David Farrell’s adolescence. Come July, Linkin Park will join Metallica for the ‘Summer Sanitarium’ stadium tour, a fact with which an awestruck Farrell is still coming to grips. “For me and (Linkin Park guitarist) Brad (Delson) particularly, it’s huge,” Farrell told Keith Spera of The Times-Picayune. “It doesn’t make sense to be able to be playing with Metallica. But somehow it happened.”