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GOD DAMN, MACHINE HEAD IS COOL

 Friday, February 12th, 2010 at 12:00pm by

Remember that video last year of Machine Head’s Robb Flynn hanging out in the crowd during a Metallica show, screaming along to “Master of Puppets” with some just regular, average, every day Joe Metallica Fans? And how that made it seem like Flynn was just way too cool for someone so successful?

Well, this tops that by a mile.

According to Machine Head fan site Take My Scars (via Blabbermouth), the band let a fan get on stage and play “Aesthetics of Hate” with them at a show earlier this week (video above)… just because he asked to do so:

A guy in the crowd had a banner that said “Let Me Play ‘Aesthetics Of Hate’ — Seriously, I Can Play It”. MACHINE HEAD guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn asked bassist Adam Duce whether they should invite the fan up on stage and give him a chance to show off his skills. Flynn then said “Let’s do it!” and gave up his axe for the song and just sang for the entire track while the fan played Robb’s guitar.

Holy shit, are you kidding me? Do you know how awesome that is? And not just ’cause they let the dude do it – but because they just opened themselves up to every fucking MH fan in the world who thinks he can play an instrument bringing similar banners to shows now.

God damn, Machine Head is cool.

-AR

Thanks for the tip, Kidd!

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  • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

    Fucking class.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/CJ-Crawford/768948209 C.J. Crawford

      I seen a video last year sometime of a fan at a CKY show going on stage and playing one of their songs…I’m going to look that up. It was one of their most difficult songs too and he nailed it!
      Sometimes this kinda shit works out, other times… not so much!

  • Facebook User

    holy shit. amazing!

    • Driven9

      agreed… that shit is amazing!

  • DemonicLemming

    Epic.

  • Horeshine

    Wow. Just wow. That guy probably had the most amazing night of his life. Kudos to the guys for being so awesome… Fucking brilliant.

  • Walker

    That was cool and if it becomes a thing at MH shows I just hope there are no liars putting up banners saying they can play songs when they can only do the main riff or a certain section.

    • Zoker

      Yeah that’s incredibly awesome but it’s also hard to repeat… at the next MH gig there’ll be probably more than one of these banners and some of them will be fake… jerks are always around the corner.

      Awesome stuff anyway.

  • I killed a Dunky

    dude I think its time for bands to get down of their pedestals and just chill man I mean come on dude when was it that u forgot when you use to jam on a basement or on the garage, All those bands are what they are because of US, WE that buy their merch, records, tickets , pay ppw events when they play , create Buzz THEY OWE EVERYTHING TO US so I wouldnt just let a dude play if he really know the song I ould even but dude a beer, a friend of mine told me that he meet Chino Moreno and dude was down to earth they were smoking some joints and just talkin man so thats a good example by MachineHead, love the yoiuthcrew, show love and respect to the LONG TIME LISTENERS

  • Chris

    Reminds me of the scene in The Rockstar when Mark Wahlberg pulls that fan onstage and lets him finish the entire set so he can leave the band…

    • Strapping Young Lad

      thinkin the same thing haha

  • halloway

    cool.

  • Kuranes

    I saw Corrosion of Conformity do this once – they said “who plays guitar here?” and then pulled a random dude out of the audience and proceeded to play some punk cover with him. I was jealous.

    • Discipleofthewatch

      I love COC. I was just talking about their song Vote With A Bullet this morning to someone when discussing politics and the shitty state of today’s economy. Hopefully it won’t come to voting with bullets, but the song is killer.

  • Colin

    dude thats the coolest shit ever

  • Geekbeater

    Whatever your thought’s are about this band you have to pay your respect there are very few bands who I can imagine doing this. Maybe Hatebreed?

    • Wha?

      Green Day has been doing this for years. No, they are not metal and most here likely hate them, etc., etc.

      • http://ihatejade.com/?id=1japi3153329oacnd59ftmp5ve6x2l jesus on the dashboard

        they are not metal and i hate them etc., etc.

        • Driven9

          nice handle… Clutch reference perhaps?

      • Facebook User

        the difference with green day is that a 5th grader who’s been playing guitar for three weeks could absolutely nail any one of their songs. while this guy just nailed an incredibly complex solo with dual lead guitars and hit on right on the fuckin head with guys he’d never played with before. amazing

        • SukMyBoomStik

          I saw Green Day at a festival once and they did this. The lead singer pulled a guy up on stage and said “If you can play these three chords, you can play this entire song” so at least he admitted it. I’m not jumping to their defense, just sayin’.

      • http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&contributorid=19569360 Garske

        I got pulled up onstage by Billie Joe to sing Longview, that was quite the experience.

    • SonOF

      Hatebreed is definitely the type of act that would do this, they bring people up on stage for various reasons sometimes. I saw one video where they brought a little 8 year old on stage to announce the song because it was just funny that he was at the show (it was their tour with ‘Corpse as well). Jamey is and the Hatebreed guys are incredibly happy to be where they are, they never pull any rockstar garbage.

      Props to Machine Head for taking the chance.

  • The Dude

    Alright, so I bought my tickets to the most amazing tour ever yesterday (cost me 100 freaking dollars), and I got VIP seating, so my question is this: can I still get onto the floor if the view from the balcony sucks? I pretty much have free reign, yeah? It’s at the Fox Theater in Pomona, CA if that helps.

    (reposted)

    • Discipleofthewatch

      I’ve been to that theater, but the hell if I know. Ask the management staff there.

      • The Dude

        Not too much help, but THANK YOU for being the only person on four different sites to respond with a real answer.

        • Discipleofthewatch

          Yeah, I know I’m not much help with that one. Look up their phone number online and call the Fox, dude. They’re the experts. And go to that barbecue place on Second Street while you’re in the vicinity; it’s killer.

  • Peter Griffin

    Class act all the way.

  • metalrenee

    This is so fucking cool. Good for that guy, I’ll bet it was one of the greatest nights of his life. It reminds me of an In Flames show I saw in Toronto a few years back. They called some girl out of the audience to take Anders’ place as vocalist for a song, it was really cool. I’m glad that there are still bands out there that put fans first.

  • bucketochicken

    Ha! That is fucking awesome. And he fucking kills it too. Too cool. Way to go Peter!

  • Ziltoid

    I hate this band a lot. A LOT.

    But that was a cool thing to do.

    • SonOF

      Ziltoid hating a quality metal band that is commercially successful? shocker

      • Ziltoid

        What, where is this quality metal band that you speak of? All I saw mentioned here was Machine Head, and they’re almost the antithesis of quality.

        • Geekbeater

          you suck. Please enlighten us as to who is a quality band? I cant wait to see this

          • Ziltoid

            Gorguts, Atheist, Cynic, Malevolent Creation, Immortal, Realm, etc.

            Top quality music. Not shitcore like Machine Head.

          • Phro

            This is actually a reply to Ziltoid, but…

            Malevolent Creation? I’m not really super familiar with any of the bands you mentioned, but Malevolent Creation…really? I’m not down on them or anything, and I have The Will to Kill, but honestly I haven’t listened to it in at least a year. It’s not bad but…hardly what I would call top quality music.

            I’m not commenting on them in relation to Machine Head, because I know almost nothing about Machine Head (I’m not much of a groove or trash fan, so there’s lots of chunks of metal I’m simply ignorant about).

            But really?? Malevolent Creation? I could totally see like Krisiun or Deicide (for what I think of as that type of new-but-traditional death metal), but why do you like Malevolent Creation THAT much?

          • Ziltoid

            Screw that album, try their first two. Awesome Floridian death metal. I happen to be rather fond of the Floridian death metal scene (i.e., Malevolent Creation, Brutality, Atheist, Cynic, Death, etc.), and MC is one of the better bands from it.

          • Brian \m/(-_-)\m/

            @ ziltoid i notice you didn’t exactly answer the question. rather, you elected to provide a few band names. now while i too agree they aare top quality (well mostly, not a huge fan of gorguts to be honest, but i can at least concur on the quality statement i guess), thats not an answer to the question geekbeater posed. im genuinely curious as to why you dislike machine head. i thought the blackening was one of the top albums of 2007 and definitely in the top 40 or 50 of the decade. whats so bad about them?

          • Deutschmann3698

            Way to get defensive bitches. Opinions are opinions. Also the bands that Ziltoid mentioned are the tits, especially Cynic

          • Brian \m/(-_-)\m/

            dude i agree with you and zilty about those bands, im not arguing that. just seems he dodged the question, and im genuinely curious as to what the answer is

  • Zoker

    This video gives me goosebumps… how awesome is it?????

  • Sammy

    ::shivers::

  • Joshie

    Two stories about how cool Rob Flynn is…

    1. I saw Machine Head live on this past tour with Megadeth, and there was this little boy in the crowd, probably 12 or so years old. This boy was pretty sick, like Make-a-Wish foundation sick, and the boy’s father told this to one of the security guards. Well, word got back to Flynn, and during Machine Head’s set, he saw the boy up front, pulled him up on stage, and put his guitar around him and let him bang out some noise at the end of the set. Then, he told the kid to stage dive, and everyone caught him and passed his around the venue. That was one smiling kid…

    2. This one’s much less heart-warming since it’s about me instead of a sick kid, but after the show, Flynn was at the bar getting bombarded by fans asking for autographs. I just went up to him and told him that they put on a great show, and gave him the exploding knuckle slam, and left him to his autograph seekers. Well, after the crowd died down a bit, he actually searched me back out just to chill and talk for awhile. We probably spent about fifteen minutes just talking punk and metal like he was one of my boys back home. He was just a cool / chillax dude, and single handedly made me forget the fact that I had to sit through a Suicide Silence set to see them.

  • http://www.myspace.com/whitearmsofathena Josh

    Fuck yea man you know that was that guys dream

  • Sammy

    Not to mention the dude totally pulled it off.

  • http://www.kingdomofnoise.blogspot.com MetalMatt

    that’s pretty awesome.

    Ziltoid, how can you not like Machine Head?

    • Ziltoid

      Absolutely shit-tastic groove metal that has bordered on nu metal at times is not my thing. Pardon me for having standards.

      • RockOutWithMy…YouKnow

        It’s not standards, it’s opinion. That’s why people think you’re a huge douche. You think your opinion is proven fact, which it isn’t. So get off your pedestal and realize even though you don’t like it other people do.

        • Discipleofthewatch

          He was ASKED specifically for his opinion, here, although the “pardon me for having standards” thing was kinda rude. But it’s not like he just came out and volunteered that opinion without having been specifically asked.

          • RockOutWithMy…YouKnow

            Yeah, I have no problem with his first sentence. If he left it at that, then I wouldn’t care. It’s when he brings it above and beyond opinion that pisses me off. It’s like any band that he doesn’t like shouldn’t be making music because they aren’t good on any level.

        • LukeD

          They did start to slide a bit to Nu Metal on a few albums but they have mean back to kicking ass the last few bitches!

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Luke-Darrah/1298952081 Luke Darrah

            *been back

        • SonOF

          Ziltoid thinks his “standards” entitle him to belittle anyone that likes anything he doesn’t, since anything he doesn’t like is obviously bad. I wonder if he would ever tell some of these world-class artists to their faces just how bad they are..(obviously not, it’s just funny to even imagine).

          • Ziltoid

            World-class?

            My shit is of a higher class than these idiots. And I would definitely tell it to their faces.

      • DemonicLemming

        It’s not standards, it’s shitty taste in music.

      • SonOF

        One and a half shitty nu-metal-ish albums doesn’t rule a band out for me, when they also have one very good album and three classic albums in their discography..”shit-tastic groove metal?” You must not like groove metal at all, because Machine Head is, other than Pantera, the best groove metal band pretty much ever. I’m sure you don’t like Pantera either (too popular obviously, even though 99% of metal fans like them), and you have your “standards” to adhere to. :/

        • Ziltoid

          Three classic albums? Odd, because they don’t even have a single tolerable song.

          But you’re right, I hate groove metal entirely. Meshuggah is the closest thing to groove that I like, and OMG THEY R POPULAR!!!!!11!!!!!!!111!!1

          • Rodol

            hey ziltoid make an album half as good the blackening and maybe then i would give a shit about what you have to say

          • SonOF

            “My shit is of a higher class than these idiots. And I would definitely tell it to their faces.”

            Based on your attitude toward everyone that you disagree with, as well your high opinion of yourself, I’m sure you would get your nerdy-ass beat on a regular basis if you every ventured into the real world. I will assume and hope you aren’t serious though…in that case your comment is pretty funny.

            “Three classic albums? Odd, because they don’t even have a single tolerable song.”

            Just curious…when “The Blackening” was released, dozens of reputable metal magazines gave the album glowing reviews, and many claimed it was one of, if not the best of the year. Are all said reviewers morons? I mean surely a band without a listenable song cannot have a “best of the year” album, right? How can so many people be so wrong about an artist?

            I honestly don’t believe that any person that likes metal music would truly think that Machine Head, “don’t even have a single tolerable song,” or couldn’t find one song on “Burn My Eyes,” “The More Things Change,”and “The Blackening” that they enjoy (or could at least “tolerate”), unless they had not really listened to any of it.

          • SonOF

            Wow, it’s great to see you actually admit to *gasp* enjoying a band, rather than simply eviscerating everything you don’t like. So far I know that there are at least two artists you actually like (Meshuggah and Dark Tranquility)….and 654,389 that you hate. Definitely progress.

          • Ziltoid

            You forgot about Cormorant. One of my favorite new bands. Jeez, I’ve mentioned quite a few bands on this site over the past 8 months or so that I’ve been posting here. It’s your fault for not paying attention to me, writing my favorite bands down, then immediately getting rid of your old shit and replacing it with my much more superior music.

            And there really isn’t a single “reputable” metal magazine out there. Most of them are trend-hopping rags filled with accessible crap that the labels feed them, while also regurgitating the same generic articles about nothingness. That crap, combined with their collectively bad taste in music anyway, lead to shit like Machine Head being on “best of” lists.

            But Kim Kelly knows what she’s doing. Trust her over any of the other tools in the metal media.

  • RenegadeDave

    I always liked MH but never bought any of their stuff. This video just made me break down and pick up an album.

    • Facebook User

      the blackening and burn my eyes are two of the greatest metal albums ever. end of story

      • SonOF

        I would definitely say that those two and “The More Things Change” are easily some of the best of their kind (groove/thrash), at the very least…

      • Ziltoid

        YEAH MAN, DISTURBED ALSO MADE A BUNCH OF GOOD ALBUMS AS WELL!!!

  • nordin

    that is 1 happy dude, that must be such a fucking rush xD

  • Matt

    fucking AYYYY DUDE!

  • http://myspace.com/northwestroyale Blake

    Robb’s always been cool in person. I met MH backstage in Portland a few years ago, and he offered me a Corona. Might not sound like that big of a deal to some, but to this day, I’ll never forget how Robb Fucking Flynn brought me a beer. How many frontmen for huge metal bands go out of their way for people they don’t even know? I’ve always been humbled by that.

    Cheers, Robb. Next one’s on me.

    • Discipleofthewatch

      Roope from Children of Bodom bought me a beer. I know he’s not the frontman, but Alexi is cool also. So are all the guys from In Flames, and Mutiny Within, and Arsis, and Volbeat, and cky. I’ve met these guys and hung out, and they’re all awesome, down to earth people.

      • Joshie

        Tripp Eisen offered me beef jerky once, and I wasn’t even a 14 year old girl!

      • Joshie

        Oh yeah, and Deftones offered to arrest me and my friends. What giving guys they are.

      • SonOF

        Doc from God Forbid is easily the coolest metal dude I have met. Talked at length about things, when he clearly was busy and had other people who wanted to speak with him.

    • SonOF

      I have literally never seen one bad thing said about Robb Flynn as a person. To add to the good stories, I have seen him take time out to do interviews with NOTHING publications; he just never says no to fans.

  • RockOutWithMy…YouKnow

    That’s fucking awesome. Not really a Machine Head fan, but definitely respect the hell out of the dudes in the band.

  • Eddie

    Sounds cool. I did meet Machine Head once and they were all really cool and did not get on the bus until everyone’s CD was signed and photos were taken. They actually asked if everyone was straight before they boarded their bus.

    The only time got to drink with a band was a few years ago with Helmet. One of my all time favorite bands, this was the tour in which Jon Tempesta was on drums and Frank Bello on bass. After the show they headed to a bar right around the corner from the venue and Jon Tempesta and Frank Bello each bought me a drink and took the time to talk with me. About 20-25 minutes or so, joined later by Page Hamilton for a while as well. I will never forget that night, Helmet with members from some of my other favorites talking about music, life and well books.

    To METAL! CHEERS!

    • Sam

      I had a beer (actually it was more like 6) with Brent Hinds a few years ago. It was pretty rad, until some hater turned up and started slamming mastodon…which kind of obliged Brent to split the joint.

      However, then the rest of the band were happy enough to let us hang with them. We ended the night making fun of Motley Crue with Brann.

      Good times.

  • gronk

    I’m not a Machine Head fan at all, but I must respect a band willing to do that for one of their fans. I can only imagine how happy that dude must have been.

  • http://metalmadeincanada.ca Legion

    That was amazing! That’s how band members should treat fans! Imagine how Peter felt after doing that song with the guys, WOW!

    Can you forward the video to Mortuus so he can learn from this??

  • Facebook User

    this has always been a dream of mine :D this fan is prolly the coolest machine fan ever

  • vasteburai

    another robb story,
    my old band, myramains, opened for them in shreveport,la with corrosion of conformity awhile back and after their sound check and ours, they came right over and hung with us all day on their bus with robb slamming us down with browntooths….made us feel like kings, THEN after all was said and done, he ACTUALLY went to the soundboard and frigging ran our sound to make sure we sounded good for the whole show and gave us great props onstage and dedicated a song to me….super cool dudes, period.

  • Kevin C

    That really is awesome. Go Peter!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Trip-Cahouet/706361037 Trip Cahouet

    When I saw them open for Metallica in DC, Robb tossed a beer into the crowd and the dude dropped it, so he was like “Dude, what the fuck was that”? So he tossed another one and the dude got it. Not as impressive as these other examples, but Robb is awesome and is giving to his fans.

    • Ell

      At Machine Head’s show in Sydney supporting Slipknot (don’t bother mocking me), Flynn through a cup of Jack Daniels off the stage and up toward the balcony level near where I was standing. Not only did the cup flip once and not spill, a kid a couple of rows down from me leaned over the balcony and caught it perfectly, without spilling a drop. The whole crowd went nuts.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-John-Crispen/100000169530540 Jason John Crispen

    as much as i think i know some songs from bands that i love, i still think it’d be nerve-racking as hell to get to play on stage with them. kudos to this dude, he nailed it. and MH are cool for doing that.

  • CYN1C

    Damn, I know this song on bass. Seriously.

    That should of been me!

  • timmah

    It’s story after story like this that shows that even if Machine Head isn’t the best or the most popular metal band in the world, that they GET IT RIGHT. Robb clearly realizes it’s the FANS that keep him able to do what he does, and even if a particular fan isn’t the direct recipient of his kindness, they see it happening and can appreciate his selfless attitude toward others. It’s bands that go the extra mile to appreciate the gift they have to be able to play music for a living that will last longer than 2 albums in the industry.

    Robb and Machine Head invest in their fans, and it comes back to make them better off in the long run.

    Good on them.

  • Facebook User

    Despite not being my favorite band, Machine Head put on one of my favorite shows I’ve ever seen. The setlist scorched balls and the band played awesome. They put a ton of energy into their shows. Glad to see they’re willing to take some pretty big risks like this just to please their fans.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jay-See/726690352 Jay See

    First class dude

  • http://ihatejade.com/?id=1japi3153329oacnd59ftmp5ve6x2l jesus on the dashboard

    that whole fucking solo is intertwining leads too, so they had to trust he knew which part to play coordinated with their other guitarist.
    i have no Robb flynn story but he is one good looking guy

  • Facebook User

    one of the coolest fucking things I’ve ever seen.

  • BTK666

    Easily the coolest thing to happen in Metal EVER! I don’t even really like Machine Head that much (not cause they are shit, but because I just never got into them) and this still made me smile a great deal.

  • CCJ

    Manowar did this once, but first they chugged beer with the dude and brought sexy ladies on stage, too. The guy fucking blew at guitar, but they still had fun with it at least. Check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHRLwixVhUg

  • moses valenzuela

    Saw Machine Head twice and for the first when they opened for Metallica. Man, they fucking KILL!!!!!!!!

  • DecrystallizingReason

    I can’t even imagine how amazing that must’ve been for that kid. Kudos to Machine Head for being fucking awesome people.

  • Facebook User

    Machine Head for the win. That is all.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Corey-Mitchell/660352330 Corey Mitchell

    The Courtney Cox/Bruce Springsteen lovefest updated for the 21st century and toss in some metal…brutiful…

  • KilledByDeath

    Zakk did that a couple of years ago :P

  • Honeynutzz

    Green Day did this first.

    • Ziltoid

      The Simpsons did it first.

  • Hamilton

    off topic, 3 inches of Blood are the nicest guys I’ve ever met. I asked thier drummer to sign something, and Shane, the guitarist, came over to sign it too, then yelled at the rest of to some over to sign it and meet me and my friends. I was pretty impressed that he literally summoned the whole band from across a parking lot to come hang and they did. And they came over “bro” style too. High fives and everything. Not like “oh shit….fans….”. Awesome guys.

  • fuckin´ Peter

    hi guys…thank you…M fuckin´ H rules!!!

  • pariah

    way cooler than the fan onstage with strapping young lad on their live dvd;)

  • jimmy b.

    I agree with Ziltoid, not in music taste but that Machine Head kind of blows, but they did something really cool by letting this guy up on stage and playing.

  • Facebook User

    I was at this show, it was in Vienna, Austria… surely was one of the most awesome things i’ve ever seen on a concert. By the end of the set it had turned into one single “machine head worshipping event”, the crowd (including me) just didn’t stop screaming and they just stood up there in awe. That was a fucking great evening, even though i missed hatebreed.

  • http://www.smashingworkshop.com Zeke Iddon

    Bumped into Phil Demmel once in London before a show… he was in a HMV (UK music store) buying shit loads of CDs, literally just grabbing whatever vaguely caught his interest. My friends and I saw him and didn’t really know what to say – we didn’t introduce ourselves but he could obviously see we recognized him by our jaws flapping. Without us stopping him, he put down his stack of CDs , said hello and riffed with us for a while (I think he recognized that we were in awe and too shy to bother him.) He was thoroughly cool and has a beastly handshake!

    A couple of the guys from that group play metal and went on to meet Robb Flynn and the band a few times over the years. Apparently, they never forget names regardless of who you are or how long ago you met, and are insanely cool to hang with. Some insane Robb stories came out of those meetings.

    Off topic, but another cool guy is Henry Rollins. He doesn’t suffer fools gladly, but is very down to earth. I e-mailed his company blind after enjoying one of his shows and asked for an interview – even though I’m a nobody he instantly sent a response back from his own private e-mail address and took time out to answer a bunch of questions. Fucking legend: http://tinyurl.com/yhwr4fb

  • anthony

    After all this time, still fucking cool

  • maya

    Machine Head are an amazing bunch of guys. I met them earlier this year and it will forever be the best day of my life. Phil Demmel snuck me in because i’m underage, let me sit through the sound check, meet the entire band, get my vinyl of The Blackening signed by all plus pictures and THEN he gave me a working pass to stay for the entire gig. The guy has a big heart is absolutely lovely to talk to. I’ll love them forever and they deserve all the respect that they’ve earned over the years.