Mike Shinoda's Confession: Only Linkin Park Dares To Prank Metallica

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JAKARTA - Mike Shinoda told how Linkin Park became the first band to dare to introduce Metallica (prank).

In the summer of 2003, Linkin Park with Mudvayne, Deftones and Limp Bizkit opened Metallica's concert on the 'Summer Sanitary' tour in North America to promote the album St. Anger.

Appearing in the episode of The Howard Stern Show, Shinoda, who is a vocalist, rapper and guitarist at Linkin park, explained how his band was able to give a lighter touch to the famous Metallica show.

"Nobody ever threw them on stage," Shinoda recalled, quoted from NME, Monday.

"By the way, I think the four of us. The joke is we want to do something that, their performances are always very difficult and dark, so we're like, 'What's the most difficult, the least dark to do?'

We ended up going in a picnic basket and like small sandwiches and drinks and Chester [Bennington] sliding with skateboards on stage. And then we walked onto their stage, and they played songs, I thought Master Of Pupets, and we had a picnic right above Lars [Ulrich], "he said.

"But they were laughing. They played Master Of Puppets like they were laughing at us."

The musicians continued that they knew Metallica well.

"I know James [Hetfield] will not break my teeth," concluded Shinoda.