Bill Bailey is a British comedian with whom I’m not familiar… in fact, the first thing I thought when reader Charles Farmer sent us a link to the below video was that the video was going to be Axl Rose-related (Rose’s real name is William Bailey, in case ya didn’t know).

It has nothing to do with The Ginger One, though, and everything to do with Metallica. I don’t think there will be much entertainment value if I give the whole video away, so you should really just watch and enjoy for yourself.

Not bad, eh? Bicycle horns > Hetfield’s actual vocals, if you ask me…

-AR

I was a little taken aback when I was this editorial in the New York Times this morning, written by former Guns N’ Roses/current Velvet Revolver bassist/current Loaded front man, Duff McKagan. Not so much because I was surprised to see that Duff is literate – he has a column in Playboy – but because the byline features his birth name, Michael McKagan.

Maybe it’s wrong of me to assume that the Times was being snotty – perhaps it was his idea to use his real name in the Paper of Record – but the whole thing is just kind of a head-scratcher.

No word yet on whether or not Axl Rose will now start writing for the Washington Post under the name “Bill Bailey.”

-AR

P.S. I interviewed Duff back in April. The MetalSucks Mansion Monkeys have been dragging their feet getting that shit transcribed, but at some point, you’ll get to read it.